Question:  Agee is a 1980 American documentary film  about a writer born in which year ?
Context: The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers.  The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill.  In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly:Out of the tortured experiences of a 10-year-old Harlem Negro boy, cruelly rejected by his loved ones but rescued by the people of the Wiltwyck School, a new group of local film-makers has fashioned a genuine masterpiece in the way of a documentary drama. Michael & Me is an independent, self-financed 2005 American documentary film created by Los Angeles-based radio and television talk show host Larry Elder.  The direct-to-DVD documentary attempts to disprove statements made by filmmaker Michael Moore in his 2002 documentary film "Bowling for Columbine" about the relationship between American culture, gun ownership and increased violence.  The documentary mirrors Moore's landmark 1989 documentary, "Roger & Me," in tone and interview style.  The film is frequently presented at conservative film festivals. It's the Same World is a 1980 American short documentary film produced by Dick Young.  It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.  In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, "A Death in the Family" (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is a 1980 American documentary film directed by Ross Spears, about the writer James Agee.  It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Documentary mode is a conceptual scheme developed by American documentary theorist Bill Nichols that seeks to distinguish particular traits and conventions of various documentary film styles.  Nichols identifies six different documentary 'modes' in his schema: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative.  While Nichols' discussion of modes does progress chronologically with the order of their appearance in practice, documentary film often returns to themes and devices from previous modes.  Therefore, it is inaccurate to think of modes as historical punctuation marks in an evolution towards an ultimate accepted documentary style.  Also, modes are not mutually exclusive.  There is often significant overlapping between modalities within individual documentary features.  As Nichols points out, "the characteristics of a given mode function as a dominant in a given film…but they do not dictate or determine every aspect of its organization."  (Nichols 2001) The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!  is a 1980 American short documentary film directed by George Casey.  It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. A Walk to Beautiful is a 2007 American documentary film, Executive Produced by Steven M. Engel and Helen Diana ("Heidi") Reavis, produced and distributed by Engel Entertainment about women who suffer from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia.  In 2007, it premiered in film festivals and was chosen for the International Documentary Association Best Feature Documentary Film of the Year award.  The following year, the film opened in theaters in the United States in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  A 52-minute version of "A Walk to Beautiful" that premiered on "NOVA" on PBS on May 13, 2008 won the 2009 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Informational Programming (Long Form) category on September 21, 2009 at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony on September 21, 2009 at Rose Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City. Jay Lewis (1914 – June 4, 1969) was a film director, a film producer and writer born in Warwickshire, England.  In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Sydney Box. Karl Hess: Toward Liberty is a 1980 American short documentary film about the anarchist Karl Hess, produced by Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue.  It won an Academy Award in 1981 for Documentary Short Subject.  The film was produced at Boston University's College of Communications, School of Broadcasting and Film, Graduate Film Program.  Several students, faculty and others made a substantial contribution to creating the film.
Answer: 1909