Against the Dying of the Light Jewers described his approach to the film as: The title of the film comes from a villanelle written for his dying father by the twentieth century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". Against the Dying of the Light Against the Dying of the Light is a documentary film about the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. Consisting of interviews with Welsh directors, actors and public figures about the significance that film (particularly amateur film) has played in their lives, it achieved a limited UK cinema release in 2001. The film
That Evening Sun (film) a "career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night." "That Evening Sun" also was screened at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, where Holbrook was honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, and the film itself received another Audience Award. The film opened in limited release in November 2009, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 7, 2010. Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook), an aging Tennessee farmer discarded at a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks home and catches a ride back to his country farm