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Novel Reflections: The American DreamNovel Reflections (2007) is a unique film that uses the art of fiction to examine American history. By reading from Sister Carrie, The House of Mirth, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Street, Typical American, and Seize the Day the documentary explores the central American myth of success and self-invention. Like Viewfinder's highly praised documentary on Antietam, Novel Reflections employs a radically different photographic approach to historic re-enactments. The New York Times praised the film by noting: "Reflections" doesn't intend to be a substitute for reading, but the truth is that it offers viewers a chance to experience many of the pleasures of literature without actually having to slog through a single chapter." Novel Reflections broadcast as a special presentation of the American Masters series. |
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Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima CompanyCombat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company (2006) is the story of the seven month deployment of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, a reserve unit based in Columbus, Ohio. Lima 3/25 is the hardest-hit combat unit in the Iraq War. Combat Diary has been hailed by Newsweek as "the best in a newly crowded field of documentaries on Iraq." The Los Angeles Times called Combat Diary "a masterful documentary...pitch perfect." The Marine Corps Times praised the film as "a stark, honest and gripping portrait of idealism tempered by the pain of brothers lost in war." It was nominated for a 2006 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking. |
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AntietamAntietam (2006) tells the story of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. Produced in association with Radical Media, Antietam was the premier episode for 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, which won the 2006 Primetime Emmy for Best Non-Fiction Series. Antietam set a new visual standard for historic filmmaking. Writing in Variety, Brian Lowry noted Antietam's "sense of movement and pace while capturing the horror of the battle as much through the sharp observations of its academic witnesses as its arresting visual imagery." |
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Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heavens GateFinal Cut: The Making and Un-Making of Heaven's Gate (2004) is the story of one of the greatest flops in Hollywood history, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, and the demise of the studio that finance it, United Artists. Final Cut was selected to be part of the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, and had its theatrical premier at New York's Film Forum in October 2004. It was hailed by the New York Times as "a documentary ten times as engrossing as the film that is its subject." |
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The Dream ProjectThe Dream Project is an innovative website that is part of Lincoln's "Reach Higher" campaign. The site, which includes fourteen short documentaries directed by Michael Epstein, went live on Amazon.com's home page during the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday season. The campaign was produced out of Wunderman Detroit and Kirt Gunn Associates in New York. |
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None Without SinNone Without Sin (2003) is the examination of the Hollywood blacklist as seen through the friendship of playwright Arthur Miller and director Elia Kazan. The two-hour documentary was broadcast on the PBS series American Masters to critical acclaim and has been rebroadcast a dozen times since. |
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of HollywoodHitchcock, Selznick & The End of Hollywood (1999) was awarded the Primetime Emmy for Best Non-Fiction Series (representative program), and the Best Arts Documentary at the Banff International Television Festival. The film, which explored the seven-year relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick, was also nominated for a Writer's Guild Award. Hitchcock, Selznick & The End of Hollywood was selected to compete in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and played in over two-dozen international film festivals. |
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The Battle Over Citizen KaneThe Battle Over Citizen Kane was awarded the George Foster Peabody Award. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, as well as an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special. The film documented the lives of director Orson Welles and publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, and told the story of their fight over the distribution of Citizen Kane. The Battle Over Citizen Kane was an official selection at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, and 1996 the Berlin International Film Festival. |
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Innovation: Brain FingerprintingThis episode of the PBS series, Innovation (2005), takes viewers onto Oklahoma's death row, where convicted murderer Jimmie Ray Slaughter is awaiting execution. In a last-ditch attempt to get the case back into court, Slaughter's attorneys have called upon Dr. Lawrence Farwell, the neuroscientist who developed this controversial new test. |
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MovieRealMovieReal is an on-going series that looks at the real-life story behind some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. Syriana, The Da Vinci Code, Cinderella Man, The Aviator, and Kingdom of Heaven are some of the films Viewfinder has profiled in this series with commentary from Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Rene Zellweger, Cate Blanchet, and Kate Beckinsale. |