Recent Documentaries

 

Crisis on Campus | Retro Report + FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE and Retro Report examine how outrage ignited by the devastating October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the catastrophic war in Gaza has deeply divided American college campuses.

(Producer)

JUNE 11, 2024


When Art Fuels Anger, Who Should Prevail? | Retro Report

Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ,” a 1987 photograph depicting a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine, ignited controversy in Congress and exposed tensions between artistic freedom and religious sensitivity that remain visible today.

(Producer / Narrator)

NOVEMBER 9, 2023


The Crime That Fueled an Asian American Civil Rights Movement | Retro Report

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

(Producer / Narrator)

APRIL 26, 2023


How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning | Retro Report

The U.S. government ordered 120,000 people of Japanese descent imprisoned during World War II. An admission of wrongdoing and reparations payments came later, but the SCOTUS ruling had lasting impact.

(Producer / Narrator)

OCTOBER 18, 2022


How the U.S. Has Treated Wartime Refugees | Retro Report

What obligation does the United States have toward people who are uprooted by war?

(Producer / Narrator)

APRIL 7, 2022


As Afghanistan Collapses, a Lament for ‘Repeating the Same Mistakes’ | Retro Report + The New York Times

Officials who drove the decades-long war in Afghanistan look back on the strategic mistakes and misjudgments that led to a 20-year quagmire.

(Producer / Narrator)

AUGUST 22, 2021


How the Korean War Changed the Way the U.S. Goes to Battle | Retro Report + The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History

In the Cold War, North Korean Communists invaded South Korea. President Truman’s decision to intervene had consequences that shape the world today.

(Producer)

APRIL 19, 2021


Trump and Biden Both Want to Repeal Section 230. Would That Wreck the Internet? | Retro Report + Vox

Today’s heated political arguments over censorship and misinformation online are rooted in a 26-word snippet of a law that created the Internet as we know it.

(Producer / Narrator)

NOVEMBER 30, 2020