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Documentary Appearances:

  • In Search Of Peace: 50 Years of the United States in the United Nations -- a Turner Broadcasting System documentary (produced on October 23, 1995)
  • A Coup: Made in America on the 1954 US coup in Guatemala, produced by Canadian TV series “Turning Points in History” (1999)
  • Inside The Glass Building: Interviews with UN Secretaries-General – a Swiss documentary on the UN, produced by Kino Fur Morgen with English language version available at Films For The Humanities (2005)
  • Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 narrated by Ron Silvers, produced by Peace River Company and Citizens United Foundation (2005)
  • A Workshop for Peace (www.snagfilms.com) produced by the UN’s Department of Public Information (2006)
  • America’s Senator on Arthur Vandenberg at the SF Conference produced by International Pictures (2007)
  • Going Global with the UN produced by Miller & Associates (2008)
  • Planet UN: The United Nations Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century – a Swiss documentary, produced by Kino Fur Morgen in English and French (2008)
  • The CIA Declassified, on the 1954 coup in Guatemala, produced by the Discovery Channel (2014)
  • 1937: The Last Year of Innocence, a documentary on travels of JFK and other notable Americans in Europe in 1937, produced by joint French-German TV venture, Meinwerk Film GmbH, based on my introduction to reissued version of Kennedy’s first book, “Why England Slept.” (2017)
  • La Cour des Grands How France joined the UN Security Council in 1945 – produced by French Channel 5 and O2B Films, in French (2017)
  • Cold War Code-breaking: ZDF German Public Television, documentary on code breaking during the Cold War, including the US Army Signals operations at the 1945 UN Conference in San Francisco, in German (2019)
  • “1954” – documentary on the CIA coup in Guatemala produced and directed by Ben Tumin, NYC documentarian (2020)
  • The UN 75 Years on – documentary by China Global Television Network on the problems facing the United Nations in its anniversary year (2020)
  • Four Died Trying – A documentary series probing the impact of the assassinations of President John Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on American society directed by John Kirby and produced by Libby Handros released by Journeyman Pictures in 2024 and streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Google Play (2020).
  • Kennedy – A six hour documentary on President Kennedy’s legacy produced and directed by Ashton Gleckman for BlackBird Pictures in Indianapolis, Indiana, to be shown on the History Channel in 2024 (2021)
  • A Measure of A Giant – A documentary produced by ITV France and filmed for Arte TV Channel, a joint-German venture on the actor Charlton Heston’s transition from a liberal activist to conservative promoter of groups like the NRA and other right-wing causes (2023)

THE THREE-PART UN PODCAST

  • UN Podcast 1 Act of Creation: Setting the Scene (2022)
    https://soundcloud.com/user-936032402/act-of-creation_setting-the-scene
  • UN Podcast 2 Hammering Out The UN Charter (2023)
    https://soundcloud.com/user-936032402/act-of-creation_hammering-out-the-un-charter
  • UN Podcast 3 Act of Creation: A Question of Faith (2024)
    https://soundcloud.com/user-936032402/act-of-creation-a-question-of-faith
  1. Act of Creation – Setting the Scene https://lnkd.in/dUUcYXAg
  2. Act of Creation – Hammering out the UN Charter https://lnkd.in/evDauCYM
  3. Act of Creation – A Question of Faith: https://lnkd.in/dPn2gC54