Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald

Nacimiento : 1945-08-28, New York City, New York, USA

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945) is an American film director, film producer, and political activist, noted in the 2000s for his documentaries critical of Fox News and of the George W. Bush administration, as well as numerous award-winning television movies from the 1980s and 1990s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Greenwald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Robert Greenwald

Películas

Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem
Director
Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote
Director
Deeply personal accounts from voters of color across the state of Georgia reveal deliberate, widespread voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election where Stacey Abrams fought to become the first Black female governor in the U.S. Polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots, extreme wait times and voter ID issues were in full effect again during the 2020 primaries and are on-going across the country right now, all disproportionately affecting Black Americans and minorities from casting their ballots. Now, amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death.
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
Director
Robert Greenwald exposes rampant voter suppression that affected the outcome of the 2018 midterm election in Georgia and the threat it poses to our elections all across the nation in 2020.
Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA
Director
Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and The NRA tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. It features personal stories from people across the country who have been affected by gun violence, including survivors and victims' families. The film exposes how the powerful gun companies and the NRA are resisting responsible legislation for the sake of profit - and thereby putting people in danger.
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
Producer
This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words, Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life.
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
Director
This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words, Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life.
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Director
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
Koch Brothers Exposed
Director
Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.
Koch Brothers Exposed
Producer
Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Director
Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and material to American troops while providing little oversight. Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made by the interviewees.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Producer
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Director
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.
The ACLU Freedom Files: Gay and Lesbian Rights
Director
The American Civil Liberties Union and Robert Greenwald present The ACLU Freedom Files, a revolutionary, 10-part series of documentaries that tells the stories of real people in America whose civil liberties were threatened and shows how they fought back.
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War
Producer
Interviews with varied U.S officials and experts offer a deconstruction on the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq in the wake of 9/11.
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War
Director
Interviews with varied U.S officials and experts offer a deconstruction on the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq in the wake of 9/11.
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
Executive Producer
A documentary that investigates the ways in which the civil liberties of American citizens and immigrants have been rolled back since September 11 and the passing of the Patriot Act.
La pura verdad
Executive Producer
Acompañada de su madre, una adolescente 'amish' ingresa en urgencias aquejada de una fuerte hemorragia. Cuando los médicos descubren que es consecuencia de un parto reciente, la joven y su madre niegan enérgicamente la evidencia. Ante su persistencia, los médicos sospechan de que pudiera tratarse de un aborto provocado, por lo que la joven deberá procurarse un abogado que se ocupe de su defensa.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq
Producer
The feature-length version of producer/director Robert's Greenwald's short documentary phenomenon "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War." The film deconstructs the current American administration's case for war in Iraq through interviews with U.S. intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials, including a former director of the C.I.A., two former Secretaries of Defense, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President Bush's former Secretary of the Army.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq
Director
The feature-length version of producer/director Robert's Greenwald's short documentary phenomenon "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War." The film deconstructs the current American administration's case for war in Iraq through interviews with U.S. intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials, including a former director of the C.I.A., two former Secretaries of Defense, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President Bush's former Secretary of the Army.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Director
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Producer
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron
Producer
Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver discovers he's just a pawn in a failing game of corporate greed--one that made the rich richer...while the rest lost everything.
Steal This Movie
Director
Narra la vida de Abbie Hoffman, un activista americano de los años sesenta y setenta, y uno de los "fundadores" del movimiento hippy.
Deadlocked
Executive Producer
A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff's guns and takes the whole jury hostage and insists that the prosecuting attorney re-investigates the crime that his son's accused of.
Sharing the Secret
Executive Producer
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
Un amor inconcluso (Cuando el amor se va)
Producer
Steve es un fotógrafo de Nueva York que mantiene una larga relación con Mónica, una profesora. Ambos se dan cuenta de que ha llegado el momento de plantearse seriamente su futuro.
Un amor inconcluso (Cuando el amor se va)
Director
Steve es un fotógrafo de Nueva York que mantiene una larga relación con Mónica, una profesora. Ambos se dan cuenta de que ha llegado el momento de plantearse seriamente su futuro.
To Love, Honor and Deceive
Executive Producer
Sydnee Carpenter (Vanessa Marcil) is a devoted mother to her young son, and is now accustomed to the puzzling existence of her mysterious, non-communicative husband, Matthew (Thomas Gibson). When her husband and son are suddenly killed in a boating accident, Sydnee's comfortable existence is shattered. Although she is overwhelmed by her grief, Sydnee cannot ignore the strange pieces from her husband's past that continue to make their way into the present. Before long, she suspects that her husband has masterminded an elaborate scheme in order to abandon her and kidnap their son. Unable to convince the authorities of her wild sounding speculations, Sydnee does catch the attention of detective Jim sanders (James Wilder), who may have his own hidden agenda for getting involved with her plight.
Acosado por el pasado
Producer
La vida ha cambiado mucho para Ernest Dewalt desde que dos balas destrozaron sus riñones y su carrera como detective en el departamento de homicidios. Apartado del alcohol y de las mujeres, encuentra trabajo como profesor de inglés en una escuela nocturna. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Woman of Independent Means
Director
Bess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, things do not work out as she expects. Her husband dies of influenza, and she finds that she must pick up and carry along with her life. She proves to be a strong, committed, and loving individual who attracts new loves into her life and finds that she can take good care of the old ones. Despite further tragedy in losing her oldest son, and a second marriage that is not all that she expects it to be she continues to survive as independently as she has discovered the courage to do so.
Death in Small Doses
Executive Producer
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
Sombras en el silencio
Director
Una sordomuda, entrenadora de atletismo, tiene como cliente a un periodista que ha recuperado una antigua moneda robada. Al sentirse acosado la esconde en casa de ella; poco después es asesinado. El peligro es ahora para la atleta, a quien ayudará un amigo.
El retrato
Executive Producer
Drama sentimental en el que se narra cómo la estrecha relación de una pareja de ancianos se ve alterada por la llegada de su hija, una artista que intenta abrirse camino.
A Violation of Trust
Executive Producer
Single mother Susan Essex admirably picks up the pieces after the split from her husband Matthew, and she can depend upon her daughter Justine for support. When Justine learns that her friend Vicky has been spending time with her own boyfriend, Ryan, Justine confronts Vicky and a fight erupts. Sprawling into the woods behind Justine's house, the fight escalates further and Vicky winds up dead. Justine and her best friend Ashley make a pact to keep the mistake a secret, but will she be able to keep her mother convinced that she wasn't involved?
Nuestros hijos (TV)
Executive Producer
Donald (Zeljko Ivanek) se está muriendo de sida. Su amante James (Hugh Grant) decide ir a Fayetteville, Arkansas, para decírselo a su madre (Ann-Margret), que ha estado separada de su hijo durante años.
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Producer
A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its systematic torture of prisoners.
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Director
A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its systematic torture of prisoners.
How to Murder a Millionaire
Executive Producer
A Beverly Hills housewife suspects that her husband of thirty years is trying to kill her.
My Brother's Wife
Executive Producer
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where they first met. And Barney recalls how things kept them apart like his need to act out at his father. And his fear of commitment.
Sweet Hearts Dance
Executive Producer
Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.
Sweet Hearts Dance
Director
Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.
Papa y mama vuelven a los 20
Executive Producer
Después de veinte años de casados, el matrimonio de Ken y Bárbara es pura y aburrida rutina. Físicamente envejecidos, creen que la única manera de reavivar el amor es rejuvenecer sus cuerpos a través de un gimnasio especializado en estética, pero todavía se deprimen más al ver a otros jóvenes de verdad en toda su belleza. Frustrados, deciden someterse a la cirugía. Resultado: ¡una pareja perfecta! Pero la reconquistada atracción mutua también lo es para terceros... Y terceras, y la relación entra en una peligrosa crisis. No se puede rejuvenecer veinte años sin pagar "ciertas consecuencias".
Lena: My 100 Children
Executive Producer
Hacia el final de la II guerra mundial, Lena Kuchler llega a un campo de refugiados en busca de sus familiares desaparecidos. Alli no encuentra informacion sobre ellos , pero si encuentra con un grupo de niños hungaros.
Juventud rota
Executive Producer
Dos estudiantes de secundaria, no están preparados para la realidad de la paternidad cuando ella se queda embarazada
Shattered Spirits
Producer
When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family's lives back together.
Shattered Spirits
Director
When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family's lives back together.
Silent Witness
Executive Producer
The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
Challenge of a Lifetime
Executive Producer
Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.
Answers
Producer
Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway Patrolman visits a young woman in New York who had told him if he ever came to New York, she'd show him a good time. In the second, "The Constituent," a United States Senator drops in on a constituent who has been sending him scathing and profane letters for decades. Lastly, in "Twinkle, Twinkle," a restless housewife who has been writing fan letters to a television soap opera star, receives a surprise visit by him on her husband's bowling night.
La cama en llamas
Director
Francine Hughes es arrestada por prenderle fuego a su casa mientras Mickey, su ex marido, dormía plácidamente. Las pruebas son irrefutables y es acusada de asesinato con premeditación
In the Custody of Strangers
Director
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Miracle on Ice
Producer
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Xanadu
Director
Kira es una de las hijas de Zeus y musa de las artes. Cumpliendo ese trabajo, visita al pintor Sonny Malone, a quien inspira con un beso. Sin embargo, la bella diosa y el mortal se enamoran, lo que será un problema en el orden cósmico. Al mismo tiempo, un viejo músico sueña con abrir un club nocturno al viejo estilo, un proyecto en el que Kira y Sonny se involucrarán... Los años 40 se encuentran con los 80 en "Xanadú", una mirada hacia el futuro a la vez que un recuerdo romántico de cómo eran las cosas durante la época dorada de Hollywood.
Portrait of a Stripper
Executive Producer
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Director
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
Katie: Portrait of A Centerfold
Producer
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Katie: Portrait of A Centerfold
Director
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress
Director
A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with married men.
Delta County, USA
Producer
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
21 horas en Munich
Producer
Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972. En la madrugada del 5 de septiembre, once atletas olímpicos israelíes son secuestrados por un comando terrorista palestino denominado 'Septiembre Negro'. Amenazan con matarlos a todos si no se produce la liberación de presos palestinos por parte de Israel. Durante 21 horas el mundo entero estuvo pendiente del trágico suceso. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Desperate Miles
Producer
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
On Fire
Producer
Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two just as loving and devoted sons. Things couldn't be better for him until he learns that the department wants to retire him. He does so reluctantly. He then falls into a deep depression because, while most people look forward to retirement, he doesn't. So, his wife and children do their best to lift his spirits but all he does is push them away.
On Fire
Director
Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two just as loving and devoted sons. Things couldn't be better for him until he learns that the department wants to retire him. He does so reluctantly. He then falls into a deep depression because, while most people look forward to retirement, he doesn't. So, his wife and children do their best to lift his spirits but all he does is push them away.