GREAT PROJECTS FILMS
Films For Television

The Spanish American War Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War (PBS, 1999), narrated by Edward James Olmos, documents the major causes and effects of the war in which the U.S. took its first steps onto the world stage. More...

 
Media Matters (PBS, 1995-1999), hailed as "a welcome addition to the PBS lineup" by The New York Times, examines the journalistic practices that shape the headlines. Pulitzer Prize-winner Alex Jones hosts. More...

Millennium Minutes (PBS, 1999), a series of minute-long documentaries, celebrates diverse examples of human genius over the past 1,000 years. More...

The Empire State Building (Discovery, 1998) documents the construction of the world's most famous building. Using rare archival footage and gorgeous aerial photography, this one-hour program evokes the romance between the Empire State Building, New York City, and people all over the world. More...

Picasso Picasso Paints Picasso (PBS, 1998) considers the Spanish master through his work in self-portraiture and his depictions of family, friends and women. More...

 

Movie Matrimony (AMC, 1998) is a comic take on how the movies have portrayed weddings throughout film history. More...

Adolf Eichmann: Hitler's Master of Death (A&E, 1997) is a biography of the infamous Nazi war criminal. More...

Eichmann The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (PBS, 1997) received an Emmy nomination. This two-hour documentary uses original footage from the 1961 trial of the infamous Nazi war criminal and interviews with trial participants to tell the story of the event that transformed how the world viewed the holocaust. More...

An Essay on Matisse (PBS, 1996), nominated for an Academy Award, is a delightfully engaging biography of the great French colorist. More...

He Conquered Space (Discovery, 1996), is a biography of the famed rocket engineer Wernher von Braun. More...

George Marshall George Marshall and the American Century (PBS, 1993) won the Emmy Award for Outstanding History Program in 1993. Narrated by E.G. Marshall, it chronicles the life and achievements of the only soldier ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. General Colin Powell called it, "A stunningly beautiful story about a great American." More...

America's Political Parties (PBS, 1988, 1992) reviews the history of the Democratic and Republican political parties, from the 1950's to the present day. More...

Educational Productions

The Educational Division produces films and videotapes for companies, universities, and professional organizations.

General Andrew Goodpaster Tribute, commissioned by The Eisenhower Institute, Washington DC, is an homage to the distinguished soldier and scholar General Goodpaster, who served as Army Chief of Staff and superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It was shown at the September 2005 Eisenhower Leadership Prize Dinner for Senator John McCain.

ENR Award of Excellence Banquet Films. Each year, Engineering News Record, a McGraw-Hill publication, selects one man or woman to honor for his or her contribution in construction and engineering. The winners about whom Great Projects has produced films include Michael Burton (2002), site cleanup manager who led the recovery team at Ground Zero; Kathi Littmann (2003), founder of the Los Angeles Unified School District's massive school building program; Colonel Gregg Martin (2004), chief engineer for the U.S. Army's construction mission in the Iraq; and Joe Maloney (2005), secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department, who founded the program "Helmets to Hard Hats," which places military veterans in union jobs.

Gilbane Gold: A Case Study in Engineering Ethics is used in nearly every U.S. engineering school; produced for the National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE).

The Glass Ceiling, also produced for the National Society of Professional Engineers, is a video about women engineers and their exclusion from the highest levels of management.

Dialogues on Diversity promotes upward mobility for minority and women employees; produced for the American Institue for Managing Diversity.

Paul H. Nitze Paul H. Nitze: Reflections of a Cold Warrior, commissioned by the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, is a video memoir of the distinguished diplomat that premiered at Ambassador Nitze's 90th birthday celebration.

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