Barak Goodman

Barak Goodman

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Caregiving

Caregiving

2025

Producer

Producing

From Executive Producer Bradley Cooper, this is the story of paid and unpaid caregivers navigating the challenges and joys of this deeply meaningful w...

The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

2024

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

See how one of the architects of the modern conservative movement rose to prominence as a public intellectual and influenced generations of politician...

George W. Bush

George W. Bush

2020

Writer, Director

7.3
Writing Directing

This two-part, four-hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush features interviews with historians, journalists and several members of the...

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

2019

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Producing Writing

50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the...

Slay the Dragon

Slay the Dragon

2019

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

It influences elections and sways outcomes -- gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the Americ...

Ruby Ridge

Ruby Ridge

2017

Producer, Director

6.6
Producing Directing

Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the isolated mountaintop home of Randy and Vicki Weaver a...

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City

2017

Producer, Director, Writer

6.9
Producing Directing Writing

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This d...

My Lai

My Lai

2010

Writer, Director

7.9
Writing Directing

What drove a company of American soldiers – ordinary young men from around the country – to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? We...

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009

Writer, Director, Producer

4.5
Writing Directing Producing

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in ...

The Lobotomist

The Lobotomist

2008

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

Tells the gripping tale of a medical intervention gone awry.

Kinsey

Kinsey

2005

Director

1.0
Directing

Documentary examining the impact and continuing influence of 'Alfred Kinsey"s groundbreaking research on human sexuality.

The Fight

The Fight

2005

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

Explores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis and finds two men who, in the shadow of war, became relu...

The Persuaders

The Persuaders

2004

Writer, Director

8.0
Writing Directing

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have dev...

The Merchants of Cool

The Merchants of Cool

2001

Producer, Director

7.2
Producing Directing

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

2000

Producer, Director

8.2
Producing Directing

A look at the infamous "Scottsboro Boys" case that occurred in Alabama in 1931, in which nine young black men were arrested, tried and quickly convict...

Daley: The Last Boss

1996

Director

Directing

At the center of the politically stormy 1960s was the controversial but beloved mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley. Through archival footage and inter...