Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald

1945-08-28 New York City, New York, USA 68 Credits

Biography

​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.

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E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump

E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump

2024

Director, Producer

8.0
Directing Producing

E. Jean Carroll V. Donald Trump is a powerful documentary that brings to life the brave testimony of writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused former Presid...

Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote

Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote

2024

Director

Directing

A look at the swelling wave of efforts to disenfranchise voters across the U.S. using the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Br...

Beyond Bars

Beyond Bars

2023

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

Chesa Boudin’s journey from son of imprisoned Weather Underground activists to DA fighting to reform the justice system.

Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem

2020

Director

Directing
Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote

Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote

2020

Director

Directing

Deeply personal accounts from voters of color across the state of Georgia reveal deliberate, widespread voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election...

Suppressed: The Fight to Vote

Suppressed: The Fight to Vote

2019

Director

Directing

Robert Greenwald exposes rampant voter suppression that affected the outcome of the 2018 midterm election in Georgia and the threat it poses to our el...

Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA

Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA

2016

Director

8.2
Directing

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. I...

Unmanned: America's Drone Wars

2013

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through mor...

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

2013

Director

7.8
Directing

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took t...

Koch Brothers Exposed

Koch Brothers Exposed

2012

Producer, Director

6.5
Producing Directing

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 ...

Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan

2009

Director

8.0
Directing

Filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed) carefully examines the war in Afghanistan, raising challenging questions about the destabilization of Pakistan, ...

Going Back to Xanadu

Going Back to Xanadu

2008

Acting

A documentary about the movie Xanadu.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

2006

Director

7.8
Directing

Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companie...

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

2005

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business...

The ACLU Freedom Files: Gay and Lesbian Rights

2005

Director

5.0
Directing

The American Civil Liberties Union and Robert Greenwald present The ACLU Freedom Files, a revolutionary, 10-part series of documentaries that tells th...

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War

2004

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

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

Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties

2004

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

A documentary that investigates the ways in which the civil liberties of American citizens and immigrants have been rolled back since September 11 and...

Plain Truth

Plain Truth

2004

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.

Uncovered: The War on Iraq

Uncovered: The War on Iraq

2004

Producer, Director

7.9
Producing Directing

The feature-length version of producer/director Robert's Greenwald's short documentary phenomenon "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War." The...

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

2004

Producer, Director

7.1
Producing Directing

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 i...

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth

2004

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

2003

Producer

3.8
Producing

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 corpor...

Disappearance

Disappearance

2002

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.

Redeemer

Redeemer

2002

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch...

Steal This Movie

Steal This Movie

2000

Director

5.7
Directing

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of...

Deadlocked

Deadlocked

2000

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

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 bai...

Sharing the Secret

Sharing the Secret

2000

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

The Audrey Hepburn Story

The Audrey Hepburn Story

2000

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and...

Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge

Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge

1999

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

In 1989, a group of well-known high school athletes in Glen Ridge, New Jersey were accused of the gang rape of a teen girl. When the town rallies to p...

The Secret Path

The Secret Path

1999

Executive Producer

7.6
Producing

14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, l...

Breaking Up

Breaking Up

1997

Director, Producer

4.4
Directing Producing

An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and ros...

The Killing Secret

The Killing Secret

1997

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fac...

To Love, Honor and Deceive

To Love, Honor and Deceive

1996

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Sydney Carpenter is a devoted mother to her young son, and is now accustomed to the puzzling existence of her mysterious, non-communicative husband, M...

An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell

1996

Producer

3.5
Producing

A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of h...

Whose Daughter is She?

Whose Daughter is She?

1995

Executive Producer

4.8
Producing

Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.

Death in Small Doses

Death in Small Doses

1995

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her ...

Hear No Evil

Hear No Evil

1993

Director

4.6
Directing

Jillian Shanahan, a deaf woman, becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop. The cop is looking for a stolen coin, which he plans to keep for him...

The Portrait

The Portrait

1993

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

After a long absence, artist Margaret Church returns to her aging parent's home to finish a portrait of them, only to to discover that her parents hav...

Violation of Trust

Violation of Trust

1991

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

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 sup...

Our Sons

Our Sons

1991

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

When James admits to his mother that he is gay it strains her liberal attitude. A San Diego businesswoman, Audrey believes she is a modern, open-minde...

Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files

Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files

1990

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its ...

How to Murder a Millionaire

How to Murder a Millionaire

1990

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

A Beverly Hills housewife suspects that her husband of thirty years is trying to kill her.

My Brother's Wife

My Brother's Wife

1989

Executive Producer

Producing

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 ...

A Deadly Silence

A Deadly Silence

1989

Producer, Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people kn...

Sweet Hearts Dance

Sweet Hearts Dance

1988

Director, Executive Producer

4.8
Directing Producing

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 i...

Perfect People

Perfect People

1988

Executive Producer

4.2
Producing

After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves...

Lena: My 100 Children

Lena: My 100 Children

1987

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no informa...

Daddy

Daddy

1987

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

On Fire

On Fire

1987

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

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...

Liberty

Liberty

1986

Executive Producer, Producer

Producing

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

Shattered Spirits

Shattered Spirits

1986

Director, Producer

5.4
Directing Producing

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

Silent Witness

1985

Executive Producer

4.9
Producing

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 woma...

Challenge of a Lifetime

1985

Executive Producer

3.5
Producing

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....

Answers

Answers

1985

Producer

Producing

Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway...

The Burning Bed

The Burning Bed

1984

Director

6.9
Directing

An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes he...

In the Custody of Strangers

In the Custody of Strangers

1982

Director

6.3
Directing

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 even...

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

1982

Producer

6.0
Producing

A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

Miracle on Ice

Miracle on Ice

1981

Producer

6.3
Producing

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 contr...

Xanadu

Xanadu

1980

Director

5.7
Directing

A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.

Portrait of a Stripper

Portrait of a Stripper

1979

Executive Producer

2.5
Producing

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 ...

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

1979

Director

4.7
Directing

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, J...

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

1978

Producer, Director

3.8
Producing Directing

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

Getting Married

Getting Married

1978

Producer

4.0
Producing

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.

Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress

Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress

1977

Director

3.0
Directing

A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with married men.

Escape from Bogen County

Escape from Bogen County

1977

Producer

Producing

A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends th...

Delta County, USA

1977

Producer

Producing

Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sis...

21 Hours at Munich

21 Hours at Munich

1976

Producer

6.1
Producing

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

The Desperate Miles

The Desperate Miles

1975

Producer

Producing

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 fin...