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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump
2024
Director, Producer
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
2024
Director
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
2023
Producer, Director
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

Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote
2020
Director
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
2019
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 el...

Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA
2016
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. I...
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
2013
Producer, Director
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
2013
Director
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
2012
Producer, 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 ...

Rethink Afghanistan
2009
Director
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed) carefully examines the war in Afghanistan, raising challenging questions about the destabilization of Pakistan, ...

Going Back to Xanadu
2008
A documentary about the movie Xanadu.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
2006
Director
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
2005
Director, 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...
The ACLU Freedom Files: Gay and Lesbian Rights
2005
Director
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
2004
Director, 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.

Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
2004
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...

Plain Truth
2004
Executive Producer
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.

Uncovered: The War on Iraq
2004
Producer, Director
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
2004
Producer, 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 i...

The Book of Ruth
2004
Executive Producer
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
2003
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 corpor...

Disappearance
2002
Executive Producer
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
2002
Executive Producer
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
2000
Director
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
2000
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 bai...

Sharing the Secret
2000
Executive Producer
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

The Audrey Hepburn Story
2000
Executive Producer
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
1999
Executive Producer
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
1999
Executive Producer
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
1997
Director, Producer
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
1997
Executive Producer
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
1996
Executive Producer
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
1996
Producer
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?
1995
Executive Producer
Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.

Death in Small Doses
1995
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 ...

Hear No Evil
1993
Director
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
1993
Executive Producer
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
1991
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 sup...

Our Sons
1991
Executive Producer
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
1990
Producer, Director
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
1990
Executive Producer
A Beverly Hills housewife suspects that her husband of thirty years is trying to kill her.

My Brother's Wife
1989
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 ...

A Deadly Silence
1989
Producer, Executive Producer
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
1988
Director, 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 i...

Perfect People
1988
Executive Producer
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
1987
Executive Producer
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
1987
Executive Producer
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

On Fire
1987
Director, 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...

Liberty
1986
Executive Producer, Producer
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
1986
Director, 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.

Silent Witness
1985
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 woma...
Challenge of a Lifetime
1985
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....

Answers
1985
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...

The Burning Bed
1984
Director
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
1982
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 even...

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
Producer
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

Miracle on Ice
1981
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 contr...

Xanadu
1980
Director
A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.

Portrait of a Stripper
1979
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 ...

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
Director
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
1978
Producer, Director
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

Getting Married
1978
Producer
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
1977
Director
A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with married men.

Escape from Bogen County
1977
Producer
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
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
1976
Producer
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
1975
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 fin...