David Grubin (born 1944) is an American documentary filmmaker, who has
produced and directed numerous films, many of which are best known
from airing on PBS.A director, writer, producer, French and American
historian, and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100
films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning
every award in the field of documentary television, including two
Alfred I. Dupont awards, two George Foster Peabody prizes, five
Writer's Guild prizes, and ten Emmys.His biographies for American
Experience on PBS - LBJ, FDR, Truman, TR: The Story of Theodore
Roosevelt, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - have set the
standard for television biography. His five-part series for PBS -
Healing And The Mind with Bill Moyers - won several awards, with the
companion book, rising to number one on The New York Times Best
Sellers list.A member of the executive committee of the Society of
American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has
been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of
an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is
member of the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, and is a former
chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.
produced and directed numerous films, many of which are best known
from airing on PBS.A director, writer, producer, French and American
historian, and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100
films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning
every award in the field of documentary television, including two
Alfred I. Dupont awards, two George Foster Peabody prizes, five
Writer's Guild prizes, and ten Emmys.His biographies for American
Experience on PBS - LBJ, FDR, Truman, TR: The Story of Theodore
Roosevelt, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - have set the
standard for television biography. His five-part series for PBS -
Healing And The Mind with Bill Moyers - won several awards, with the
companion book, rising to number one on The New York Times Best
Sellers list.A member of the executive committee of the Society of
American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has
been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of
an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is
member of the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, and is a former
chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.
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