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Producer/Director Bios
Glenn Silber is a documentary film director and long-time network television news producer who has produced 90 prime-time newsmagazine stories for various CBS News and ABC News broadcasts, as well as ten independent documentaries, primarily for PBS.
Silber was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary: for The War at Home (1979) and El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981). He has received two Emmy Awards, the George Polk Award, a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton, the IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors) Award; a Writers Guild Award, among dozens of awards and citations for his work as an independent producer and broadcast journalist.
His most recent documentary work includes: Producer/Director/Writer on the one-hour investigative report, A DEATH IN ST. AUGUSTINE for Frontline, in partnership with the NY Times which was Nominated for an Emmy for Best Investigative Reporting. He was also Senior Producer & Writer on the ABC News Productions’ one-hour Special for Discovery I.D, ADNAN SYED: INNOCENT OR GUILTY, about the crime story at the heart of the Season One “Serial”: podcast that had 175 million downloads.
Silber was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Filmmaking and was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Documentary Branch).
Barry Alexander Brown has worked as a director, editor and writer in documentaries and feature films for the past four decades. Not long after completing The War at Home, he met and began a long working relationship with the director Spike Lee who was a graduate student at NYU at the time. Since, he has cut many of Mr. Lee’s films including DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X, HE GOT GAME, SUMMER OF SAM, 25th HOUR and INSIDE MAN. Most recently he edited BLACKKKLANSMAN which just won the Grand Prix du Jury at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. He has also worked with the acclaimed Indian director Mira Nair on such films as the Oscar Nominated SALAAM BOMBAY, MONSOON WEDDING and Disney’s QUEEN OF KATWE.
As a director, he has shot music videos and commercials as well as the critically acclaimed features LONELY IN AMERICA and WINNING GIRLS. His third feature, LAST LOOKS, was shot on location in Turkey and was made to be the center piece of a transmedia novel, which he also wrote. He has currently completed principal photography on a feature film (now in post production) based on his original screenplay titled, SON OF THE SOUTH about Alabama native born civil rights activist Bob Zellner.
“Dramatic …The Classic Vietnam-Era Documentary.”
PETER CANBY | THE NEW YORKER.COM 2018
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“Oscar Nominated …The War at Home documentary returns with a message that still resonates… Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore tweeted that it is, ‘One of the best documentaries ever made.’”
Detroit Free Press | 2018
Credits
Producer/Director
Glenn Silber
Barry Alexander Brown
Editor
Chuck France
Research
Bob Newton
Ken Weiss
Principal Photography
Dan Lerner
Rick March
Additional Photography
Chuck France
Bob Lovely
Clarke Mackey
Director of Film Research
Jon Aleckson
Associate Producer
Elizabeth Duncan
Sound Recordist/Sound Effects
Tom Naunas
Sound Mixer
Thomas Fleischman
Sound Editors
Josh Waletzky
Susan Lazarus
Margaret Crimmins
Sound Mixer
Thomas Fleischman
Additional Sound Recordists
Paul Dingman
Kathleen King
Terry Stegner
Consultant, Publicist & Writer of Opening Narration
Patricia R. Zimmerman
Still Photography
Michael Kienitz
Archival Assistance
Debra Brown
Elizabeth Garfield
Pierce Rafferty
Jerry Flynn
John Pontius
Mark Weber
Music Consultant
Daniel Harnden
Animation
George Allez
Mike Smith
Poster & Graphics
Kevin Gaor
Archival Film Sources
Wisconsin Historical Society
Mid-Continent Broadcasting
WISC-TV, Madison
WMTV-TV, Madison
WFRV-TV, Green Bay
WBAY-TV, Green Bay
WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee
WISN-TV, Milwaukee
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay
People’s Video, Madison
U.W. Protection & Security
Howard Monath, filmmaker
Susumu Tokunow, filmmaker
Ash Flm Productions, Madison
The Film Group
Third World Newsreel
The Political Commercial Archives
Fraternite Vietnam
CBS
The National Archives
The Library of Congress
U.S. Army
U.S. Air Force
Music Credits
“On Wisconsin”
University of Wisconsin Marching Band
Courtesy of: The University of Wisconsin
“When the Ship Comes In”
Bob Dylan
Courtesy of Columbia Records/CBS Records
“The Ballad of the Green Berets”
Sergeant Barry Sadler
Courtesy of RCA Records
“I Ain’t A’Marchin’ Anymore”
Phil Ochs
Courtesy of Electra Records
“People and Fighters Unite”
Courtesy of Monitor Records / Smithsonian Folkways
“For What It’s Worth”
Buffalo Springfield
Courtesy of Atlantic Records
“Liza Jane”
Delaware Water Gap
Courtesy of Kicking Mule Records
“We Can Be Together”
Jefferson Airplane
Courtesy of RCA Records
“Resistance”
David Tannenbaum
Courtesy of Studio 584 Inc.
Special Thanks to:
Ada Silber
Alan Silber
Emile de Antonio
Blake Kellogg
George Talbot
Lester Pines
Wisconsin Historical Society
Duart Film Labs
Wisconsin Educational TV Network
WHA-TV
Cinergy Communications Corp.
George Colburn Labs
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
The Capitol Times, Madison
And to the following Foundations and institutions:
Wisconsin Humanities Committee
National Endowment, Humanities
Institute for World Order
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Joint Foundation Support
The Lillian Boehm Foundation
The Wisconsin Arts Board
The Film Fund
Distribution
Distributor: Catalyst Media Productions, LLC.
Education Distribution: www.Kanopy.com
Special Screenings & Theatrical:
Contact: Glenn@thewarathome.tv
Contributors
(In Order of Appearance)
BLAKE KELLOGG
News Director, WKOW
KEN KNUTSON
Antiwar Activist
U. S. PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
PAUL SOGLIN
Antiwar activist
Mayor of Madison, WI
1973-79; 1989-97; 2015-18
U.S. SENATOR ERNEST GUENING
D- Alaska
HANK HASLACH
President of UW-Madison SDS
PhD, Math Assoc. Professor,
University of Maryland.
EVAN STARKE
U.W. Antiwar activist
Prof. Emeritus, Gender Studies
Rutgers University
BETTY BOARDMAN
Quaker Peace Activist
MARJORIE TABANKIN
U.W. Antiwar activist
Former President of the
Wisconsin Student Association.
Former National Director, VISTA
U. S. PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON
SENATOR GAYLORD NELSON
D-Wisconsin
JACK COLHOUN
Former Univ. Wisconsin ROTC Cadet
Former Editor, Amex Canada
RALPH HANSON
Chief of the University of Wisconsin
Protection & Security
COMMANDER FRYE
V.F.W. Commander
CONGRESSMAN ROBERT KASTENMEIER
D-Wisconsin
LOUISE SMALLEY
Madison homemaker
Ken Mate
U. W. Antiwar activist
Underground Newspaper editor.
Former manager, Kroll & Assoc.
VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
ROBERT MCNAMARA
U.S. Secretary of Defense
WAHID RASHAD
U.W. Political Activist
LIBERT RASHAD
U.W. Political Activist
SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY
D- Massachusetts
ALLEN GINSBERG
Poet
GORDON ROSELIP
Former Wisconsin State Senator
JIM ROWEN
Antiwar activist
Former Mayoral Assistant
DICK KROOTH
U.W. Antiwar activist
Research Associate,
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
WILLIAM BABLITCH
Law Student
Former Wisconsin State Senator
SENATOR EUGENE MCCARTHY
D- Minnesota
MAURICE ZEITLIN
Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
KARL ARMSTRONG
Antiwar Activist
Convicted Bomber of the
Army Mathematics Research Center
DONALD ARMSTRONG
Madison Resident
Father of Karl Armstrong
MARIANNE RICE
Homemaker
Antiwar activist
RON CARBON
Vietnam Veteran
Former Publisher, The Progressive
CONGRESSMAN GERALD FORD
R-Michigan
Former U.S. President
DOUG BRADLEY
Vietnam Veteran
Author
CHARLENE MITCHELL
Communist Party Candidate
for President
SENATOR WAYNE MORSE
D- Minnesota
H. EDWIN YOUNG
University of Wisconsin Chancellor
and UW Former President
WARREN KNOWLES
Former Governor of Wisconsin
AL JENKINS
Vietnam Veteran
JACK VON METTENHEIM
Anti-Nazi War Resister, WWII
Businessman Against the Vietnam War
WILLIAM EMERY
Former Madison Police Chief
ELINORE PULLEN
U.W. Antiwar activist
Physician’s Assistant
SUSAN COLSON
U.W. Antiwar activist
Musician
U. S. PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON
HERMAN THOMAS
Former Chief Inspector Madison Police Dept.
ROBERT WARREN
Former Attorney General of Wisconsin
MELVIN LAIRD
Secretary of Defense
Former Wisconsin Congressman
VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR
