Category: The Work

https://youtu.be/1medq9lbMCA?t=9 Andrew Gersh has edited many stories for the PBS news magazine series FRONTLINE/World, including: Cambodia: Pol Pot's Shadow, produced by Amanda Pike Venezuela: A Nation On Edge, produced by Doug Hamilton Liberia: No More War, produced by Jessie Deeter Japan: The Slow Life, produced by Jason Cohn

The Burning Wigs of Sedition is a post-moral tale of self-obsession, finery and the ephemeral nature of oppression. The steamy belly of the creaking ancient galleon is a place of Sisyphean suffering. Callused hands blister on oars to the beat of drums and the cracking whip. The toil of the rowing slaves goes unnoticed by the libertine [...]

Shalom Ireland is a feature documentary that explores Ireland's remarkable, yet little known Jewish community. From gun running for the Irish Republican Army during Ireland's War of Independence to smuggling fellow Jews escaping from the Holocaust into Palestine, the film tells the untold story of how Irish Jews participated in the creation and development of both [...]

National Geographic Channel’s Explorer offers viewers a surprisingly intimate portrait of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in its twilight. In a special two-hour episode premiering in April 2009, Explorer: Inside Guantanamo goes behind the razor wire to document what life is really like for the detainees and the military personnel who guard them. Explorer’s crew spent nearly [...]

“Over the past four years, (George) Lucas and Paramount Home Video have pumped millions of dollars into reframing “Young Indiana” as a lavish, three-volume library of DVDs with a staggering number of extras, including 94 highly polished documentaries on famous people and moments in history… The best part of the DVD series may be the new documentaries, which were [...]

Andrew Gersh has edited many behind-the-scenes documentaries for Lucasfilm, Ltd. on the making of the prequel films in the Star Wars saga. Released as special features on DVD and Blu-ray worldwide.

This powerful film by Jessie Deeter (producer of “Who Killed the Electric Car?”) is the story of the end of Liberia’s civil war. Years of fighting and squandered resources have left Liberia a shattered nation-state struggling to pull itself back together.  UN Force Commander Daniel Opande has come to try to create order out of chaos; he has one [...]

Five years after 9/11, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lowell Bergman investigates the domestic counterterrorism effort and asks whether we are better prepared to prevent another catastrophic attack. Through interviews with high-level sources from the FBI, Department of Defense and Homeland Security, and relying on previously undisclosed documents, Bergman reveals continued inter-agency rivalry, as well as troubling flaws [...]

https://vimeo.com/7995351 “Three New Orleans families are followed in their post-Katrina journeys, which have been difficult, indeed.  Houses lost, jobs lost, families split up and businesses facing uncertain futures – these are just a few of the problems these three patient clans endure.  It’s easy to beat up on the cable-news channels for, in their day-to-day coverage, [...]

”Secrets of Revelation,” oxymoronic title and all, is a thing of beauty: a real aesthetic and moral achievement by Jonathan Halperin, a San Francisco-based filmmaker. While addressing a combustible combination of political, historical, intellectual and theological concerns, his program… still manages to be only slyly didactic and also gripping. This accomplishment is all the more impressive [...]