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

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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 Ireland and Israel. Directed by Valerie Lapin Ganley.  U.S. Premiere at the 2003 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

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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 three weeks inside the prison, documenting the pressurized interaction and contest of wills among soldiers and detainees, as well as briefings and operations that have previously been off-limits. The film includes candid interviews with troopers at Guantanamo, top officials who believe there is an active al-Qaeda cell in the facility, a former interrogator and former detainees, as well as attorneys representing those still being held.

Directed by Jon Else and Bonni Cohen.

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“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 led by CBS News veteran David Schneider.” ~ Geoff Boucher, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Andrew Gersh edited multiple documentaries in the series of 94 produced by JAK Films/Lucasfilm, Ltd.

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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.

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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 year to deploy 15,000 multinational troops throughout the tiny West African nation, secure the country’s borders, make Liberia safe for civilians, and disarm 40,000 fighters from three warring factions. Produced, Written and Directed by Jessie Deeter. World Premiere at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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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 in intelligence operations, that not only raise questions about what we actually know about the “enemy,” but also whether we have heightened our vulnerability to other threats.

A co-production of FRONTLINE with The New York Times. Produced by Lowell Bergman and Oriana Zill de Granados.

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“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, giving prominence to the travails of attractive white women or the rantings of spinmeisters of all stripes.  But this quietly moving special… shows that there are journalists creating solid, worthy fare at the cable channels.  Let us now give them credit where it’s due; “Rising” is an unobtrusively fine piece of work.”

~ CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Produced by Kelly Whalen for Ikana Media/MSNBC

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”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 when you contemplate the thorniness of his subject: the veracity of the Bible, the end of days and who will be saved. ~ Virginia Heffernan, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Produced and Written by Jonathan Halperin for National Geographic Channel.

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The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of fourteen daring social entrepreneurs who are undaunted by the chronic challenges of poverty, illness, unemployment, violence, and ignorance they see in the world around them. These individuals have a revolutionary passion for identifying and solving large-scale social problems. Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, their mission is to generate social value, not wealth. For social entrepreneurs, the bottom line is measured in lives. Hosted by Robert Redford, this four-part series aired nationally on PBS in the summer of 2005.

Andrew Gersh edited four segments of the series for Actual Films. This segment produced and photographed by Jon Shenk.

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