Helen Whitney Trailers

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death TrailerFaith and Doubt at Ground Zero TrailerRichard Avedon: Darkness and Light Trailer

Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody award-winning, film producer, director and writer Helen Whitney has been a prolific creator of documentaries and feature films. Her compelling subject matter has included topics such as youth gangs, presidential candidates, the McCarthy era, mental illness, Pope John Paul II, Great Britain’s class structure, homosexuality and photographer Richard Avedon. Among the actors she has worked with: Lindsay Kraus, Austin Pendleton, David Straithern, Brenda Fricker, Teresa Wright, Estelle Parsons. Throughout her career, she has maintained a deep interest in spiritual journeys, which she first explored with her documentary The Monastery, a 90-minute ABC special, about the oldest Trappist community in the Americas. Whitney followed this film with a three-hour Frontline documentary for PBS, John Paul II: The Millennial Pope, and in 2007 she produced The Mormons, a four-hour PBS series that explored the richness, complexities and controversies surrounding the Mormon faith. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, she produced Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, a two-hour documentary that examined how religious belief – and unbelief – of Americans was challenged and altered by the spiritual aftershocks of 9/11. The film has been repeated yearly since it first aired in 2002, and it was a PBS featured presentation on the 1st and on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Her four-hour PBS series Forgiveness; A Time to Love and a Time to Hate examined the power, limitations, and in rare cases, the dangers of forgiveness through emblematic stories ranging from personal betrayal to genocide. This film involved shooting throughout America, and such countries as South Africa, Germany, Rwanda. Forgiveness aired on PBS in 2011 and it also inspired Whitney to write a book of the same title, with a forward written by the Dalai Lama. The filmmaker has received an Academy Award nomination, the Humanitas Prize, the Emmy, the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award, The Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Journalism, The Director’s Guild Award, the Writers Guild Award and many other recognitions for her work.

Most Popular Helen Whitney Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

First Love, Fatal Love Trailer (1991)

09 April 1991

A docudrama telling the true story of a young woman who learns she has contracted the AIDS virus after an encounter with a fellow student while in college.

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light Trailer (1996)

24 January 1996

Richard Avedon was one of the great geniuses of 20th century photography, famous for his fashion photography done for the likes of Vogue, Versace, and Armani, and equally famous for his black and white portraits of American people, both famous and unknown.

A Town's Revenge Trailer (1989)

30 November 1989

A teenager who tries to convince his town to farm without using pesticides finds many of the residents resistant to change.

First Edition Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

First Edition is a 1977 American short documentary film about the Baltimore Sun directed by Helen Whitney.

Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero Trailer (2002)

03 September 2002

For many Americans, the most difficult questions about 9/11 were not about politics, military strategy or homeland security.

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death Trailer (2017)

27 October 2017

We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all. To be human is to wrestle with this truth and with the great unanswered question: How do we live with death in our eye? We can deny, we can rail, we can challenge, we can accept.

American Inquisition Trailer (1983)

23 June 1983

An examination of the effect of McCarthyism on two ordinary Americans. Interviews with Paul McCarty and his family describe the loss of his job in a Paducah, Kentucky power plant in 1953 when his loyalty was questioned; he lost job after job for over twenty years.