Rachel Dretzin (Directing)
Little is known about Rachel Dretzin, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Great Photo, Lovely Life
A photojournalist turns her lens on the decades of sexual abuse her family and community experienced at the hands of her grandfather in this unflinching portrait of intergenerational trauma, family secrets, and redemption.
Release Date:2023-03-10
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:11
The Picture Taker
From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?
Release Date:2022-10-27
Department:Editing
Job:Editorial Consultant
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.
Release Date:2022-06-08
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:99
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Decades after the assassination of African American leader Malcolm X, an activist embarks on a complex mission seeking truth in the name of justice.
Release Date:2019-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:19
Far from the Tree
Parents of children who have Down syndrome, dwarfism or autism share intimate stories of the challenges they face. Tracing their joys, challenges, tragedies, and triumphs.
Release Date:2019-09-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:10
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.
Release Date:2018-03-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Digital Nation
Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast on Feb. 2, 2010. Our production team is posting rough cuts and raw footage on the web, and gathering input, feedback and stories from users as we go.
Release Date:2010-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Persuaders
PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public.
Release Date:2004-11-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
The Merchants of Cool
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
Release Date:2001-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
The Lost Children of Rockdale County
"The Lost Children of Rockdale County" explores how a 1996 syphilis outbreak in a well-off Atlanta suburb affected over 200 teenagers.
Release Date:1999-10-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Search for Satan
FRONTLINE untangles the mysterious web of satanic ritual abuse, psychiatric treatment, and insurance claims that escalated into millions of dollars. Were these professed victims of secret satanic cults really helped by the psychiatric care they received?
Release Date:1995-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
FRONTLINE: A Hidden Life
On May 5, 2005, the residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to one of the strangest headlines in the town’s history: “West Tied to Sex Abuse in ’70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men.” The popular, socially conservative Republican mayor of Spokane, Jim West, had been outed by the town’s newspaper, which told the sordid story of a man with two lives: in public, he had once sponsored legislation forbidding gays from teaching in public schools, while in private, the paper alleged, he was trawling for young men online, using the trappings of his office to lure them into sexual relationships. But as bizarre as the revelations were, so too were the newspaper’s methods. FRONTLINE producers Rachel Dretzin and Barak Goodman investigate the complex relationship between politics, sexuality, fear, and judgment in one all-American town.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Baby It's You
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
Release Date:1983-03-04
Character:Shelly, College Girl
Vote Count:38
Frontline
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
Release Date:1983-01-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:41