Rachel Dretzin (Director)
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Works
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 Date1983-03-04
Charactersd Shelly, College Girl
Vote Count39
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 Date1983-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count48
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 Date2022-06-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count121
The Merchants of Cool
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
Release Date2001-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
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 Date2004-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
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 Date1999-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2019-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count22
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
Journey through the history of black representation on television, showcasing how black artists and creators both shaped and revolutionized the medium while confronting the systemic challenges that have often undermined their contributions.
Release Date2025-09-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
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 Date2019-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Last Days on Lake Trinity
When a South Florida trailer park is slated for closure by its owner, the evangelical TV network TBN, residents have until the end of the year to fight the eviction or find new homes.
Release Date2025-08-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
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 Date2023-03-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count17
Hillary's Class
In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women. But what about her classmates who left college believing they could do anything?
Release Date1994-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1995-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
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 Date2022-10-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditorial Consultant
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 Date2018-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2010-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1