Projections of America (2014)
52 min
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The filmmakers created powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength not through images of tanks, but in portraits of farmers, school children and window washers. The "Projections of America" films were brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before, but seventy years later they are forgotten, hidden away in government archives.
- Release date
- March 28, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Moritz Denis, Eike Hosenfeld, Tim Stanzel
Cast
- John Lithgow as Narrator
- Victoria Riskin as Self - Robert Riskin's daughter
- Ian Scott as Self - historian
- Kenneth Turan as Self - film critic, Los Angeles Times
- Robert Riskin Jr. as Self - Robert Riskin's son
- Susan Riskin as Self - Fay Wray's daughter
- David W. Rintels as Self
- Marja Roholl as Self - historian, University of Amsterdam
Crew
- Franklin D. Roosevelt · Archive footage
- Robert E. Sherwood · Archive footage
- Peter Miller · Director
- Peter Miller · Writer
- Antje Boehmert · Producer
- Peter Miller · Producer
- Christian J. Popp · Producer
- Moritz Denis · Composer
- Eike Hosenfeld · Composer
- Tim Stanzel · Composer
- Antonio Rossi · Cinematographer
- Amy Carey · Editor