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Erik Barnouw Award Winners

Home 1983    Ken Burns, "Brooklyn Bridge"

1984    WGBH-Boston, 13-part series, "Vietnam:  A Television History"

1985    Past America, Inc., "Solomon Northup's Odyssey"

C BS News, Joel Heller, producer, "The Legacy of Harry Truman"

1986    Ken Burns, "Huey Long," distributed by Corinth Films, New York

1987    No award given.

1988    Robert Stone (Director and Producer) "Radio Bikini," Crossroads Production Company

Alvin H. Perlmutter (Executive Producer), Joan Konner (Co-executive Producer), and Bill Moyers (Executive Editor), "The Secret Government:  The Constitution in Crisis," Public Affairs Television

1989    Martha Sandlin and Barbara Abrash, "Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo," Institute for Research in History

1990    Richard Kilberg and Yvonne Smith, "Adam Clayton Powell," a program from the PBS series "The American Experience" a production of WGBH/WNET/KCET

1991    Henry Hampton, "Eyes on the Prize II:  America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985," Blackside, Inc.

1992    Ric Burns and Buddy Squires, "Coney Island," Steeplechase Films

Marlon T. Riggs, "Color Adjustment:  Blacks in Prime Time," Resolution Inc./California Newsreel

1993    Christine M. Lesiak and Matthew L. Jones, "In the White Man's Image," Nebraska ETV Network

1994    David Appleby, Allison Graham, and Steven Ross, "At the River I Stand," California Newsreel.

1995    Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford, "Freedom on My Mind," Clarity Films.

1996    Blackside, Inc., "America's War on Poverty."

1997    Stephen Ives, Insignia Films, "The West."

1998    Austin Hoyt, "The Richest Man in the World:  Andrew Carnegie," American Experience.

Honorable Mention:  Vivian Ducat, "Hawaii's Last Queen," Ducat Segal Productions, Inc.

1999    Nina Gilden Seavey, "A Paralyzing Fear:  The Story
 of Polio in America," directed by Nina Gilden Seavey, George Washington University, and produced by Paul Wagner, Paul Wagner Productions, Inc., and Nina Gilden Seavey.

2000    Henry Hampton, “I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Art,” Blackside, Inc.

2001    The Documentary Institute at the College of Journalism and Communications of the University of Florida, "Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore," Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, producer-directors.

2002  Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman, "Scottsboro:  An American Tragedy," Social Media Productions

2003 Judith Ehrlich and Rick Tejada-Flores, produced by Paradigm Productions Inc. in association with Independent Television Service, "The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It"

Honorable Mention:  "Strange Fruit" produced/directed by Joel Katz, Oniera Films LLC

Honorable Mention:  "Ulysses S. Grant" Part I written, produced, and directed by Adriana Bosch: Part II written, produced, and directed by Elizabeth Deane, for American Experience

2004  Andrea Kalin, Spark Media, Inc., "Partners of the Heart"

Honorable Mention:  David Appleby, The University of Memphis, "Hoxie: The First Stand"

2005 American Experience, “Reconstruction, the Second Civil War” (Episode One: Llewellyn M. Smith, Producer and Director; Episode Two: Elizabeth Deane, Producer and Director, Patricia Garcia Rios, Co-Producer and Co-Director; Series Producer: Elizabeth Deane).

Honorable Mention: California Newsreel, “February One” (Rebecca Cerese, Producer, Video Dialog; Stephen Channing, Executive Producer, Video Dialog).

Honorable Mention: American Experience, “Patriots Day” (written, directed, and produced by Marian Marzynski).

2006 The Documentary Institute, College of Journalism and Communications, The University of Florida, "Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power" (Sandra Dickson & Churchill Roberts, co-directors; Cindy Hill & Cara Pilson, associate directors; California Newsreel, distributor)

Honorable Mention: American Experience, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (Robert Stone, producer; New Video, distributor)

Honorable Mention: American Experience, Two Days in October (Mark Samels, executive producer; Robert Kenner, producer; PBS, distributor)

2007 Randall MacLowry, The Gold Rush (a Yellow Jersey Films, Inc. production for American Experience, produced in association with KQED television; Randall MacLowry and Laura Longsworth producers; directed by Randall MacLowry)

Honorable Mention: Sacco and Vanzetti, Peter Miller, Producer/Director (Willow Pond Films)

Honorable Mention: July '64: The Roots of Urban Unrest in America, Carvin Eison, Director; Chris Christopher, Producer (California Newsreel)

Honorable Mention: The Boy in the Bubble, an Ark Media film for American Experience, produced and directed by Barak Goodman and John Maggio

2008 Through Deaf Eyes a film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, a production of WETA Washington, DC and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, in association with Gallaudet University

Honorable Mention
Revolution '67, Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, Bongiorno Productions Inc., the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., in association with WSKG, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). (California Newsreel, distributor)

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