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THE WHITE HOUSE:
INSIDE AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS HOME
December 2008
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile worked as “Documentary Consultant” on this full-length
documentary, the centerpiece of an unprecedented, weeklong C-SPAN
production about the White House, the residence of America’s chief
executive. C-SPAN was granted exclusive access to areas never before
filmed for broadcast. The program first aired on 14 December 2008. See http://www.whitehouse.c-span.org/
(Credit: Documentary Consultant.)
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TYLER HICKS IN AFGHANISTAN
2008
Quicktime Video
While embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made a brief video of New York Times Photojournalist Tyler Hicks as he prepared and then transmitted images from one of the most unforgiving locales on earth to the Times photo desk in New York. At the time I met Tyler, I was working on a piece in Afghanistan's Helmand River Valley, along the border with Pakistan, for NOW on PBS. (Titled, "Afghanistan: The Forgotten War," the piece was nominated for a national Emmy Award.) I think the video of Tyler illustrates the technology that has revolutionized the craft of visual journalism. More importantly, it gives viewers a sense of how professional, articulate and dedicated some of the practitioners of our craft can be. Tyler Hicks is an extraordinarily talented photojournalist and a role model for all who want to devote themselves to the craft. Tyler, along with three other New York Times employees, recently was abducted and later released by Libyan forces who captured them while the journalists were covering events in that north African country.
(Credit: Producer/Camera.)
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NURSES NEEDED
NOW on PBS - October 2008
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile produced and helped shoot
this story about the critical shortage of nurses in the United States.
You can see the piece in its entirety at the NOW on PBS web site. See http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/442/index.html.
(Credit: Producer/Camera.)
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AFGHANISTAN: THE FORGOTTEN WAR
Released 2008
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile was embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in
Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province along the border with Pakistan
during a major operation in May-June 2008. See the piece at http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/428/index.html.
(Credit: Correspondent, producer, videographer, writer, narrator.)
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UNDERGROUND YOGA
Released 2008
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile and his wife, Esther, traveled in the spring of 2007 to
the Greek island of Lesvos, where they filmed a three-week yoga
workshop by Victor van Kooten and Angela Farmer. In addition to the
one-hour documentary, “Underground Yoga” includes a series of
instructive “asanas,” plus interviews with Victor, Angela and their
students. See http://undergroundyogathemovie.com.
(Bill Gentile credit: Video journalist, producer, director.)
(Esther Gentile credit: Video journalist, producer, editor.)
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SECRET OPS
Court TV, 2007
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile follows SWAT teams on high-risk missions in and around Atlanta, GA.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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SWAT USA
Court TV, 2006
Quicktime Video
In this action-packed series, Bill Gentile follows
SWAT teams in and around Atlanta, GA, as they conduct high-risk
operations against dangerous criminals.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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DATELINE AFGHANISTAN:
REPORTING THE FORGOTTEN WAR, 2006
Quicktime Video
This one-hour documentary explains and explores the work of foreign correspondents covering the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
(Credit: Video journalist, producer, field producer, writer, narrator.)
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NOTHING FOR GRANTED:
A MARINE'S JOURNEY
MHz, 2005
Quicktime Video
In this 30-minute documentary, Bill Gentile follows a young Marine
from the mean streets of Iskandariya, about 50 miles south of Baghdad,
to rejoin his family in the village of Boudin, Maine.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW
NOW With David Brancaccio, PBS, 2005
Quicktime Video
Gentile traveled to Iraq to document the lives of a single platoon of U.S. Marines, of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer, writer, narrator.)
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ECHOES OF WAR
NOW With Bill Moyers,
PBS, 2003
Quicktime Video
Bill
Gentile returns to Nicaragua, where he lived and covered the 1979
Sandinista Revolution as well as the U.S.-financed Contra War against
the Sandinistas, to document the lives of Nicaraguans he photographed
in his book, Nicaragua.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer, writer, narrator.)
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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
National Geographic Television, 2002
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile spent two months in West Africa, where he contracted
malaria, documenting the work of physicians and nurses working with the
prestigious Doctors Without Borders.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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DISTANT NEIGHBORS
NOW With Bill Moyers, PBS, 2002
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile and longtime Newsweek Magazine correspondent Joe
Contreras visited Havana to document economic ties between Cuba and the
United States as relations between the two nations slowly began to thaw
despite decades of the failed U.S. trade embargo against the Caribbean
island nation.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer, co-writer.)
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DIVING THE VOLCANO
National Geographic Television, 1999
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile traveled with a five-country team of
scientists to the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway to explore
underwater volcanos and their effect on global warming. For six weeks
he filmed the scientists, who used the Russian mini-subs MIR-I and
MIR-II, to dive to the ocean floor. These are the same two Russian subs
used in the filming of the Hollywood film, "Titanic."
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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SURVIVING THE SAHARA
National Geographic Television, 1998
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile and the National Geographic reporter - photographer
team spent nearly two months in the Sahara Desert documenting life in
this spectacular part of the world, until anti-government guerrillas
forced their departure from the north African nation.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer.)
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THE WEAPON
ABC Nightline with Forrest Sawyer, 1997
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile and producer Joanne Levine won the Robert F. Kennedy
Award, Honorable Mention, for this powerful story about rape during the
1994 Genocide in Rwanda. The story helped to prompt the first
prosecutions for rape as a war crime at the International Criminal
Tribunal at The Hague.
(Credit: Video journalist, co-writer.)
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THE VOICE OF HOPE
ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel, 1996
Quicktime Video
Bill Gentile and producer Joanne Levine visited Burundi to document
the work of the Washington, D.C.-based group, Search for Common Ground,
which operated a radio production center employing journalists of the
often-warring Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups.
(Credit: Video journalist, co-writer, narrator.)
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TRAUMA: LIFE IN THE ER
The Learning Channel, 1996
Quicktime Video
After having worked on the pilot of the highly
successful “Trauma” series, Bill Gentile worked on many of the episodes
that followed. The “Knife and Gun Club,” shot at Denver General
Hospital, was one of the most dramatic.
(Credit: Video journalist.)
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CHAIN GANG
Video News International, 1996
Quicktime Video
Shortly after the state of Alabama renewed the practice of chaining
prisoners in groups of five, Bill Gentile spent nearly a week at the
penitentiary documenting the controversial program.
(Credit: Video journalist, field producer, narrator.)
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