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30 years of documentary video and film
  2013

Radical Adjustments: The Life and Times of Marilyn Reed Lucia is offered in the Moira store.

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2012 Kiss the Cook & the Farmer Too
A program about cooking and farming that combines the recipes with ways in which we produce, prepare, and consume food that not only affect our personal health and well-being but also the health of our environment and our communities.
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  2011

Original Minds
Five high-school students are profiled in the documentary about learning differences.
Airing on public television in August 2011.

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  2010

Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete
Feature documentary biography of the legendary Native American athlete.
With co-writer Joseph Bruchac.

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  2007

Swim for the River
Documentary about a man who swims the Hudson River, from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York City to bring attention to environmental causes in the Hudson River Valley. With swimmer/activist Christopher Swain, Pete Seeger, and Riverkeeper.

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  2005

Heart of the Congo
Documentary about the dilemma of humanitarian aid workers trying to help civil war refugees without creating a lasting dependency. With Action Against Hunger.

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  2005

The Long Walk to Freedom
Documentary and DVD about Twelve ordinary people who participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Narrated by Marsha Thomas Cooke.

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  2003

A Dream in Hanoi
Feature documentary film in which Vietnamese and American actors endure the strains of cross-cultural misunderstandings to mount a production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Nights Dream.” With the Artists Reperatory Theater.

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  2001

Boys Will Be Men
Documentary about the emotional life of boys. With the participation of Michael Thompson, author of Raising Cain and William Pollack, author of Real Boys.

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  2000

A Force More Powerful
Two segments of the PBS series on the history of civil disobedience in the 20th century. Shot on location in Poland and Denmark. Danish resistance to the Nazi occupation; and the Gdansk ship yard strikes in 1980 leading to the birth of the Solidarity movement in Poland.

 
  1997

Making Peace
A Moira Productions series for the Independent Television Service. Weidlinger was executive producer of four hour-long programs about grassroots activists healing conditions that create violence. He wrote and directed the fourth hour in the series, Facing Racism. The Making Peace Action Campaign, a nationwide community-based violence prevention initiative coincided with the broadcasts.

 
  1995

A River Called Ohio
One-hour historical film for West Virginia Public Television.

 
  1994

After the Velvet Revolution
An independent Moira Productions project in association with WGBH TV. Shot over a four-year period in the former Czechoslovakia, It chronicles the lives of Czech and Slovak citizens as they adapt to democracy and free market economy.

 
  1991

De Gaulle and France
A three-hour series from WGBH TV and the French newspaper Le Monde on the life of the French leader. Tom Weidlinger wrote and directed the second program on de Gaulle and the French Algerian War.

 
  1989

The Great War, 1918
A Moira Productions film for WGBH TV about United States participation in World War I. Broadcast in the second season of PBS series, The American Experience.

 
  1988

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
A Moira Productions film about the 1906 earthquake and its aftermath. The film's broadcast premiered the first season of PBS flagship series, The American Experience.

 
  1986

West of the Imagination
Senior producer of this six-part television series about the settlement of the American West as portrayed by artists and photographers in the 19th century, Tom Weidlinger also produced, directed, and co-wrote four programs with historian William Goetzmann.

 
  1979

Cosmos
Associate producer and writer Tom Weidlinger also directed science sequences and dramatizations for this thirteen-part series on astronomy with Carl Sagan.

 

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