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2014 Slippery Slopes (documentary) (filming)
 
2012 Can't Stand Losing You (documentary) (post-production)
 
2012 Creative Domain: Paul Taylor at Work (documentary) (completed)
 
2014 Icebound (documentary)
 
2013 The Pleasures of Being Out of Step (documentary)
 
2013 Before the Spring: After the Fall (documentary)
 
2013 Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (documentary)
 
2006-2012 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
– Love Free or Die (2012)
– When the Drum is Beating (2012)
– Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Road to Resistance (2012)
– Have You HeardfFrom Johannesburg: Free at Last (2012)
– Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (2012)
See all 9 episodes »
 
2012 Koch (documentary)
 
1996-2012 Frontline (TV series documentary)
– Fast Times at West Philly High (2012)
– Close to Home (2009)
– Growing Up Online (2008)
– Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (2002)
– John Paul II: The Millennial Pope (1999)
See all 9 episodes »
 
2012 The Standbys (documentary)
 
2012 Love Free or Die (documentary)
 
2012 The Queen of Versailles (documentary)
 
2011 Cathouse: Frisky Business (TV movie)
 
2011 Eames: The Architect & The Painter (documentary) (as Thomas Hurwitz)
 
2011 Gloria: In Her Own Words (TV documentary) (as Thomas Hurwitz)
 
2011 Cathouse: Welcome Aboard (TV movie)
 
2010 Cathouse: Cat Call (TV movie)
 
2010 Voices Unbound: The Story of the Freedom Writers (documentary)
 
2010 Lafayette: The Lost Hero (TV documentary)
 
2010 Killing in the Name (documentary short)
 
2010 Have You Heard From Johannesburg (documentary)
 
2010 Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Free at Last (documentary)
 
2010 Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (documentary)
 
2010 Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Fair Play (documentary)
 
2010 Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Road to Resistance (documentary)
 
2010 Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Hell of a Job (documentary)
 
2010 Dancing Across Borders (documentary)
 
2010 Dolley Madison (TV series)
 
1995-2010 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
– Dolley Madison (2010)
– Alexander Hamilton (2007)
– The Mormons: Part II (2007)
– The Mormons: Part I (2007)
– The Hurricane of '38 (2001)
See all 6 episodes »
 
2010 Mildred Richards (short)
 
2009 Real Sex (TV series documentary)
– Real Sex 33: Stocks Down, Sex Up (2009)
 
2009 Latin Music USA (TV series)
– The Salsa Revolution (2009)
 
2009 Studs Terkel: Listening to America (TV documentary short)
 
1991-2009 American Masters (TV series documentary)
– Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About (2009)
– A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999)
– The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999)
– Robert Motherwell and the New York School (1991)
 
2009 Rethinking Cancer (documentary)
 
2009 Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (documentary)
 
2005-2008 Cathouse: The Series (TV series documentary)
– Three Ring Circus (2008)
– What's on the Menu (2008)
– Menage a Trois (2008)
– Come to the Party (2008)
– Superstars (2007)
See all 20 episodes »
 
2008 Valentino: The Last Emperor (documentary) (director of photography)
 
2008 Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House (TV documentary)
 
2008 The Truth About Cancer (TV documentary)
 
2008 Cathouse: Three Ring Circus (TV movie)
 
2008 Cathouse: The Musical (TV documentary)
 
2007/I Coma (documentary)
 
2007 America at a Crossroads (TV series documentary)
– Kansas to Kandahar: Citizen Soldiers at War (2007)
 
2007 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series)
– Bellini's I Puritani (2007)
 
2007 Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (documentary)
 
2006 The Mystery of Love (TV documentary)
 
2006 Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West (documentary)
 
2006 Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (TV series documentary)
– The Homestead Strike (2006) (director of photography)
 
2006 Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas! (documentary)
 
2006 Kansas to Kandahar
 
2006 The New Medicine (TV documentary)
 
2006 God's Next Army (TV documentary)
 
2005 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV series documentary)
– Play (2005)
 
2005 Our Brand Is Crisis (documentary)
 
1989-2005 Nova (TV series documentary)
– Saving the National Treasures (2005)
– Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance (2002)
– Search for a Safe Cigarette (2001)
– Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius (1998)
– Coma (1997)
See all 8 episodes »
 
2004 Watermarks (documentary)
 
2004 The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis (TV documentary)
 
2004 Three Sisters: Searching for a Cure (TV documentary)
 
2004 Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (documentary)
 
2004 Music from the Inside Out (documentary)
 
2004 A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski (TV documentary)
 
2003 Peter Jennings Reporting: I Have a Dream (TV documentary)
 
2003 Pandemic: Facing AIDS (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1987-2003 Great Performances: Dance in America (TV series)
– Born to Be Wild: The Leading Men of American Ballet Theatre (2003)
– Holo Mai Pele (2001) (director of photography)
– Agnes: The Indomitable De Mille (1987)
 
2003 Porn 101: XXXtra Credit (TV movie)
 
2003 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (TV series documentary)
– No Turning Back (2003)
 
2003 The Shakespeare Sessions (documentary)
 
2002 Cathouse (TV documentary)
 
2002 Benjamin Franklin (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2002 Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (TV documentary)
 
2002 Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian (documentary)
 
2002 Middle School Confessions (TV documentary)
 
1988-2001 Great Performances (TV series)
– Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks (2001)
– On the Move: The Central Ballet of China (1988)
 
2001 He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (video documentary short)
 
2000 G String Divas (TV series)
– A Good Man Is Hard to Find (2000)
– Chrissy Does It All (2000)
– Cashmere's Dilemma (2000)
– Ginger, Queen of the Jungle (2000)
– Lapdance 101 with Jordan (2000)
 
2000 The Turandot Project (documentary)
 
2000 My Generation (documentary)
 
2000 NYPD Emergency Service Unit (TV documentary)
 
1999 Who's Dancin' Now? (documentary)
 
1999 Talk to Me: Hostage Negotiators of the NYPD (TV documentary) (director of photography)
 
1999 American Photography: A Century of Images (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Jaded (director of photography)
 
1998 Whipped (documentary)
 
1998 Dancemaker (documentary)
 
1998 Woodstock '94 (documentary)
 
1997 Liberty! The American Revolution (TV mini-series)
– Are We to Be a Nation? 1783-1788 (1997)
– The World Turned Upside Down: 1778-1783 (1997)
– Oh, Fatal Ambition: 1777-1778 (1997)
– The Times That Try Men's Souls: 1776-1777 (1997)
– Blows Must Decide: 1774-1776 (1997)
See all 6 episodes »
 
1997 SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (TV movie) (segment "Red Shoes, The")
 
1997 Wild Man Blues (documentary) (director of photography)
 
1996 Still Here
 
1995 Whiz Kids (TV documentary)
 
1993 Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (TV documentary)
 
1992/II Behind the Scenes (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1991 Pink Lightning (TV movie)
 
1991 The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (TV movie)
 
1991 The Good Policeman
 
1985-1987 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series)
– Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story (1987)
– Read Between the Lines (1987)
– Wanted: The Perfect Guy (1986)
– Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (1985) (director of photography)
 
1987 Creepshow 2
 
1987 Daniel and the Towers (TV movie)
 
1986 Are We Winning Mommy? America & the Cold War (documentary)
 
1986 Down and Out in America (documentary)
 
1985 Hard Choices
 
1984 White Elephant (as Tom D. Hurwitz)
 
1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (documentary)
 
1984 In Our Hands (documentary)
 
1984 Merton (director of photography / as Thomas Hurwitz)
 
1983 Lillian Gish (documentary) (director of photography / as Thomas Hurwitz)
 
1982 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (documentary)
 
1982 The Killing of America (documentary)
 
1980 We Are the Guinea Pigs (documentary)
 
1980 Horsemen of Inner Mongolia (short)
 
1978 Family Business
 
1977 Alambrista!
 
1977 The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago (documentary)
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (32 titles)
2012 16 Acres (documentary) (additional cinematography)
 
2011 Sing Your Song (documentary) (additional camera)
 
2011 Bobby Fischer Against the World (documentary) (additional photography)
 
2009 Latin Music USA (TV series) (additional cinematographer - 1 episode)
– Bridges (2009) (additional cinematographer)
 
2009 The Alzheimer's Project (TV series documentary) (camera operator - 1 episode)
– Momentum in Science (2009) (camera operator)
 
Frontline (TV series documentary) (additional photography - 2 episodes, 2007) (camera - 1 episode, 2009)
– Ten Trillion and Counting (2009) (camera)
– The Mormons Part 2 (2007) (additional photography)
– The Mormons: Part I (2007) (additional photography)
 
Nature (TV series documentary) (camera - 1 episode, 2001) (camera operator - 1 episode, 2009)
– Why We Love Cats and Dogs (2009) (camera operator)
– Dogs: The Early Years (2001) (camera)
 
2001-2008 Nova (TV series documentary) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
– Hunting the Hidden Dimension (2008) (camera operator)
– Search for a Safe Cigarette (2001) (camera operator)
 
2008 Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (documentary) (director of photography: New York crew)
 
2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (documentary) (additional photographer)
 
2007 No End in Sight (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
2005 The Search for Eternal Egypt (TV movie) (additional cinematographer: USA)
 
2000-2005 Real Sex (TV series documentary) (camera operator - 8 episodes)
– Real Sex 32 (2005) (camera operator)
– Real Sex 31 (2003) (camera operator)
– Real Sex 30 (2002) (camera operator)
– Real Sex 28 (2001) (camera operator)
– Real Sex 27 (2001) (camera operator)
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2004 Sister Rose's Passion (documentary short) (additional cinematographer)
 
The American Experience (TV series documentary) (additional cinematographer - 1 episode, 2001) (additional photographer - 1 episode, 1997) (camera - 1 episode, 2004) (camera operator - 1 episode, 1996)
– The Fight (2004) (camera - as Thomas Hurwitz)
– Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001) (additional cinematographer)
– New York Underground (1997) (additional photographer)
– Freedom on My Mind (1996) (camera operator)
 
2003 Testament at 20 (video documentary short) (additional cinematographer)
 
2002 Last Dance (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
2002 Evolution (TV series documentary) (camera operator - 1 episode)
– Darwin's Dangerous Idea (2002) (camera operator)
 
2001 Great Performances (TV series) (camera operator - 1 episode)
– Joshua Bell: West Side Story Suite from Central Park (2001) (camera operator)
 
2000 The Endurance (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
2000 Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
1998 The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (documentary) (cinematographer: New York City)
 
1997 Say It, Fight It, Cure It (TV movie) (additional cinematographer)
 
1996 Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
1996 Brett Killed Mom: A Sister's Diary (TV documentary) (camera)
 
1990 American Dream (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
1990 Through the Wire (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
1985 Key Exchange (director of photography: second unit)
 
1983 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (lighting director)
 
1977 Between the Lines (lighting technician)
 
1976 Harlan County U.S.A. (documentary) (additional cinematographer)
 
1976 Bernice Bobs Her Hair (TV movie) (gaffer - as Thomas Hurwitz)
 
Show ShowDirector (3 titles)
2006 God's Next Army (TV documentary)
 
1981 The Big Blue Marble (TV series)
– Episode dated 14 November 1981 (1981)
 
1980 Horsemen of Inner Mongolia (short)
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
2006 God's Next Army (TV documentary) (producer)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2007 No End in Sight (documentary) (thanks)
 

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