Four Died Trying

John Kirby’s feature debut was The American Ruling Class, a “dramatic-documentary-musical” starring Lewis Lapham. That film played in theaters and won prizes in festivals all over the world. John has directed, edited, and consulted on dozens of documentaries and nonfiction series. He codirected Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle. His editorial credits include the Emmy-winning Thug Life in D.C. and the long-playing cult classic Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder, both for HBO.
 
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. His research interests include: modern propaganda, history and tactics of advertising, American film, and media ownership. Miller is the author Boxed In: The Culture of TV; Seeing Through Movies, and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order.
 
Libby Handros began her career over twenty-five years ago at The Press & The Public Project, joining the team that produced the ground-breaking Inside Story, the first regularly scheduled examination of the American press ever to appear on television. That nationally broadcast series aired weekly on PBS for five years and won every major television journalism award. Handros has gone on to develop and produce over one hundred hours of prime-time programming on a wide array of subjects—public policy, news, sports, history, international affairs, education, and the movies. Her latest film with John Kirby was Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle.