Mark ObenhausFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
  • Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: As America's national debt surpasses the trillion dollar mark, the producers at Frontline ponder the financial well being of current and future retirees while reflecting on how we got into this mess, and what the Obama administration plans to do about it. Year after year, America closes the gaps Read More

    2009
  • Steep

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Doug Coombs, Stefano De Benedetti, Shane McConkey, Chris Davenport, Eric Pehota

    Synopsis: In this documentary about the sport of mountain skiing, director Mark Obenhaus explores the motivation behind the athletes who risk life and limb for the adrenaline high of their high-altitude sport, and the challenge that it offers their sense of athleticism and sportsmanship. Full of lush images Read More

    12/21/07
  • 2005
  • Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings reexamines the theories about what really happened on that fateful day in Dallas, TX. Along with experts and historians, Jennings looks at evidence, including the Read More

    2003
  • American Experience: Mr. Sears' Catalogue

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: In the late 19th century and well into the 20th, the majority of Americans lived on farms, far from any stores. The Sears & Roebuck catalogue brought consumer goods to this backbone of the nation. Originally telecast on the award-winning PBS series The American Experience, this documentary Read More

    1989
  • Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The groundbreaking work of Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson forever changed contemporary opera. Their 1976 collaboration "Einstein on the Beach" was restaged in 1984 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and this documentary follows that production. Behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsals and Read More

    1986
  • The Trials of Alger Hiss

    Crew: Cinematographer

    Synopsis: Kicking off the Red Scare in the 1950s and launching Richard Nixon's career, Alger Hiss, an important State Department official, was convicted of perjury in the spying charges raised against him by Time Magazine managing editor Whittaker Chambers and sent to prison until 1954. The case was Read More

    1980
  • The Wizard of Waukesha

    Crew: Cinematographer

    Actors: Les Paul

    Synopsis: Les Paul "and his band of renown" are shortened to simply the renowned Les Paul in this entertaining and informative documentary on one of the long-lasting talents in the music business. Excerpts from Les Paul's popular performances on radio in the 1930s highlight his quick rise to fame. His years Read More

    1980
  • Nomadic Lives

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: A go-go dancer and a sketch artist living in a New Jersey trailer park are unable to decide whether they are in love or simply bored in this independent short from New York. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1977
  • Part of the Family

    Crew: Cinematographer

    Synopsis: This American documentary sensitively studies the families of three people killed at Kent State, Vietnam, and Jackson State. It carefully skirts the bounds of voyeurism while truthfully probing the pain and suffering these families experienced in losing their children. Students at Kent State died Read More

    1971
  • Six American Families: The Stephens of Iowa

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Each episode of Six American Families documents the lives and travails of the members of an American family. Instead of focusing on the rich and powerful, the filmmakers chose to present lower middle class families in an effort to portray American life as it truly is. Made in the '70s, these films Read More

  • Six American Families: The Pasicaks of Chicago

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Each episode of Six American Families documents the lives and travails of the members of an American family. Instead of focusing on the rich and powerful, the filmmakers chose lower middle class families as subjects in an effort to portray American life as it truly is. Made in the '70s, these Read More

  • Six American Families: The Greenbergs of California

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Each episode of Six American Families documents the lives and travails of the members of an American family. Instead of focusing on the rich and powerful, the filmmakers chose to present lower middle class families in an effort to portray American life as it truly is. Made in the '70s, these films Read More

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