Nick Fraser Filmography

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Hunter S. Thompson

Synopsis: Alex Gibney (director of (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) turns his attention from corporate scandal to Gonzo journalism with this tribute to the libido-driven, Wild Turkey-swilling writer who never knew the meaning of the word "excess." Comprised largely of never-before-seen archival Read More

The English Surgeon

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This documentary by Geoffrey Smith tells the inspiring story of British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who turned the run down remains of a Ukrainian hospital into a working surgery center. When Marsh visited the Kiev hospital in the 1990's, he was aghast at the deplorable conditions of both the Read More

BLAST!

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Filmmaker Paul Devlin follows his brother, Dr. Mark Devlin, and a dedicated team of fearless astrophysicists as they take a spectacular journey into the heart of the Big Bang. There comes a point in everyone's life when they begin to wonder about the origins of the universe, and Dr. Devlin's Read More

The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: West Lake Restaurant in the city of Changsha illustrates the dynamic of the booming Chinese economy as director Chen Weijun examines the pronounced shifts of fortune and population in his home country, and the people who occupy every end of the spectrum. The Guinness-certified biggest Chinese Read More

Japan: A Story of Love and Hate

Crew: Executive Producer

Milosevic on Trial

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Filmmaker Michael Christofferson draws on illuminating trial footage and informative interviews to document the trial of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. As an arrogant and seemingly unrepentant Milosevic stands before the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague to answer Read More

Oswald's Ghost

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Dan Rather, Mark Lane, Edward J. Epstein

Synopsis: For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same since of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y - not only for the effect that it had on a nation's morale but for the conspiracy theories that would follow in it's aftermath as Read More

Iron Ladies of Liberia

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Filmmakers Daniel Junge and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf examine the remarkable rise of Liberia's first elected female president and Africa's first freely elected female head of state in this documentary profiling Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - the Harvard educated economist who earned the nickname "Iron Lady" Read More

Office Tigers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joseph Sigelman, Seth Appel, Lonnie Sapp, Randy Altschuler

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin receives unprecedented access to the wildly successful Office Tiger corporation, and the resulting meditation on the melding of Western business structure and Eastern work philosophy offers an absorbing study on the evolution of the global marketplace. Joseph Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Planet Earth has been decimated, and as mankind searches space for a new planet to inhabit, a race of aliens attempt to make a new home on the now-inhospitable planet abandoned by the human race in director Werner Herzog's strange sci-fi saga. Filmed in collaboration with NASA Read More

Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Johann Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Shep Messing, Werner Roth, Giorgio Chinaglia

Synopsis: While professional soccer is still struggling to find a firm foothold in the United States, in the 1970s the North American Soccer League marked the brave first attempt to introduce the game to American sports fans. While most teams had only limited success at best, one did manage to break through Read More

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A team of women attempts to bring a vital part of the American way of life to war-torn Afghanistan in this documentary. Sponsored by U.S.-based manufacturers of hair-care products and cosmetics, a group of American volunteers traveled to Afghanistan to start the nation's first Western-styled Read More

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Like most prisons, the Luther Luckett Correction Complex in LaGrange, KY, strives to offer inmates a chance to better themselves and explore options to a life of crime, but something they feature that most prisons don't is a theater program. Each year, the inmates stage a play for the benefit of Read More

Why We Fight

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle

Synopsis: In 1961, as Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his final address to the nation before leaving the office of President of the United States, he warned that America "must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial complex." Nearly 45 years later, as the United States Read More

Blue Blood

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Cambridge and Oxford have long had well-earned reputations as two of the finest schools in the United Kingdom -- and for nearly as long, a bitter rivalry has stood between them. While the students at both schools are far better suited to academia than sport, that doesn't stop a brave handful from Read More

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arif Kutlu, Alpaslan Kutlu, Süleyman Atanisev, Ismail Atilgan, Sereban Aslan

Synopsis: Ben Hopkins' documentary 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep provides a warm, benevolent, and occasionally humorous glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Because of their unswerving opposition to Communist ideologies, the Kirghiz were Read More

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: King Leopold II took over leadership of Belgium from his father, King Leopold I, in 1865, and in 1885, hoping to gain power and wealth as well as assuming control of overseas territories like most other European nations of the time, Leopold created, through political lobbying and military force Read More

American Experience: Two Days in October

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The pressures to pull out of Vietnam reach a crucial turning point as a Viet Cong ambush nearly eradicates an entire American battalion and a student protest in Wisconsin turns suddenly violent in this historically probing installment of the American Experience series based on Pulitzer Read More

Diameter of the Bomb

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The unimaginable pain and anguish felt by the families of those killed in suicide bombings gets a human face in this documentary from filmmakers Steven Silver and Andrew Quigley. In 2002, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem left 20 dead and 50 injured, and two years after the tragedy even the most Read More

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sally Mann

Synopsis: Named "America's Best Photographer" in 2001 by none other than Time Magazine, Lexington-based photographer Sally Mann captures images that challenge both the values and moral attitudes of the viewer. It was 1992's "Immediate Family" series that first propelled Mann into the public eye - the Read More

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Kasparov, Frederick R. Friedel, Joel Benjamin, Murray Campbell, Feng Hsuing-Tsu

Synopsis: In 1984, Garry Kasparov became the talk of serious chess aficionados around the world when he unexpectedly defeated grand master Anatoly Karpov to win the game's world championship, and he was still the leading player in chess when, in 1996, he was invited to participate in a series of matches Read More

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Russell Little, Mike Bortin, Timothy Findley, John Lester, Dan Grove

Synopsis: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst is a documentary about the short-lived radical political group that caused a media frenzy in the early '70s. Filmmaker Robert Stone incorporates archival footage, news clips, and contemporary interviews with SLA founder Russ Little and member Mike Bortin. Most Read More

The Liberace of Baghdad

Crew: Executive Producer

Citizen Black

Crew: Executive Producer

The European Union Had a Farm...E.U.E.U.O.

13 Days in the Life of Picasso

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This film biography of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, looks at pivotal moments in his life that shaped his character and art. Among the events discussed are the bombing of Guernica and the suicide of Picasso's close friend Carlos Casajernas. Read More