Not long after, he returned to Syria with an assignment to make a documentary about his captivity.
For a History assignment, watch a relevant documentary.
His documentary about an assignment with US forces in Afghanistan, Restrepo, was nominated for an Oscar.
"The trip opened the door for the world's most powerful country and the world's most populous nation to develop relations after decades of animosity," said Mike Chinoy, whose new documentary in his Assignment: China series, "The Week That Changed the World," offers fascinating backstage accounts of Nixon's historic trip.
On assignment for Current TV's documentary series, Vanguard, I found a coyote willing to allow me to accompany him across the border and into southern Arizona desert.
Huston's assignment was to create a sympathetic documentary on the military's rehabilitation of the "psychoneurotic soldier," to educate civilians and help ease the soldiers' re-entry into society.
Listen to the Assignment via iplayer or browse the documentary podcast archive.
Rose described her approach to a wedding assignment: "I would think of a documentary film with 4 parts -- getting ready, portraits of the happy couple, the ceremony, and a loosening up at the wedding party highlighted by high-energy dancing!
Her first feature documentary, spun out of a class assignment, is about the elite female corps of bodyguards assigned to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
Early this year, news reports of a shooting at King caught the eye of a researcher for Liam McGrath, a 31-year-old Irish documentary film-maker in the United States on assignment for Setanta, an international sports broadcaster.
