Aufderheide sits on the board of the Independent Television Service, which was created by Congress to produce and distribute documentaries for public television stations, including the critically esteemed "Independent Lens" series.
"There were so many ideas to cover that the film constantly threatened to fly out of control," said Mr. Dorman, who has produced several previous documentaries for public television.
I went on to be a foreign correspondent at The New York Times, then at Newsweek International and Forbes, and later as a producer of documentaries for public television, an author of 14 books, and as the founder and editor of The Earth Times, a newspaper on the environment and sustainable development.
The reunion also prompted a 2011 feature-length documentary made for public television's American Masters series, Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter.
A documentary, not for public broadcast, has been produced to drive home the message to officials who were students in 1989.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," is being developed as a six-hour documentary series for public television, with Ken Burns as executive producer.
Since its founding, NBPC has re-invested millions of dollars in iconic documentary productions for public television and partnered with local stations as diverse as Howard University's WHUT, WGBH Boston and Mississippi Public Broadcasting to tell American stories from American points of view.
"In Money We Trust?" is a new documentary for U.S. public television that should help bring the topic of Stable Money to a much broader audience.
Ellen Kuras, who has shot documentaries for Martin Scorsese ("Public Speaking," "The 50 Year Argument") and Michel Gondry Dave Chappellele's Block Party") and directed one of her own ("The Betrayal"), echoed the sentiment.
