Just listen….
Danny Schechter adapted the name “News Dissector” when he worked on air at WBCN in Boston.
He was one of the most respected documentarian and someone who couldn’t be bought. He was one of the first people in America to bring the name Nelson Mandela into the public consciousness.
Schechter produced and directed many television specials and documentary films, including:
- Beyond A Long Walk To Freedom (2014)
- America’s Surveillance State (2014)
- DeWitt Clinton HS: The School That Can Teach Them All, on the fight for Public Education (2013)
- Who Rules America? (2012)
- Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time (2010)
- Barack Obama: The People’s President (2009)
- Boob Tube: Sex, TV and Ugly George (2008)
- Viva Madiba (2008)
- A Work in Progress: Danny Schechter and the Journalism of Change (2007)
- In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Burst (2006)
- WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)
- Counting on Democracy (2004), about the 2000 Florida election recount, narrated by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
- We Are Family (2002), about a benefit recording of the Sister Sledge song following the September 11, 2001 attacks; shown at the Sundance Film Festival
- Nkosi: A Voice of Africa’s AIDS Orphans (2001), narrated by Danny Glover
- Falun Gong’s Challenge to China (2001)
- A Hero for All: Nelson Mandela’s Farewell (1999)
- Globalization & Human Rights (1998)
- Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives (1997)
- The World of Elie Wiesel (1997)
- Sowing Seeds/Reaping Peace: The World of Seeds of Peace (1996)
- Prisoners of Hope: Reunion on Robben Island (1995), co-directed by Barbara Kopple
- Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days that Changed South Africa (1994), narrated by James Earl Jones and Alfre Woodard
- Sarajevo Ground Zero (1993)
- The Living Canvas (1992), narrated by Billy Dee Williams
- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1992), co-directed by Marc Levin and Barbara Kopple
- Give Peace a Chance (1991)
- Nelson Mandela: Free at Last (1991), PBS national broadcast
- Mandela in America (1990)
- The Making of Sun City (1987)
- Student Power (1968)
Books
- Surveillance A to Z (Seven Stories Press, 2015, forthcoming). ISBN 978-1609806439
- When South Africa Called, We Answered: How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid (Cosimo Books, 2015). ISBN 978-1616409418
- Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela (Seven Stories Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1609805593
- Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street (Cosimo Books, 2012). ISBN 978-1616407162
- Blogothon: Reflections and Revelations from the News Dissector (Cosimo Books, 2012) ISBN 978-1616406691
- The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street is Not Too Big To Jail (Disinformation Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1934708552
- Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (Cosimo Books, 2008) ISBN 978-1-60520-351-5
- When News Lies (Select Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1590790731
- The Death of Media (and the Fight to Save Democracy) (Melville House Publishing, 2005). ISBN 978-0-9766583-6-8
- Media Wars: News At A Time of Terror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) ISBN 978-0742531093
- Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War (Prometheus Books, 2003) ISBN 978-1591021735
- News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics (Akashic Books, 2001) ISBN 978-1888451207
- Falun Gong’s Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or ‘Evil Cult’? (Akashic Books, 2000) ISBN 978-1888451139
- The More You Watch, The Less You Know (Seven Stories Press, 1997) ISBN 978-1888363807
