Roger Weisberg joined public television station Thirteen/WNET New York in 1976.  As a staff producer, he produced dozens of programs on a broad range of social, political, and health policy issues. In 1982 Weisberg formed an independent production company, Public Policy Productions, to extend the reach and impact of his documentaries.  Since founding the company, Weisberg has produced and directed 25 documentaries on subjects ranging from health care, aging, and the environment to defense policy, and poverty. The documentaries aired in primetime on PBS in the U.S., and many were broadcast in television markets around the world.

Weisberg’s documentaries have won over 100 awards including Peabody, Emmy, and duPont-Columbia awards.  Some of his films are vérité style documentaries with no narration, while others are narrated by prominent actors including Meryl Streep, Helen Hayes, and James Earl Jones, as well as distinguished journalists including Marvin Kalb, Jane Pauley, and Walter Cronkite.  Weisberg received an Academy Award nomination in 2001 for Sound and Fury and in 2003 for Why Can't We Be a Family Again?

2007      Critical Condition
A disturbing and intimate portrait of what happens when you’re sick and uninsured in America.

2006    Rosevelt’s America
After being tortured and narrowly escaping execution in Liberia, Rosevelt Henderson makes his way to America to build a new life for his family.

2005    Waging A Living
Four low-wage workers struggle from paycheck to paycheck to achieve the elusive American dream.

2004    With No Direction Home
A year in the life of a young man who grew up in foster care and suddenly discovers that he is on his own.

2003    Aging Out
A profile of three teenagers who "age out" of the foster care system and must learn to fend for themselves.

2002    Why Can't We Be A Family Again?
Two brothers struggle to be reunited with their mother who abandoned them a decade ago when she became addicted to drugs.

2001    A Brooklyn Family Tale
An unusual nun struggles to help an embattled family raise teenage children who drop out of school, have babies, attempt suicide, and resort to violence.

2000    The Main Stream
Humorist Roy Blount, Jr. journeys down the Mississippi River to explore the literal and metaphorical "mainstream" of America. 

1999    Sound and Fury
A loving family is torn apart by a medical technology which promises to end deafness.

1997    Ending Welfare As We Know It, with Meredith Vieira
A profile of families struggling with the effects of welfare reform.

1996    Sex and Other Matters of Life and Death
A feature-length documentary about a unique theater company which uses drama to help teens avoid pregnancy and AIDS.   

1995    Sex, Teens, and Public Schools, with Jane Pauley
The controversy surrounding the efforts of public schools to stem the tide of early and unwanted pregnancy.

1994    Our Families, Our Future, with Walter Cronkite
A portrait of the American family in crisis and successful programs across the country that are part of the burgeoning "family support" movement.

1994    Making Welfare Work, with Walter Cronkite
The controversy surrounding experiments to reform our failing welfare system.

1993    What's Ailing Medicine, with Walter Cronkite
The national debate over health care reform seen from the point of view of the three major players: patients, providers, and payers.

1992    Road Scholar
A feature-length film chronicling the cross-country road trip of Andrei Codrescu, the Romanian-born poet and NPR humorist.  Released theatrically by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

1991    Our Children at Risk, with Walter Cronkite
The crisis of child poverty in America and the need to improve access to health care for the nation's disadvantaged children.

1990    Borderline Medicine, with Walter Cronkite
An examination of the health care systems in the U.S. and Canada comparing the quality, cost, and accessibility of care in both countries.

1989    Can't Afford to Grow Old, with Walter Cronkite   
The impact of an aging population on America's strained health care system.

1988    To What End?, with Marvin Kalb
The debate over how the United States can provide national security in the nuclear age.

1987    Who Lives, Who Dies, with James Earl Jones
The rationing of medical care and the inequalities in our health care system.

1986    Health Care on the Critical List, with Jack Klugman
The tension between maintaining the quality of health care and containing costs.

1985    Power Struggle, with Meryl Streep
Innovative measures to conserve energy and generate power from renewable sources.

1984    Old Enough to Do Time, with Daniel J. Travanti
The impact of tough new measures to treat juveniles in the adult criminal justice system.

1983    No Place Like Home, with Helen Hayes
The aging of America and alternatives to nursing home care for the frail elderly.

1982    Back Wards to Back Streets
The unintended consequences of the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill, and successful treatment programs that integrate former patients into community life.

1980    Help Yourself
An Emmy-winning public affairs series on a range of topics including consumer fraud, domestic violence, divorce, aging, housing, and neighborhood revitalization.

[this text (c) Public Policy Productions]