Harlan Reiniger
Independent Broadcast Professional:
Documentary Editor, Documentary Producer, Post-Production Producer
Primary client: WGBH/Boston
- Editor, Producer, Production Manager, Post- Production Director: WGBH/Boston (1985–present)
- Series: Frontline, The American Experience, Nova, Antiques Roadshow, Simply Ming, The Victory Garden, Boston Media Productions, WGBH Educational Programming
Additional clients
- Editor and Producer for Discovery Channel, History Channel, ABC News Productions/The Learning Channel, Turner Entertainment, National Geographic
- Co-Producer/Editor: Front Street Films
- Editor: This Old House Productions/DIY Network
Production Credits
(60 min., unless noted)
WGBH Frontline (1993–2009)
- Editor: Ashes of the Cold War, Diamonds, Red Flag Over Tibet, Mandela, Sex Slaves, Frontline World: Uighurs at Guantanamo
WGBH Nova (1992–2009)
- Editor/Co-Producer: Ice Man, Mammoths of the Ice Age
- Editor: Nazis and the Russian Bomb, The Hunt for Saddam’s Secret Weapons, Origins: Where are the Aliens, The Last Great Ape, Life and Death in the War Zone
- Director: Marathon Challenge
- Editor: Nova Science Now (quarterly 3 segment program) Segments: Mirror Neurons, Stem Cells: Early Research, New Orleans: After Katrina, Space Storms, Leeches
- Story Contributor: Nova Science Now: Hurricanes (detailing New Orleans flood risk pre Katrina)
- Editor: Nova Web: Snail Slime
- Online Editor: Nova Science Now: Sang Mook Lee, Earth Quakes in the Midwest, other segments
WGBH special series (1998)
- Editor: The People’s Century: Half the People
WGBH Antiques Roadshow (1995–1997)
- Senior Editor/Post-Production Director for 26 episodes
- Started up the post operation for this series
WGBH The American Experience (1989–1992)
- Production Manager/Post-Production Director/Promotion Editor for 50 episodes.
- Started up the post operation for this series
WGBH Lifestyles Programming (2004-2010)
- Senior Editor: Simply Ming – one season, The Victory Garden – five seasons, various lifestyle/how-to specials
- Post-Production Director: The Truth About Cancer, The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America, Caring for your Parents (1×90 docs plus 1×30 panel followup, editor for Hidden Epidemic followup 30)
WGBH: Educational Programming
- Senior Editor: Western Civilization (8×30) – 1986
- Senior Editor: Discovering Psychology (9×30) – 1990-1
- Producer: Discovering Psychology, (3×30 new and 6×30 revised episodes) – 2001
- Producer: Building Big, Thinking Small (companion program to David Macauley’s Building Big/Nova series PBS)
WGBH The Ten O’Clock News
- Editor freelance: local news – 1985-87
The Discovery Channel (1998–2002)
- Editor: Unsolved History – Custer’s Last Stand
- Editor: Mummies – The Real Story
- Producer/Editor: Extreme Engineering, episode: Holland’s Barriers to the Sea
- Editor: Discover Magazine, episodes: Protecting the Presidents, The Real Story of Jamestown, Human Sacrifice, Crime Labs
The History Channel (1998–2002)
- Producer: This Week in History, segments: John Brown and the Secret Six, Revolutionary Spy
- Editor: This Week in History: several segments
Turner Entertainment – produced by WGBH/The American Experience (1995)
- Editor: Driving Passion: America’s Love Affair with the Car: Birth of the Automobile (90) (contributed the initial story idea for this series)
ABC News Productions/The Learning Channel
- Producer/Editor/Writer: Vietnam: Stories from the Wall – 2004
National Geographic
- Post Production Producer: My 9/11 (tenth anniversary special commemorating 9/11)
This Old House Productions (for DIY Network)
- This New House, segments: Sketchup, Video on Demand – new series 2010
Front Street Productions (for PBS)
- Co-Producer/Editor: Hitchhiking Vietnam – 1997
- Editor: Beyond the Ring of Fire – 1996
Education
Emerson College, Boston, MA
- M.A, Film and Television Production – 1987
Boston University, Boston, MA
- B.A American History – 1980
Awards
- National Emmy, Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Sex Slaves – 2006
- New England Emmy, Discovering Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience – 2001
- Banff Film Festival, Best of Jury, Red Flag over Tibet – 1994
- Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Best Documentary, Red Flag over Tibet – 1994
- Cine, Golden Eagle, Discover Magazine, Crime Labs – 1996
- Headliner, Outstanding Network Documentary, Iceman – 1992
- Telly Award, 4 awards for network series promotion, The American Experience – 1989-92
- New York Festivals, Finalist, Discovering Psychology: Past, Present and Promise – 1991
- Others