Jon H. Else

Jon H. Else is an American documentary filmmaker.^[1]

Awards

• 1988 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1989 Emmy - Yosemite: The Fate Of Heaven, director
• 1993 Emmy - The Great Depression, writer
• 1998 Emmy - America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye, cinematographer
• 1999 Emmy - Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
• 1999 Sundance Filmmaker's Trophy - Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle^[2]

Filmography

• The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb ^[3]
• Palace Of Delights: The Exploratorium, producer, director, cinematographer
• Yosemite: The Fate Of Heaven (in American Experience (season 2)), producer, director, cinematographer
• Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic^[4]
• Cadillac Desert: Water and the American West, director, producer, cinematographyer
• Eyes On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, series producer and cinematographer
• The Island President, executive producer
• Open Outcry, producer, director, cinematographer
• Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle, producer, director, cinematographer

Reviews

That this is tacitly recognized is the most valuable aspect of The Day after Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Jon Else's documentary feature that opens today Jan. 20, 1980 at the Public Theater. The film serves as a kind of introduction to a period of history that is very easily ignored in favor of subjects of far less immediate concern. Mr. Else, and the movie, share with Oppenheimer an awful suspicion that when the first bomb was successfully detonated on the New Mexico desert in July 1945, it signaled the beginning of the end.

— Vincent Canby, The New York Times^[5]

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