Harry Moses
Adjunct Faculty
Harry Moses has spent his career making documentaries. He is currently in pre-production on Race in America, a four part, prime time documentary series for PBS. He wrote, directed and produced the NBC News two hour special Where Were You? for the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, with Tom Brokaw as correspondent. Moses’s feature-length documentary, Who the %$#& is Jackson Pollock?, was released in movie theaters by New Line Cinema.
Moses’s documentaries have played on every major network and on HBO, Showtime, History and the BBC. Among the movies he wrote and directed for television are The Trial of Bernhard Goetz for PBS, which The New York Times called “the year’s best docudrama,” and Assault at West Point, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Waterston, about the court-martial of black cadet Johnson Whitaker at West Point in 1881. President Bill Clinton cited the Showtime film in a White House ceremony, where he granted a posthumous officer’s commission to Whitaker’s granddaughter.
Prior to forming his company, The Mosaic Group, Inc., Harry Moses was with CBS News, where he wrote, directed and produced almost 100 stories for 60 Minutes and supervised an investigative unit for The CBS Evening News. Highlights of his work at CBS include television’s first investigative report on the nuclear power industry and a story on the U.S. Army’s administration of LSD to an African American private without his knowledge or consent, causing an unprecedented Act of Congress. He is the recipient of Emmy, Peabody, and Directors Guild of America awards among others, as well as a lifetime achievement citation from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his work on 60 Minutes. He has taught courses on documentary filmmaking at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and at Quinnipiac University’s School of Communications, and has lectured at UC Berkeley, Yale, NYU and Mississippi State University.