Films & Television
Rory O'Connor has been a key figure in the creation of more than thirty documentary films over the course of a forty-year career. His television programming has aired on leading networks in dozens of countries — from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX in the United States to the BBC, RAI, NHK, SABC, and National Geographic abroad.
Watch the work
Globalvision on YouTube
Decades of documentary footage — features, broadcast journalism, and clips from the South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs archives — are hosted on the Globalvision YouTube channel.
Series
Television newsmagazines
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1988–1991
South Africa Now
A weekly half-hour newsmagazine covering apartheid-era southern Africa, produced by Globalvision after U.S. networks declined the story. Carried directly by more than 150 public television stations and broadcast internationally. Awarded the George Polk Special Award for broadcast journalism.
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1992–1996
Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television
The first and only weekly international human-rights television newsmagazine, broadcast on American public television and in more than sixty countries over four seasons. A companion in spirit to South Africa Now, produced in partnership with Danny Schechter and Globalvision.
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ABC
Children First
A national series of half-hour programs for the ABC Network and its affiliates about issues facing America's children, hosted by Diane Sawyer and other national network personalities.
Additional long-form broadcast roles — including show running The Ten O'Clock News at WGBH-TV, creating Neighborhood Network News on Boston cable, launching Elections 2018: The Progressive Path Forward for Free Speech TV, and supervising production of The Laura Flanders Show on PBS — are listed on the About page.
Documentaries
Complete filmography
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2024
After October 7, A Personal Journey to Kfar Aza
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2016
Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice From WW2 to the War on Terror
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2014
America's Surveillance State
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2012
Who Rules America?
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2011
The Harvest (La Cosecha)
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2010
The Battle of Durban II: Israel, Palestine and the United Nations
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2010
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
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2009
Barack Obama: People's President
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2008
Viva Madiba
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2007
Frontrunner: The Afghan Woman Who Surprised the World
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2006
9/11: Press for Truth
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2006
In Debt We Trust
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2004
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
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2003
The Hole in the Wall
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2001
Voices of the Poor
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2000
Hear Our Voices: The Poor on Poverty
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2000
Falun Gong's Challenge to China
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1999
Richard Speck: Born To Raise Hell
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1999
The Trial of the Chicago 8
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1999
Globalization and Human Rights
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1998
China: Change and Challenge
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1998
A Hero for All
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1996
Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime
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1994
Countdown to Freedom
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1993
The Arming of Saudi Arabia
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1992
BCCI: The Bank of Crooks and Criminals
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1992
The Resurrection of Reverend Moon
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1992
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
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1991
Mandela in America
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1990
Nelson Mandela: Free At Last
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1990
No Place Like Home
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1986
Mafia On Trial
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1985
No Safe Asylum
Note
For screening requests, footage sales and licensing, festival bookings, consultation and/or speaking engagements, please email roc@globalvision.org (contact page).