For more than twenty years, Ben Loeterman has been one of public television’s most prolific producers of historical and public affairs documentaries. He has worked for PBS’s flagship current affairs series Frontline since 1982. Series credits include Inside the Terror Network, which tracked the nineteen hijackers of 9/11 infamy across four continents, The Triumph of Evil, about the U.S. and U.N. complacency that allowed the genocide in Rwanda and Let’s Get Married, a critical look at the Bush Administration’s marriage policy.

Loeterman has contributed programs to the PBS series American Experience including Golden Gate Bridge, about one man’s undying effort to see it built; Public Enemy #1, a biography of desperado John Dillinger and Rescue at Sea, the account of a 1909 naval disaster – and the new wireless technology that helped save 1500 lives.

Loeterman has also produced episodes of the PBS series The Prize, based on Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the oil industry, God Fights Back for the PBS/BBC series People’s Century and an adventure film for the Discovery Channel.

He has won national Emmy awards for outstanding achievement in directing and investigative journalism and is the recipient of Amnesty International’s Media Spotlight Award as well as two duPont-Columbia journalism awards. His most recent project is The War That Made America, a four-part dramatized documentary for PBS about the French and Indian War.

He is currently developing The People vs. Leo Frank with funds from the NEH and several current affairs projects.