To Tell the Truth Working for Change (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | Documentary

To Tell the Truth

Working for Change (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV Episode | Documentary

Traces the birth of the social documentary, contrasting the "feel good" newsreels of the Depression era with the pioneering work of the members of the Workers Film and Photo League.

Director

Calvin Skaggs

Composer

Matthias Gohl (as Teese Gohl)

Editor

Cindy Kaplan Rooney

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19 cast members

Name	Known for
William Alexander Self - Film Historian (as William 'Buzz' Alexander) Self - Film Historian (as William 'Buzz' Alexander) See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)
Alec Baldwin Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Departed (2006)
Denis Forman Self (as Sir Denis Forman) Self (as Sir Denis Forman) See fewer	The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
H.E. Fowle Self (as Chick Fowle) Self (as Chick Fowle) See fewer	Ângela (1951)
Roosevelt Franklin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Heart (1992)
Roger Graef Self Self See fewer	One of Them Is Named Brett (1965)
John Grierson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Drifters (1929)
Leo Hurwitz Self - Workers Film and Photo League Self - Workers Film and Photo League See fewer	Strange Victory (1948)
Tom Hurwitz Self Self See fewer	The Queen of Versailles (2012)
Pat Jackson Self Self See fewer	White Corridors (1951)
Levine Lawrence Self - American Cultural Historian Self - American Cultural Historian See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)
Pare Lorentz Jr. Self Self See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)
Pare Lorentz Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The River (1938)
Jeffrey Richards Self Self See fewer	The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors (II) (1986)
Patrick Russell Self - British Film Institute Self - British Film Institute See fewer	To Tell the Truth (II) (2016)
Leo Seltzer Self - Workers Film and Photo League Self - Workers Film and Photo League See fewer	First Steps (1947)
George C. Stoney Self Self See fewer	All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1953)
Harry Watt Self Self See fewer	Four Desperate Men (1959)
Brian Winston Self - Film Historian Self - Film Historian See fewer	The Genius of Invention (2013)