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Daniel A. Miller

Daniel A. Miller has been producing, writing, and directing award-winning documentaries for more than a decade. Daniel co-directed and wrote The Linguists, a 65-minute documentary about scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. The Linguists world premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to fantastic buzz, blogs, and reviews: "The talk of the town at Sundance" - Reuters; "A fascinating journey" - Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times; "Funny, enlightening and ultimately uplifting" - Kansas City Star. The first film funded by the National Science Foundation ever at Sundance, The Linguists is currently screening at film festivals and other venues around the world, from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the International Science Film Festival in Athens to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

Daniel produced and wrote America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, which investigates the engineering, business, and politics of reconstruction at the World Trade Center site. Narrated by two-time Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey, it premiered September 10, 2002, as PBS's signature broadcast of its 9/11-anniversary programming. Arizona Republic said the show "neither exploits the tragedy... nor allows us to forget its impact." New York Post ranked the program among its five favorites about 9/11. New York Newsday's Marvin Kitman called it "the one show I will be watching." Time observed, "We could have used more coverage that looked forward, like the PBS documentary America Rebuilds."

America Rebuilds was so successful that it launched the production of a multiyear trilogy. America Rebuilds II: Return to Ground Zero, which Daniel also produced and wrote, premiered September 11, 2006, as PBS's signature broadcast of its 9/11-five-year-anniversary programming. Narrated by two-time Emmy Award-winner Mariska Hargitay, the show was praised by New York Newsday as "life-affirming," salon.com as "detailed ... concise ... moving," and New York Daily News as "a valuable service." America Rebuilds III: Ground Zero Rebuilt is scheduled for the ten-year anniversary of 9/11.

Daniel produced and wrote Bridging New York, about the eleven major spans that connect New York City, and Electric Nation, about how electricity spread throughout the country, for the four-part series Great Projects: The Building of America (PBS, 2002). "As with all the best documentaries," reported the Associated Press, "Great Projects is rich in historical sights and sounds [and] filled with intriguing interviews." "The films show the great visions of engineers and the spectacle of construction," added Engineering News-Record, "taking viewers to places where most people usually can't go. We should all be watching."

Daniel produced, wrote, and directed the two-hour Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War (PBS, 1999), which examines the United States' first overseas conflict. Narrated by Emmy Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee Edward James Olmos, the show was dubbed by Forbes "a fascinating, clear-eyed look"; the Associated Press "a history lesson with spark and drama"; and CBS News Sunday Morning's John Leonard "a first-rate and emphatically opinionated public-television documentary."

Daniel was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming for The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (PBS, 1997). Narrated by Emmy and Peabody Award-winner David Brinkley, the film recounts Eichmann's capture and 1961 trial, the first ever televised. Daniel also co-produced and wrote Adolf Eichmann: Hitler's Master of Death (A&E Biography, 1997) and associate produced the Academy Award-nominated An Essay on Matisse (PBS, 1996).

Daniel co-founded Ironbound Films in 2003. He lives in Cold Spring, New York, with his wife Mindy, their sons Sander and Asa, and their pit bull Lila.