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Michael Kantor is a writer, director, and producer whose work includes "Quincy Jones: In the Pocket" for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Prior to his work in television, Kantor was a freelance theater director and writer, published in Newsday, American Theater, and Interview. He is president of Ghost Light Films and Almo Inc., companies dedicated to bringing the arts to television. Since 2001, Michael Kantor has produced 21 hours of television for national broadcast. In addition to winning the Peabody Award and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Mr. Kantor’s productions have been recognized with seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and one Writers Guild of America Award nomination.
Release Date | Title | Job | Rating | Your Lists |
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July 3rd, 2026 | Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Executive Producer | TBD | |
May 19th, 2026 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause | Executive Producer | TBD | |
January 22nd, 2026 | American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez | Executive Producer | TBD | |
December 12th, 2025 | Starring Dick Van Dyke | Executive Producer | 10 | |
September 18th, 2025 | Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny | Executive Producer | 6.8 | |
June 20th, 2025 | Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore | Executive Producer | 7.3 | |
May 9th, 2025 | Marcella | Executive Producer | TBD | |
February 21st, 2025 | Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse | Executive Producer | 9 | |
February 21st, 2025 | The Disappearance of Miss Scott | Executive Producer | TBD | |
October 5th, 2024 | Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire | Executive Producer | TBD | |
August 27th, 2024 | Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames | Executive Producer | 8 | |
February 22nd, 2024 | The Rooster | Executive Producer | 5.6 | |
September 22nd, 2023 | Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely | Executive Producer | TBD | |
August 2nd, 2023 | Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology | Executive Producer | TBD | |
August 2nd, 2023 | Sydney G. James: How We See Us | Executive Producer | TBD | |
March 12th, 2023 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes | Executive Producer | TBD | |
December 27th, 2022 | Groucho & Cavett | Executive Producer | 7 | |
November 17th, 2022 | Roberta | Executive Producer | 9 | |
November 3rd, 2022 | Jerry Brown: The Disrupter | Executive Producer | TBD | |
February 8th, 2022 | Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands | Executive Producer | TBD | |
October 19th, 2021 | Becoming Helen Keller | Executive Producer | 8 | |
October 14th, 2021 | A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings | Executive Producer | TBD | |
July 23rd, 2021 | Ailey | Executive Producer | 6 | |
June 18th, 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Executive Producer | 7.5 | |
February 2nd, 2021 | Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir | Executive Producer | 8.2 | |
January 18th, 2021 | How It Feels to Be Free | Executive Producer | TBD | |
October 23rd, 2020 | Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is | Executive Producer | TBD | |
June 16th, 2020 | Mae West: Dirty Blonde | Executive Producer | 6.9 | |
September 13th, 2019 | Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage | Executive Producer | TBD | |
August 23rd, 2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Executive Producer | 7.2 | |
June 21st, 2019 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | Executive Producer | 7.5 | |
January 29th, 2019 | Words from a Bear | Executive Producer | TBD | |
June 6th, 2018 | Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | Executive Producer | 6.9 | |
October 14th, 2017 | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Executive Producer | 6.2 | |
October 5th, 2017 | Itzhak | Executive Producer | 6.4 | |
March 4th, 2017 | When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy | Executive Producer | TBD | |
October 26th, 2016 | Mike Nichols: An American Master | Executive Producer | 6.3 | |
August 11th, 2016 | Bad Girl | Executive Producer | 6 | |
January 21st, 2016 | Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | Executive Producer | 7.1 | |
September 9th, 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue | Executive Producer | 7.3 | |
July 13th, 2015 | By Sidney Lumet | Executive Producer | 6.8 | |
November 4th, 2011 | Give Me the Banjo | Executive Producer | 7.2 | |
November 18th, 2001 | Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | Producer | 10 |