ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN is a production of Show of Force, DMR Productions, and WETA Washington, D.C. David M. Rubenstein is the host and executive producer. Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett and Sam Pollard are executive producers for Show of Force. John F. Wilson is executive producer for WETA. Bill Gardner is the executive in charge for PBS. Christopher Ullman is producer for DMR Productions. Jonathan Scheinberg, Prisca Pointdujour, Sam Lacroix, Alexandra Nikolchev, Sally Rosenthal, Matthew Horovitz, Lizzie Mulvey and Ken Levis are producers for Show of Force. Kate Kelly is producer for WETA. Rick Van Meter is supervising producer. Allison Hanna is archival producer. Gary Lionelli is composer of the original score.
Funding for ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN is provided by The Ben-Dov Family through the Luminescence Foundation.
ABOUT WETA
WETA is the leading public broadcaster in the nation’s capital, serving Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia with educational initiatives and with high-quality programming on television, radio, and digital. WETA Washington, D.C., is the second-largest producing station for public television in the United States, with news and public affairs programs including PBS NEWSHOUR, PBS NEWS WEEKEND, and WASHINGTON WEEK; films by Ken Burns, such as THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; series and documentaries by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. and MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE; performance specials including IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG, NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT, and A CAPITOL FOURTH; and health content from Well Beings, a multiplatform campaign. More information on WETA and its programs and services is available at weta.org. Visit facebook.com/wetatvfm on Facebook or follow @WETAtvfm on Twitter.
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About David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm. Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The DAVID RUBENSTEIN SHOW: PEER-TO-PEER CONVERSATIONS on Bloomberg TV and PBS and BLOOMBERG WEALTH WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN on Bloomberg TV, and is the New York Times best-selling author of THE AMERICAN STORY, HOW TO LEAD, THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, and HOW TO INVEST. A native of Baltimore, Mr. Rubenstein is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School.
About Show of Force
Show of Force, founded in 2006 by veteran film and television producers Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre, is known for creating award-winning feature documentaries and event television series. Their work includes the recent 5-part HBO series ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED about the child murders that engulfed the city 40 years ago, which won the 2020 International Documentary Association Award for Best Multi-part Documentary; the Emmy and Grammy-nominated 8-hour series SOUNDBREAKING, created in partnership with legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin; the 8-hour music series SOUNDTRACKS: SONGS THAT DEFINED HISTORY produced for CNN in partnership with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT for HBO, KEHINDE WILEY: AN ECONOMY OF GRACE, which won the 2014 SXSW Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination; MANN V. FORD, a feature-length documentary for HBO; and the Emmy Award-winning 10-hour PBS series CARRIER. Their projects A PATH APPEARS and Emmy Honors-recipient HALF THE SKY, based on the bestselling books by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, reached more than 40 million people worldwide. Show of Force recently produced a series of films on the global refugee crisis titled HUMANITY ON THE MOVE. The films garnered two nominations from the International Documentary Association. One of the films, LOS COMANDOS was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination. Most recently Show of Force produced the four part documentary series HOSTAGES for HBO, which has been nominated for a 2022 Critics’ Choice and IDA award for best documentary series.
