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Martin Kent
Los Angeles
Documentary Filmmaker
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Title/Occupation:  Director 
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian/White
Citizenship: U.S.
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Biography: 

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Kent, the writer, director and producer of Oskar Schindler, The Man Behind the List (A&E’s Biography Series), and Years Later We Would Remember (independent film), has made over 60 documentaries during his distinguished career. His work, seen by over 100 million viewers, has been critically acclaimed and featured on NBC, ABC, PBS, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Fox Sports and VH1, among others.

Mr. Kent’s range of subject matter is extremely wide. Oil Apocalypse, his hard-hitting film about the world energy crisis, currently can be seen on the History Channel, or purchased as a DVD on their website. Other topics have included: the Holocaust, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights era, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Civil War, the entertainment industry, architecture, sports, sports science, archeology, the automotive industry, aviation, military science, space exploration and nature.

Prior to focusing on documentaries, Mr. Kent was a founding production executive of the E! Channel. He began his career as a print journalist; his work appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times syndicate, and other noteworthy publications. From 1979-82 he was Editor of the Hollywood Reporter; his significant contributions to the improvement of that paper were reported in Time magazine.

Mr. Kent holds a Masters Degree in Broadcast Communications from Stanford University and has taught and lectured at UCLA.