Brent E. Huffman

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Professor

Samira Faizi and her family escaped to India from Afghanistan in 2021. She is now grappling with the possibility of being stuck forever, as slow asylum processes and the lack of a refugee law in India threaten her existence.

Far from Home

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins.

Saving Mes Aynak

Angela Taylor turns to her community garden on Chicago's west side to help deal with the loss of her father, fight drug dealing and crime in her neighborhood and foster a sense of pride on her block.

Angela's Garden

Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning section for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.

Op-Docs

In 2010, the Loyola University men's' volleyball team, the Ramblers, made it to the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Championship Game. They were defeated by arch rival The Ohio State University Buckeyes. In 2011, the Rambler's went on a quest to avenge their loss the previous year and advance to the NCAA Final Four.

As High as You Can

Witness

'Love, Dad' is the story of career criminal James Gardner, who estimates that between 1970 and 1999, he committed over a thousand burglaries and stole close to $4 million in property. Gardner felt at the time that his life was one big adventure, but he soon found out that it was hardly an adventure to the family he left behind during his 30 years in prison.

Love, Dad

Weightlifting in Kabul, Afghanistan as profiled by Brent E. Huffman. This is an episode of Current TV, one of their first pilot shows and also one of the most popular on the channel.

Built in Kabul

A campaign against the abuse of female workers by their male bosses, which starts in early 1970s Cleveland, leads to a popular fiction film with Fonda, Parton and Tomlin.

9to5: The Story of A Movement

After a young Chinese student goes missing on an American university campus, her family travels to the U.S. for the first time, hoping to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Finding Yingying

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

American Factory

In 2017, Elijah's home was burned to the ground as police forcefully evicted his community of 30,000 people in Lagos, Nigeria. In To Return a King, Atinkpo fights for justice on behalf of all poor settlements in Lagos and returns home for the first time.

To Return a King

In many ways, Sorayya Rezai is a typical teenager - but as a refugee from Afghanistan, she's been through so much more than most girls her age. Now, with help from friends and neighbors, she and her family are eagerly learning how to become Americans.

Coming to America: A day in the life of a refugee teen

A newly arrived Syrian refugee family learns to adjust to their new life in Chicago while missing and mourning their homeland.

From Damascus to Chicago

A documentary news series airing on VICE TV Wednesday and Thursday nights at 11p ET. Featuring deep investigations, and immersive pieces from all over the globe.

Vice News Tonight

One man's crusade for the equal rights of albinos in Uganda.

Equal Under God

A Holmes of Their Own

A crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London, eccentric Sherlock escapes to New York where his father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Elementary

Syrian Refugees in Jordan

"Sound Tracks presents Quick Hits" is a 20-part web series for PBS Arts that ran online from 2010-2012 accompanying the PBS TV music specials, "Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders." Each Quick Hits webisode included an interview with a singer, musician or band plus several musical performance videos. It also exists now on a SoundTracksQH YouTube Channel.

Sound Tracks presents Quick Hits

Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise-a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon.

Utopia in Four Movements

This PBS special investigates a Russian propaganda song, "I Want a Man Like Putin," profiles Afro-beat legend Fela, shows how the satirical movie "Borat" inspired a symphony, and ends with Portuguese star, Mariza, singing a "global hit."

Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders

The film tells the story of Kevin Natale, a Ventura native who was on that day an active, ordinary fourteen year-old boy preparing for a league basketball game when twenty-one year-old and deeply disturbed neighbor Bryan Adams burst through the front door, pistol in hand - obsessed with the idea of settling a largely imagined score - and opened fire.

Thy Will Be Done

A tour of the world's largest shopping mall, located near Guangzhou, China.

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall

Six students from 3 Countries, USA, India and China are moving to College. They soon find themselves in a global competition and it narrows down to: Engineering and Science.

Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination

Crime Scene Wild

Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.

A Lion in the House

La Mu lives beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese society. She is part of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority that has a matriarchal society, one of the last in the world.

The Women's Kingdom

Reporter Zero chronicles the groundbreaking work of journalist Randy Shilts, who documented the early years of the AIDS epidemic in his best-selling book "And the Band Played On."

Reporter Zero

In newly opened gyms in downtown Kabul, young men are rebuilding Afghanistan one muscle at a time. They are pumping iron and dreaming of Arnold Schwarzenegger. "They don't know much about Arnold the politician," says filmmaker Brent Huffman, "but they do know Arnold the action hero.

The Weight of the World

Investigates the effort to stop the Chinese government from building 13 dams along the NU River as part of that nation's quest for energy.

Damming the Angry River

An American family is torn apart by drug addiction.

Saving Jackie

Living with the regret of her mother's imprisonment, Mary attempts to find solace in her work helping abused women. But when she gets a call from a young girl, Mary must confront a past she has long avoided.

Finding Grace

NATURAL HEROES is the Emmy Award-winning Public Television series showcasing independent films about people making positive environmental changes for our world.

Natural Heroes

Most prison documentaries focus on the inmates. This sobering program features guards and prisoners alike, giving the viewer two interpretations of life at Ohio's Warren Correctional Institution.

Welcome to Warren

The story of four people from around the globe who are linked by a desire to make their lives better, daring to ask the question, "What if?"

What If?

FRONTLINE World, which ran from 2002-2010, was a magazine format one-hour documentary series which aired within the PBS series FRONTLINE. Each episode usually included three stories. FRONTLINE World was designed to provide more feature news coverage of the world and to develop a younger, more diverse group of on-air reporters and producers.

Frontline/World

Different celebrity hosts present new independent documentaries..

Independent Lens

POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and most innovative documentaries to PBS audiences across the country.

P.O.V.

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983

Frontline

"Saving the Cultural Heritage of Yemen" is a documentary in production that examines the international effort to save the threatened cultural heritage of Yemen. This project will tell this story through the perspectives of Yemeni citizens and international specialists working together on numerous endeavors in different areas of Yemen. These individuals are often risking their lives to protect and preserve ancient sites near the front lines of conflict. 