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Rachel Dretzin

  • Producer
  • Director
  • Writer
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Rachel Dretzin is a documentary film director and producer, as well as a founding partner of Ark Media, based in Brooklyn NY. She is known for Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (Netflix original limited series, released March 8, 2022,) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Fusion, Netflix six-part limited series,) Hope and Fury (NBC) The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS) and Frontline (PBS)
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 10 nominations total

    Known for

    Frontline (1983)
    Frontline
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Producer
    Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
    Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
    7.3
    TV Mini Series
    • Producer
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013)
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    8.6
    TV Mini Series
    • Producer
    Untitled Boeing 737 Max/Participant Documentary
    • Producer

      Credits

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      Producer

      • More Than Blue
        • executive producer
        • Completed
        • 2026
      • Untitled Boeing 737 Max/Participant Documentary
        • producer
        • Pre-production
      • Christine Marie in Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026)
        Trust Me: The False Prophet
        7.6
        TV Mini Series
        • executive producer
        • 2026
      • Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History (2026)
        Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
        6.5
        TV Mini Series
        • executive producer
        • 2026
      • Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (2025)
        Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
        6.6
        TV Mini Series
        • executive producer
        • 2025
      • Amanda Mustard in Great Photo, Lovely Life (2023)
        Great Photo, Lovely Life
        7.4
        • executive producer
        • 2023
      • Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
        Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
        7.3
        TV Mini Series
        • executive producer
        • 2022
      • Who Killed Malcolm X? (2019)
        Who Killed Malcolm X?
        7.5
        TV Mini Series
        • executive producer
        • 2019–2020
      • Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
        Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
        6.4
        TV Movie
        • producer
        • 2018
      • Andrew Solomon in Far From the Tree (2017)
        Far From the Tree
        7.7
        • producer
        • 2017
      • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016)
        Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
        7.6
        TV Mini Series
        • senior producer
        • 2016
      • Makers: Women Who Make America (2013)
        Makers: Women Who Make America
        7.5
        TV Series
        • senior producer
        • 2014
      • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013)
        The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
        8.6
        TV Mini Series
        • series producer
        • 2013
      • Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Finding Your Roots (2012)
        Finding Your Roots
        8.7
        TV Series
        • senior producer
        • 2012
      • Frontline (1983)
        Frontline
        8.6
        TV Series
        • producer
        • segment producer
        • associate producer
        • 1993–2011
      • Frontline/World (2002)
        Frontline/World
        8.2
        TV Series
        • producer
        • 2009

      Director

      • Untitled Boeing 737 Max/Participant Documentary
        • Director
        • Pre-production
      • Christine Marie in Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026)
        Trust Me: The False Prophet
        7.6
        TV Mini Series
        • Director
        • 2026
      • Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
        Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
        7.3
        TV Mini Series
        • directed by
        • 2022
      • Who Killed Malcolm X? (2019)
        Who Killed Malcolm X?
        7.5
        TV Mini Series
        • Director
        • 2019–2020
      • Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
        Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
        6.4
        TV Movie
        • Director
        • 2018
      • Andrew Solomon in Far From the Tree (2017)
        Far From the Tree
        7.7
        • Director
        • 2017
      • Frontline (1983)
        Frontline
        8.6
        TV Series
        • Director
        • 1998–2011
      • Precinct Hollywood
        6.2
        TV Movie
        • Director
        • 2005

      Writer

      • Untitled Boeing 737 Max/Participant Documentary
        • Writer
        • Pre-production
      • Frontline (1983)
        Frontline
        8.6
        TV Series
        • Writer
        • written by
        • writer
        • 1995–2011

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