The 1984 documentary
America and Lewis Hine about
Lewis Hine was inspired by her parents' exhibition and book about the man they called "America's greatest photographer". In the film,
Jason Robards is the voice of Hine, the pioneer photographer who documented child labor and the building of America from 1900 to 1940. It premiered at the
New York Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on
PBS. At the 1985
Sundance Film Festival, it won the Special Jury Prize: Documentary. Narrated by
Susan Sarandon,
Through the Wire (1990) investigates a high-security unit at a federal women's prison in Lexington, Kentucky, and the international movement to shut it down. Produced in association with
Amnesty International, the film premiered at the 1990
Berlin Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the 1990
Munich Film Festival. It was broadcast on PBS'
POV series.
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Riker Island (1992) is a feature documentary was produced for
HBO's
America Undercover series. Rosenblum was nominated for an Academy Award for the
Denzel Washington and
Louis Gossett Jr. narrated 1992 PBS documentary,
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II. It reflects on the Black
761st Tank Battalion, highlighting the racism they endured at home while fighting to free Nazi victims abroad. Questions have been raised as to the factual nature of this documentary and whether any Black soldier regiments were involved with the initial liberation of concentration camps in Germany.
The Untold West: The Black West (1994), narrated by
Danny Glover, aired on TBS. It is a tribute to the contributions of Black cowboys to the settlement of the American West. Weaving documentary and dramatic segments, it won an Emmy Award for Best Screenwriting and was nominated for a
CableACE award. Rosenblum produced and directed
Walter Rosenblum: In Search of Pitt Street that chronicled the photographic career of her father, Walter Rosenblum. Rosenblum was a highly decorated U.S. Army Signal Corps cameraman who documented the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach and the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau. The film premiered at the D-Day Museum in New Orleans and has been screened at film festivals and broadcast internationally, winning numerous awards.
They Fight with Cameras (2025), was produced and directed with Daniel Allentuck and narrated by
Liev Schreiber. It recounts the World War II experiences of Rosenblum's father, Walter Rosenblum, a U.S. Army Signal Corps combat cameraman. Combining his wartime photographs, previously unseen motion picture footage, and recently discovered personal letters to his first wife,
They Fight with Cameras traces Rosenblum's path from the D‑Day landings on Omaha Beach to the liberation of Dachau. The film won Best Documentary at the 2025 Santa Barbara Indie Film Festival. •
Unintended Consequences (2000), a short about the "Mothers of the NY Disappeared" who protest the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws •
Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero, which documents the response of the NYU Downtown Hospital to 9/11 (Producer/Director) • ''Zahira's Peace'' (2004), a feature documentary in co-production with Sogecable, Spain, which was broadcast on the first anniversary of the March 11th bombing on Canal+ Spain. •
In the Name of Democracy, filmed by Haskell Wexler, the story of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer to refuse deployment to Iraq and who won his case. • ''Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York'' (2013), the story of the NY Photo League, which has been screened at festivals and educational institutions internationally. (Producer) • PBS series,
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), credited on episode 6 for providing the story of Terrence Stevens. Additional credits include
Slaveship: The Testimony of The Henrietta Marie (1995) and
A History of Women Photographers (1997), narrated by Maureen Stapleton. These shorts were included in traveling exhibitions across the United States. Rosenblum is president of Daedalus Productions, which she co-founded with Dan Allentuck in 1980 to produce documentary films about issues not covered in the conventional media.
Recognition In 1994, she received the Washington, D.C. Women of Vision Award celebrating women's creative and technical achievements in media. In 2011, Casa del Cinema in Rome, Italy co-sponsored by Fotoleggendo and ISFCI and the Villa Pignatelli in Naples, Italy held festivals of seven films produced by Daedalus Productions in honor of Rosenblum's contribution to cinema. == References ==