Greg Mitchell

Author and Journalist 

Greg Mitchell has written and directed five films for PBS since 2022.   His latest PBS film, narrated by Rosanne Cash, and with music by Bruce Springsteen, is "Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad Today."  His music obsession goes back to his many years as senior editor at the legendary Crawdaddy.

He is also the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestseller "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall" and "The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics," winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize.   It was named  by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five greatest books ever written about an election race.   

His  film,  "Atomic Cover-up," won the top film prize from the Organization of American Historians in 2024 and three others awards, and screened at more than twenty festivals around the world.   “The First Attack Ads” and “Memorial Day Massacre” received Emmy nominations.   Last year “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero--and Nuclear Peril Today” was featured in the New Yorker magazine.   He also co-produced another festival favorite, "Following the Ninth," in 2014, exploring the political uses of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" around the world.   Among his other books are the award-winning "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (2020), as well as the earlier "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady" and "Hiroshima in America."

He lives in Nyack, N.Y.