The BEST episodes directed by Helen Whitney
#1 - The Mormons (1): History
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 16
A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and influence in the modern world.
#2 - The Mormons (2): Church and State
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 17
A story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - its beginnings in 1830, the migration of its persecuted members, and its role and influence in the modern world.
#3 - Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
PBS Specials - Season 2018 - Episode 4
"Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death," a documentary by Director Helen Whitney, explores the various ways we think about death -- not death in general, but our own in particular. It is the great unanswered question. How do we live with death in our eye? What are the stories we tell ourselves as we go into the night -- or into the light? "Into the Night" features nine fascinating men and women from all walks of life, all ages, believers and unbelievers, well-known and obscure. For them, death is no longer an abstraction. Whether through a dire prognosis, the imminence of their own death, the loss of a loved one, a sudden epiphany, or a temperament born to question, these are people who have truly awakened to their mortality.
#4 - Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
American Masters - Season 10 - Episode 3
The notable images of one of the nation's most famous fashion photographers.