Amanda Pollak
Amanda Pollak is an advisor at Retro Report and has been producing, researching and writing documentaries for Public Television since 1992. She received an individual Emmy for her leading role in researching TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt. Amanda has produced numerous films for PBS, among them the Emmy Award-winning Truman; Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided; Money and Power: The History of Business; and one hour of the five-hour scientific series, The Secret Life of the Brain, which earned her an Emmy Award for producing. In 2001, Pollak joined Insignia Films to produce multiple films, including Reporting America at War, which earned a Cine Golden Eagle Award and was a 2004 Emmy nominee for Best Documentary, and eight films for American Experience. Amanda most recently produced Constitution USA with Peter Sagal, a four-part series for PBS.
Bush v. Gore: How a Recount Dispute Affects Voting Today
The dramatic controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election led to sweeping voting reforms, but opened the door to a new set of problems that continue to affect elections today.
Runaway Plane
For decades the United States has been on a quest to perfect stealth technology, but development of the F-35 fighter jet shows just how complicated dreams can become.
Power Line Fears
News media coverage in the 1980s and early 1990s fueled fears of a national cancer epidemic caused by power lines and generated a debate that still lingers today.