July 28, 2024
Two American Families 1991-2024 is “a master work ” – New York Times
“Two American Families 1991-2024″ a new film directed and produced by Tom Casciato & Kathleen Hughes and featuring journalist Bill Moyers, has just premiered on the PBS Frontline series. Filmed over a 34-year period, the film follows two Milwaukee families — one Black, one white — on a journey through America’s low-wage economy after their breadwinners’ layoffs from well-paying factory jobs. The New York Times called the film “a knockout documentary” and continued, “At a time when so much documentary television feels generic, disposable and even straightforwardly pointless, this is both a master work unto itself and a glaring reminder of what is largely absent in television narrative nonfiction.”