Production
Mark Samels is an American documentary producer native of Wisconsin. He is executive producer of American Experience, PBS's longest-running history series.


The Vote
Executive Producer
2020

Mr. Tornado
Executive Producer
2020

George W. Bush
Executive Producer
2020

George W. Bush
Executive Producer
2020

McCarthy
Executive Producer
2020

Chasing the Moon
Executive Producer
2019

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Producer
2019

The Swamp
Executive Producer
2019

The Gilded Age
Executive Producer
2018

Grand Coulee Dam
Executive Producer
2017

The Great War
Executive Producer
2017

The Great War
Executive Producer
2017

Oklahoma City
Producer
2017

Bonnie & Clyde
Executive Producer
2016

Walt Disney
Executive Producer
2015

JFK
Producer
2013

Henry Ford
Executive Producer
2013

Billy the Kid
Producer
2012

Freedom Riders
Executive Producer
2010

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Executive Producer
2009

Walt Whitman
Executive Producer
2008

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Executive Producer
2008

The Massie Affair
Executive Producer
2005

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
Executive Producer
2004

Tupperware!
Executive Producer
2004

A Brilliant Madness
Director
2002

Miss America
Producer
2002

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Producer
2001

Surviving the Dust Bowl
Executive Producer
1998

Reagan
Producer
1998

Nixon
Producer
1990

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Executive Producer
1988

American Experience
Executive Producer
1988