“The Morgenthaus: An American Family” is a documentary designed for public television, which tells the epic story of three generations of the Morgenthau family in New York. 

Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Senior was President Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople and was one of the first Americans who discovered the Turkish genocide of the Armenians during World War I.   He was a worldwide vocal spokesman against the massacre.

His son, Henry Morgentahu Junior, became Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin Roosevelt and was involved in all aspects of World War II including Lend Lease, the Holocaust, and American military procurement.  He was author of the post-war Morgenthau Plan.

Robert Morgenthau was a naval officer/war hero in battles in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation and has been the famed and highly respected Manhattan District Attorney for the last 33 years.

On June 6, 1944 soldiers of D, E and F companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled the nearly 100 feet cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.  Their mission was to destroy the six 155mm German guns that were capable of bombarding both Utah and Omaha beaches.   Two hundred and twenty five Rangers made the assault.  By the end of the battle two days later only ninety could still bear arms, but the guns had been destroyed.

Dog Green is currently producing films and interactives for the visitor center that will tell the story of this extraordinary D-Day battle through the accounts of those who fought it.

Scheduled to open in 2010.

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Michelangelo (Tony) Vacarro fought WWII from the unique perspective of two sights…the first was the sight of his M1 Garand rifle as a combat infantryman and the second was the sight of his still camera that he had strapped around his neck.  Turned down by the Army’s Signal Corps to be an official photographer, Tony was determined to photograph his war experiences while fighting with the 83rd Division.   That determination produced an astonishing collection of over 3000 combat images in the ETO (European Theater of Operations) from Normandy through Berlin.

After the war, Tony became one of the most successful photographers of the 20th century, photographing personalities like Picasso, John F. Kennedy, Georgia O’Keefe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stravinsky, Federico Fellini, and Sophia Loren for such renowned magazines as Life and Look.  But Tony’s true photographic legacy remains his matchless WWII collection.

Coming Home: The Journey of Tony Vaccaro is the documentary film that retraces Tony’s WWII journey by

exploring 15 of his most powerful combat images.   While revisiting the exact locations where he first photographed these images as a 20-year-old GI, Tony proves to be a master storyteller bringing life to the names and events that his lens captured over 65 years ago.  It is a very personal voyage of reflection, which has taken Tony a lifetime to understand.

Filmed over 3 years in 6 countries, Coming Home: The Journey of Tony Vaccaro will be completed by 2010.