Phil Bertelsen is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer and director who uses film and television to entertain, inspire, and provoke audiences. His work spans from documentaries on Netflix, NBC, CBS, PBS and Prime to episodic television, including network dramas "Madame Secretary" and "The Blacklist". Through his storytelling, Bertelsen often explores topics absent from our history books. Phil’s HBO limited documentary series "Seen And Heard" was nominated for an 2025 Independent Spirit Award. His prior feature documentary "The Picture Taker" was nominated for a Peabody Award. His documentary "761st Tank Battalion-The Original Black Panthers" with Morgan Freeman is now streaming on Hulu alongside his episode of the Emmy winning documentary series, "The 1619 Project". His previous work, "Who Killed Malcolm X", is a six-part series streaming on Netflix that explores the death and controversial convictions associated with the slain civil rights leader. That series prompted a reinvestigation of the decades-old crime resulting in the exoneration of two wrongly convicted men.

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History

Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television

761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

Outside Looking in: Transracial Adoption in America

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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