Ark Media

Ark Media is an award-winning documentary film company founded in 1997 by the husband and wife producing team of Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin. Ark partnered with Kunhardt-McGee Productions on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. series THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (2013), FINDING YOUR ROOTS (Seasons 1-3) and FACES OF AMERICA (2010) and, also with Kunhardt-McGee, produced LOOKING FOR LINCOLN (2009) and the MAKERS project for PBS. Ark also partnered with WETA Washington, DC, on the award-winning six-hour series KEN BURNS PRESENTS CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES A FILM BY BARAK GOODMAN and the four-hour series THE ITALIAN-AMERICANS. Ark's numerous films for the esteemed PBS series' FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE have won nearly every major broadcast award: the Emmy, duPont-Columbia, Robert F. Kennedy, Writers Guild and Peabody Awards, as well as earning an Academy Award nomination and official selection to the Sundance Film Festival. Ark has also produced documentaries for The New York Times, American Movie Classics, ABC and the History Channel.