Chris Hedges
- Acting
- September 18, 1956 · St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA
Biography
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award–nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.
Known for
Filmography
- Resistance101: Forging a New Movement for Palestine in Italy · Director
- The Six Billion Dollar Man · Self
- The Trust Fall: Julian Assange · Self
- The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel · Self
- J.E.S.U.S.A. · Self
- The Invisible Class · Self
- The Corporate Coup D'État · Self
- Generation Wealth · Self
- Propaganda: Engineering Consent · Self
- American Psychosis · Self
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone · Self
- Shadow World · Self
- The Empire Files · Self
- Days of Revolt · Self, Executive producer
- Poverty, Inc. · Self
- Fall and Winter · Self
- Occupy: The Movie · Self
- Shadows of Liberty · Self
- Under Fire: Journalists in Combat · Self
- The Big Fix · Self
- Capitalism Is the Crisis · Self
- Silhouette City · Self
- The Colbert Report · Self
- Reporting America at War · Self