Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement, including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco, led to the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.

Includes a post-film conversation with Barak Goodman (Director, Producer), Emily Singer Chapman (Producer), Mark Samels (Producer, Executive Producer, American Experience)

Barak Goodman (Writer/Director/Producer) is co-founder of Ark Media and a principal producer, director and writer with the company. His films for Ark Media have been nominated for an Academy Award and won multiple Emmys, DuPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards, the RFK Journalism Prize, and three times been official selections at the Sundance Film Festival. He was the series director and producer of CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and he directed, produced and wrote MAKERS, the first comprehensive history of the modern women’s movement. In addition to OKLAHOMA CITY his work for American Experience includes RUBY RIDGE (February 14), about the 1992 FBI siege that helped launch the modern militia movement, CLINTON, a four-hour biography of Bill Clinton, and MY LAI, the story of America's most notorious war crime.

As executive producer of the PBS flagship history series, Mark Samels conceives, commissions and oversees all American Experience films. Samels has overseen more than 130 films, expanding both the breadth of subjects and the filmmaking style embraced by the series, allowing for more contemporary topics and more witness-driven storytelling. Beginning his career as an independent documentary filmmaker, he held production executive positions at public television stations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania before joining WGBH. Samels is a founding member of the International Documentary Association and has served as a governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Samels holds honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Emerson College and Elizabethtown College.

Emily Singer Chapman is a producer whose film career spans over a decade and includes work in experimental, vérité and historical documentaries. The majority of Chapman's recent work has been for PBS, including the Emmy-nominated and duPont-Columbia winning series Cancer: CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, FINDING YOUR ROOTS and CLINTON. Her latest films, OKLAHOMA CITY and RUBY RIDGE, are the fourth and fifth films she has worked on for the American Experience series. Chapman was raised in Portland, Oregon and lives in Brooklyn, NY.