Join our newsletter!

Sign up

Menu

School Prayer: A Community at War

Profile of a Mississippi mother of six who sues her school district to remove prayer and religious instruction from public schools.

Series

POV

Premiere Date

July 20, 1999

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2001 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Best Coverage of a Continuing News Story

Slawomir Grunberg

Producer

Slawomir Grünberg is a documentary producer, director, cameraman, and editor whose work has frequently appeared on PBS. He received an Emmy Award for his first P.O.V. presentation, School Prayer: A Community at War. He is a graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in Lodz, Poland and emigrated from Poland to the US in 1981. He has since shot and produced more than 40 television documentaries. His independent works focus on critical social and political issues and have won him international recognition. Slawomir has also been a contributing director of photography and editor for the PBS’ series Frontline, NOVA, American Masters, AIDS Quarterly with Peter Jennings, Health Quarterly, People’s Century, and the Lifetime Channel and HBO.
Ben Crane

Producer