Ben Moses
Ben Moses (born 1948) is an American documentary filmmaker, television producer, and writer best known for the documentary A Whisper to a Roar (2012) and for originating Good Morning, Vietnam. After a U.S. Army tour as an Armed Forces Radio DJ in Saigon, he broke into television in 1970 as a camera assistant on CBS's Jackie Gleason Show before joining General Electric to oversee its General Electric Theater documentaries and television movies. His Vietnam radio experience seeded the script treatment for Good Morning, Vietnam, which Robin Williams attached himself to in 1983 and which went into production at Touchstone in 1987. Inspired by the political scholarship of Larry Diamond, his documentary A Whisper to a Roar follows democracy movements in Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe, with animated framing narrated by Alfred Molina.