“William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,” a documentary I produced about the legendary radical civil rights lawyer, is now playing at New York’s Cinema Village Theater, and opening nationwide this Friday. The film, directed by Kunstler’s daughters Sarah and Emily, is an inspiring and moving account of Kunstler’s life and the efforts of his daughters to reconcile his controversial choices. The New York Times covered the film yesterday. And more details at the film web site.

Tonight at 10 pm EST Court TV will broadcast “Behind the Mask,” a new one hour documentary that I produced about the Aryan Republican Army, a gang of notorious white supremacist bank robbers. The film is part of Court TV’s Investigators series. The ARA robbed twenty banks across the mid-west in the mid 1990s in an attempt to finance the violent overthrow of the United States government. The leader of the gang, Peter Langan, was, in addition to being a bank robber, a pre-operative transsexual, an identity that he concealed from his fellow gang members. The gang produced a remarkable documentary about themselves, portions of which are excerpted in my film.