Saul Landau is journalist, filmmaker, and commentator. He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies.
His academic career includes Professor at American University, Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona, and Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Landau has been a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C., for twenty-seven years, and he is also a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
He received an Emmy for his film produced with filmaker Haskell Wexler, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He was awarded Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights as well as the Bernado O'Higgins award. He was also one of the earliest members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Saul Landau's films are distributed by Round World Productions. His 1968 film "Fidel" is distributed by Microcinema.
“WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE -- and other stories of globalization”
Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2004)
Iraq: Voices From the Street (September 2002)
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (1999) - A documentary about the corporate globalization on the US-Mexican border.
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1996)
Papakolea (1993)
Report from Iraq (1991)
The Uncompromising Revolution (1988)
Target Nicaragua. Inside a Covert War (1983)
Quest for Power (1983)
Report from Beirut (1982)
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980) - A political documentary about government suppression of the health hazards of low-level radiation. Paul Jacobs died from lung cancer before the documentary was finished. His doctors believed he contracted it while he was investigating nuclear policies in 1957. Jacobs interviewed civilians and soldiers, survivors of nuclear experiments in the 50s and 60s, testing the effects of radiation. The film won the Emmy Award for best TV program (1980), George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV, Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism, and the Mannheim Film Festival first critics' prize.
Steppin' (1980) - A documentary about Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during election time.
The CIA Case Officer (1978) - A documentary about John Stockwell, a former CIA official who served in the CIA for 12 years, mostly in Africa and Vietnam.
Bill Moyer's CBS report on CIA and Cuba (1977)
Land of My Birth (1976) - The campaign film for Michael Manley in Jamaica.
Zombies in a House of Madness (1975) - A short film where jail house poet, Michael Beasley, reads his poetry alongside footage taken inside the San Francisco jail, in 1972.
Song for Dead Warriors (1974) -A documentary about the Wounded Knee occupation in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM).
Who Shot Alexander Hamilton (1974)
Castro, Cuba and the US (1974)
Robert Wall: Ex-FBI Agent (1972)
The Jail (1972)
Zombies in a House of Madness (1972) - Shot in the San Francisco jail.
Que Hacer/What is to be Done?(1971) - Saul Landau, Raul Ruis, Nina Serrano.
A Bush and Botox World, AK Press, 2007 - with Gore Vidal. In this book, he defines his position on the 2006 Cuban transfer of presidential duties, Cuba in the 1960s, Raśl Castro and his opinion on the U.S. concerning Cuba.
The business of America: how consumers have replaced citizens and how we can reverse the trend, Routledge, 2004
The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom, Pluto Press, 2003
The dangerous doctrine: national security and U.S. foreign policy, Westview Press, 1988
Hot air: a radio diary, Pacifica Network News/Institute for Policy Studies, 1995 - Saul Landau, Christopher Hitchens, Pacifica Radio
Assassination on Embassy Row, Pantheon Books, 1980 - With John Dinges. Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Non-fiction
Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century, Common Courage Press, 1998
The guerrilla wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, St Martin's Press, 1993
To Serve the Devil: Vol. 1 & 2, 1971 - Saul Landau and Paul Jacobs with Eve Pell
The New Radicals, Random House, 1966 - Paul Jacobs, Saul Landau
The Bisbee deportations: class conflict and patriotism during World War I, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1959
My Dad Was Not Hamlet, Institute for Policy Studies, 1993 - A book of poems
They Educated the Crows, Transnational Institute, 1978 - a Transnational Institute Report on the Letelier-Moffitt Murders
