Awards

• 1988 MacArthur Fellows Program
  MacArthur Fellows Program
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• 1989 Emmy, "Yosemite The Fate Of Heaven" director
• 1993 Emmy, "The Great Depression" writer
• 1998 Emmy "Don't Say Goodby" cinematographer
• 1999 Emmy "Sing Faster: The Stagehands Ring Cycle"

• 1999 Sundance Filmmaker's Trophy

Filmography

• The Day After Trinity
  The Day After Trinity
  The Day After Trinity is a 1980 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California. The film tells the story of J...
  
  : J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

• "Palace Of Delights: The Exploratorium" producer, director, cinematographer
• "Yosemite: The Fate Of Heaven" producer, director, cinematographer

• Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic

• "Cadillac Desert: Water and the American West" director, producer, cinematographyer
• "Eyes On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years" series producer and cinematographer
• "The Island President" executive producer
• "Open Outcry" producer, diretor, cinematographer
• "Sing Faster: The Stagehands Ring Cycle" producer, director, cinematographer

Reviews

That this is tacitly recognized is the most valuable aspect of The Day after Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Jon Else's documentary feature that opens today at the Public Theater. The film serves as a kind of introduction to a period of history that is very easily ignored in favor of subjects of far less immediate concern. Mr. Else, and the movie, share with Oppenheimer an awful suspicion that when the first bomb was successfully detonated on the New Mexico desert in July 1945, it signaled the beginning of the end.