Robert Stone

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Robert Stone is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, born in England and educated in the United States. His father was the noted historian Lawrence Stone who chaired the history department at Princeton, where he grew up. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has also studed at Sorbonne University in Paris and at Lee Strasberg in New York. His breakthrough and debut was with the Oscar nominated "Radio Bikini" in 1987. His work has been screened at Sundance and dozens... more

Robert Stone is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, born in England and educated in the United States. His father was the noted historian Lawrence Stone who chaired the history department at Princeton, where he grew up. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has also studed at Sorbonne University in Paris and at Lee Strasberg in New York. His breakthrough and debut was with the Oscar nominated "Radio Bikini" in 1987. His work has been screened at Sundance and dozens other festivals and televised in many countries throughout the world. While known mostly for his handling of archival material in historical documentaries (including one fake documentary), he has also shot a number films and has recently shot and produced several well received documentaries created on DV. His work has been coproduced with a wide variety of television companies including PBS, Discovery, TLC, Channel Four, ARTE, ZDF, RAI and Court TV and CBS. In addition to his work in television, he is also the creator of a 24 part semi-interactive permanent installation at the JFK Museum in Boston. He has served as a judge for a number of awards and festivals in both documentary and fiction and recently had his first retrospective in Canada. He lives in New York with his wife and son.