---
name: "Raney Aronson-Rath"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/raney-aronson-rath"
fi1m_id: "raney-aronson-rath"
imdb_id: "nm1948067"
tmdb_id: 1424494
wikidata_id: "Q7292559"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T03:40:27.133710+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Raney Aronson-Rath

## Identity

Raney Aronson-Rath

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/raney-aronson-rath
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** raney-aronson-rath
- **IMDb ID:** nm1948067
- **TMDB ID:** 1424494
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7292559
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raney_Aronson-Rath, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7292559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1948067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1424494

Producer. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Michelle Mizner](https://film.one/person/michelle-mizner.md), [Mstyslav Chernov](https://film.one/person/mstyslav-chernov.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 88 (1), 2020s 88 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 88 to 87 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Documentary 3, War 3
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raney_Aronson-Rath, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7292559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1948067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1424494

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*20 Days in Mariupol*](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md) (92), [*2000 Meters to Andriivka*](https://film.one/film/2000-meters-to-andriivka.md) (85)

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## Biography

Raney Aronson-Rath is a producer and the editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston. She joined the series in 2007 as a senior producer, was named deputy executive producer in 2012, and became executive producer in 2015. She also leads the GBH Documentary Unit.

Aronson-Rath produced the feature documentary *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023), made in partnership with the Associated Press, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She has executive produced other FRONTLINE theatrical releases including *For Sama* (2019) and *2000 Meters to Andriivka* (2025). Under her leadership, FRONTLINE has received numerous awards in broadcast journalism, including Emmys, Peabodys and duPont-Columbia awards.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to FRONTLINE she worked at ABC News and The Wall Street Journal.

*Sources: pbs.org, wikipedia.org, apnews.com, niemanreports.org, lexobserver.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *2000 Meters to Andriivka* (2025), Fi1m 85, Executive Producer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/2000-meters-to-andriivka.md)
- *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023), Fi1m 92, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md)
- *For Sama* (2019), Fi1m 88, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/for-sama.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The War Cabinet* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Caught in the Crackdown* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Remaking the Middle East: Israel vs. Iran* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy* (2026), Executive Producer
- *One in a Million* (2026), Producer
- *Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question* (2025), Editor
- *Drug War in Ecuador* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Rise of Germany’s New Right* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Born Poor* (2025), Executive Producer
- *2000 Meters to Andriivka* (2025), Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/2000-meters-to-andriivka.md)
- *The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Biden's Decision* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Crisis on Campus* (2024), Executive Producer
- *A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Documenting Police Use of Force* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Children of Ukraine* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Discord Leaks* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Inside the Uvalde Response* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Astros Edge* (2023), Executive Producer
- *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md)
- *Inside the Iranian Uprising* (2023), Executive Producer
- *America's Dangerous Trucks* (2023), Executive Producer
- *After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Age of Easy Money* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Lies, Politics and Democracy* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Police on Trial* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Plot to Overturn the Election* (2022), Executive Producer
- *American Reckoning* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Taliban Takeover* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Boeing's Fatal Flaw* (2021), Executive Producer
- *America After 9/11* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Germany’s Neo-Nazis & the Far Right* (2021), Executive Producer
- *In the Shadow of 9/11* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Healthcare Divide* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Virus That Shook the World* (2021), Executive Producer
- *American Insurrection* (2021), Executive Producer
- *President Biden* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden* (2020), Executive Producer
- *United States of Conspiracy* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Once Upon a Time in Iraq* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos* (2020), Executive Producer
- *America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Targeting El Paso* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Tutwiler* (2019), Executive Producer
- *For Sama* (2019), Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/for-sama.md)
- *Predator on the Reservation* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Mosul* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Out of Gitmo* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Terror in Europe* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Watani: My Homeland* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Losing Iraq* (2014), Executive Producer
- *The Rise of ISIS* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Kind Hearted Woman* (2013), series, Producer
- *Outlawed in Pakistan* (2013), Executive Producer
- *The Suicide Plan* (2012), Producer
- *Dollars and Dentists* (2012), Producer
- *Money, Power & Wall Street* (2012), series, Producer
- *Nuclear Aftershocks* (2012), Producer
- *Lost in Detention* (2011), Producer
- *Facing Death* (2010), Producer
- *The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan* (2010), Producer
- *The Released* (2009), Producer
- *Frontline - News War* (2007), series, Creator
- *The Last Abortion Clinic* (2005), Writer, Director
- *The Soldier's Heart* (2005), Writer, Director
- *The Jesus Factor* (2004), Director
- *News War*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Raney Aronson-Rath](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-2869a82d474d.jpg) Raney Aronson-Rath — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Raney_Aronson_Rath_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Raney_Aronson_Rath_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Press Line at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA”](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-bf8d367db58e.jpg) Press Line at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA” — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/2025_01_23_Sundance_Film_Festival-80_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_23_Sundance_Film_Festival-80_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alex Babenko and Raney Aronson at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA”](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-5a08164f9a81.jpg) Alex Babenko and Raney Aronson at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA” — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/2025_01_23_Sundance_Film_Festival-81_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_23_Sundance_Film_Festival-81_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alex Babenko, Raney Aronson Rath, and Mstyslav Chernov at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA”](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-9bec5df9d5ef.jpg) Alex Babenko, Raney Aronson Rath, and Mstyslav Chernov at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of “2000 Meters to ANDRIIVKA” — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Alex_Babenko%2C_Raney_Aronson_Rath%2C_and_Mstyslav_Chernov_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Alex_Babenko%2C_Raney_Aronson_Rath%2C_and_Mstyslav_Chernov_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS David Fanning, Raney Aronson-Rath and Melanie McFarland 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-fdfdc912352b.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS David Fanning, Raney Aronson-Rath and Melanie McFarland 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel (2011) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/David_Fanning%2C_Raney_Aronson-Rath_and_Melanie_McFarland%2C_May_2011_%281%29.jpg/1280px-David_Fanning%2C_Raney_Aronson-Rath_and_Melanie_McFarland%2C_May_2011_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS David Fanning, Raney Aronson-Rath 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011](https://film.one/media/person/108905/gallery-0dfb36e4e828.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS David Fanning, Raney Aronson-Rath 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011 — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/David_Fanning%2C_Raney_Aronson-Rath_and_Melanie_McFarland%2C_May_2011_%282%29.jpg/1280px-David_Fanning%2C_Raney_Aronson-Rath_and_Melanie_McFarland%2C_May_2011_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2024: Best Documentary Feature Film (won), for *20 Days in Mariupol*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2024: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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