Bob Niemack
Directing
Biography
Bob Niemack is a multi-award winning producer-director-writer with extensive experience in series producing, budgeting, location and studio production, host shoots, and postproduction supervision. He began in television as an editor, and cut the Oscar and Emmy winning “SCARED STRAIGHT!” He has written, directed and produced hundreds of hours of reality and verite television for network and cable, receiving many honors including seven Emmy awards, two ACE awards and a Peabody.
Known For

An HBO documentary series focused on mature subjects. Episodes have covered abortion, organized crime, pedophilia, and more. Popular sub-series include Autopsy, Real Sex, and Taxicab Confessions. The show won several awards for the 1998 production of Strippers: The Naked Stages. The series began in 1984 and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001, transitioned to once per month. In 2006, episodes began being rebroadcast on A&E Network.
America Undercover

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Scared Straight!

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
The Once and Future Griffith Observatory
An eye opening program to find out what its like to be a police officer facing the deadly force dilemma
Shoot Don't Shoot
Every year 130,000 Americans are diagnosed as having lung cancer. The program dealt with the case of Said Ullah, a 35-year-old Pakistani immigrant who was told of his fatal illness in 1982 .
One Man's Fight For Life

Part of HBO’s America Undercover, Hooker examines prostitution. It talks to call-girls, nude models, and streetwalkers who discuss the difficulties of the sex trade. It interviews prostitutes in the dominance, the owners of a nude massage parlor, and a pimp working on the streets.
Hooker

Behind the scenes in an Iraqi Military ER MASH documentary. 72 hours filming the men and women doctors and medical staff trying to save soldiers' lives.
Iraq Frontline ER
Incredible medical stories take you inside the womb where babies are fighting for survival against unbelievable odds before they are even born.
Twins in Peril

An examination of the chemistry and physics that created life on Earth and a search through the solar system for signs of life elsewhere.