Martin Smith is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, producer and business owner. As the founder and CEO of Rain Media, Martin Smith has directed dozens of nationally broadcast documentaries for PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

's Frontline. His films range in topic, covering for instance both Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

 and the War on Terror

War on Terror

The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...

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Honors

Martin Smith has won dozens of awards throughout his decades in the documentary genre. Below are a list only of awards won during his time as the owner of Rain Media.

Other Honors

• Selected Recipient for the Top 100 Journalism Works of the Decade (2000–2010) for Truth, War and Consequences.