Project yet to be announced.

Season 2 of the CSA-winning, globetrotting journey toward hope for the future, executive produced by John Ealer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and others.

From Andean mountaintops to the banks of the Ganges River, and from a ski hill on a Copenhagen incinerator to the biggest tree in the Ecuadorian rainforest, acclaimed actor and climate champion Nikolaj Coster-Waldau continues blazing a new trail to a better future, visiting communities who turn trash into treasure, pull drinking water out of thin air and save their ecosystems - one King Cobra at a time. Proving that optimism isn’t naive - it’s an action plan.

Executive Producers: John Ealer, Jane Seymour + others
Writer / Directors: John Ealer, Felicity Justrabo

A groundbreaking hybrid of geneology and true crime starring celebrity icon Jane Seymour that explores how the secrets of the past impact the families of the present.

2 × 90, HBO

Executive Producers: John Ealer, Issa Rae + others

Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television is a 2025 two-part HBO documentary series executive produced by Issa Rae, exploring the evolution of Black representation on television. Premiering at SXSW and nominated for an independent spirit award, the series features icons like Oprah Winfrey and Shonda Rhimes, examining how Black creators have revolutionized the industry.

4 ×1 ABC / Hulu

Executive Producer: John Ealer

Spin the wheel, beat the clock, guess the answer and play along through 80 years of game show history! Reflecting on the changing face of America, the series explores the contestants, hosts, visionary creators, and industry scandals that encapsulate iconic game shows.

6×1, Bloomberg TV & Crave

Executive Producer: John Ealer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau + others

Shot across five continents, an Optimist’s Guide to the Planet captures Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s search for the people across the globe who are helping drive humanity toward a brighter, more sustainable future.

8x1 Docuseries for CNN

Director/Showrunner/Head writer: John Ealer

Including interviews with nearly 100 sitcom icons, History of the Sitcom is the definitive, immersive history of the genre. Reminisce about the television you grew up watching and explore how sitcoms helped generations of Americans navigate a shifting cultural landscape.

6x1 Docuseries for CNN

Director/Showrunner/Head writer: John Ealer

The Story Of Late Night is a six-part CNN Original Series, produced by Cream Productions, that will take viewers on a journey back in time through present day of late-night television’s most memorable moments. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Amber Ruffin, Lorne Michaels, Desus + Mero, Whoopi Goldberg, along with countless industry insiders give first-hand, behind-the-scenes accounts of an art form that changed the face of television forever.

4-part Miniseries
Stephen David Entertainment
Producer / Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

Roman Empire: The Mad Emperor traces the rise of Caligula—from a beloved young heir raised in the shadow of the paranoid Tiberius to Rome's most infamous tyrant. The four-part season charts how a promising reign curdles into paranoia, debauchery, and bloodshed until Rome itself turns against him.

HISTORY

8-part Miniseries
Stephen David Entertainment
Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David
Executive Producer: Leonardo DiCaprio

The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen chronicles the rugged pioneers—Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson Lewis and Clark, and others—who pushed America's frontier westward in the decades after the Revolution. Standing against them is Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader who fought to unite the tribes into a confederacy and halt the very expansion the others embodied—turning the story into a clash between two competing visions of the continent's future.

NETFLIX

5-part Miniseries
Stephen David Entertainment
Producer / Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

This action-packed docudrama retells the remarkable life and legendary death of one of history’s most influential people - Julius Caesar.

OUTCAST.TV
5 minutes
Mad Genius, Inc.
Director / Director of Photography: John Ealer
Executive Producer: John Ealer

AMC - 2016
8 x 1 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David, Robert Redford

The American West charts the violent, chaotic quarter-century after the Civil War (1865–1890), when figures like Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull collided over the future of the American frontier.

AMC
8 x 1 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Writer / Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

The Making of the Mob: Chicago plunges into the rise and fall of Al Capone, charging from his days as a Brooklyn enforcer to his reign as the brutal kingpin of Prohibition-era Chicago—and his stunning downfall. Spanning nearly a century of dramatized intrigue, it then tracks the successors of the Chicago Outfit—Nitti, Ricca, Accardo, Giancana—as they seize the reins and push the syndicate into gambling, corruption, and Las Vegas.

AMC
8 x 1 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Writer / Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

The Making of the Mob: Chicago plunges into the rise and fall of Al Capone, charging from his days as a Brooklyn enforcer to his reign as the brutal kingpin of Prohibition-era Chicago—and his stunning downfall. Spanning nearly a century of dramatized intrigue, it then tracks the successors of the Chicago Outfit—Nitti, Ricca, Accardo, Giancana—as they seize the reins and push the syndicate into gambling, corruption, and Las Vegas.

HISTORY
3 x 2 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Writer / Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David
Three 2014 Emmy Nominations, including Outstanding Nonfiction Series

The World Wars throws you into three decades of global cataclysm, telling the story of World War I and World War II as a single, unbroken conflict through the men who lived it—Churchill, Hitler, Patton, MacArthur, Roosevelt, and Stalin—following them from young, untested soldiers to the leaders who shaped the century. Through gripping dramatization and high-profile interviews, it traces how the trenches of the first war forged the warriors and grudges that detonated the second, putting you inside the decisions, betrayals, and battles that remade the world.

Discovery
4 x 1 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Director / Director of Photography: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

Gold Fever drops you into the chaos of the 1848 California Gold Rush, following the Boston Company—a ragtag band of forty dreamers—as they make the brutal trek west chasing the promise of instant fortune. Through cinematic dramatization, it plunges into the violence, greed, and desperation that erupted as men like Doc Robinson and opportunist Sam Brannan fought over buried treasure, uncovering a bounty that would forge the American Dream and reshape a nation.

HISTORY
4 x 2 hr
Stephen David Entertainment
Director / Cinematographer: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Stephen David

Two Emmy Awards, Five Emmy Nominations

The Men Who Built America charts the brutal, high-stakes rise of the industrial titans—Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford—who clawed their way up from obscurity to forge a shattered post-Civil War nation into the world's greatest economic superpower. Through vivid dramatization, it puts you inside their ruthless rivalries, ploys, and gambles across oil, rail, steel, finance, and automobiles, revealing how five self-made men shaped the American century—and the Dream itself.

HISTORY
120 minutes
Motion Picture Production, Inc.
Director / Director of Photography: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Jon Walz

Lee & Grant offers an intimate, dual portrait of the two generals who defined the Civil War—Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant—tracing the bold choices and battlefield instincts that carried them to decisive collisions at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Through dramatization and expert insight, it brings to life the men behind the legends, revealing how their rival temperaments and fateful decisions turned the tide of the war and reshaped the course of American history.

FEATURE DOC
Director: John Ealer
Executive Producer: Laura Bialis
Premiere, 2009 Slamdance Film Festival

Intensely personal look at the aftermath of the NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo and the deep unhealed wounds between Kosovars and Serbs. An independent documentary, it was later used by the United Nations as a training tool for its peacekeepers there.