Alan Rosenthal is a film director, and professor at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and York University (Toronto) and Stanford University. He is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Jerusalem, with a focus of making history/political documentaries and docudramas . He was born in England, and educated at Oxford University (Law) and Stanford University (Communications).
With a long career in documentary filmmaking he has directed more than fifty films for ZDF, ARTE, the BBC, PBS and other broadcasters. His recent docudrama, The First Fagin, about the transportation of convicts to Australia in the nineteenth century, was invited for special feature presentation at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2013.
His film awards include a Christopher and a Peabody Journalism gold medal. The American Universities Film Association awarded him the George Stoney prize for documentary distinction.