Tom Phillips

Sound

He/Him

Emmy nominated composer Tom Phillips' credits include well over 500 films for national broadcast networks such as PBS, ABC, CBS, National Geographic Channel, Lifetime, A&E, HBO and others. Along the way he has scored many Emmy award winning films, Sundance Film Festival winners, independent feature films and museum installations such as complex multi-media projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Popular Movies/Shows

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Attica

Original Music Composer

Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.

The Great War

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys".

The Lie Detector

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device transformed police work, seized headlines and was extolled in movies, TV and comics as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Husbands and wives teste...

Voice of Freedom

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are created equal.” Barred from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson would sing for the American people in the open air. Hailed as a voice that “comes around once in a hundred years” by maes...

Frogs: The Thin Green Line

An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem. Scientists believe they've pinpointed a cause for the loss of many of the amphibians: the chytrid fungus, which flourishes in high altitudes. Unfortunately, they don't know how to combat it. Included: an isolated forest in Panama that has yet to be t...

Top Rated Movies/Shows

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Freedom Summer

Original Music Composer

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.

Attica

Original Music Composer

Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.

Movies (Production)

Sound of the Police

The Lie Detector

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Original Music Composer

Voice of Freedom

Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

Original Music Composer

Frogs: The Thin Green Line

A Brilliant Madness

TV Shows (Production)

American Experience