(1978) Producer/Director. Feature documentary on the rise to power of Senator Joe McCarthy in Wisconsin and Washington D.C. on route to becoming America’s most feared political demagogue of the 1950s Cold War Era.

(1979) Co-Producer/Director. Feature documentary on the 1960s/70s Antiwar Movement using the Midwestern city of Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin as a microcosm for the national movement against the war in Vietnam from 1965-1972.

(1981) Producer/Director. This PBS News Special was the first American long form report on the political crisis in El Salvador. The hour traces the history of the conflict from the 1930s to the Civil War in 1980s--and the role of the U.S. government in that history. (Photo: Bob Nickelsberg)

(1981) 30-minute documentary on the rape and murder of 4 North American missionaries in El Salvador, that created international outrage and called attention to the civil war in El Salvador. Commissioned by the Maryknoll Order of the Catholic Church.

(1981) Co-Producer/Director with Tete Vasconcellos. Follow-up to Catalyst Media’s PBS News Special, this was the first American feature documentary on the political crisis and civil war against the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, which lasted 12 years and claimed an estimated 100,000 lives.

(1982) Co-Producer. Producer/Director Helena Solberg. The first American documentary shot in post-revolutionary Nicaragua, “From the Ashes” is at once a profile of a “typical” Nicaraguan family, at the same time weighing the prospects for a peaceful transition in that Central American nation.

(1983) Co-Producer/Director. 30-minute profile of Santa Fe sculptor Tony Price who uses the salvage material from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to create his “atomic art”. (Photo: Elliot McDowell)

(1985) Feature documentary on the history and radical theater of America’s oldest touring company, the San Francisco. Mime Troupe, on the occasion of their 25th Anniversary. A San Francisco institution, still going strong today.

(1991) Produced & Directed by Silber with the Center for Investigative Reporting for FRONTLINE. One-hour report on the Savings & Loan scandal of the 1980s and the government bailout of financial institutions that cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars in the 1990s.