Lyn Davis Lear is an Emmy nominated filmmaker, celebrated environmentalist, and political activist. Shining a light on society's most urgent issues drives Lyn's creative and activist endeavors. She has produced, executive produced and advised documentary films on topics ranging from climate change, investigative journalism to new frontiers in modern medicine and Technology. Her films include the Emmy® and BAFTA-nominated films The Great Hack, The Fight, HBO's The Vow, Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us, and Where's My Roy Cohn? She had three films premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Bring Your Own Brigade, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, and Rebel Hearts. In 2014, Lyn produced What's Possible, the opening film for the UN Climate Summit with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon that reached 127 million people worldwide. The film was a collaboration with director Louie Schwartzberg, writer Scott Burns, actor Morgan Freeman and composer Hans Zimmer. Lyn also produced a sequel, A World of Solutions. Lyn has been a Trustee of the Board of Directors of the Sundance Institute for ten years. She also serves on the Board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society at USC, and The National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Advisory Council. To fulfill the UCLA Grand Challenge plan for Los Angeles to be fully sustainable by 2050, Lyn serves on the Board of the LA Sustainability Leadership Council. She previously served on the President's Council of CERES and was a founder and advisor for Project Drawdown. Lyn and her husband, Norman Lear, received the 2017 Hollywood Icon Award at the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Gala. In 2016, Lyn and Norman received the Amicus Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA), and Lyn was honored alongside Vice President Al Gore by UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. In 2008, she received the Global Green Millennium Award for Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership. In 2000, Lyn and Norman purchased an original Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Lears created the Declaration of Independence Road Trip which brought the document to every state in the nation, followed by Declare Yourself which registered over one million voters. In 1989, Lyn and Norman, along with Alan and Cindy Horn founded the Environmental Media Association. EMA's founding mission was to educate the entertainment industry on environmental issues and award films with environmental messaging that impacted the public. Lyn holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a license in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is the mother to three children and resides in Los Angeles with her husband.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer
- 16 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Lyn Davis Lear's films like?
Across their 16 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 12
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 4 · Dark 6
Grounded 11 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 5 · Intense 5
Steady 8 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 10 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 4
Resolved 9 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet10
- Ambiguous6
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Lyn Davis Lear's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (3).
- discovery+
Subscription and free streaming for Lyn Davis Lear's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page.
The Man Will Burn(2026)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
The Bibi Files(2024)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all filmsMrs Robinson (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Defiant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
I Got a Monster(2023)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
The Lincoln Project(2022)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all shows
Bring Your Own Brigade(2021)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Rebel Hearts(2021)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
The Vow(2020)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
The Fight(2020)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Where's My Roy Cohn?(2019)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Fantastic Fungi(2019)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Great Hack(2019)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Cesar's Last Fast(2014)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Career shape
A full career of 18 titles from 2019 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Highest rated
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
Most popular right now
The Vow (2020)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2020, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Lyn Davis Lear's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 79th percentile, the median of all 12; across their 12 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up8
- 50th to 74th6
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 16 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed7
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Lyn Davis Lear work with?
People who share at least 2 of Lyn Davis Lear's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Geralyn White Dreyfous shares the most, 7.
Directors
- Karim AmerShared titles: The Man Will Burn (2026), The Lincoln Project (2022), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Karim Amer
- Jehane NoujaimShared titles: The Man Will Burn (2026), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Jehane Noujaim
- Matt TyrnauerShared titles: Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid (2024), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Matt Tyrnauer
Writers
- Pedro KosShared titles: Rebel Hearts (2021), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Pedro Kos
- Erin BarnettShared titles: Rebel Hearts (2021), The Great Hack (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Erin Barnett
Actors
- Donald TrumpShared titles: The Fight (2020), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Donald Trump
Editors
- Kevin KlauberShared titles: Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021), Fantastic Fungi (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Kevin Klauber
Producers
- Geralyn White DreyfousShared titles: The Man Will Burn (2026), The Lincoln Project (2022), Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), Rebel Hearts (2021), The Vow (2020), Fantastic Fungi (2019), The Great Hack (2019)See all 7 shared titles with Geralyn White Dreyfous
- Regina K. ScullyShared titles: Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), Rebel Hearts (2021), Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021), The Vow (2020), Fantastic Fungi (2019), The Great Hack (2019)See all 6 shared titles with Regina K. Scully
- Nina Sing FialkowShared titles: The Man Will Burn (2026), The Lincoln Project (2022), Rebel Hearts (2021), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019)See all 5 shared titles with Nina Sing Fialkow
- Jamie WolfShared titles: Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid (2024), The Lincoln Project (2022), Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), The Great Hack (2019), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)See all 5 shared titles with Jamie Wolf
Mixed roles
- Mark MonroeShared titles: Beyond: UFOs and the Unknown (2024), Fantastic Fungi (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Monroe
- Chris HegedusShared titles: The Lincoln Project (2022), The Vow (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Hegedus
