Deborah Scranton is the director of The War Tapes, a documentary detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War. It was the first of its kind in that she sent the soldiers video cameras so they can shoot raw footage of their actual, on hand experiences in combat. The film won several honors, including Best International Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best International Documentary at BritDoc in 2006. Scranton also produced and directed Bad Voodoo's War, for Frontline/PBS and ITVS. The show first aired April 1, 2008. It reprised her virtual embed technique, focusing on a squad of U.S.soldiers deploying as part of the 'Surge'. Her latest film, Earth Made Of Glass, will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in World Documentary Competition. A political thriller set in Rwanda and France, Earth Made of Glass features the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame as one of the film's main characters. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change. Scranton speaks internationally on her "virtual embed" filmmaking technique. She has spoken at conferences and institutions including TED2007, Nordic Media Festival, The Frontline Club, Harvard, Yale, Center For Irregular Warfare - Quantico and the Tribeca Cinema Film Series. Scranton started her career in television covering sports events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and US Open Tennis and was also a special assignment reporter. Her work has been profiled in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. A former US ski team member, she resides on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire. She holds degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Scranton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- April 7, 1962 (64)
- New Hampshire, USA
- Director and producer
- 3 on MovieCove · 4 credits in all
What are Deborah Scranton's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 3
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 3
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
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 Deborah Scranton's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Deborah Scranton'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
4 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Earth Made of Glass(2010)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Bad Voodoo's War (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
The War Tapes(2006)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 4 titles from 2006 to 2017.
How do Deborah Scranton's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 87th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 84th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
Shape of the crowd
1 of their 3 titles is Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed1
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 Deborah Scranton work with?
People who share at least 2 of Deborah Scranton's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; P.H. O'Brien shares the most, 3.
Cinematographers
- P.H. O'BrienShared titles: War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend (2017), Earth Made of Glass (2010), The War Tapes (2006)See all 3 shared titles with P.H. O'Brien
Producers
- Channing TatumShared titles: War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend (2017), Earth Made of Glass (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Channing Tatum
- Reid CarolinShared titles: War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend (2017), Earth Made of Glass (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Reid Carolin
