Known for Production
Jon Bardin is an Emmy-winning producer renowned for his impactful work in documentary filmmaking. He currently serves as the Head of Documentary and Nonfiction at Story Syndicate, a production company founded by award-winning filmmakers Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan. Bardin earned his PhD in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medical College, focusing on recovery from severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness. He has published research in several scientific journals, including Brain and Archives of Neurology. He obtained his A.B. from Harvard College, concentrating in Visual and Environmental Studies. Before joining Story Syndicate, Bardin was the Director of Development and Production for Documentaries and Specials at Discovery Channel. In this role, he was responsible for bringing new documentaries and specials to the network, managing projects from development through production, and identifying talent for new programming. Bardin co-founded this non-profit production company, producing media to elucidate complex health issues. He served as a producer for Sleepless in America, a documentary co-produced with the National Institutes of Health that explored the critical importance of sleep and the consequences of its deprivation. The film premiered on National Geographic Channel in 2014.
Filmography
25 films, 15 shows
Rapinoe
Rapinoe
2026 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe explores what it means to win and lose in this intimate portrait.


Enigma
2025 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.


Family Secrets: The Disappearance of Alissa Turney
2024 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Explores the disappearance of Alissa Turney in 2001, with her sister Sarah giving unprecedented access to the continuation of her story, including a recently unearthed trove of home videos, as she re-examines her and Alissa’s childhood. Sarah makes chilling discoveries, breaking through years of manipulation to reconstruct the truth of the past and be free of her father’s influence. Sarah’s final conversation with her father is haunting and a testament to her tenacity and unending search for Alissa.


Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
2024 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Tegan Quin (from Tegan and Sara) has been the victim of identity theft and an ongoing catfishing scam for over 15 years. While investigating, she shares for the first time, how she was ensnared in toxic fan culture that revealed the dark side of fame.


Power
2024 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.


Love to the Max
2024 · 13m
country: United States
A family fights to stay together in the face of persecution by the Texas government for loving their transgender kid.


The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring
2023 · 1h 35m
country: United States
In a candid, first-time interview with Rachel Lee, the so-called teenage mastermind behind a string of high-profile celebrity robberies in 2008 and 2009, the film examines the motivations of Lee and a group of her friends who broke into celebrity homes in Hollywood to ransack and steal, exploring the possible reasons behind her actions including mental health issues and addictions, as well as the climate of celebrity excess that fueled the teens, recontextualizing the events behind the sensational headlines.


Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
2023 · 1h 4m
country: United States
The James Webb Telescope stirs imaginations with vivid photos of distant galaxies. This documentary tracks its historic journey from inception to launch.


The Barber of Little Rock
2023 · 35m
country: United States
Explores the racial wealth gap in America through the story of People Trust, a homegrown community bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, working to uplift a community that has been largely excluded from the financial engines that create wealth.


Unknown: Cave of Bones
2023 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Scientists examine underground clues from over 250,000 years ago that raise questions about our early relatives — and what it truly means to be human.


Unknown: Killer Robots
2023 · 1h 8m
country: United States
What happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions? This documentary explores the dangers of artificial intelligence in military application.


Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
2023 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Egyptian archaeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.


Take Care of Maya
2023 · 1h 43m
country: United States
When Jack and Beata Kowalski are wrongfully accused of child abuse after their 10-year-old daughter Maya visits the ER, a nightmare unfolds.


The Conspiracy
2022 · 1h 32m
country: United States
It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews have a secret international plot to control the world. How do such preposterous ideas get started, and why do they flourish? Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin orchestrates bold, striking animation and exceptionally talented voice artists to walk us through almost 250 years of anti-Semitic ideology, focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to anxieties in marginalized populations, and how three Jewish family dynasties came to bear the brunt of irrational scapegoating.


I Am Vanessa Guillen
2022 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Vanessa Guillen was 20 years old when she was found murdered at a US Army base. Rather than submit to silence, her family fought for justice and change.


Britney vs. Spears
2021 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears' fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence.


All In: The Fight for Democracy
2020 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election. With the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the film offers an insider’s look into laws and barriers to voting that most people don’t even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.