Ben Moses

Ben Moses (born 1948) is an American documentarian, television producer, director, writer, and filmmaker best known for Good Morning, Vietnam and the documentary A Whisper to a Roar.

During the last six months of his enlistment, his unit was deployed to Vietnam, where he joined Armed Forces Radio-Saigon and met the station’s program director, Airman Adrian Cronauer.

In 2002-2003, he produced Hope Ranch, a television movie (and backdoor pilot for Discovery Channel/Animal Planet) with C. Thomas Howell starring Bruce Boxleitner, Lorenzo Lamas and Gail O’Grady.

In 2004, he wrote his first book, Talk to Your Body, based on his lifelong personal exploration of faith healing and how attitude affects health, and began giving lectures and seminars on the concept.

After the completion of that project, Moses and Appleseed were commissioned to create and produce a full-length documentary that would take a comprehensive look at assistance for soldiers and others suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.

Production took him and his crew across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia, discovering and exploring means of treating PTSD and meeting and interviewing people with the disorder and many experts on the subject.

By the time the rough cut was delivered, the funding organization had decided to focus on only one method of treatment and one individual's story, and Appleseed Entertainment was released from the project.

A 60-minute film was finished several years later called Taking the Hill: The Warrior's Journey Home, but it differed greatly from the original concept, though it included material shot by Moses.

According to the film's website, A Whisper to a Roar "tells the heroic stories of courageous democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe – who risk it all to bring freedom to their people.

[7] From student leaders to prime ministers and heads of state, these activists share their compelling personal stories of struggle, past and present, with their countries’ oppressive regimes."

The stories in A Whisper to a Roar demonstrate that democracy is a product of tremendous sacrifice, and we are all responsible for securing its promise for future generations.”[9] In February 2014, he helped edit and upload the viral video[10] I Am a Ukrainian.

Ben Moses, Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco, President Yudhoyono of Indonesia, filming of "A Whisper to a Roar"