Charles Henry Harpole is a scholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker.
Harpole founded and led the Cinema History Project which created a ten-volume "History of American Cinema" book series, published by Charles Scribner Sons and by the University of California Press, and held in over 600 WorldCat libraries.
[2] He is the author of Gradients of Depth in the Cinema Image, published by Arno Press,[3] and producer, director, writer and editor of documentary videos, primarily about Tibetan Buddhism by shooting in India, Nepal, Tibet (China), Bhutan, Thailand, Laos and the USA.
He has made programming for the Children's Television Workshop (Sesame Street) and has contributed to MSNBC, BBC, CNN and PBS.
[citation needed] His students include Frederick Marx and Steve James (Hoop Dreams), Milčo Mančevski (Before the Rain), and the creatives who made The Blair Witch Project (including Eduardo Sánchez).