His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill.

In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies.

An example was Shamberg's work on In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on Public-access television station WNET/13 in May 1975.

[citation needed] His TVTV group's documentary Lord of the Universe, 1974, won a DuPont-Columbia Award in 1975.

[citation needed] Shamberg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.