In 1977, Greenwald received his first of three Emmy Award nominations for producing the television movie 21 Hours at Munich[9] about the massacre at the 1972 Olympics.
B. Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry Awards (or "Razzies"), an annual event "dishonoring" what is considered the worst in cinema for a given year.
The 2022 film, entitled Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote features additional stories from voters in Florida, Arizona, and Texas.
[27] Greenwald also joined forces with American rock musician Tom Morello for No Justice No Peace, a short video about police violence that “spotlights the contrast between the racial injustice in the U.S. and the Trump administration's position on it”[28] in honor of George Floyd.
[29] In 2023, Greenwald Brave New Films released Beyond Bars, an intimate look into the life of former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Greenwald has applied the principles of guerrilla filmmaking at Brave New Films, using small budgets and short shooting schedules to produce political documentaries[30] and then distributing them on DVDs and the Internet in affiliation with advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org.
As a pioneer in alternative methods for effective progressive political campaigns,[34][35][36][37][38] Greenwald has eschewed traditional distribution models of studio and network releases.
[36][37][39] Greenwald's group takes full advantage of a variety of media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, and harnesses new distribution channels as soon as they emerge.
[38][40] A 2019 profile described the approach as a "marketing alchemy of feeds, hashtags, likes, favorites, hearts, @s, memes, soundbites and video clips, all edited, spliced and calibrated to grab attention in a hyperspeed world.
"[41] This approach has "inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take action and forced pressing issues into the mainstream media.
At a Congressional briefing, Greenwald testified with the Rafiq Rehman family, the first Pakistani drone strike survivors to appear before Congress.