[2] She considered obtaining a PhD and embarking on an academic career, but regarded making documentaries as a more effective way to convey history and engage with historical subjects.
[5][6][7] In the following years, she created several more historical documentaries for TV, including In the Footsteps of Jesus for The History Channel, The History of Sex and Rock and Roll for VH1, Special Report: Las Vegas for MSNBC, Christianity: The First 1000 Years, Mysteries of the Bible: Judas, Heroines of the Hebrew Bible for A&E and Women on Top for AMC.
Music from the movie, "Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth" won the 2005 Grammy for Best Native American Album.
[10] The film was produced by Marta Kauffman, written by Sophie Sartain and directed by Grossman and told the story of Hannah Senesh, a World War II era poet and diarist who parachuted behind enemy lines to rescue her mother and other Hungarian Jews.
[13][14][15][16][17] Director Dyanna Taylor’s film about her grandmother, the photographer Dorothea Lange, Grab a Hunk of Lightning, aired on PBS's "American Masters" in 2014 and was produced by Grossman.
[21][22][23][24] Grossman produced, wrote and directed a documentary about the secret archives of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
[26] Grossman optioned the rights to the book and worked with Executive Producer Nancy Spielberg to raise money for the film.
The film was also broadcast on NDR, Arte and the Discovery Channel in early 2020 and continues to be screened and discussed by community centers, organizations, museums and more and on college and high school campuses around the world.