An award-winning filmmaker with over 20 years experience in the production of historical television documentaries, director and producer Lee B. Groberg has an impressive filmography and a growing list of accolades from the film and television industry.
Groberg received his MBA in international business management in 1977, but found his greater love in documentary film making. He began his film career in 1984, producing industrial films. His first foray into documentary film making begin in 1987 where he co-produced a film with NHK Television in Japan. Titled WINTER; The St. Paul – Sapporo Connection, the film compared a U.S. winter carnival in Minnesota with the Yuki Matsuri (Snow Festival) in Sapporo, Japan.
In the subsequent 20 years from that first documentary, Groberg has produced numerous films, mostly for PBS Television, including: American Gunmaker: The John Browning Story; Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail; American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith; Sacred Stone: Temple on the Mississippi; America’s Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie and Martin Handcart Story; Fires of Faith: The Coming Forth of the King James Bible; First Freedom; and, most recently, Messiah.
Lee and his wife, Jeanine have seven children and five grandchildren and count them as the true treasures of their lives.
