The Insignia Films Collection, donated to Washington University in 2007, consists of approximently 120 stock footage video tapes, 189 photographs, 7 CDs, newspaper headline reproductions, background research materials, and reference materials for the majority of video, photographs, and audio used for the Insignia Films series, "Reporting America at War."

Co-produced by WETA-TV, "Reporting America at War"  explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century. From San Juan Hill to the beaches of Normandy, from the jungles of Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, the three-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Ives tells the dramatic and often surprising stories of the reporters who witnessed and wrote the news from the battlefield. "Reporting America at War" aired nationally on PBS during the fall of 2003.

Ives founded Insignia Films in 1988 to pursue his filmmaking interests. Insignia Films has since produced more than twenty hours of critically-acclaimed television programming and has earned a reputation as one of the foremost producers of historical documentaries in the country.

Ives' first film, "Lindbergh", premiered the third season of the PBS series American Experience and has since been rebroadcast four times on national public television. After serving as a consulting producer on Ken Burns' series "The Civil War' and "Baseball", Ives then spent the next five years producing and directing the twelve and-one-half-hour, eight-part series "The West." 

Since "The West", Ives and Insignia Films have been responsible for the production of two cinema verité films about American arts institutions. The feature-length film "Cornerstone", about one of America's most innovative and provocative theatrical ensembles, aired on the HBO network in the fall of 1999. "The Amato Opera", Ives' film portrait of the world's smallest opera company, aired nationally on PBS in December of 2001.

Ives and his team at Insignia Films produced the Emmy-winning "Seabiscuit", a documentary portrait of the Depression-era thoroughbred champion that aired on the American Experience in 2002.

The goals of Insignia Films are to continue to develop a wide-ranging and distinctive body of documentary films, and to develop feature film projects for public television based on American historical stories. Insignia Films is based in New York City. The company regularly co-produces films with the nations leading public television stations, including WETA-TV, Washington, WBGH, Boston, and WNET, New York.

Sources used: Insignia Films website, http://www.insigniafilms.com/index.php