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“Documentary filmmaker Tim Gray is America’s preeminent storyteller of those Tom Brokaw famously called “The Greatest Generation” — the American women and men of World War II who, at the cost of much blood and treasure, helped defeat fascism, the despicable movement responsible for an estimated 60 million or more deaths, including 6 million in the Holocaust.”
-G. Wayne Miller, The Providence Journal

Tim Gray, Founder and President of The World War II Foundation, has won 5 Regional Emmy Awards for documentary film writing and outstanding documentary film. The Foundation has also captured 4 Indie Film Fest Awards in that international competition and 2 Impact Doc Awards. Most prestigiously, the World War II Foundation and Tim Gray Media have also been recognized with American Public Television’s National Programming Excellence Award.

Tim Gray has completed 38 documentaries to date (and is in production & post-production on an additional eight films). Tim has written, produced, and directed each film, ranging from 60 to 90 minutes. These documentaries have taken the WWII Foundation to film in locations such as Guadalcanal, Corregidor, Bataan, Manila, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Russell Islands, Banika, Peleliu, Japan, Guam, and the Republic of Palau. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (15 times), Normandy, France (19 trips), Switzerland, Holland, England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland (including the Auschwitz and Treblinka Concentration and Death Camp locations), the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, and all over the United States, including the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, where Tim met the President and presented him with 2 of his films.

In addition, Tim visited Iwo Jima and revisited Peleliu in 2023.

The WWII Foundation/Tim Gray Media has another eight films in various forms of production.
World War II Foundation/Tim Gray Media films consistently rank nationally in the top 5 of most requested programs by PBS and Public Television affiliates.

On June 6, 2012, the World War II Foundation dedicated the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument in Normandy, France, which has become one of the most visited monuments in Normandy. The 13-foot statue recognizes the leadership of all American junior officers on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Tim is also the founder of the Normandie-World War II International Film & Media Festival in Saint-Come-du-Mont, France. It’s the only film festival in the world focused strictly on documentaries and short films centered on the stories of World War II. 2022 marked the festival’s 6th and final year, attracting some of the world’s top actors and authors as speakers and veterans of WWII. It’s held at the beautiful D-Day Experience, which features a unique IMAX theater.

In 2018, Tim founded the International Museum of World War II in Rhode Island. The museum, filled with roughly 6,000 original and rare WWII artifacts, hosts school groups around Southern New England. It also has over 600 books related to WWII and a small theatre. The education center has been called one of the best small WWII museums in the world.

In addition, Tim hosts a Zoom Video Podcast titled From the Front to the Films that features well-known actors, authors, filmmakers, veterans, and others connected to World War II.

Tim has also been a frequent guest on FOX News’ national program The Story with Martha MacCallum, where he contributes to the network’s coverage of WWII events, issues, and stories.

On October 23, 2021, Tim Gray was inducted into the Rhode Island Hall of Fame. The RI Heritage Hall of Fame was established in 1965.

Tim is honored to sit on the Advisory Board of Patriots’ Hall of Dripping Springs, a foundation established by Emmy Award-winning actor Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, King Kong) and his wife Kathryn. Patriots’ Hall of Dripping Springs’ mission is to create a permanent retreat and resource base for Veterans of all ages and military branches to connect and find support.

Academically, Tim works with history and film students from Davidson College in North Carolina, San Diego State University, Colby College, the University of Georgia, the University of Rhode Island, and Syracuse University.

Before Tim Gray’s Documentary Film Work:
Tim worked as a television sports and news anchor and reporter for over 15 years in several states and U.S. markets, including Michigan, Washington State, Florida (Fort Myers and Orlando), New York, and Providence, Rhode Island. In 2000, Tim was appointed weekend sports anchor and sports/news reporter at Ch. 10 in Providence, another NBC affiliate. He held that job until 2004. While in Ft. Myers, FL, Tim was designated sportscaster of the year by the Florida Sportscaster’s Association and a top feature reporter.
Tim is a University of Rhode Island graduate with a degree in Journalism.

Through various initiatives, Tim Gray and his project work have appeared in and been featured on: The Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, Discovery Channel, CNN, C-Span, PBS stations around the country and world, the United States Armed Forces Radio Network, the Associated Press, and in national and global newspapers and magazines.