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Video Documentaries &
Oral History Projects

The principal of the Ganzel Group, Bill Ganzel, has over 30 years experience as a producer, writer and editor for the Ganzel Group Communications and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET). He has had several documentaries broadcast on PBS stations nationally and have won awards like the Cine Golden Eagle and a silver plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival.

"After the Last Harvest"

This program explored the causes and legacies of the farm crisis of the mid-80s. Hank Kobza was a farmer who lost his farm to the crisis and became an auctioneer. He realized the irony of the fact that he was now selling out other farm neighbors who were going through the same troubles that he went through – but he tried to get the most money he could for those having to sell out.

 After the Last Harvest

"Threshing Oral History"

"Threshing" was produced by Bill Ganzel for the Wessels Living History Farm in 2005. The segment draws on a series of oral history interviews with rural residents who were part of the crews threshing grain with steam power during the early 20th century.

 Threshing

"The Hunger Experiment"

This segment on the Hunger Experiment is from the documentary "A Matter of Conscience" produced by Bill Ganzel for the NET in 1993. In WWII a group of conscientous objections volunteered to be starved so that researchers could document the effects of hunger on the civilian population of Europe. The goal was to discover what it would take to feed them back to health. Bill Anderson was one who volunteered to be starved.

 Hunger