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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 7 Regional Emmy Awards for documentary writing and outstanding documentary. The Foundation has also captured dozens of international film 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 45 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 led the WWII Foundation to film in locations including Guadalcanal, Corregidor, Bataan, Manila, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Russell Islands, Banika, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Japan, Guam, and the Republic of Palau. In addition, Tim has visited Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (18 times), Normandy, France (20 trips), Switzerland, Holland, England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland (including the Auschwitz and Treblinka Concentration and Death Camp locations), the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Italy 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.

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 among the top 5 most-requested programs on PBS and Public Television affiliates.

Narrators of Tim’s films include Tom Brokaw, Paul Giamatti, Jim Nantz, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Liev Schreiber, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Bill Belichick, Jeff Daniels, Damian Lewis, Kyle Chandler, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Selleck, Keith Morrison, Jane Lynch, Matthew Broderick, Greg Kinnear, and many others.

On June 6, 2012, the World War II Foundation dedicated the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument in Normandy, France, which has since become one of the region’s most-visited monuments. 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 dedicated exclusively to documentaries and short films about World War II. 2022 marked the festival’s 6th and final year, attracting some of the world’s top actors and authors as speakers, as well as WWII veterans. 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 recognized as one of the world’s best small WWII museums and was recently named by National Geographic among the top 10 WWII museums to visit worldwide.

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.

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

Academically, Tim works with history and film students from Davidson College in North Carolina, the University of Georgia, and Syracuse University. Each year, the World War II Foundation partners with these great schools to take their top film and history students to shoot multiple documentaries across Europe. In 2026, the fifth year of this unique program, the foundation will be traveling to Normandy, France, with the college students.

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 named Sportscaster of the Year by the Florida Sportscasters’ 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.