Producer–director Robert Greenwald has an agitprop view of film as a medium for motivating viewers to take action. His topical documentaries have tackled edgy subjects including Enron, the Bush–Gore electoral imbroglio, the Iraq War, the Koch Brothers, drone warfare, and more.

Now, with his no-holds-barred Gaza: Journalists Under Fire, one of America’s leading social justice documentarians is aiming his lens at Palestine, in particular highlighting the plight of reporters and children in the besieged enclave. The heartbreaking 41-minute chronicle makes an end run around Israeli censors and zooms in on three slain Palestinian media workers, presenting a human face of the ongoing, apocalyptic onslaught in Gaza.

Robert Greenwald was interviewed via Zoom at his home office in Venice, California. This interview has been edited for clarity.