PinnedRob O’Brien·Jun 16, 2015Marifel: The Woman Who Left Her Children Behind to Look After MineWomen who sacrifice a lifetime with their families to find work overseas deserve respect, but they don’t often get it.A response icon17A response icon17
PinnedInHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Feb 7, 2025‘The Adopted’: I visited a WW2 soldier’s home in Michigan to see what he sacrificedAt his home in Lansing, his family shared the remarkable bond they have forged with the Dutch who adopted his grave.A response icon43A response icon43
PinnedInHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Sep 13, 2024‘The Adopted’: how the Dutch rallied to honour their liberators after WWIIThousands of American soldiers died liberating the Netherlands from Nazi Germany. After the war, the Dutch started adopting their graves…A response icon23A response icon23
PinnedInHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Mar 21, 2024Whatever Happens, Grief Will Have Her WayShaken by her sudden death I took a camera into mum’s house to tell her story, my way. But grief had other plans.A response icon15A response icon15
PinnedInHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Nov 10, 2022My Accidental Britpop MumAfter mum’s sudden death I fell into a hermetically sealed ’90s music bubble. And now it’s time to leave.A response icon11A response icon11
Rob O’Brien·Jun 10‘The Adopted’: A stranger calls with a photo of your uncle. What do you do?This is my speech to families and crew at the ‘Work in Progress’ screening for our documentary at Quatro Cinema in Heerlen, the…
InHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Sep 11, 2025‘The Adopted’: It’s up to us to keep the World War II generation aliveTo connect schoolchildren to my documentary film I told them a love story about two British army officers with a twist in the tale.A response icon10A response icon10
InHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Jun 30, 2025‘The Adopted’: From Lansing to Margraten, the past is always presentOur documentary follows the family of an American WW2 soldier as they visit the Dutch adopters of his grave.
Rob O’Brien·Jan 22, 2025AfterI saw the house before I heard the birds, standing, head bowed in a Rutland field, hopelessly unaware, but knowing just enough: she…
InHuman PartsbyRob O’Brien·Oct 18, 2024‘After’: a 9-minute documentary that tried to kill meWe don’t talk about grief properly. And it’s only when I turned the camera on that I started to understand why.A response icon1A response icon1
