Daniel Miller Bio

Daniel Miller is a professor, scholar, and filmmaker living in Eugene, Oregon today. He teaches Civil Rights, Human Rights and Documentary Cinema at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Cinema Studies.

Daniel was born in Ohio, raised by a single mother artist, teacher and social justice advocate. He attended Kent State University in Kent, Ohio between 1967 and 1970. While there he experienced and participated in The Civil Rights and Anti-War movements. On May 4, 1970, he witnessed the National Guard shootings that wounded nine and killed four students at Kent State University. These experiences influenced his teaching, scholarship and documentary production career and influenced his lifelong dedication to social justice and education.

At the University of Oregon, he teaches Civil Rights, Human Rights, and War and Cinema and Documentary Production courses. His students have produced numerous award winning documentary films for public television. His own company, Fire River Pictures, has produced numerous award-winning films. These include public television’s Fire in the Heartland: The Kent State Story (2020); Citizen Blue: The James Blue Story (2022); Dream to Fly: The Howard Hughes Story; What we Could Carry: Japanese American Students and Internment and others. His film websites include company site fireriverpictures.com, and film websites fireintheheartland.tv and citizenblue.com. This website is a website dedicated to Dr. Miller’s life-long learning and interviews websites called the Fire River Interviews for Research and Teaching.

This website is at fireriverinterviews.com

While working on his film on Kent State Daniel met Congressman John Lewis and was invited by John to interview him at his office in Washington D.C. John Lewis is Dr. Miller’s greatest inspiration and colleague. His interviews are on the website.