Carrier (documentary)

Carrier
Title Card
Genre	Documentary
Created by	Mitchell Block and Maro Chermayeff
Developed by	Mitchell Block
Directed by	Maro Chermayeff
Theme music composer	Edward Bilous
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mel Gibson Bruce Davey Nancy Cotton Mitchell Block Maro Chermayeff
Producer(s)	Deborah Dickson Jeff Dupre
Cinematography	Axel Baumann, Robert Hanna, Wolfgang Held, Ulli Bonnekamp, Mark Brice
Editor(s)	Howard Sharp, E. Donna Shepard, Jay Keuper, Maeve O,Boyle, Pam Scott Arnold
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	10 hours, 1 hour each episode
Release
Original network	PBS
Picture format	480i (SDTV letterboxed), 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	April 27 – May 1, 2008
External links
Website

Carrier is a PBS documentary television series about the six-month deployment of the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back. There are ten Carrier episodes, and the series is supplemented by a 90-minute companion documentary film called Another Day in Paradise.

Carrier follows the deployment, from May 7, 2005 to November 8, 2005, of the supercarrier USS Nimitz (commanded by then-Captain Ted N. Branch), along with Carrier Air Wing Eleven, from her home port at North Island in Coronado, California to the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This character-driven, dramatic non-fiction series includes extensive footage shot aboard as well as interviews with many of the crew about their various experiences, personal concerns and fears. During the deployment, the Nimitz makes stops in Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Guam, Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain, and Perth.

The miniseries was produced by Icon Productions and Carrier Project, Inc. It was co-created by Mitchell Block and Maro Chermayeff, and directed by Chermayeff. The executive producers were Block and Chermayeff for Carrier Project, Inc. and Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Nancy Cotton, for Icon Productions.