Insignia Films, a documentary production studio based in New York City.
From their site
Images from Insignia Films’s own website.
Contact & details
How their work is rated
5 rated titles, weighted by votes
| Oscars | 0 | of | 7 | nominations | 0% |
9 wins from 63 nominations across all awards
Combined US gross, 2 of 26 titles
- Mostly
- documentary, history, biography
- Active
- 1957–2026
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 79%
- Best known for
- Seabiscuit
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 11 of 26 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Their television work
1996–2021
- PBS2
Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 11 episodes.
Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.
Credits24 of 26
23 films · 3 TV titles

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026 · Film
Produced

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
2023 · Film
Produced

The Sun Queen
2023 · Film
Produced

Free Money
2022 · Film
Produced

Citizen Hearst
2021 · TV
Produced

Ailey
2021 · Film
Produced

Red Heaven
2020 · Film
Produced

Dear Mother
2019 · Film
Produced

Into the Grand Canyon
2019 · Film
Produced

Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
2019 · Film
Produced

Sealab
2019 · Film
Produced

Grand Coulee Dam
2017 · Film
Produced

Space Men
2016 · Film
Produced

The Big Burn
2015 · Film
Produced

1964
2014 · Film
Produced

Custer's Last Stand
2012 · Film
Produced

Panama Canal
2011 · Film
Produced

Roads to Memphis
2010 · Film
Produced

Kit Carson
2008 · Film
Produced

New Orleans
2007 · Film
Produced

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City
2005 · Film
Produced

Seabiscuit
2003 · Film
Produced

Reporting America at War
2003 · TV
Produced

The West
1996 · TV
Produced
23 titles across 24 years, averaging 1.0 a year. The last five years hold at 0.8 a year. 7 of those 24 years carry no credit on file.
Who they work with
- Lauren DeFilippo2
- Stephen Ives2
- Documentary8 of 10
- History3 of 10
Names appearing on two or more of Insignia Films’s produced titles, across the 10 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with12 companies
Companies that appear alongside Insignia Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
Film offices covering New York
- NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME)New York · 30% base (40% upstate counties)
- New York State Governor's Office of Motion Picture & Television DevelopmentNew York · 30% base (40% upstate counties)
- Fort Lee Film CommissionFort Lee
- New Jersey Motion Picture & Television CommissionNewark · 30% standard; up to 35-40% with studio partner bonus
Offices near this location, and the one covering the whole state. Proximity is not jurisdiction: confirm with the office before relying on it for permits.
Other companies near New York
- Embassy RowNew York · 26 titles
- GreeneStreet FilmsNew York · 26 titles
- Leftfield PicturesNew York · 26 titles
- Showcase ProductionsNew York · 26 titles
- Square Peg StudiosNew York · 26 titles
- Stick Figure ProductionsNew York · 26 titles
- The Criterion ChannelNew York · 26 titles
- Film ScienceNew York · 27 titles
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