Director Matt Tyrnauer On His Documentary About Roy Cohn, "Where's My Roy Cohn?"

One of the most controversial and influential American men of the 20th Century, Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump. Directed by Matt Tyrnauer, "Where's My Roy Cohn?" tells Cohn’s story from his birth in 1927 to his death in 1986, a picaresque journey that carries viewers from the Depression, through the Red Scare of the 50s, to the 70s and 80s New York high life of wealth, celebrity and Studio 54. By showing how America’s current divisions are rooted in dark areas of our past, the documentary offers an illuminating portrait of where we are today.