Darroch’s interests are in American history, literature and popular culture.  He has researched, written, and produced documentaries on Native America, the Civil War, American popular music, and the film industry.  For five years he worked as the researcher and a writer on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, as well as the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  He is currently the associate producer of a ten-hour history of Hollywood for Turner Classic Movies.  His love of history is always the focal point.

Ron is a producer for City Explorer TV and produces their travel content from soup to nuts.  Ron writes, shoots, edits, and packages short films on all manner of subjects.  His interests include exploring the natural world, guided by the legacy of John Muir, and he hopes to make a documentary film depicting a thru-hike of the 211-mile John Muir Trail. In 2008, Ron founded Humanus Documentary Films, an educational non-profit company devoted to the production of films that bring history to life for a new generation of viewers.

Dual Nature
The challenge of making a film that depicts the personal stories of the young aviators set in the context of a global conflict.

The Mary Ann
First Yale Unit founder Trubee Davison’s attempt to impress his father with a Curtiss F-Boat.

A Documentary Filmmaker’s Dream
On the cast of characters and how they fit into the arc
of the film’s story.

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Flight
Some of the challenging conditions in which pilots
of World War One flew in combat.