This series consists of biographical materials on Nina Rosenblum such as family and personal photographs, personal correspondence, and daily planners. There are materials related to Rosenblum's parents, Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, including video recordings of lectures and award ceremonies, writing samples, correspondence, photographs, recorded interviews, interview transcripts, and an oral history transcript. More recent exhibition materials (2005-2018), such as correspondence, video recordings, and installation photographs, of Walter Rosenblum's work are included. These materials reflect the influence that her parents' work had on Rosenblum's work. Also included are materials created by Rosenblum's husband and frequent collaborator, Daniel Allentuck, such as a journal and video demo. Recordings of memorial services, possibly of friends or family members, are included as well. This series also contains materials related to the Rosenblum Photo Archive (now, the Rosenblum Photography Collection), overseen by Naomi and Nina Rosenblum. The archive includes works by Walter Rosenblum, Paul Strand, and others. Materials related to the Rosenblum Photo Archive, all electronic, include correspondence, proposals from auction houses, and lists of exhibited works.

This series contains materials from Rosenblum's career as an artist and art professor, prior to her filmmaking career. Materials related to her art include exhibition catalogs, price lists, slides, negatives, awards, and press. Materials related to her teaching career consist of a teaching portfolio, correspondence, and event posters. At Union College, where Rosenblum taught, she also ran the art gallery, and those materials, such as exhibition postcards and catalogs, are included. Rosenblum discusses her artwork in a video included in the electronic records, providing insight into the topics that interested her and connections with her documentary work.

This series contains materials related to events in which Rosenblum participated, such as film festivals and exhibitions. Many of these events celebrated Rosenblum's oeuvre, and not a specific film, so they are included here. Also included is any press on Rosenblum as a director, producer, writer, or her career in general, and membership materials to various organizations, such as the Directors Guild of America. These materials, especially related to career retrospectives, illustrate the important contributions that Rosenblum has made, in terms of gender and subject matter, to the documentary film industry.

This series contains materials related to the feature documentary of the life and work of the social documentary photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, released in 1984. Materials relate to the production, marketing, and screening of the film. Such materials include posters, photographs (both electronic and print), film elements on various media, press and publicity, electronic film clips, and scrapbooks.

This series consists of production, marketing, and screening-related materials for the film, Through the Wire, released in 1989. Produced in association with Amnesty International, this film examines three female inmates convicted of politically-motivated crimes who were housed in an underground high-security isolation unit located in the federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky. Materials include research materials (articles and letters), audio recordings of interviews with the incarcerated women, letters from viewers, press and publicity, a scrapbook, posters, photographs (both print and digital), and film elements (such as interviews, stills, an Italian master copy for a film festival, and selects for news shows) on various media.

This series consists of materials related to Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in WWII, an Academy Award nominated feature documentary released in 1992. The film chronicles the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion, one of only a few segregated units to see combat in Europe during World War II and assist in the liberation of concentration camps. Materials include posters, press, photographs, a scrapbook, and film elements (such as a news segment, interviews with participants, and interviews with filmmakers) on various media. After the film's release, there was some dispute over its accuracy; materials related to the controversy, including articles, press releases, correspondence, and a playscript, are included.

This series covers The Black West, episode two of a three-part TBS series The Untold West. Released in 1993, the episode describes the achievements of Black cowboys and frontiersmen. Materials related to the episode's production, marketing, and awards include photographs and slides, a scrapbook, and film elements (such as "The Making of" tapes, spot clips, a press tape, a dub version, and interviews) on various media.

This series covers two related films in terms of subject matter, Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island and Beat Down: The Case of Raymond Alvarez, both released circa 1994. Lock-Up is about life inside Rikers. It focuses on the the Nancy Figuerora hospital ward and the incarcerated individual James Mirabel, who was born in a prison and later died in one. Materials related to the film's production, marketing, and screening include a scrapbook, poster, photographs and negatives, and film elements (such as master copies, audio interviews, and certain scenes) on various media. Beat Down follows Raymond Alvarez, another incarcerated individual at Rikers Island who was the victim of correctional officers' brutality. Materials related to the production and screening of the film consist of correspondence with Alvarez, audio interviews, a master video recording, and film festival programs.

This series consists of materials related to the documentary short, Slave Ship: The Testimony of the Henrietta Marie, which was commissioned in 1995 as part of the traveling exhibition, The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie. Materials related to the film, which is about the oldest slave ship wreck (1699) found off the coast of the United States, includes correspondence, some research materials, photographs and negatives, and marketing materials (in both analog and digital formats).

This series relates to the 15 minute educational short, A History of Women Photographers, which was installed in 1996 in four institutions as part of the traveling exhibition with the same name. The exhibition, curated by Naomi Rosenblum and Barbara Tannenbaum, was based on Naomi Rosenblum's book, A History of Women Photographers. Materials related to the film include photographs from the book, shoot photographs, and film elements (such as the dramatic version, the documentary version, and a master copy for an Italian film festival).

This series consists of materials related to Walter Rosenblum: In Search of Pitt Street, an hour-long documentary released in 1999 about the life and career of Rosenblum's father, the photographer Walter Rosenblum. Materials related to the production, marketing, and screening of the film, include scrapbooks, press, a script, photographs (print and digital), and film elements (such as interviews with Walter and Naomi Rosenblum, exterior shots, stills, and a subtitled version) on various media.

This series focuses on materials related to Sly and Jimi: The Skin I'm In, a feature documentary released in 2000 that highlights the music of Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone. Materials related to the production, marketing, and screening of the film consist of a proposal, production book, and film elements (such as rough cuts, interviews, and master recordings) on various media.

This series contains materials related to Unintended Consequences, a documentary short produced in association with the Drug Policy Institute in 2001. The film focuses on the impact of the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws on families and communities in New York City. It follows a group called The Mothers of the New York Disappeared and Terrence Stevens, a former incarcerated individual who served nine years of a 15-to-life sentence before being granted clemency. Materials related to the production, marketing, and screening of the documentary consist of press, contracts, a scrapbook, film elements (such as interviews; specific scenes; and eight-, nine-, and 15-minute versions) on various media, and research materials (including videos on the Rockefeller Drug Program). Also included in the series are materials related to In Arms Reach, a community organization founded in 2002 by Terrence Stevens to support economically challenged youth, especially those impacted by incarceration. Materials include various video and audio recordings by Rosenblum (who also served as a teacher and informal advisor to the program), informational material (such as brochures) about the organization, and photographs.