Lichtenstein is an award-winning filmmaker who has been making documentaries since 1998 and founded 371 Productions in 2003. He has been nominated for two Emmys: one Sports Emmy for the VR film Ashe ’68, which premiered at Sundance in 2019, and a News and Documentary Emmy for the 2012 Independent Lens/PBS film As Goes Janesville. He has won two DuPonts: one for the 2016 Al Jazeera America series Hard Earned, produced with Kartemquin Films, and another for his 2001 film Ghosts of Attica, produced with Lumiere Productions.

His film When Claude Got Shot, produced with Stick Figure, premiered at the 2021 SXSW film festival and will be featured in May 2022 on the PBS series Independent Lens. His documentary American Reckoning, with director and producer Yoruba Richen for FRONTLINE and Retro Report, premiered in February 2022 and tells the story of a Black resistance movement in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder of local civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson Sr.

With Emily Kuester, he directed Messwood, which premiered in 2021 at DocNYC, for Participant. The film follows a high school football team made up of kids who come from two communities; one suburban and white, and the other urban and Black. Lichtenstein directed Metcalfe Park: Black Vote Rising in 2020 with Miela Fetaw as a short for PBS/World Channel and The Intercept. His 2018 film There Are Jews Here won a Telly award and was broadcast on PBS/World. He was nominated for a Peabody for his radio series about gun violence, Precious Lives. He is credited for the recent films Attica, by Stanley Nelson, and Citizen Ashe, by Sam Pollard and Rex Miller. Before moving to Milwaukee and starting his own company, Lichtenstein worked for many years at New York City-based Lumiere Productions. He has also produced for FRONTLINE and Bill Moyers. Lichtenstein’s company, 371, is committed to diversity and recently launched PipeDream, a mentorship and career-development fellowship for women and BIPOC filmmakers.