Motion Picture Academy has honored
10 docs Robert Richter helped create
Oscar nominee, best short doc:
School of Assassins - Prod/Dir/Writer
Gods of Metal - Prod/Dir/Writer
The Gifts - Exec Producer/Co-writer
City Out of Wilderness - Writer
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Oscar "Short list" of best feature docs:
Ben Spock, Baby Doctor - Prod/Dir/Writer
Father Roy, Inside the School of Assassins - Prod/Dir/Writer
White Light, Black Rain - Exec Producer
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Oscar "Short list" of best short docs:
Crossing the Line - Prod/Dir/Writer
Guns and Greed - Prod/Dir/Writer
Woman Rebel - Exec Producer.
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June 12, 2012 In Our Hands. 30th anniversary of the 1982 peace rally, largest in history. One million people, one voice: stop the nuclear arms race. Pete Seeger, James Taylor, Peter Paul & Mary, Holly Near, Rita Marley and many others.
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11/22/63
Who
Shot President Kennedy? Walter Cronkite narrates the definitive documentary on the assassination. Journal of
American History: "Admirable... thorough... serves a public function of the first order... cogent and coherent."
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Saigon falls April 30, 1975
April 30
Vietnam: An American Journey First film made by Americans in post war Vietnam. Screened in over 125 theaters, never telecast in the U.S. Includes a My Lai survivor at the site, unknown until our film.
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CIA and Torture
Father Roy
It began long before 9/11:
Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins The struggle to find and reveal the truth about secret CIA torture training.
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DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards
"Will I grow up to be a normal man?"
"TV journalism's Pulitzer Prize" awarded for four of our docs:
For Export Only: Pesticides;
For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals;
Incident at Browns Ferry;
A Plague on Our Children.
This year's award ceremony was Jan. 20.
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2008 National Emmy
Awarded to Robert Richter and Sheila Nevins for "exceptional merit in non-fiction filmmaking" as Executive Producers of HBO's version of
The Last Atomic Bomb.
