Video/Filmography

ROBERT RICHTER VIDEO/FILMOGRAPHY

Director, Writer, Producer unless otherwise noted.
To learn more about any these productions or to book Robert Richter for an appearance with one or more of his productions, e-mail: rrprod@aol.com

• THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES   Science museum film on artificial intelligence, with Stevie Wonder, for Kurzweil Foundation
• AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL: PEOPLE V. NEWTON Current production, work in progress
• AMERICAN WHEAT: DESTINATION VIETNAM   Gift of food to orphans of war, for Church World Service
• A PLAGUE ON OUR CHILDREN   Dioxin, PCBs and the regulation of toxic waste, PBS/Nova's first two-hour special, narrated by Jason Robards Jr
• ASBESTOS ALERT Studs Terkel narrates OSHA documentary on strategies for safety and health

• BACKLASH IN THE WILD   Loggers, ranchers, miners and developers in TBS Audubon special, with correspondent Arthur Kent
• BANKING ON LIFE AND DEBT  Martin Sheen narrates short version of "The Money Lenders" (see below)
• BEN SPOCK, BABY DOCTOR   PBS "Nova" biography of famed pediatrician, author and peace activist, narrated by Jane Alexander
• BUSINESS OF HUNGER, THE Short version of "Hungry for Profit" (see below), narrated by Ruby Dee

• CAN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS BE SAVED? The first global look at this global issue, a PBS prime-time special
• CBS News Inquiry: THE WARREN REPORT The case for the government version of the JFK assassination, with Walter Cronkite. Four one-hours. One of a team of producers.
• CBS News Special: VIETNAM & THE PRIMARIES First TV network look at hawks v. doves splitting America. With correspondent Roger Mudd. Co-producer/writer with Av Westin.
• CBS News: 1968 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES News features with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace and others
• CBS Reports: ABORTION AND THE LAW Assoc. Producer for Producer David Lowe ("Harvest of Shame")
• CBS Reports: BULLDOZED AMERICA   First network documentary look into major environmental issues, with correspondent Charles Kuralt
• CBS Reports: NEW YORK BATTLEGROUND   Robert Kennedy's race for US Senate, with correspondent Eric Sevareid. Associate Producer.
• CHANGING COURSE: WOMEN & EDUCATION   Six half-hours on equal opportunities for women, for US Dept. of Education. Executive Producer.
• CITY OUT OF WILDERNESS  Washington, DC, history, for U.S. Capitol Historical Society--an Academy Award nominee. Treatment Writer, Field Producer
• COME OUT SHINING! Youth-adult partnership in a troubled mid-western city, an innovative social experiment
• CONVICTIONS: PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE Non-violent human rights activists face federal prison
• CROSSING THE LINE   Susan Sarandon narrates, Martin Sheen speaks out in human rights documentary of SOA Watch demonstration

• DEMOCRATS RESPOND, THE   CBS prime-time special "equal time" for Democratic Party vs. Richard Nixon
• DO NOT ENTER: THE VISA WAR AGAINST IDEAS  Denying US visas on political grounds, a PBS prime time special
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• EATING THE SCORPION  American teachers visit China for the first time, an experience that transforms them and their students
• ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: A BEGINNING Innovative techniques, for US Department of Education

• FAMILY AND SURVIVAL   Phil Donahue's NBC prime-time special on US family disintegration
• FATHER ROY: INSIDE THE SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS  Struggle to find and reveal truth about secret CIA torture training at SOA, narrated by Susan Sarandon.
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• FIVE DAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD  Student activists create agenda for their own future, at the world's largest peace conference;  Martin Sheen narrates
• FOOD FOR A SMALL PLANET   Affluence and waste, an independent short documentary
• FOR EXPORT ONLY: PESTICIDES    Prohibited and restricted agricultural products sold without proper information
• FOR EXPORT ONLY: PHARMACEUTICALS   Prohibited and restricted medical products sold without proper information

• THE GIFTS   Water pollution in the US, Academy Award nominee. "The most beautiful film on ugliness ever made." Executive Producer, co-writer.
• GODS OF METAL   Anti-nuclear activists in the US at the height of the Cold War, an Academy Award nominee
• GROWING UP   Teens and their problems, an Iowa public TV series. Writer.
• GUNS AND GREED   Links SOA to World Bank/IMF policies in Central American sweat shops. Oscar "short list."

• HEADLINE REACTION   Weekly Oregon public TV panel discussion series on major issues. Producrer, on air host. 
• HHH: WHAT MANNER OF MAN  Hubert Humphrey biography, for his 1968 campaign for President. Producer, director.
• HOSTAGE!   "Closeup" with ABC correspondent Peter Jennings on hostage taking and terrorism. One of three producers.
• HUNGRY FOR PROFIT   PBS independent look at global agribusiness and its human and environmental impact
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• INCIDENT AT BROWNS FERRY   Nuclear power and safety for PBS NOVA, DuPont Columbia award
• INCREASE AND MULTIPLY?   A TBS special on family planning in developing world
• IN OUR CARE   Oregon public TV film series on state prisons, hospitals, schools for handicapped
• IN OUR HANDS   One million people protest with one voice: Stop the nuclear arms race. Independent feature with Pete Seeger, James Taylor, Peter Paul & Mary, et al. Co-producer with Stan Warnow.
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• IN SEARCH OF THE DAWN REDWOODS Screenwriter of fictional feature now in development
• JEROME HINES Short film for USIA magazine series.
• JOHN MUIR Script for American Museum of Natural History series.
• JOHN WESLEY POWELL Script for American Museum of Natural History series.

• KALEIDOSCOPE Weekly Oregon public TV interview series with local or visiting public figures, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB Nuclear proliferation, a Nagasaki survivor and students campaign for nuclear abolition today. The New York Times: "Deeply affecting." Director, co-producer with Kathleen Sullivan. ISBN 1-57448-160-6
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• LEAVING HOME Almost every one does--eventually. It's different for Renu. Moving coming-of-age doc.
• LINUS PAULING, CRUSADING SCIENTIST   A PBS "Nova" biography of only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes, one for chemistry, the other for peace
  •LOVE AND TERROR. Fictional screenplay on real skyjack.
  

• MATH FOR FIVE-YEAR-OLDS   Innovative techniques for children, for Francis Thompson Inc.
• THE MONEY LENDERS  Critical look at World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, prime-time everywhere else.
• MEHARRY Nashville: independent, historically-black: perhaps the major educator of black physicians in the U.S.

• NEW PATRIOTS, THE   A Congressional Medal of Honor winner and other U.S. military veterans speak out on terrorism, patriotism and their transformation into peace activists.
• NEW YORK BATTLEGROUND: THE RACE FOR THE SENATE Robert Kennedy's historic 1964 campaign for U.S. Senate, narrated by Eric Sevareid. Richter was Associate Producer and co-writer with Sevareid.
• NOBEL'S LOST PRIZE Screenwriter of feature fiction film, now in development.

• ON THE RUN   Teenage runaways and programs to help them, for US Department of Health, Education and Welfare
• OREGON REPORTS   Weekly public television series on local issues
• OUTER SPACE: CAN WE AFFORD TO GO?   With Walter Cronkite, a Discovery channel prime-time "Cronkite Reports" special. Director, producer, co-writer.

• PROJECT SECOND CHANCE   PBS prime-time look at help for high school dropouts, produced for Arkansas public tv
  
• THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH Best-selling author/murder prosecutor Vince Bugliosi's powerful case. Consulting producer. Release September 2012.

• RIGHT TO READ, THE   Illiteracy in the US and programs to help, a Francis Thompson Inc film for US Department of Education
• ROOSEVELT ISLAND Short film for USIA magazine series, made soon after it opened

• SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS   Human rights abuses by SOA graduates, Academy Award nominee
• SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS Fictional screenplay version of "Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins," now in development.
• SIERRA CLUB Short film for USIA magazine series.

• THE ULTIMATE WISH: ENDING THE NUCLEAR AGE Abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Fukushima and Nagasaki survivors.
• TIME TO ABOLISH WAR Highlights of world's largest peace conference, for Hague Appeal for Peace

• UNDER THE GUN: DEMOCRACY IN GUATEMALA   Civilian rule after decades of dictators, PBS independent. Director, co-producer.

• VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY  First look by US filmmaker at postwar Vietnam
  
• VISION   Television magazine segments for United States Information Agency (USIA)

• WHAT PRICE CLEAN AIR? PBS prime time special on fight over the Clean Air Act, a National Emmy finalist
  
• WHERE DO YOU STAND  Textile workers struggle to unionize in a company town. Co-producer.
• WHO SHOT PRESIDENT KENNEDY? Walter Cronkite narrates PBS "Nova" on forensic science re-examining the evidence, a National Emmy finalist
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• WHITE LIGHT, BLACK RAIN: HBO version of "The Last Atomic Bomb" (see above). National Emmy for "exceptional merit in non-fiction filmmaking." Screened at Sundance 2007. Oscar short list. Executive Producers Robert Richter and Sheila Nevins
• WOMAN REBEL: A Nepali revolutionary, from the jungle to Parliament. 2010 Oscar short list for documentary shorts. Kiran Deol, Producer. Robert Richter, Executive Producer. More at: womenrebels.org
• WORLD TRADE CENTER Short film for USIA magazine series, made soon after WTC opened

To learn more about any Richter production, e-mail: rrprod@aol.com