50 years ago this Nov. 22: Who Shot President Kennedy? Walter Cronkite narrates the defin-
itive documentary on the assassination. Journal of American History: "Admirable... thorough... serves a public function of the first order... cogent and coherent." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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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A Plague on Our Children

Oct. 2012: Barry Commoner died at age 95. He is featured in this documentary.

Aug. 2012: U.S. joins Vietnam to remove Agent Orange, the problem revealed in our 1991 documentary on dioxin and PCBs.
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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.
"...most INSPIRING, choke-you-up MOVING film about a real event and a lot of real, ordinary people that I've ever seen!"
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April 30, 1975 Saigon "falls"

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

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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.

What's New

Safety problem in all US nuclear power plants:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission former chairman. NYTimes 4-9-13
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THE ULTIMATE WISH:
Ending the Nuclear Age
Fukushima and Nagasaki survivors.
"...may this jewel of a film be seen in
every classroom and council chamber."
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Vietnam: An American Journey
My Lai Massacre
45 years ago March 16.
A woman survivor, unknown until
our film, describes what happened
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Leaving Home
Teenage girl's coming of age
in rural India, in western eyes
one step up from slavery .
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"India's New Focus on Rape Shows
Only the Surface of Women's Perils"
NYTimes Jan.13, 2013
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The Money Lenders

IMF head: austerity doesn't work.
Our five country IMF/World Bank
probe. Too hot for PBS.
Prime time everywhere else.
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Thailand record floods. A major
factor: deforestation.
Documented in our
Can Tropical Rainforests be Saved?
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9/11

The New Patriots
exposes the hypocrisy
of "the war on terrorism"
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Dec. 22, 2010 NY Times, P. 1:
"African Farmers Displaced as
Investors Move In."
The latest global agribusiness
example of Hungry for Profit
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