Robert Richter

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).

Della, an attractive woman hires a 'Private Eye' Georgia, to catch her unfaithful husband Frank. Georgia sends out a bait in her vivacious young assistant Alice who ends up in an erotic affair with the wrong man. Georgia decides to get hands on with the case and ends up falling for Frank.

Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!

One million people. One voice: stop the nuclear arms race. The largest peace demonstration in history, a magical day when even the police were on the side of the marchers.

Jake, the ruggedly handsome thief, is in search of the diamond of hope. He poses as a security technician to gain access to the Baron's house, where he finds his old girlfriend also there, posing as a maid to steal the Diamond. The situation turns deadly when another thief appears. Will they get out of there alive?

Human rights abuses by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) are chillingly documented at the beginning of the campaign to close the school.

Led by actor Martin Sheen, in November 1998, more than 7,000 students, teachers, churchgoers, activists, and former military personnel met outside the gates of the Ft. Benning army base in Georgia where the School of Americas (SOA) was located. Thousands risked arrest and imprisonment by crossing the line onto the base in the largest act of civil disobedience in the U.S. til that time

Modern forensic science re-examines the evidence. Walter Cronkite narrates. Definitive investigation. Written, directed and produced by Robert Richter.

The struggle by a Vietnam war hero turned priest to find and reveal the truth about secret CIA torture training at a US military base.

Robert Richter was the first American filmmaker allowed to film in Vietnam after the war and report how its people were trying to heal the country’s wounds. With countries engulfed in new wars, this remains an important document.

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS independent documentary investigates U.S. and European agribusiness in the Third World. Filmed on five continents, it takes a close look at agribusiness, which is turning the world's food supply into a global supermarket, buying food at the lowest prices-regardless of small farmers and local populations-and selling it at the highest price and the greatest profit whenever possible.

This new documentary focuses on the moving, unforgettable stories of Nagasaki and Fukushima survivors. Their stories are interlaced with expert commentary illuminating the largely unknown connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.

The Hamas terror attack had dramatic consequences for people in Israel, the Gaza Strip and around the world. Here, we hear individual stories from people living in Tel Aviv. What were their lives like before 7 October 2023? What’s their current perception of the war? What do they see, when they look to the future? In the summer of 2023, Tel Aviv was a lively, liberal and open metropolis, known as the “Mediterranean Capital of Cool”. Then came October 7, and changed everything. Here, people’s lives are forever divided: into ‘before’, and ‘after’. Club owners, culture workers, restaurateurs, LGBTQ activists and architects share very personal insights into a traumatized society. And they’ve not given up hope for better times once the war is over.

This film tells the story of the difficult transition from 36 years of military rule to a civilian president in Guatemala in 1986. It focuses on the pressing issues of continuing military power, land and human rights issues.

Robert Richter exposed the fact that U.S. medicines were being exported to developing nations with minimal, misleading, or non-existent information about side effects and other warnings. Only one manufacturer agreed to be interviewed for this hard-hitting report and then tried to bribe Richter to cancel the broadcast.

With another Minnesotan campaigning for the office of Vice President, it is fascinating to look back at the issues VP candidate Hubert H. Humphrey was raising during the 1968 campaign. In newspapers at the time, the film was advertised as "The Mind Changer." It was telecast 300 times nationwide in the closing three weeks of the political race.

In April 1994, the parents of two-year-old Samuel Ishimwe were murdered in Rwanda. Like them, up to one million people died in the genocide against the Tutsi minority. 30 years later, Samuel wants to know how this could have happened.

One of the major causes of world hunger lies in the unequal distribution of the earth's resources. Many people go hungry while their governments continue to export vital foodstuffs, such as soy beans and groundnuts to the industrialised countries. This film describes this reality in Asia, Africa and Latin and North America suggesting a more just distribution of agricultural resources.

Gods of Metal is a 1982 American short documentary film produced by Robert Richter for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers on nuclear disarmament. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else. Do the World Bank and IMF make the poor even poorer? Are the Bank and IMF democratic institutions? Why do people demonstrate against the Bank and IMF? For the first time, a documentary global investigation of major criticisms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two of the most powerful financial institutions in the world. Five country case studies are presented, each concentrating on a different aspect of critics' charges: 1. Bolivia: Debt, Drugs and Democracy 2. Ghana: The Model of Success 3. Brazil: Debt, Damage and Politics 4. Thailand: Dams and Dislocation 5. Philippines: The Debt Fighters. The charges, including those related to structural adjustment, are controversial and provocative. Some go to the heart of the power and policies of these institutions.