Robert Richter's work has been telecast in prime time in the U.S. on PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, Discovery and many major overseas television outlets. His work has been honored with two Academy Award nominations for best documentary short (School of Assassins, Gods of Metal), three Dupont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (the Pulitzer Prize of television journalism), National Emmys, Peabody Awards and received many film festival prizes.

In the 1980s and 1990s Richter produced a ground-breaking series on controversial government and business policies that affect people in developing nations: Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins tells the story of a Maryknoll priest and his decade-long campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas. Hungry for Profit reveals how the agribusiness system impoverishes people. The Money Lenders - Update 2000 is a critical look at World Bank/IMF policies in five countries. For Export Only: Pesticides led to the creation of an international monitoring system. For Export Only: Pharmaceuticals documents the sale of medications banned and restricted in the north to countries of the south. Can Tropical Rainforests be Saved? is the first global look at this critical global environmental issue.

Five Days to Change the World follows young people at the largest world peace conference in history as they struggle to create and present their own action agenda for peace and justice in the new millennium.

In Richter’s most recent documentary, The New Patriots, five U.S. veterans, one a Medal of Honor winner, speak out about terrorism, patriotism, and their transformation from warriors to peace activists.