Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil
Nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting

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Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Airs on PBS September 13th

The Constitution Project honored
Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause wins CINE Masters Series Award. Yick Wo also won a Platinum Hermes Creative Award, a Silver Hugo Award, and two Telly Awards; Korematsu and Civil Liberties receives Gold Hermes Creative Award (AMCP)
Richard Robbins
Co-Founder, Director / Producer / Writer


Richard E. Robbins is an award-winning producer and director who has been making documentaries for more than a decade. He is a founding partner of The Documentary Group.

His first theatrically released documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was nominated for an Academy Award in 2008. The Orlando Sentinel called it “...the best documentary to come out of the Iraq War.” He was also nominated for a Directors Guild award for outstanding achievement in documentary directing, and an International Documentary Association award for best documentary feature.

After several years as an associate producer at ABC News and PBS’ Frontline, Richard began directing in Peter Jennings’ documentary unit at ABC News on the critically acclaimed ABC series The Century. His documentary work for ABC took him around the country and the globe. From the mountains of Kashmir interviewing Al Qaeda militants, to the press plane of the 2000 Bush campaign, to the back of an LAPD squad car patrolling Watts. Immediately following September 11th, 2001 Richard produced for a variety of ABC News programs including the Jennings special Answering Children’s Questions, which won a duPont award from the Columbia School of Journalism. In the fall of 2001 and 2002, he spent time in Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the war for World News Tonight and Nightline. In 2005 he worked closely with Sony’s Amy Pascal on a documentary chronicling the history of the RAND Corporation, the nation’s oldest think-tank.

At The Documentary Group, Richard continues to develop projects for cable and broadcast networks, as well as a new documentary feature. A graduate of Harvard University, Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.