Robert H. Gardner (born, June 3, 1947, in
Berkeley, California) is an American documentary filmmaker, producer and director of ''
The Courage to Care
''The Courage to Care'' is a 1985 American short documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a his ...
'', ''
Egypt: Quest for Immortality'', ''
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'', ''National Geographic Explorer series; Search for the Lost Ark'', ''Tiwanaku'', and ''Desert Warriors''; The History Channel series ''
Barbarians, Barbarians II'', and ''Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire''. In 2001 his series ''
Islam: Empire of Faith'' aired on PBS, as well as ''Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World'' in 2012.
Biography
He began working in 1967 in Washington, D.C., as a camera and editing assistant for Eli Productions, producing social issue documentaries for the short-lived, experimental television show,
Public Broadcast Laboratory
The Public Broadcast Laboratory (PBL) was a television program broadcast in the United States, created on November 5, 1967, by National Educational Television (NET). The program was considered a live Sunday-night magazine program. In 1969, the For ...
, on NET, the precursor to PBS. In 1968 he was part of the documentary crew covering the presidential campaign of
Hubert Humphrey. He directed and edited children’s television series for
Northern Virginia Educational Television
WNVT, virtual channel 23.3 (UHF digital channel 22), is a World Channel- affiliated television station licensed to Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, United States and serving the Richmond metropolitan area. The station's transmitter is loc ...
in the 1970s and was Senior Producer for Special Projects at
The United Way of America from 1982-1985. In 1986 he founded Gardner Films Inc. an independent production company.
Filmography
* Madeleine: The Noor Inayat Khan Story (2014)
*Sisters (2013)
*Islamic Art; Mirror of the Invisible World (2012)
*Inside Islam; What a Billion Muslims Really Think (2010)
*Rome: Rise and fall of an empire (2008)
*Cities of Light; The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain (2007)
*
Barbarians I, Barbarians II (2002-2007)
*Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By (2006)
*The Plague ( 2005)
*Elie Wiesel; First Person Singular (2001)
*Arab and Jew; Return to the Promised Land (2001)
*
Islam: Empire of Faith (2001)
*NOVA: Warnings From the Ice (1997)
*Egypt: Quest for Immortality (1996)
*Mesopotamia: Return to Eden (1996)
*
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (1989)
*
The Courage to Care
''The Courage to Care'' is a 1985 American short documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a his ...
(1985)
External links
Gardner Films website*
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1947 births
Living people
American documentary filmmakers
Artists from Berkeley, California