Robert H. Gardner

Robert Gardner has been making top notch documentary films for over 20 years. Recipient of an Academy Award Nomination for his first film, The Courage to Care (1985), Gardner has gone on to earn three National Emmy Awards, four regional Emmys, a duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism, honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a dozen more specialty awards. Gardner and his family-run production company, Gardner Films, have helmed a variety of television shows for The History Channel, including the popular Barbarians (2004) series, as well as specials for PBS, NBC, and The Discovery Channel.