Richard Berge is a filmmaker who has made documentaries for PBS, Showtime, A&E Biography, Omnimedia and the California Arts Council. He was a writer, producer, and director of The Rape of Europa (2006), the documentary film adaptation of Lynn Nicholas's landmark history of the fate of art during the Third Reich and Second World War. The NEH-supported film was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America and broadcast by PBS as a primetime special in November, 2008. With director Barry Levinson, he wrote and produced Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999), a feature documentary that examines the human obsession with predicting the future. The film was broadcast by Showtime Networks and featured in a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition that toured the United States. Berge wrote and produced profiles of visual and performing artists for Make: Television (2008, Twin Cities Public Television) and SPARK! (2003-04, KQED), two weekly series for public television. He was line producer for Jon Else's Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999), a feature documentary that received the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS's Independent Lens. He was production manager for In Search Of Law And Order (1998), a series about the American juvenile justice system produced for PBS and Channel 4, and production coordinator for Cadillac Desert (1997), the landmark series produced for PBS by Jon Else about history of the quest and struggle for water in the American West. He received a bachelor's degree in History and a master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University. Berge is a member of the Writers Guild of America.