Richard Berge is a documentary filmmaker who has made films 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 award-winning history of the fate of art during the Third Reich and Second World War. Before producing The Rape of Europa, he served for two years as writer and field producer for SPARK!, a weekly television series for KQED about the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. With director Barry Levinson, he produced Yesterday's Tomorrows (2000), a feature-length documentary for Showtime that examines the human obsession with predicting the future. The film is featured in a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition (SITES) that continues to tour the United States. He line produced Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999) in association with producer/director Jon Else and Oregon Public Broadcasting. The film was awarded the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival and an Emmy for best cultural documentary. He was production manager of In Search Of Law And Order (1998), a documentary series about the American juvenile justice system for PBS and Channel 4, and he was production coordinator for Cadillac Desert (1997), the landmark documentary series produced for PBS by Jon Else about history of the quest and struggle for water in the American West.