RICHARD CHISOLM
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Selected Credits

2019
Gun Show [Documentary Short] (Director, DP)
www.gunshowfilm.com 

Walk With Frank  ​(Documentary Feature-Mayers Films) (DP) (In Production)

No Small Matter [Documentary Feature-Siskel/Jacobs](DP) (In Production)
Charm City [Documentary Feature-Big Mouth Prods.)
(Additional Cinematography))
The Gene [Documentary Series-Ark Media) (DP)
(In Production)
Fred and Herman [Documentary Short] (Director, DP)
(In Production)
Democracy Project [TV Documentary] (DP) (In Production)

2017
Fantastic Fungi [Documentary Feature] (Cinematography) 
The Opera House [Documentary Feature] (Cinematography)

​2016
Curiosity Stream [Documentary Series] (Cinematography)
    -Music Moves Our Souls-Rachel Barton Pine
Multiple Maniacs [BTS Video-Criterion Collection] (DP)

2015 
American Secrets [Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
The Raising of America [TV Mini-Series Documentary] (Director of Photography) 
     - Are We Crazy About Our Kids? 
     - Once Upon a Time 
Samuel Barber: Despite and Still [Documentary] (Additional Cinematography)
To Step Forward Myself [Documentary] (Additional Photography) 
Independent Lens [TV Series Documentary] (Additional Camera)
     - American Denial

2013
JFK: A President Betrayed [Documentary] (Cinematographer)
What Time Is Left [Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve [Documentary] (Additional Cinematographer) 

2012
What Love Is: The Duke Pathfinders 50 [Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Frontline [TV Series Documentary] [Camera Operator]
     - Fast Times at West Philly High 

2011
Risk Takers [TV Series Documentary] (Director of Photography) 
     - Michelle Rhee 
Cafeteria Man [Documentary] (Director) (Producer) (Cinematographer)

2010
Bach & Friends [Documentary] (Director of Photography)
Secrets of the Dead [TV Movie Documentary] (Camera Operator) 
     - Japanese SuperSub 

2009
Unnatural Causes [TV Mini-Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
4 [Greek TV Series] (Camera Operator) 
     
National Geographic Explorer [TV Series Documentary] (Additional Cinematographer) 
     - Kingdom of the Blue Whale 
Orgasm Inc. [Documentary] (Additional Camera Operator) 
Nova [TV Series Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
     - Doctors' Diaries: Part Two 
     - Independent Lens [TV Series Documentary] (Additional Cinematographer) 
     - Scenes from a Parish

2008
The Response [Dramatic Short] (Director of Photography)
Hopkins [TV Mini-Series Documentary] (Director of Photography, Field Producer)
Waiting for Hockney [Documentary] (Director of Photography)
The Truth About Cancer [TV Movie Documentary] (Cinematographer)
An American Affair [Dramatic Feature] (Camera Operator)
Depression: Out of the Shadows [TV Movie Documentary] (Cinematographer) 

2007
National Geographic Explorer [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
     - Doomsday Volcano 

2006
50/50 [Docudrama Short] (Cinematographer)
National Geographic Explorer [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
     - Python vs. Gator

2005
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame' [Video Documentary] (Camera) 
Nova [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
     - Saving the National Treasures 
Hunter & Hunted [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
     - Tigers: Mangrove Maneaters 
     - Tanzania Terror 
     - Death Down Under: Dingos 
     - Alligators: Predators in Paradise
The Critical Hour [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
     - The Body Destroyers 
     - Night Game Nightmares 
 The Critical Hour: Shock Trauma [TV Series] (Cinematographer) 
     - The Body Destroyers 
     - Night Game Nightmares 

2004
The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)

2003
K Street [TV Series] (Camera Operator) 
Nova [TV Series Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
     - Spies That Fly 

2002
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)

2001
Plagues: The Ebola Riddle [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Treasure Seekers: In the Shadow of Ancient Rome [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Treasure Seekers: Mysteries of the Nile [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Nurses (TV Mini-Series) (Director of Photography) 
     - Critical Care 
The Shape of Life [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
     - Origins 
The Press Secretary [TV  Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
Loop Dreams: The Making of a Low-Budget Movie [Documentary] (Additional Camera Operator) 
Life and Debt [Documentary] (Additional Camera Operator) 
Nova [TV Series Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
     - Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds 
     - Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions 

2000
In Bad Taste [Feature Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Hopkins 24/7 [TV Series] (Director of Photography, Field Producer)
American Byzantine [TV  Documentary] (Cinematographer)

1999
The Noble Horse [National Geographic Documentary] (Additional Photographer) 

1998
Avalanche: The White Death (National Geographic Documentary) (Production Photographer) 
When You Believe: Music from 'The Prince of Egypt' [TV  Documentary] [Camera Operator] 
Frontline [TV Series Documentary]
(Cinematographer)
     - Fooling with Nature 

1996
With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (TV Mini-Series documentary) (Additional Camera Operator - segment "We Are Family") 
Frontline [TV Series Documentary] [Cinematographer]
     - The Navy Blues
     - The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
     - So You Want to Buy a President?

1999
American Masters [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)  
     - Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius 

1998
Avalanche: The White Death [TV Movie] (Cinematographer)
Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' [TV Movie Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Frontline [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
     - The Farmer's Wife 
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye [TV Movie Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Arguing the World [Documentary] (Cinematographer)

1997
Volcano: Nature's Inferno [TV Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Innovation [TV Documentary] (Cinematographer)
Frontline [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
     - The Opium Kings

1994
American Experience [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
     - America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

1993
Switched at Birth: Kimberly's Story [TV Documentary] (Additional Photography) 

1991
Childhood [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer)
 
1990
Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress [TV Documentary] (Director of Photography) 
Local Heroes, Global Change [TV Series Documentary] (Cinematographer) 
     - Against the Odds 

1987
Eyes on the Prize [TV Series Documentary] (Assistant Camera) 
     - Awakenings: 1954-1956 

1985
The Passing ​(Cinematographer)

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Awards

National Cinematography EMMY Award
  • ​America's Endangered Species:
    Don't Say Good-bye
     [Documentary]

National Cinematography Emmy Nomination
  • Avalanche: The White Death [TV Movie]

​​Peabody Award​
  • Hopkins [TV Mini-Series Documentary]
  • Depression: Out of the Shadows 
    [Documentary]

Columbia Journalism DuPont Award
  • Hopkins [TV Mini-Series Documentary]
  • Unnatural Causes [TV Mini-Series Documentary]

Noteable Interviews

​Edward Albee
Marin Alsop
Bob Ballard
Joshua Bell
Andre Braugher
Bill Bruford
Michael Caine
Ben Carson
James Carville
Bill Clinton
Jacques Cousteau
Johnny Depp
Michael Dukakis
Ahmet Ertegun
Thomas Friedman
Carlos Fuentes
Philip Glass
Jane Goodall
Dick Gregory
Seymour Hersh
Ted Kennedy
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Sugar Ray Leonard
Wynton Marsalis
Bobby McFerrin
Joan Mondale
Bill Moyers
Joe Namath
Paul Newman
Queen Noor
Jim Palmer
Iggy Pop
Colin Powell
Ronald Reagan
Cokie Roberts
Kenny Rogers
Jonas Salk
Martin Sheen
Hedrick Smith
Esperanza Spalding
Billy Taylor
Mel Torme
Desmond Tutu
John Waters
Elie Wiesel
Phil Woods
Andrew Young
Alan Alda
Russell Baker
John Barth
Jorge Luis Borges
J. Carter Brown
Art Buchwald
Naomi Campbell
Jimmy Carter
Julia Child
Hillary Clinton
Walter Cronkite
Elizabeth Dole
Marion Wright Edelman
Geraldine Ferraro
David Frost
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Glenn
Al Gore
Patty Hearst
Jesse Jackson
Larry King
Ricki Lake
Pope John Paul ll
Dave Mathews
Robert McNamara
Walter Mondale
Ralph Nader
Willie Nelson
Wayne Newton
Barack Obama
​Michelle Obama
Michael Pollan
Paulina Porizkova
Robert Rauschenberg
Max Roach
Brooks Robinson
Carl Sagan
Tom Selleck
Beverly Sills
Mitch Snyder
Isaac Stern
Mother Theresa
Nina Totenberg
Jack Valente
James Watson
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
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