Richard de Rochemont

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Richard de Rochemont (13 December 1903 – August 1982) was an American documentary film-maker in the late 1940s. He produced a series of shorts which covered such subjects as World War II, the 1920s and the Vatican. In the same year that he produced "Crusade in Europe", the very first documentary series produced for television, he also won a Best Documentary Short Academy Award for "A Chance to Live" (1949). He was the brother of feature film producer Louis de Rochemont.