Robert H. Gardner (born, June 3, 1947, in Berkeley, California) is an American documentary filmmaker, producer and director of The Courage to Care, Egypt: Quest for Immortality, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, National Geographic Explorer series; Search for the Lost Ark, Tiwanaku, and Desert Warriors; The History Channel series Barbarians, Barbarians II, and Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire.

He began working in 1967 in Washington, D.C., as a camera and editing assistant for Eli Productions, producing social issue documentaries for the experimental television show, Public Broadcast Laboratory, on NET, the precursor to PBS.

In 1968 he was part of the documentary crew covering the presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey.

He directed and edited children’s television series for Northern Virginia Educational Television in the 1970s and was Senior Producer for Special Projects at The United Way of America from 1982-1985.

In 1986 he founded Gardner Films Inc., an independent production company.