Eric Temple has been producing award-winning documentaries and non-fiction media since 1982. His accolades include five regional Emmy Awards and sixteen Telly Awards, along with recognition at prestigious film festivals worldwide. As a producer and environmental reporter at the PBS station in Phoenix, he created two influential documentaries on critical issues facing the Navajo Nation. His groundbreaking film, Uranium: The Navajo Legacy, was the first documentary to expose the radioactive contamination from uranium mining on the Navajo reservation. A companion piece focused on poverty within the same community, shedding light on the tribe's economic challenges. Both films received national airtime on PBS in 1983.

Between 1984 and 1991, Temple produced Evening/PM Magazine, a nightly magazine program broadcast on Group W television stations nationwide. In 1992, he produced and directed Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness, a biography of the noted environmental author. This film was showcased on PBS and at various film festivals, including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. It won Best Documentary and Best of Show at the 1994 Utah Film & Video Festival and remains popular more than three decades later.

In the 1990s, Temple also co-directed and served as a cinematographer for The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, narrated by Robert Redford. This documentary, which explores the connection between ancient Anasazi ceremonial buildings in New Mexico and astronomical events, became a hit on PBS.

In 2009, Temple directed, photographed, and edited With One Voice, a spiritual documentary on mysticism, narrated by Peter Coyote. It won numerous awards and is distributed worldwide by Kino Lorber, available on Amazon Prime Video.

During the 2000s, Temple produced musical documentaries and electronic press kits for Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters and also several short films and promotional videos for singer/songwriter Tom Russell. One of these won best documentary at the Moab Film Festival. These were distributed on DVD by HighTone Records and Shout Factory.

Additionally, Temple has produced thirty-five short documentary films highlighting the inductees of the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame at the Aerospace Heritage Museum of Utah, viewable on museum kiosks and website.

Recently, Temple completed A Taste of Bournonville, a documentary short about famed Danish ballet instructor Dinna Bjørn, who teaches the Bournonville Method to Utah dancers. He is currently developing new documentary projects, one of which explores a key part of the Allied victory during WWII, while the other examines cultural attitudes toward death and dying, shedding light on diverse perspectives and practices worldwide.