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AFTER JENIN ...
Produced by: Trident Media
Brief Synopsis: After Jenin takes place immediately after the first major withdrawal of Israeli Defence Forces from Jenin and other West Bank...
The Age of Terror: In the Name of Liberation
Produced by: Discovery Europe/3BM TV
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Nominee) This comprehensive and ground-breaking four part series investigates the history of modern terrorism fro...
Algeria(s)
Produced by: Article
Brief Synopsis: ALGERIA(S) tells the story of an ongoing « civil war » which has killed between 150,000 and 200,000 people in the last de...
All the Queen's Men
Produced by: Mint Production
Brief Synopsis: Its a story that has been taboo in Ireland for generations. Since independence, thousands of young Irishmen have taken the...
Altered Statesmen
Produced by: Outline Productions
Brief Synopsis: Altered Statesmen reveals the psychological secret histories of five world leaders from modern history. Featuring Churchill,...
America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero
Produced by: Great Projects Film Company, Inc.
Brief Synopsis: The dramatic story of the engineers, firemen and construction workers who transcended grief and shock to clear the World Trad...
American Experience: Daughter from Danang
Produced by: Interfaze Productions
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Nominee) n 1975, with the end of the war imminent, Mai Thi Kim sent her seven-year-old daughter from Vietnam to A...
AMERICAN MASTERS Robert Capa in Love and War
Produced by: Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: The singular film of war photographer Robert Capa's mythic life and work, told through his vast legacy of photographs, a test...
AMERICAN MASTERS: Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
Produced by: Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: There was explosive contraversy about director Elia Kazan's Oscar for Lifetime Achievement at the 1999 Academy Awards. He had...
Ancestors of Ancient Rome
Produced by: Cicada Films
Brief Synopsis: Extraordinary finds in Northern Italy reveal the startling story of the Etruscans - Europe's original hedonists and first sup...
Ancient Egyptians : The Battle of Megiddo
Produced by: Wall To Wall
Brief Synopsis: ANCIENT EGYPTIANS: THE BATTLE OF MEGIDDO First episode of the epic series that brings to life true stories from ancient Eg...
The Ancient ER
Produced by: Beyond Productions
Brief Synopsis: The Ancient ER reveals that surgery and first aid are not inventions of the modern era. There is much evidence from Ancient E...
And to these eyes appear
Produced by: MLK Producciones
Brief Synopsis: A pictorial poem based on the Spiritual Canticle by the 16th-century mystical poet, Saint John of the Cross, set to music by ...
Appelfeld's Table
Produced by: Catherine the Great Productions
Brief Synopsis: Imagination, memories and fiction all mixed together portraying the world and life of the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. In...
ASSIGNMENT: RESUE; The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee
Produced by: Richard Kaplan Productions.
Brief Synopsis: The story of Varian Fry who was responsible for the clandestine rescue of over 2,000 anti-Nazis including many of Europes mo...
Bataan Rescue
Produced by: A Green Umbrella, LLC. Production for American Experience/WGBH
Brief Synopsis: In 1941, tens of thousands of American soldiers were marched to prison camps after having lost the Bataan peninsula in the Ph...
A Battle for Honour
Produced by: Move a Mountian Productions
Brief Synopsis: In June 1940,the Cadets of the School of Cavalry in Saumur put up a heroic defence against overwhelming odds. Armed with obso...
THE BEAST OF OMAHA BEACH (working title)
Produced by: SPIEGEL TV GmbH
Brief Synopsis: A fateful encounter between two young men fully illustrates the horror and futility of war. On D-Day, 1944, German private He...
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Produced by: Thirteen/WNET New York and Guggenheim Productions Inc.
Brief Synopsis: Charles Guggenheim dedicated the last six months of his life to completing a film about his fellow American infantrymen who w...
Betrayal
Produced by: Associated Producers
Brief Synopsis: Betrayal takes viewers into a world of heroes and rogues... people who betray their families and nations for money, sex, ego,...
BLACK BOX GERMANY
Produced by: zero film GmbH
Brief Synopsis: BLACK BOX BRD steps back into German history, it shows the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is p...
Black Las Vegas
Produced by: KPI
Brief Synopsis: Through a tasteful combination of recreations, stirring celebrity interviews and rare archival images this compelling documen...
Bolshoi Drill
Produced by: L.E.Vision
Brief Synopsis: For the first time ever a Western camera team was granted access to Russias most prestigious ballet conservatory with close ...
A BOMB IN THE BASEMENT - The Israeli Nuclear Option
Produced by: Tura Productions
Brief Synopsis: "A Bomb in the Basement" is the first documentary that tells the story of the development of the Israeli nuclear option. It f...
Brave New Men
Produced by: L.E.Vision
Brief Synopsis: Triple-portrait of top-notch geneticists and a look on the wildly different gene cultures in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Kár...
The Bridge of Mostar
Produced by: Vidicom
Brief Synopsis: For 500 years, the Mostar Bridge had connected Christianity and Islam on the Balkans. In 1993, it was destroyed in the Balkan...
Bridge On The River Kwai
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: The story of the building of the Burma/Thailand railway during the Second World war. Tens of thousands of Allied prisoners o...
Bridge On The River Kwai
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: The building of the Thailand to Burma railway by Allied PoWs was one of the greatest engineering projects of World War II. T...
CALI, THE HOSTAGE CITY
Produced by: Lapsus
Brief Synopsis: Known as the hub of the drug cartel, Cali, the third largest city in Colombia, is victim of a vast wave of kidnappings. Left-...
Castle - episode 1
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: Marc Morris presents an exciting tour around Britain exploring the age of the medieval castle. Covering 600 years of British ...
Castle - episode 4
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: Marc Morris presents an exciting tour around Britain exploring the age of the medieval castle. Covering 600 years of British ...
Checkmate-The superpowers behind the Romanian revolution
Produced by: LOOKS Film & TV
Brief Synopsis: How do you fabricate a revolution? As a case history study, Checkmate reveals how and why the United States was involved in t...
The Cheese Nun: Sister Noella's Voyage of Discovery
Produced by: Paris American Television Company
Brief Synopsis: In a world of growing uniformity, a cloistered nun became a leading campaigner for diversity. Sister Noella Marcellino, the c...
Children of the Revolution
Produced by: Zola Maseko
Brief Synopsis: In 1990, Dutch director, Hedda Van Gennep made a film about South African exiles returning home. Two of her crew were also ex...
CHOSEN PEOPLE
Produced by: Caledonia, Sterne & Wyld
Brief Synopsis: In 1947 the world's leading photo-journalists chose ten families at random for an American magazine, The Ladies Home Journal,...
CLEOPATRA'S LOST CITY
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: Egypt's legendary city Alexandria has had an unparalleled history, from its creation by Alexander the Great until its collaps...
Condor; Axis of evil
Produced by: Article
Brief Synopsis: Condor is a 86' investigative journey into the murky depths of Operation Condor, an international network to find and kill di...
Cooks Last Voyage
Produced by: A Three Half Productions
Brief Synopsis: The story of Captain Cook's last voyage and the discovery of an arrow that is believed to be made from the leg bone of the in...
THE CORSAIR OF ST MALO
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: February 1714, a storm is raging in the Bay of Sant-Malo : as it attempts to escape the English warships, the "Saint John the...
D-Day The Shortest Day - 60th Anniversary Special
Produced by: Peter Williams Television Production
Brief Synopsis: The Shortest Day documents the meticulous planning leading up to the world's biggest amphibious invasion, the terror and triu...
Dambusters
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: The technical story behind one of the most spectacular bombing raids of World War 2....
Danes and Dreamers
Produced by: Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Brief Synopsis: "Danes and Dreamers" is a arts chronicle of Denmark. The first episode starts with the optimism of turn of the 20th century a...
Daring To Die:The Story of the Black Devils
Produced by: Northern Sky Entertainment Ltd.
Brief Synopsis: Daring To Die: The Story Of The Black Devils, tells the story of one of the most feared and deadly combat units of WWII - Th...
Days that Shook the World: Hiroshima
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: At exactly 05.32 on August 6th, 1945 a B29 Bomber took off from a small island in the South Pacific on a clandestine operatio...
Days That Shook The World: Kristalnacht/Israel
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: A gripping anatomy of some of the most important days in history, hour by hour as they unfolded. Recreated by using first-han...
Days That Shook The World:JFK/Nixon
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: A gripping anatomy of some of the most important days in history, hour by hour as they unfolded. Recreated by using first-han...
Deadly Enemies
Produced by: ABC Television & Jumping Dog Productions
Brief Synopsis: As the world recoiled from the atomic horror that brought WWII to a close, a new scientific revolutin was already underway. ...
The Displaced - Journeys Into Genocide
Produced by: Concordia
Brief Synopsis: This powerful series looks at the life and times of the perpetrators responsible for the worst acts of human destruction in h...
Drawing A-Bomb Memories
Produced by: NHK
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Winner) Building on a collection that began some 28 years ago and contains some 2,200 entries, "Pictures of the A...
Dynasties
Produced by: A View From The North Production
Brief Synopsis: Dynasties tells the stories of some of the greatest leaders during the most momentous times in world history. These rulers pe...
Dynasties - The Rose Family
Produced by: ABC Television
Brief Synopsis: This is the tragic and moving story of the rise, fall and redemption of a much-loved Australian sporting dynasty. Its the st...
Edgar Christian: Lost on the Barrens
Produced by: Cwmni Da
Brief Synopsis: Edgar Christian, 18 years old and with everything to live for, perished in the Barren Grounds, Canada in 1926. His harrowing ...
THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY
Produced by: THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STOREY CO.
Brief Synopsis: An intimate and moving portrait of a remarkable woman; the story of a lonely, unhappy child who became the most admired and ...
Emmet
Produced by: Mint Production
Brief Synopsis: In September 1803, Robert Emmet was beheaded before a huge crowd in Dublin. It seemed the young radical and his dreams of reb...
Empire, Programme 2: White Plague
Produced by: Blakeway Productions
Brief Synopsis: Empire is a major six-part Channel 4 history series, written and presented by Oxford Professor NIALL FERGUSON, which tells th...
Empire, Programme 3: The Mission
Produced by: Blakeway Productions
Brief Synopsis: Empire is a major six-part Channel 4 history series, written and presented by Oxford Professor NIALL FERGUSON, which tells th...
THE ENIGMA OF THE ETRUSCANS
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: The Etruscans were a mysterious sea-faring people settled in Italy before Roman times and renowned for their commercial activ...
Ethel Rosenberg, the last Dance
Produced by: AMIP
Brief Synopsis: Overflowing with reel footage, this doc describes the climate in America at the time, when Senator McCarthy's followers carri...
Execution at Camp 21
Produced by: Caledonia, Sterne & Wyld
Brief Synopsis: A history documentary for Channel 4's Secret History strand, "Execution at Camp 21" tells the story of the murder of Wolfgang...
The Executioners
Produced by: AMPERSAND
Brief Synopsis: The death penalty has always been surrounded by a great deal of controversy, and yet very little has been said about those ac...
EXILE IN SEDAN
Produced by: AMIP
Brief Synopsis: Whatever possessed Walter Gaumnitz, a German survivor of the Buchenwald and Matthausen concentration camps, to leave Dresden ...
THE EXILES
Produced by: THE EXILES PROJECT
Brief Synopsis: The dramatic story of the European artists, intellectuals and scientists who fled Nazism and Fascism and emigrated to the Uni...
FIRESTORM
Produced by: SPIEGEL TV GmbH
Brief Synopsis: By means of stirring interviews and exclusive film material, the history of the air campaign against German cities in 1944 is...
For King and Empire
Produced by: Breakthrough Films and Television
Brief Synopsis: For King and Empire is a documentary series that tells the stories of ordinary Canadians who fought extraordinary battles dur...
For The Love Of Steam
Produced by: Beca
Brief Synopsis: The remarkable story of one railway company's determination to rebuild the Welsh Highland Railway through the stunning landsc...
For The Love of Steam 2
Produced by: Beca
Brief Synopsis: Observational documentary on one of the world's most ambitious narrow gauge railway project in recent times, reinstating the ...
From A Place Called War: 1939-1945
Produced by: Northern Sky Entertainment Ltd.
Brief Synopsis: FROM A PLACE CALLED WAR, is a four-hour documentary mini-series on the Second World War told only through 'war letters' writt...
GACACA, Living together again in Rwanda?
Produced by: Dominant 7
Brief Synopsis: In the span of just three months in 1994, some 800,000 Rwandans were massacred in the genocide against the ethnic Tutsi. Eigh...
George Marshall and the American Century
Produced by: Great Projects Film Company, Inc.
Brief Synopsis: The only soldier ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, George Marshall is today an almost forgotten hero who helped determin...
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
Produced by: Wall To Wall
Brief Synopsis: George Orwell is one of those well-known figures who many people know just well enough to maintain a misconception or two; fo...
GHOST SHIP: THE MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE
Produced by: MOONDANCE FILMS
Brief Synopsis: In November 1872, the North Atlantic experienced the worst weather ever recorded. That month 500 vessels were lost or abando...
Globalisation: Violence or dialogue?
Produced by: Article
Brief Synopsis: For almost a year, we have followed different actors in the globalisation conflict and sometimes brought about their encounte...
Gold
Produced by: Tinopolis
Brief Synopsis: No other substance has inspired so much greed, awe, suffering and wealth. The story of gold is the history of an obsession t...
Greatest Military Clashes
Produced by: Darlow Smithson
Brief Synopsis: Clash Of The Titans looks at battles and wars in the last century where iconic technologies have gone head-to-head, demonstra...
The Green Bus and The White House
Produced by: Hanley Productions
Brief Synopsis: Trailer for documentary on the 2002 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between progressive incumbent Paul Wellstone and the Bush a...
Half-Track Heroes
Produced by: Vidicom
Brief Synopsis: The father of the off-roader is the French industrialist André Citroen. Inspired by the tanks used in the First World War he ...
Heaven on Earth
Produced by: Tile Films
Brief Synopsis: This unique series explores how six major world religions have expressed the spiritual yearnings of the faithful in art and a...
HELMUT KOHL. MAKING HISTORY
Produced by: ECO Media TV-Produktion GmbH
Brief Synopsis: The documentary Helmut Kohl. Making History tells the exciting story of Helmut Kohls life from his youth in Nazi Germany,...
THE HINDENBURG DISASTER: PROBABLE CAUSE
Produced by: MOONDANCE FILMS
Brief Synopsis: An investigation into the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster using modern air accident investigative techniques. Breakthrough discover...
History Detecives: New York
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: An original format in which members of the public request the help of our team of four experts to probe the provenance of a r...
History Detectives
Produced by: Lion Television and Oregon Public Broadcasting
Brief Synopsis: The series explores the historic relevance of buildings, artifacts and tall tales told in cities across the USA with the help...
History Detectives: California
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: An original format in which members of the public request the help of our team of four experts to probe the provenance of a r...
History's Turning Points
Produced by: TransAtlantic Films
Brief Synopsis: Focusing on some of the worlds most pivotal historical events, ranging across the centuries and the continents, Historys Tu...
HOLY WATER-GATE: THE SEX ABUSE CRISIS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Produced by: C Media
Brief Synopsis: Holy Water-Gate: The Sex Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church A Mary Healey Conlon Film in association with SBS/Australia and ...
Les hommes de l'ombre de Milosevic
Produced by: France 3/Mano A Mano
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Nominee) Soon after Slobodan Milosevic takeover, Yugoslavia falls into a 10 year civil war, leaving two hundred t...
Hungry for Monsters
Produced by: George Csicsery Productions
Brief Synopsis: In this case study from a recent hysteria epidemic, wild fantasies and sensational accusations entangle real people in a dysf...
Hunters of Lost Treasures - Lasseter's Dream
Produced by: ZDF
Brief Synopsis: Using the latest scientific research, exclusive interviews, exotic location footage, lavish historical re-enactments, state-o...
I POSSESS A FEW RARITIES ...
Produced by: EXTRAFILM GesmbH
Brief Synopsis: A film for an exhibition showing objects of the famous Esterhazy treasure chamber. Enriched with new material we want to focu...
In Memoriam - New York City, 9/11/01
Produced by: Brad Grey Pictures
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Nominee) This document follows Mayor Giuliani and his staff from their first realization of what had occurred, th...
Investigating Operation Condor
Produced by: Article
Brief Synopsis: The film by Rodrigo Vazquez, a young argentinian director, tells the story of operation Condor by following several victims o...
Island of The Minotaur
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: The mysterious island of Crete has always had a hold on our imagination. Its the legendary birth-place of Zeus and the realm...
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
Produced by: Lyn Goldfarb Productions and Plug-In, in association with Devillier Donegan Enterprises and PBS
Brief Synopsis: Samurai warriors and commanding shoguns, exotic geisha and exquisite artisans- this is the unknown story of mysterious Japan ...
Jimmy Carter
Produced by: An American Experience for WGBH/Boston.
Brief Synopsis: Jimmy Carters single term in the White House was dramatically blown off course by inflation, recession, a fractured administ...
The Jungle of Genomics
Produced by: LES FILMS À LOU
Brief Synopsis: More and more often, genetic research is privately funded. In the United States, where a large part of this research is conce...
KARAKUM, PEOPLE FROM THE OASES
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: For the past four years, in the black sand desert of Karakoum, near Merv in Turkmenistan, a team of Italian and Turkish archa...
Kingdom of David: Saga of the Israelites
Produced by: Oregon Public Broadcasting & Red Hill Prod. in assoc. with PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises
Brief Synopsis: The epic story of how a small group of tribes known as the Israelites gave birth to a nation, the worlds first monotheistic ...
Klondike: The Quest for Gold
Produced by: Frantic Films Corporation
Brief Synopsis: This series follows five individuals as they experience life as the stampeders of the 1897 Gold Rush to the Klondike. Outfit...
Kuxa Kanema, the Birth of Cinema in Mozambique
Produced by: Lapsus
Brief Synopsis: The history of the Mozambican Film Institute cannot be disassociated from the independence movement embodied by President Sam...
The Laboratory
Produced by: Filmpoint Stockholm
Brief Synopsis: We approach one of the most horrific secrets of the Lubyanka.In the so called Spec-laboratory experiments were carried out on...
Lawrence of Arabia
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: The remarkable story of T.E.Lawrence - archaeologist, soldier, writer - and the Arab world he fought to liberate from the Ott...
The Lord of the Kuril Islands - Fishing between Russia and Japan
Produced by: L.E.Vision
Brief Synopsis: The Kuril archipelago is Russia's most extreme outpost in the Far East. The Russians conquered it in WW II and have been quar...
Lost Inventions
Produced by: Alliance Atlantis/Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: Lost Inventions brings together engineers and archaeologists to reconstruct icons of the past using the tools available at th...
THE LOST SECRET OF CATHERINE THE GREAT
Produced by: Sophimages
Brief Synopsis: The erotic secret of the world's most licentious monarch. Art and war, theft and greed, sex and death, scandal and intrigue....
Love Letters from the War
Produced by: ABC Television
Brief Synopsis: John and Josie met in 1924 and were married a year later. By 1939 they have seven children. In 1940 John enlists for the wa...
M.I.A. - MISSING IN ACTION
Produced by: Zero Film
Brief Synopsis: On April 4th,1970, Gilles Caron, photographer and co-founder of the Gamma photography agency in Paris, disappeared on the Cam...
Machines Time Forgot
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: This series brings together historians, engineers and construction crews to build ancient machines. 1. Crane shows how a huma...
Maggie
Produced by: Brook Lapping
Brief Synopsis: This two-part documentary gives an unprecedented and personal portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to head the gove...
Magic Gardens
Produced by: Cwmni Da
Brief Synopsis: Susan Williams-Ellis has an unusual passion for painting tropical fish in the water. She is also the founder and creator of P...
Malice or Mutiny - The Koolama Incident
Produced by: Storyteller Media Group
Brief Synopsis: In 1942 an Australian passenger ship enrout from Perth Western Australia to Wyndam in Western Australia was bomed by the Japa...
Massacre at Punta Lobos
Produced by: Engel Brothers Media
Brief Synopsis: Why were 200 Peruvian fishermen ritually slaughtered on the beach at Punta Lobos 650 years ago? Blindfolded, hands tied behin...
Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine - "Brain" & "Infectious Disease"
Produced by: Documania Films LLC
Brief Synopsis: Todays hospitals are filled with complex technology and sophisticated tests and treatments that, only a generation ago, were...
Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine - "Heart" & "Transplant"
Produced by: Documania Films LLC
Brief Synopsis: Todays hospitals are filled with complex technology and sophisticated tests and treatments that, only a generation ago, were...
Medicine in the Third Reich
Produced by: Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion
Brief Synopsis: Under the pretense of scientific research, doctors in Nazi Germany conducted gruesome experiments on human beings with mostly...
Metropolis - The Power of Cities
Produced by: Tangram, Pixcom
Brief Synopsis: The Power of Cities takes us to the very heart of urban life in the Mediterranean area, the hub of the ancient world. The mig...
METROPOLIS - The Power of Cities, Rome
Produced by: TANGRAM Christian Bauer Filmproduktion / Pixcom Productions
Brief Synopsis: Rom Das Herz des Imperiums Vor mehr als 2000 Jahren entstanden rund um das Mittelmeer die großen Metropolen der Antike, di...
METROPOLIS The Power Of Cities, Alexandria
Produced by: TANGRAM Christian Bauer Filmproduktion / Pixcom Productions
Brief Synopsis: Alexandria Das Zentrum des Wissens Vor mehr als 2000 Jahren entstanden rund um das Mittelmeer die großen Metropolen der An...
THE MIDDLE-EAST OF THEIR YOUTH
Produced by: AMIP
Brief Synopsis: Since the fall of Iraq, in neighboring countries, those who are now twenty, have promised themselves not to make the same mis...
The Miraculous Poison - the History of DDT
Produced by: Express TV-Production
Brief Synopsis: When DDT was developed 60 years ago, it was seen as a blessing. DDT would save mankind from diseases and starvation, and the ...
Morning Sun
Produced by: Long Bow Group/ITVS/ARTE/BBC/NAATA
Brief Synopsis: (BANFF 2003 Nominee) Using contemporary interviews, archival stills and footage, period feature films and theatrical works, "...
Moulin Rouge Forever
Produced by: AMPERSAND
Brief Synopsis: From the beginning, prostitutes, pimps, and all sorts of shady characters frequented the Moulin Rouge, as well as many member...
Mountains and Man
Produced by: Principal Films
Brief Synopsis: Since the early dawn of civilisation mountains have held man in wonder and fear. Their sheer size, strangeness of terrain an...
THE MUMMIES OF TAKLAMAKAN
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: For ten years a team of French and Chinese researchers has been excavating in the immense desert of Taklamakan in search of b...
MURDER AT HARVARD
Produced by: Spy Pond Productions
Brief Synopsis: How do we ever know for certain what happened in the past? Historian Simon Schama looks back to 1850, when Boston was turn...
The Murder of Emmett Till
Produced by: A Fireflight Media Production for American Experience/WGBH
Brief Synopsis: In 1955, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago whistled at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. Three days later, two white me...
Mystery in Stone - The Sphinx
Produced by: Digital Drama
Brief Synopsis: A huge rock in the middle of the desert - destined thousands of years ago to become the first colossal monument of mankind: t...
Mystic Women of the Middle Ages
Produced by: Redcanoe Productions In c
Brief Synopsis: The strange lives of medieval women mystics - Hilegard, Clare of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Bridget of Sweden, Julian of Nor...
THE MYTH OF ALBERT SPEER
Produced by: SPIEGEL TV GmbH
Brief Synopsis: Hitler's architect was the only Nazi in a leading position to accept responsibility for the crimes of the Third Reich and was...
Naturally Native
Produced by: Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc.
Brief Synopsis: NATURALLY NATIVE follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own bu...
Nazi Grand Prix
Produced by: JWM Productions
Brief Synopsis: This is the story of Richard Seaman, one of Britain's greatest-ever racing drivers. Seaman has been almost erased from histor...
NED KELLY: THE TRUE STORY
Produced by: Film Projects
Brief Synopsis: Ned Kellys exploits are well known and have made him into a folk hero and cultural icon, but was he an outlaw, a freedom fig...
ON THE TRAIL OF THE CELTS
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: The construction of a new high-speed train line in eastern Frace gave birth to a major archaeological dig, following the same...
One way ticket to the USSR
Produced by: AMPERSAND
Brief Synopsis: After World War II, thousands of French citizens were caught into a trap designed by Stalin and remained prisoners of the Sov...
Origin of Christianity
Produced by: Archipel 33
Brief Synopsis: Relying upon the only existing sources which bear witness to the history, "Origin of Christianity" tells the story of the eme...
The Original Mermaid
Produced by: Hilton Cordell Productions
Brief Synopsis: This is a story about a woman - once one of the worlds most famous people largely forgotten by history. Annette Kellerman ...
Pacification in Algeria
Produced by: Article
Brief Synopsis: Where does submission to authority end ? Where does individual responsibility start ? These are the questions faced by all pe...
Peter and Paul and The Christian Revolution
Produced by: Koval Films, LLC
Brief Synopsis: Two millennia ago, in the Roman province of Judea, Jesus was crucified by imperial troops. Thousands before him had suffered...
Pioneer Quest: Survivors of the Real West
Produced by: Frantic Films Corporation
Brief Synopsis: A follow-up to the series Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Real West, this documentary follows the lives of the Treadways and t...
A PLASTIC STORY, A short History of Plastic Surgery
Produced by: Adocs
Brief Synopsis: The very first descriptions of skin grafts date back to 800 b.c., in India, where they served to obstruct the facial hole res...
Poisonous Women
Produced by: Beyond Productions
Brief Synopsis: A gruesome journey into the minds of murderous women who choose poison as their weapon. Poison is convenient, non-confrontat...
PORTRAIT OF A PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID LACHAPELLE
Produced by: MOONDANCE FILMS
Brief Synopsis: Profile of American Surrealist photographer, David LaChapelle, whose mentor was legendary Pop artist, Andy Warhol. LaChapelle...
Quest for the Bay
Produced by: Frantic Films Corporation
Brief Synopsis: A living history documentary series that follows eight Canadians as they travel in a York boat from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay as...
QUEST FOR THE LOST PHARAOH
Produced by: GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Brief Synopsis: More than four thousand years ago four Egyptian kings from the sixth Dynasty vanished into history without a trace. "Quest fo...
Race - The Power of an Illusion
Produced by: California Newsreel
Brief Synopsis: RACE - THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION A California Newsreel production in association with the Independent Television Service(IT...
Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of The Big 8
Produced by: Markham Street Films Inc.
Brief Synopsis: In the days before MTV, the electronic streetcorner was radio, and the hippest and loudest streetcorner in the world was Detr...
The Real Ned Kelly
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: The Real Ned Kelly tells the story of a man who fought to tear his country from the shackles of Mother England and free his p...
The Real Ned Kelly
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: The real story behind an Australian legend: Ned Kelly....
THE REICH UNDERGROUND
Produced by: SPIEGEL TV GmbH
Brief Synopsis: In 1944, the architects of the Third Reich build one of the most gigantic construction projects in the history of mankind: en...
Remember the Alamo
Produced by: An American Experience for WGBH/Boston.
Brief Synopsis: History books have traditionally painted the battle at the Alamo as a two-sided fight for Texas between the United States and...
RESIST - with the Living Theatre
Produced by: YC Aligator Film
Brief Synopsis: At the vanguard of a theatre revival movement in the sixties, bearer of humanist and pacifist ideas, the Living Theatre compa...
Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans
Produced by: Great Projects Film Company, Inc.
Brief Synopsis: Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans is a one-hour documentary about the overlooked history of armed Jewish resista...
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW: Episode 1 PROMISES BETRAYED (1865-1896)
Produced by: Co production of Quest Productions, VIdeoline and Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: Promises Betrayed begins with the end of the US Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, periods of promise for free bl...
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW: Episode 2 FIGHTING BACK (1896-1917)
Produced by: Co production of Quest Productions, VIdeoline and Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: Fighting Back, explores the dramatic rise of a successful black middle class and the determination of white supremacists to d...
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW: Episode 4 TERRROR AND TRIUMPH (1940-1954)
Produced by: Co production of Quest Productions, VIdeoline and Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: Terror and Triumph, examines the surge of black activism that took place after World War II. African Americans had promoted ...
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW: Episode 3 DON'T SHOUT TOO SOON
Produced by: Co production of Quest Productions, VIdeoline and Thirteen/WNET New York
Brief Synopsis: Don't Shout Too Soon, chronicles the years between World War I and II. With increased mob violence, lynchings and massacres,...
Royal Deaths and Diseases - Madness
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: A mad monarch is a national disaster. This programme explores the dramatic history of royal insanity in Britain, and its tre...
Running the Gauntlet - Sink the Manchester!
Produced by: Mallinson Sadler Productions
Brief Synopsis: Deep in the Mediterranean lies the 2nd World War British cruiser, HMS Manchester. Her sinking cost lives and the career of he...
Running With The Herd
Produced by: Gl/Oneway
Brief Synopsis: RUNNING WITH THE HERD A GL/Oneway Production in association with RUV, DR, NRK, YLE, TV4 and ZDF-ARTE (1 x 56 min) Running...
Russia's Nightmare - The Sinking of the KURSK.
Produced by: L.E.Vision
Brief Synopsis: The film follows the highly risky salvage operation of the wreck of the Russian atomic submarine KURSK from the bottom of the...
SAS: The Real Story
Produced by: Windfall Films
Brief Synopsis: This is the remarkable story of Britain's elite special forces regiment told by the soldiers themselves. Each film covers a d...
SCENT MAKE SENSE
Produced by: Cimadis
Brief Synopsis: Odors
the good, the not quite so good and the categorically bad
we perceive them just as much as we make them
In short, we...
Seabiscuit
Produced by: American Experience for WGBH/Boston
Brief Synopsis: Despite his boxy build, stumpy legs, stragglytail, and ungainly gait, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred ...
Search Engine The Aids
Produced by: LES FILMS À LOU
Brief Synopsis: "what exactly are we looking for ?" - How would you say that ? - The idea is to explore the Net, galleries, laboratories an...
Search For The Lost City Of Gold
Produced by: Caravan Films
Brief Synopsis: For more than four centuries explorers, adventurers, archaeologists and warrior-priests have searched for the gold and riches...
SEX IN A COLD CLIMATE
Produced by: TESTIMONY FILMS
Brief Synopsis: Groundbreaking historical documentary on the tragedy of young women sent away to Magdalene Homes run by the Sisters of Mercy ...
The Shadow of Mary Poppins
Produced by: Hilton Cordell Productions
Brief Synopsis: The Shadow of Mary Poppins explores the extraordinary relationship between the life of Australian writer, Pamela Travers, and...
Shadows of the Past
Produced by: Express TV-Production
Brief Synopsis: Three different stories about reconciliation in South Africa from a reconciliation camp with black, coloured and white high...
Shamrock & Swastika
Produced by: akajava films
Brief Synopsis: A new look at the Irish Republican Armys collaboration with Germany during WWII. The two were joined not by a mutual regard...
Singer, A Dangerous Mind
Produced by: Serendipity Productions
Brief Synopsis: Peter Singer has been described in The New York Times as "the most dangerous man in the world". At a time when medical scie...
Sink the Manchester!
Produced by: Mallinson Sadler Productions
Brief Synopsis: Deep in the Mediterranean lies the British cruiser, HMS Manchester. Her controversial sinking during WW2 by her Captain is r...
Speed Machines
Produced by: Flashback Television for Channel 4 in association with Discovery Channel UK
Brief Synopsis: Speed Machines is a new series on the history of speed and the intense rivalry between different ships, planes, cars and trai...
Sphinx - Legends of History: The Obscure Mission of Vasco da Gama
Produced by: Atlantis Film
Brief Synopsis: When Vasco da Gama left the stormy Algarve coast with his fleet on 8 July 1479, nobody knew whether he would succeed in reach...
Stalin - A Trilogy
Produced by: Loopfilm
Brief Synopsis: Beside Hitler, he is regarded the second great murderer of the 20th century. Up to 20 million people lost their lives during ...
Stories From The Stone Age
Produced by: Beyond Productions in association with S4C and S4C International
Brief Synopsis: STORIES FROM THE STONE AGE is a fascinating journey through the Ages of man from primitive hunter to urban settler. We fol...
Straight From the Heart - The Story of Christiaan Barnard
Produced by: Adastra Productions
Brief Synopsis: The story of Christiaan Barnard, the worlds first human heart transplant surgeon. The film traces his life from humble begi...
The Strangest Viking
Produced by: 3BM Television
Brief Synopsis: In 865AD a great Viking army invaded Britain. At the head of the army was a mysterious, fearsome warlord called Ivarr, known ...
The Sun Worshippers
Produced by: Caledonia, Sterne & Wyld
Brief Synopsis: David Hill and Robert Adamson produced more than 3,000 photographs, lit only by the sun, in just three years in Edinburgh in ...
This is not Einstein
Produced by: LA COMPAGNIE DES TAXI-BROUSSE
Brief Synopsis: Physics tries to understand natures laws It imagines models, builds sometimes imposing representations, sometimes lame, whic...
The Thursday Club
Produced by: George Csicsery Productions
Brief Synopsis: Retired Oakland, California police officers who battled antiwar demonstrators and Black Panthers during the tumultuous 1960s ...
Time Commanders: Gangamela
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: A military strategy show where ordinary members of the public can go toe-to-toe with the greatest generals from history and, ...
Time Commanders: Telamon
Produced by: Lion Television
Brief Synopsis: A military strategy show where ordinary members of the public can go toe-to-toe with the greatest generals from history and, ...
TINTOWN
Produced by: akajava films
Brief Synopsis: Tintown is an oral history of Ireland's World War II internment camp where captured Allied and German soldiers were imprisone...
Touching the Sky
Produced by: Vidicom
Brief Synopsis: Touching the Sky The Wrights were not the first to fly and Lindbergh was not the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. ...
Troop 214
Produced by: George Csicsery Productions
Brief Synopsis: Communist Pioneer nostalgia meets patriotic Hungarian Scouts in a duel of childhood myths and songs tempered by tragic person...
TRUE WHISPERS: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers
Produced by: Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc.
Brief Synopsis: TRUE WHISPERS tells the personal story of the World War II Navajo Code Talkers, some 400 Navajo youths, many hardly more than...
Unlocking the Past
Produced by: Alliance Atlantis
Brief Synopsis: Countless explorers, scholars and adventurers have journeyed in search of the secrets of the past. But until recently much w...
VARIAN AND PUTZI: A Twentieth Century Tale
Produced by: Richard Kaplan Productions
Brief Synopsis: A CINEMATIC MIX OF BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY that examines the lives of Varian Fry and Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl hero and anti-h...
Vesuvius, deadly fury
Produced by: LA COMPAGNIE DES TAXI-BROUSSE
Brief Synopsis: On the 24th August 79 AD, the eruption of Vesuvius went down in history. The prosperous Roman city of Pompeii was totally era...
Volks Vacation - Hitler's Seaside resort for 20,000
Produced by: LOOKS Film & TV
Brief Synopsis: In 1936 work began on the largest hotel complex in the world. The site was Prora, on the east coast of the Baltic island of R...
War Requiem in Peenemünde
Produced by: LOOKS Film & TV
Brief Synopsis: On 28 september 2002, the sixtieth anniversary of the first successful launch of an A4 (V2) rocket, Benjamins Britten's War R...
WAR WOMEN
Produced by: Eagle Media Productions
Brief Synopsis: This is the first of four 50 minute programmes about women in conflict made as a co-production between EMP and the BBC/Flexte...
Warrior Women
Produced by: An October Films Production
Brief Synopsis: Brought to the screen by television's most famous "warrior princess" Lucy Lawless, this series of five films brings to life h...
Who Wrote the New Testament
Produced by: Opus Television
Brief Synopsis: Jesus of Nazareth never committed a single word to paper. The New Testament was written by a collection of individuals many ...
Whose is This Song?
Produced by: Adela Media Film & TV Productions Company
Brief Synopsis: A funny, dramatic and tragicomic search for the truth about a Song, that everybody in the Balkans claims it is theirs. A Song...
WITCHES - Magic, Myth, Reality
Produced by: L.E.Vision
Brief Synopsis: Three-part documentary drama series tracing the history of the belief in witchcraft, the persecution of witches and the renew...
World Cup '78
Produced by: A Cuatro Cabezas Production
Brief Synopsis: Organized within the framework of the bloodiest military dictatorship in Latin American history. World Cup 1978 was much more...
Yank Tanks: Cubanismo
Produced by: Blue Collar Films
Brief Synopsis: YANK TANKS: CUBANISMO A Blue Collar Films production (1 x 70/55 min) Selected for the 2003 MOMA Documentary Fortnight, t...
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Produced by: Movimento
Brief Synopsis: Yves Saint Laurent has truly marked the spirit of his era. For over half a century his influence has spread all over the worl...
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