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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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