Cited Work

1945 The Year That Changed the World

Production Company

Fulcrum Wingspan Ltd

Producer

Tracey Gardiner

Archive Researcher (s)

Rachel Seaford

Duration

45' x 5 episodes

First Shown

04/04/05 UK TV History

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

1945 was a tumultuous year. It saw fierce fighting, peace and the beginnings of a new world order. The Allies were determined to inflict total defeat on their enemies, at any cost. But following Victory the big three Britain, American and the Soviet Union fought each other for supremacy. The shape of the world we live in today is the legacy of events of 1945.  

Reasons for Submission

The series was the best performing programme in its slot in the year.The programme was widely previewed and reviewed. “Superb documentary series” (The Times); “…powerful first hand stories, talking head commentaries and superb news footage” (Daily Telegraph); “Don’t miss the start of a fine new series” (Daily Mail)”; “as powerful as it is exhaustive” (Sunday Times). Andy Whitman, the UKTV commissioning editor, said in Broadcast that it was the commission of which he was most proud: “Low budget story-telling at its absolute best”.  

Cited Work

55 Days: Escape from Saigon

Production Company

Flashback Television Ltd

Producer

Rachel Bell

Archive Researcher (s)

Tim Jordan

Duration

88'

First Shown

06/05/05 BBC2

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

This 90’ documentary traces the fortunes of five individuals during the events surrounding the US exit from Saigon in April 1975. The film combines personal testimony and dramatic re-enactment with a highly imaginative selection of archive film. For twenty years, the US guaranteed South Vietnam’s existence but as the communists advanced, many feared the US would cut and run. Those Vietnamese who had supported the Americans had most to fear. The US had promised to take care of them but exit strategies are notoriously unreliable. This film tells the story of the 55 days leading to the Fall of Saigon.

Reasons for Submission

The success of this powerful documentary was crucially dependant on the use of archive. The archive researcher, director and editor struck a balance between the most iconic images and less familiar archive. A wide range of source material was integrated with specially shot material in a subtle and creative way. Some contemporary images were so powerful (eg. the flight from Danang) they were allowed to speak for themselves. Elsewhere (eg. scene at the US Embassy gates) archive and re-enactment were combined to build drama in a way that was evocative but always true to the story and the source material.

Cited Work

A century of socialism / Le siècle des socialistes

Production Company

Cinétévé

Producer

Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, Philippe Barbenès

Archive Researcher (s)

Valérie Combard

Duration

109'

First Shown

30/04/05 France 3

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

April 2005, the Socialist Party (PS), a major player in the French democratic system, celebrates its centenary. From Jean Jaurès to François Mitterrand, from the social struggles of the 20s and 30s to the conquest of the presidency in the 80s, this documentary offers us to review a large and colourful part of French contemporary history.

Reasons for Submission

Mixing high quality archives meticulously selected by Valérie Combard from film libraries and personal collections, this documentary is an anthology of pictures and footage about socialism in France. An important programme which played to a large audience when aired on France 3.

Cited Work

A Very British Olympics

Production Company

BBC

Producer

Dominic Sutherland

Archive Researcher (s)

Angela Spindler-Brown

Duration

60'

First Shown

18/10/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

A documentary that tells the story of the last London Olympics in 1948. The world was a very different place then as it was recovering from the years of the WWII. London was under pressure but it did cope and staged glorious games. The British spirit and the sense of humour did help. The documentary and the archive footage manage to re-create the atmosphere and spirit of that time.

Reasons for Submission

The documentary is using archive material, mostly in colour, not see on our TV screens before. Although many productions make such claims, A Very British Olympics has footage which hasn't been seen on TV screens before. Thus the claim to fame: discovered colour footage used not for its own purposes but in the service of the story of London 1948 Olympics.

Cited Work

Auschwitz, the Nazis & the 'Final Solution'

Production Company

BBC, History Unit

Producer

Laurence Rees

Archive Researcher (s)

Declan Smith

Duration

50' x 6 episodes

First Shown

11/01/05 BBC2

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

It was the site of the largest mass murder the world has ever seen yet few people know its full history. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this landmark series charts the evolution of the camp and the mentality of the perpetrators, and shows how the place related to the Nazis overall campaign of extermination. With the help of computer graphics based on plans of the camp unearthed only in the 1990s, drama reconstructions of the key moments of decision and interviews with people who were there including former members of the SS. This series builds into the most complete history of Auschwitz ever made for television.

Reasons for Submission

In 'Auschwitz…' the archive was central to illustrating a complex and sensitve subject matter. The material was not only well sourced, but sensibly used, well summed up by James Walton in the Daily Telegraph of 12/1/05: 'Rees also uses archive film more precisely than some key series from television's golden age. If what we're seeing doesn't match exactly what we're hearing, he tells us so - something the 'World at War', for example, didn't always do.'  

Cited Work

Battle for Warsaw

Production Company

October Films

Producer

Wanda Koscia

Archive Researcher (s)

James Barker

Duration

49'

First Shown

01/08/05 Discovery Europe

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The Warsaw Uprising was one of the greatest and bloodiest urban battles of the Second World War. The Polish resistance Home Army fighters, many in their teens, fought to liberate their capital after five years of Nazi occupation from the retreating Germans. It was planned to last days, just until the arrival of the Red Army, now fast approaching the city. But the Germans stopped their retreat and Soviet help did not come. The cost was 80% of the city destroyed and a quarter of a million Poles dead.

Reasons for Submission

The majority of the footage used is original Polish underground resistance Home Army footage shot by teams of Polish film-makers at the time to document the uprising. A fraction of the footage shot survived; some was smuggled abroad, some dug out of the ruins of the destroyed city after the war. Also used is rare amateur footage filmed by partisans and German troops. This unique documentation has been rarely seen.  

Cited Work

Berlin - A Square, a Murder and a Famous Communist

Production Company

Britzka Film

Producer

Britta Wauer

Archive Researcher (s)

Britta Wauer, Jana Westmann

Duration

52'

First Shown

12/10/05 Arte

Country of Origin

Germany

Synopsis

A square in the heart of Berlin: Once gangsters, Communists, Nazis, prostitutes and Jews shared the same pavement. With a wealth of historical footage, comics and amazing protagonists the film unravels the area's big and small secrets and uncovers the destinies of those who lived there over the last century.  

Reasons for Submission

The film contains footage from over 30 different sources worldwide. Photos from private collections in combination with live reports from the public radio; animated drawings put together with moving images from the early 1930ies - this is a remarkable example for a fascinating documentary with a very modern looking - and of course the film tells a great story. Very exciting!

Cited Work

Bomber Boys: The Fighting Lancaster

Production Company

Frantic Films

Producer

Lynne Skromeda

Archive Researcher (s)

Elizabeth Klinck

Duration

45' x 4 episodes

First Shown

07/11/05 History TV

Country of Origin

Canada

Synopsis

Using a unique blend of living history elements, first-person interviews, CGI and never-before-seen footage from WWII, this dramatic four-part documentary series follows descendents of WWII veterans as they undergo training to become a Lancaster aircrew. While these new recruits struggle with 1940s discipline, we hear the harrowing anecdotes of the veterans who flew into the night skies over Occupied Europe to fight in some of the most critical battles of the war. As the two groups come together, a bridge is built between the generations, giving new understanding to the experiences of those who fought in the Second World War.  

Reasons for Submission

The history of the Commonwealth Air Training Progam had previously not been told from the perspective of the Canadians. Bomber Boys is a unique blend of traditional documentary story telling - archival material and interviews with the Lucky H Lancaster Bomber crew and "living history" re-creations with descendents of the Lucky H. Elizabeth Klinck was involved in both avenues of research - archival and editorial.

Cited Work

Breaking Point / Point de rupture

Production Company

Radio-Canada/CBC

Producer

Hubert Gendron

Archive Researcher (s)

Mia Webster, Louis L'heureux

Duration

90' x 2 episodes

First Shown

07/09/05 Radio-Canada/CBC

Country of Origin

Canada

Synopsis

Octobre 1995, Canada is in a state of shock. Just seven days before the referendum vote, the country is on the verge of breaking apart. For the first time, the YES camp is leading in the polls. No more than a month before, this seemed unthinkable. Those who were there will never forget this week, when Canada reached its Breaking Point.

Reasons for Submission

Painstakingly researched, involving thousands of Access to Information requests and 400 hours of interviews, features Jean Chrétien, Jacques Parizeau, Daniel Johnson, Jean Charest, Preston Manning, Deborah Grey and Brian Tobin, among others, providing their candid and "insider" views of this pivotal moment in Canada's federation. But the real stars of Breaking Point are the ordinary Canadians that share their emotions and insights about a national crisis that affected them personally and politically.

Cited Work

Canada's War In Colour

Production Company

Yap Films

Producer

Karen Shopsowitz (Supervising), Nataline Rodrigues; Executives - Pauline Duffy, Elliott Halpern

Archive Researcher (s)

Donna Dudinsky, Rebecca Ruddle

Duration

45' x 3 episodes

First Shown

11/01/05 CBC

Country of Origin

Canada

Synopsis

Canada's War in Colour is a three-part documentary series telling the compelling story of Canadians, at war and at home, through letters and diaries and the exclusive use of original colour movie footage.

Reasons for Submission

This is an important historical series because the use of original colour movie footage gives Canadians a unique and personal glimpse of how the war had an effect on their country.

Cited Work

Charles de Gaulle, a French destiny / Charles de Gaulle, un destin français

Production Company

Gaumont Pathé Archives

Producer

Manuela Padoan

Archive Researcher (s)

Christian Lamet, Nathalie Sitko

Duration

80'

First Shown

April 2005, DVD release by EMI Music

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

The ultimate documentary about Général de Gaulle, elected "Frenchman of the Century" in March 2005. This programme tells us in details the story of a man whose destiny is inextricably linked with that of Fance.

Reasons for Submission

This programme made out of black/white and coulour archive footage was produced exclusively for the DVD market. DVD bonuses include the most important speeches of the general and the president as well as lots of testimonies of contemporary witnesses.  

Cited Work

Chronicle of Red Tuscany (1982-2004) / Il fare politica

Production Company

RTBF Belgian TV

Producer

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

86'

First Shown

8/10/05 RTBF- Channel LA DEUX

Country of Origin

Belgium

Synopsis

Fabiana, Carlo, Claudio and Vincenzo … I met them in 1982 in Mercatale, their village in Tuscany, near Florence. They were aged between 25 and 45 and were cheerful militants in the Italian Communist Party, that strange party which has made its mark on history and which was both a school and a family for them. I have filmed in Mercatale every two or three years for over 20 years (1982/2004). The film takes the “long view” of their political and personal development against the backdrop of village life. Stories with both human and political interest spanning over a quarter of a century with relevance for present day issues...  

Reasons for Submission

Because the archives here are not only used to illustrate the subject matter of the film, they are the basis of the film itself, allowing the confrontation of two epochs.

Cited Work

Churchill: The Forgotten Years

Production Company

Blakeway Productions

Producer

Russell Barnes

Archive Researcher (s)

Rosalind Bentley

Duration

90'

First Shown

16/02/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Churchill The Forgotten Years tells the story of the life of Winston Churchill from the end of World War 2 until his death in 1965. Presented by Professor David Reynolds of Cambridge University, it paints a moving picture of a man desperate to ensure his place in history, and reluctant to leave the world stage. The film shows how Churchill's family life suffered as the great old man strove to stay on as Prime Minister, and how he fought off his colleagues who wanted to take his job. It also relates how Churchill made certain that his view of the Second World War would become widely accepted, as he wrote a definitive history of the conflict. The programme ends with a moving account of his death.  

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Cited Work

Churchills Bodyguard

Production Company

Nugus/Martin Productions Ltd

Producer

Philip Nugus

Archive Researcher (s)

George Marshall, Gill Shepherd

Duration

45' x 13 episodes

First Shown

21/11/05 UKTV History

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The unpublished memoirs of Walter Thompson who was Winston Churchill's Bodyguard for eighteen years saving him from previously unseen assassination attempts and brushes with death. The memoirs were found recently in the loft of a Somerset farmhouse. Together they travelled thousands of miles on precarious journeys to meet Stalin Roosevelt and other world leaders. Together they rode with Lawrence of Arabia, dodged German assassins, were nearly shot down by enemy aircraft, lone gunmen, U-boats and IRA hitmen. This is a story of the political upheavals of the 20th century, Churchill's constant brushes with death and the role played by an ex post office messenger in preventing an early end to his life.

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Cold War Dirty Science

Production Company

Windfall Films Ltd

Producer

Saskia Baron

Archive Researcher (s)

Saskia Baron, Helen Grinstead

Duration

59'

First Shown

19/10/05 five

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

It should have been a time of celebrations as peace was declared in 1945. Instead, the British military machine geared up for another war, one that would be fought with a new arsenal of deadly chemical and biological weapons. What was the thinking behind Britain’s post-war weapons of mass destruction policy? Denis Healey, Tam Dalyell, and the human guinea pigs who found themselves unknowingly subjected to plague germs and nerve gas look back on a dark chapter in our history. In the dying days of World War II, undercover Allied agents engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture the best and brightest of Germany’s scientific community. With Hitler’s army in retreat, British American, and Russian forces set their sights on the architects of the Nazis’ advanced “vengeance” weapons – high-tech aeroplanes, sophisticated rockets and even, perhaps, a German atomic bomb. The Hunt for Hitler’s Scientists tells the story of this crucial pursuit through real-life accounts of daring raids, rare archival footage, vivid eyewitness testimony and visits to the Nazis’ technological hideaways.

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Days that Shook the World

Production Company

Lion Television

Producer

Stuart Elliot

Archive Researcher (s)

Steve Bergson

Duration

60' x 8 episodes

First Shown

01/12/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

In the space of just four minutes, at a tiny Atoll in the Pacific Ocean called Midway, the entire course of World War Two was transformed. On 4th June 1942 – just six months after Pearl Harbour – the massed forces of the US and Japanese fleets met for a decisive showdown. Thanks to both side’s use of a relatively new piece of technology – the aircraft carrier – this battle would be decided without the ships of either fleet ever coming within sight of each other. At Midway, America’s carrier pilots destroyed Japan’s best ships and killed nearly four thousand men - the cream of Japan’s naval elite. It was a blow the Japanese would never recover from, making the outcome of the conflict in the Pacific virtually inevitable and releasing precious American military resources for the conflict in Europe.

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Cited Work

Days that Shook the World

Production Company

Lion Television Scotland

Producer

Sarah Barclay

Archive Researcher (s)

Cara Warwick, Steve Bergson

Duration

30' x 10 episodes

First Shown

8/12/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

It is Christmas Day 1989. In Bucharest, Romania, a firing squad takes aim. Nicolae Ceaucescu, dictator of the Romanian people, falls dead alongside his wife Elena. Within hours, pictures of the bullet-riddled bodies are flashed around the world, as the last of the Eastern European states declares its independence of Communist rule and foreshadows the death of the Soviet dream.

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Cited Work

Dr. Goebbels speaks

Production Company

Spiegel TV

Producer

Michael Kloft

Archive Researcher (s)

Michael Kloft

Duration

98'

First Shown

08/05/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

Germany

Synopsis

Life of Hitler's notorious minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels according to his extensive diaries. Kenneth Branagh reads excerpts, illustrated with archive footage.

Reasons for Submission

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Frontier of Dreams

Production Company

Whakapapa Productions

Producer

Ray Waru, Vincent Burke

Archive Researcher (s)

David Filer

Duration

50' x 10

First Shown

26/11/05 TV One (NZ)

Country of Origin

New Zealand

Synopsis

Frontier of Dreams is a television history of New Zealand in 13 episodes. Episode 10 covers 1935 to 1949 - the rule of the first Labour Government and the development of the ‘Welfare State’, followed by New Zealand’s involvement in the Second World War. Part 1: Labour Party wins the 1935 election; impact on Maori; radical social reforms Part 2: Economic recovery; role of radio; Centennial Exhibition; death of the Prime Minister Part 3: War declared; Maori response; sailors and airmen in action; catastrophes for the army in Greece and Crete Part 4: War in the Pacific; victory in North Africa; the Americans in New Zealand; the ‘Home Front’ Part 5: Fighting in Italy; post-war problems; Labour defeated in the 1949 election.

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History of Singapore

Production Company

Lion Television

Producer

Tim Lambert

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

47' x 4 episodes

First Shown

04/12/05 Discovery Network Asia

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The remarkable story of Singapore from the birth of nationalism in China through the trauma of World War Two and the struggle for independence first from the British and then the painful split from Malaysia - featuring remarkable interviews with the nations founders including Lee Kuan Yew. Nationalism arrived in Singapore in 1901 with Sun Yat Sen. Japan’s invasion of China in the 1930’s further fuelled this, triggering a nationalist outpouring. Japan soon attacked the small island. The seemingly impregnable island fortress was overrun in a trice and Britain surrendered Singapore in February 1942. The Japanese killed some 50,000 Singaporean Chinese in a little known massacre at Sook Ching. The young Lee Kwan Yew was an eye-witness. After the war, it was clear that the British no longer had the funds for the Empire and it was time for Singaporeans to fill the political vacuum. A new professional class of people like Lee Kuan Yew became the first Singaporean nationalists - they regarded Singapore as their homeland, neither China nor India. The political climate in the mid 1950’s was intense as Lee Kuan Yew and and Lim Chin Siong battled for the allegiance of Singaporean voters. Viewers learn of the threat of communism, Singapore’s relationship with and separation from Malaya, and the eventual formation of an independent government. And the film answers the intriguing question - why Lee Kuan Yew cried as he announced Singapore's independence in 1965.

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Hitler in Colour

Production Company

TWI

Producer

David Batty

Archive Researcher (s)

Adrian Wood, Polly Pettit, Victor Belyakov

Duration

71'

First Shown

30/04/05 ITV3

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

For 12 years one man’s overpowering personality dominated the German nation. In just seven years he led his people to European conquest and to the brink of creating a New World Order. He brought a reign of terror to millions. 2005 sees the 60th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s death and the ignominious end of his dream of a Thousand Year Reich. To mark this chilling occasion Hitler in Colour, tells the story of the rise and fall of a man who, as the Nazi Fuhrer, devastated the lives of countless numbers of people around the world and brought death and suffering to millions.

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Hollywood's Magical Island-Catalina

Production Company

Blue Water Entertainment Inc

Producer

Greg Reitman

Archive Researcher (s)

Jessica Berman-Bogdan

Duration

52'

First Shown

March 2005

Country of Origin

USA

Synopsis

Hollywood's Magical Island-Catalina through the remarkable eye of first time film director, Greg Reitman, we get a first hand glimpse of The Magic Isle. While exploring historical, social, and environmental changes, the film captures the mystical splendors, natural beauty and romance of Santa Catalina Island. Using a mix of rare 16mm, archival film and old black and white stills, inter-cut with interviews of islanders, historians and celebrities; the viewer is taken on a journey during America’s golden era. It begins with the acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919 led by William Wrigley, Jr. He set a course for Catalina’s future in the world of art, sports, music and entertainment that was unmatched in US history even through present day. The film documents architectural achievements, many are first of a kind buildings and innovations that transformed Catalina from a simple island into a modern day state-of-the-art playground. The film highlights many of the individuals including stars of the Big Band Era, Marilyn Monroe, and the island’s role as Hollywood’s secret playground for the stars. The island even played a role in helping to elect a President. We witness the island’s tragedy and heartache – deftly captured in the film with heartfelt interviews and a score that tugs at the emotions. Utilizing interviews with Jean-Michel Cousteau, heirs of the Wrigley family, residents and visitors of the island; we learn of William Wrigley, Jr’s dream of preserving the island’s natural beauty as well as providing a magical place for all to enjoy. The film concludes with Art Good Jazz Trax, Fender’s Catalina Island Blues Festival, and a visual kaleidoscope of modern day Catalina Island as an ecological paradise highlighting the revival of the island as a place of leisure and entertainment.

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How Sport Shook Up the World

Production Company

Granada Sport

Producer

Tony Pastor

Archive Researcher (s)

John Smith

Duration

25' x 3 episodes

First Shown

03/10/05 Channel 4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Sport and the history of South Africa are inextricably linked. The Basil D’Oliveira affair was crucial in the isolation of the apartheid regime in world politics. Following the release of Nelson Mandela, the home country triumph in the Rugby World Cup of 1995 saw the symbolic and literal birth of the Rainbow Nation. Benjamin Zephaniah looks back at the fascinating role played by sport in the struggle for freedom with Henry Olonga and Simon Hughes. The archive is used to tell a complex story, with especially creative use of sound to bring the essence of the events to the viewers’ attention. The more recent archive is also well-utilised in showing the wider continuing relevance of the South African experience, especially in the case of crisis-torn neighbour Zimbabwe.

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International Mystery of the Achille Lauro (Intrigo internazionale - L'affaire Achille Lauro0

Production Company

Rai Educational and Wilder

Producer

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

60'

First Shown

2005, RAI

Country of Origin

Italy

Synopsis

The International Mystery of the "Achille Lauro".

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Intimate portrait: General de Gaulle

Production Company

Flach Film

Producer

Agnès Vicariot

Archive Researcher (s)

Agnès Vicariot

Duration

100'

First Shown

24/10/05 France 3

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

Général de Gaulle is a giant in the History of France. Though most of his actions and thoughts have become legendary, his personality still stands as an enigma. This documentary shows the other side of the great man. Amiral de Gaulle, the Général's son tells us about his personal memories and opens the doors of the places where the family lived: Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, the Palais de l'Elysée, their home in London during WW2, ... Through unseen family archives, revelations and moving confidences we discover the other side of the Général, a man whose destiny once melted with France's history.

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Karol Wojtyla - A Pope in History

Production Company

Rai Trade

Producer

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

80'

First Shown

2005 RAI

Country of Origin

Italy

Synopsis

Attending his seminary in secret, he experienced both Nazism and Communism. As archbishop of Crakow, he was a protagonist of Polish history. He became Pope in 1978, the first non-Italian Pope since 1522. Who is Karol Wojtyla, who is John Paul II? This films tells about the man, the archbishop, the Pope; it paints a faithful portrait of his pontificate through the description of main issues in his papacy, the travels, the words said to beg for peace and justice. Since 11 october 1978, when, during the conclave, the archbishop Stefan Wyszynski told him "if you will be called, accept. You will have to take the Church into the Third Millenium".

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Lost Decade Season: Little Kinsey

Production Company

Testimony Films

Producer

Steve Humphries

Archive Researcher (s)

Steve Humphries, Nick Maddocks

Duration

60'

First Shown

05/10/05 BBC4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Little Kinsey lifts the lid on the secret world of sex in Britain in the aftermath of World War 2. It weaves together the extraordinary findings of the nation's first sex survey Little Kinsey, undertaken by Mass Observation in 1949, with the intimate sexual testimony of those who lived and loved through those years.

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Love Child

Production Company

Testimony Films

Producer

Steve Humphries

Archive Researcher (s)

Mary Parsons

Duration

60' x 2 episodes

First Shown

16/01/05 ITV1

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The heart rending story of adption in Britain during the past sixty years. The stigma of illegitimacy forced many young unmarried mothers to hand over their babies for adoption. But many dreamt of one day being reunited. So too did their adpted children. We follow their search for each other. For some there is a happy ending, for others, further heartbreak.

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Paris Colours

Production Company

Image et Compagnie

Producer

Serge Moati

Archive Researcher (s)

Brigitte Gruel

Duration

52'

First Shown

28/06/05 France 3

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

This documentary tells us about another Paris, another France which is still fascinating today. We will examine closely a period, the one we are living now, and a country, our country. THe story starts at the end of the XIXth century and is still being written nowadays; the history of the communities, the history of those who make the singularity of a such a country like France. The history of men and women who came from another part of the world or who were born here, in Paris, in France.

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Prince Eddy

Production Company

Lion Television

Producer

Gary Hughes

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

50'

First Shown

14/11/05 Channel 4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Prince Eddy was the Great uncle of our present Queen, and yet the Royal Family never talks about him. Had he not died in 1892, he would have become king instead of his shy younger brother George V. But in the years since, Eddy’s reputation has become severely tarnished as people have sought to turn him into the nightmare of the Victorian age. Prince Eddy became a byword for the dark and decadent side of Victorian life. Rumoured to be involved in a notorious sex scandal and eventually even accused of being Jack the Ripper, Eddy’s reputation grew horns and a tale. The truth was very different. This revealing film uses newly discovered letters written by Prince Eddy himself, as well as newly discovered and archive photographs, to explore whether his early death saved Britain from a monster, or cheated us of a good king. For the first time Eddy’s own words serve in his defence in a fresh investigation of this remarkable king we never had.

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Revealed

Production Company

Testimony Films

Producer

Steve Humphries

Archive Researcher (s)

Nick Maddocks

Duration

60' x 4 episodes

First Shown

03/05/05 five

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Bad Boys of the Blitz tells for the first time the story of the big increase in crime and the rise of the criminal underworld in wartime Britain. Featuring the testimony of Mad Frankie Fraser along with other wartime villains and delinquents it combines dramatic stories with period achive to create a vivid picture of a crisis of law and order on the home front. It shows how crime peaked during the blitz, and how the police, the government and the prison service combined to successfully crack down on crime by the time war ended.

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Cited Work

Revealed

Production Company

Testimony Films

Producer

Steve Humphries

Archive Researcher (s)

Nick Maddocks

Duration

60' x 6 episodes

First Shown

06/12/05 five

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The secret history of the business of love in Brtain. When the first marriage bureau opened in 1939 it was shocking and shameful. Sixty five years later speed dating and internet dating are highly fashionable and used by millins. Featurning rare archive and an amazing cast of charactersthis documentary charts the extraordinary rise of organised dating.

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Road to Tokyo

Production Company

Film Australia

Producer

Sally Regan

Archive Researcher (s)

Graham Shirley, Lisa Savage, Polly Petit, Jane Manning, Joanna Penglase, Anna Nolan, Naomi Hall

Duration

56'

First Shown

18/08/05 ABC TV

Country of Origin

Australia

Synopsis

By late 1944, the worst of World War Two appears to be over. But the conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will be a long road to Tokyo for the Allies... Combining interviews and vivid archival footage, this is an eyewitness account of an often forgotten episode in history, providing a social context as well as a military overview of the titanic struggle to defeat Japan. For Australia, it is signposted with some of the bloodiest campaigns and most appalling events of the war - and the memory of 8031 POWs who would never come home.

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Ronnie Biggs: The Last Escape?

Production Company

North One Television

Producer

Don Perretta

Archive Researcher (s)

Susan Huxley

Duration

60'

First Shown

14/03/05 Sky1

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The story of Britain's most notorious fugitive, as told by the people who were there - including the mastermind behind the crime (Bruce Reynolds), the journalist who found him in Rio (Colin Mackenzie) and the man who kidnapped him (John Miller) - as well has friends and family.  

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Scannal

Production Company

RTÉ - Radio Telefís Éireann

Producer

Kevin Cummins

Archive Researcher (s)

Garry MacDonncha, Kevin Cummins

Duration

26 x 6 episodes

First Shown

03/10/05 RTÉ 1

Country of Origin

Ireland

Synopsis

Programme 3 in the Scannal series looks back at the kidnapping of Dr. Tiede Herrema. In Ireland 30 years ago, on the 3rd October 1975, a little known Dutch industrialist was kidnapped on his way from his Limerick home to the multinational factory which he managed. Herrema was to become a household name, not only in Ireland, but around the world, as the international press headlined the tangled saga of love, politics and 1970s style republican terrorism in what was to become the longest running kidnapping in recent Irish history. Scannal brings us back to those dramatic days & nights. Talks to the people who were there – on the outside looking in - Government Ministers, negotiators & even reporters, but also we talk exclusively with two of the people at the centre of the drama - Tiede & his wife Elisabeth Herrema

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That part of the soul called body: Karol Wojtyla's calvary (Quella parte di anima chiamata corpo: il calvario di Karol Wojtyla)

Production Company

Rai Educational

Producer

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

60'

First Shown

2005 RAI

Country of Origin

Italy

Synopsis

The story of Pope John Paul

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The American friend

Production Company

Televisió de Catalunya

Producer

Sílvia Pairó

Archive Researcher (s)

Teresa Ibars

Duration

68'

First Shown

13/03/05 TV3, Televisió de Catalunya

Country of Origin

Spain

Synopsis

A documentary about the complex and sometimes rocky relationship between Spain and the United States over the last fifty years.

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The Boat and the Bomb

Production Company

Greenpeace International

Producer

Martin Atkin

Archive Researcher (s)

Bryonie Baxter, Lloyd Davies

Duration

52'

First Shown

10/07/05 Fiji

Country of Origin

The Netherlands

Synopsis

Documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, by agents of the French government in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. On the night of July 10 1985 the Rainbow Warrior had been docked in harbour for three days while preparations for the protest voyage to the nuclear test site at Moruroa Atoll were finalised. Just before midnight two bombs exploded sinking the ship and killing cameraman Fernando Pereira.

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The Concert for Bangladesh

Production Company

Ascent Media

Producer

Olivia Harrison

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

45'

First Shown

09/12/05 BBC2

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

In 1971, former Beatle, George Harrison organised The Concert for Bagladesh. At that time, the country was ravaged by floods, famine and civil war, which left 10 million people fleeing their home. The concert was one of the most ambitious humanitarian efforts in music history. The concert, film and album produced an extraordinary contribution for UNICEF.

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The Drama of Dresden

Production Company

Broadview TV GmbH

Producer

Leopold Hoesch

Archive Researcher (s)

Nina Hetzer

Duration

90'

First Shown

08/02/05 ZDF

Country of Origin

Germany

Synopsis

It took exactly one night and one day. One night and one day only to entirely destroy, what had been built up in centuries. Dresden, nicknamed 'Florence on the Elbe river', used to be a baroque-style synthesis of the arts and one of the few cities to be largely spared by the devastating bomb attacks of World War II for the longest time. Within just 24 hours, the ancient metropolis drowned in debris. More than 25.000 people met an atrocious fatality in this disastrous fire storm.

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The Face of Victory

Production Company

Primitive Entertainment/Barna-Alper Productions

Producer

Laszlo Barna, Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon

Archive Researcher (s)

Elizabeth Klinck

Duration

72'

First Shown

24/10/05 History Television

Country of Origin

Canada

Synopsis

World War II was the most destructive bloodletting the world has ever known, leaving 55 million dead, and millions more on the edge of starvation, in prison, orphaned and homeless. The war’s end brought euphoria to the leaders and citizens of the winning countries – as we know from the famous images of VE and VJ Days. But the reality meant imprisonment for millions on the losing sides; hunger and privation for millions more who were caught in the middle. The Face of Victory is a portrait, told entirely in photographs, of the variegated surface of that more complex reality.

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The hidden face of the liberators (La fache cachée del Libérateurs)

Production Company

Program33

Producer

Fabrice Coat

Archive Researcher (s)

Christine Loiseau

Duration

54'

First Shown

December 2005 France3

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

Everyone remembers the joyful images of the liberation of Europe, particularly that of France by the American army in 1944 and 1945. This perfect picture is deeply rooted in the collective memory through 60 years of constant broadcast of archive footage and fiction movies. One American researcher just brought the myth down by publishing a book revealing "the hidden side of the liberators". Between 1942 and 1945, some 17,000 women and children are thought to have been raped by American soldiers in the United Kingdom, in France and in Germany.

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The Hunt For Hitler's Scientists

Production Company

Windfall Films Ltd

Producer

Mark Radice

Archive Researcher (s)

Emily Roe

Duration

48'

First Shown

10/05/05 five

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The Hunt for Hitler’s Scientists in the dying days of World War II, undercover Allied agents engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture the best and brightest of Germany’s scientific community. With Hitler’s army in retreat, British American, and Russian forces set their sights on the architects of the Nazis’ advanced “vengeance” weapons – high-tech aeroplanes, sophisticated rockets and even, perhaps, a German atomic bomb. The Hunt for Hitler’s Scientists tells the story of this crucial pursuit through real-life accounts of daring raids, rare archival footage, vivid eyewitness testimony and visits to the Nazis’ technological hideaways.

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The Last Atomic Bomb

Production Company

Richter Productions Inc

Producer

Robert Richter

Archive Researcher (s)

Bonnie Rowan

Duration

92'

First Shown

09/08/05 Nagasaki, Japan Atomic Bomb Museum

Country of Origin

USA

Synopsis

A story of horror and hope, profiling a Nagasaki bomb survivor and a college student dedicated to keeping the survivor's story and nuclear abolition work alive, the documentary interweaves their lives with the US decision to use the bomb, censorship in the US and Japan about the bomb and its effects, the Cold War nuclear weapons build up, and today's nuclear proliferation issues.

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The Last Days of the Nazis

Production Company

Granite Productions

Producer

Ed Harriman

Archive Researcher (s)

Toby Welfare

Duration

48' x 2 episodes

First Shown

18/04/05 Sky 1

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Eyewitnesses recall how, after Hitler's death, the top Nazis fled the advancing Russians. Hitler's body was burnt outside his bunker, and his skull eventually taken to Moscow. Old men and boys defend Berlin, as Goebbels and his wife poison their children before committing suicide. Later, Goering and Himmler meet similar fates, and, with the arrest of Doenitz, the last days of the Nazis have truly arrived.

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The Life of an Agent

Production Company

Bologna Film

Producer

Papp Gábor Zsigmond

Archive Researcher (s)

Papp Gábor Zsigmond, Tamási Miklós

Duration

54' (10-15' x 4 episodes)

First Shown

June 2005, RTL Klub, Hungary

Country of Origin

Hungary

Synopsis

During the communist era hundreds of propaganda and instructional films as well as short and full-length feature films were produced in Hungary. These films addressed a wide range of subjects, providing guidance as to the appropriate methods of protecting the socialist state for Hungarian policemen, border guards and counter-intelligence staff. Among others, their subjects included the expert illustration of a clandestine home raid, the operative shadowing of select target persons, the installation of tapping devices, and the organisation of agents and denunciators. The film is divided into four sub-parts, treated in 20 minutes each. 1. Where to put the bug? 2. Introduction to raiding homes 3. Introduction to enlistment 4. Effective networking.

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The lost expedition

Production Company

A Crossing The Line Films Production

Producer

John Murray

Archive Researcher (s)

Duration

43'

First Shown

20/11/05 ARTE

Country of Origin

Ireland

Synopsis

In 1845 Sir John Franklin, with two ships and 132 men, set out to find a route to Asia through the arctic – the fabled Northwest Passage. The expedition vanished. Despite a £30m search in the 19th century, a series of scientific expeditions in the 20th century and new investigations in the 21st, the mystery of what happened to the Franklin arctic expedition has still not been solved. The first news of the expedition came nine years after they had left England and it was not what the British wanted to hear. The ships were lost, all the men were dead and worst of all there was evidence of cannibalism. What should have been a national disaster was now a national disgrace.

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The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon

Production Company

BBC

Producer

Annabel Hobley

Archive Researcher (s)

Kathy Manners

Duration

60' x 3 episodes

First Shown

21/01/05

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

An amazing discovery of 800 short films from the Edwardian Age is the basis for this magical new series. The films were rescued after lying forgotten in a cellar for over eighty years and restored to their original clarity by the British Film Institute. These 35mm films shot by pioneering Blackburn film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon take the viewer into a lost world. Presenter Dan Cruickshank uses the films to throw new light on Britain at work and play before the First World War, even tracking down descendants of people captured on the films.

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The Profile of an Era, China 1931-1945

Production Company

China Central Television

Producer

Wei Bin

Archive Researcher (s)

Zhu Lexian, Li Jifeng

Duration

30' x 3 episodes

First Shown

15/08/05 China Central Television

Country of Origin

China

Synopsis

To China, it is a specific period from 1931-1945. Since the Japanese invaded the North-east China in 1931, myriad Chinese and their families were forced to change their original life in the following 15 years. This documentary gathered the footage taken during the period as much as we could find so far, with assistance of the files about China in that specific era from the other media, and gave us an all-around and unfeigned panorama of China during those 15 years.

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The Russian Revolution in Colour

Production Company

IWC Media Ltd

Producer

Ian Lilley

Archive Researcher (s)

Alison McCallan

Duration

48' x 2 episodes

First Shown

22/03/05 five

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

The Russian Revolution in Colour was a pioneering documentary history series for Five, transmitted on consecutive Tuesday evenings in late March this year. Combining high quality dramatic reconstructions and painstakingly colourised archive, the series told the astonishing story of the Kronstadt sailors during the Russian Revolution and Civil War from 1917 to 1921. During these four tumultuous years of the sailors traveled a path from revolutionary enthusiasm to betrayal and execution. For the first time on mainstream British television this story was told with intelligence and emotion and - as the participants had experienced it – in colour.

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Timewatch

Production Company

Testimony Films

Producer

Steve Humphries

Archive Researcher (s)

Mary Parsons

Duration

50'

First Shown

18/11/05 BBC2

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

It began as a great adventure for evacuees sent to a safe haven overseas. It ended in the worst single disaster involving British children in the Second World War. This is the heart rending story of the sinking of the evacuee ship the SS Benares in 1940, told through the words of the last child survivors, complemented with long forgotten archive.

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Titanic: A Tale of Two Journeys

Production Company

The History Channel

Producer

Martin Morgan

Archive Researcher (s)

Toby Groom

Duration

47'

First Shown

18/10/05 The History Channel

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

This programme accounts two journeys involving Titanic: the journey which the great liner took in 1912; and the journey of a competition winner nearly 95 years on, to the wreck of Titanic, which lies 2½ miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tokyo: The Day the War Ended

Production Company

Point du Jour

Producer

Luc Martin-Gousset

Archive Researcher (s)

Serge Viallet and Cedric Lepee

Duration

52'

First Shown

21/09/05 ARTE

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

The programme gives a detailed account of the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay 2 September 1945. The film takes us from the arrival in Japan of General Douglas MacArthur at the head of the US military on 29 August 1945 through to his establishment in Tokyo on 18 September. However, the programme concentrates on the day of surrender itself, telling a fascinating story of that event – an event usually only briefly referred to - using high-quality archival images and exact historiography.

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Victory in Europe in Colour

Production Company

TWI

Producer

Kim Hogg

Archive Researcher (s)

Lars Andersen, Polly Pettit

Duration

51'

First Shown

08/05/05 ITV1

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, TWI’s Victory in Europe in Colour was broadcast on ITV1 on May 8th 2005. Using original colour film, emotive letters and diaries we hear the personal stories of those involved in the final stages of the war, not only the soldiers in combat but the family and close friends at home. We bring to life the key events of the period including the hard-won campaign in Normandy by the Allies, the bombing campaign waged against German cities, German troops surrendering in their thousands, victory celebrations across Europe and the aftermath of the end of the war.

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Vietnam Symphony

Production Company

Film Australia

Producer

Kerry Herman

Archive Researcher (s)

Kerry Herman, Bonnie Rowan

Duration

52'

First Shown

13/10/05 SBS-TV

Country of Origin

Australia

Synopsis

In 1965, as the Vietnam War intensified, students and teachers from the Hanoi National Conservatory of Music were forced to flee the city for the relative safety of a village in the countryside. With the help of villagers, they built an entire campus underground, creating a maze of hidden tunnels connecting an auditorium and classrooms. There, as the war raged around them, they lived, studied and played music for five years. Vietnam Symphony tells their extraordinary story. Combining remarkable archival footage with contemporary interviews and a sublime soundtrack, it paints a portrait of life then and now, in a rapidly changing nation.

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Warlords

Production Company

3BM Television Ltd

Producer

Simon Berthon

Archive Researcher (s)

Joanna Potts, Polly Pettit

Duration

60' x 4 episodes

First Shown

31/07/05 Channel 4

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

Between 1939 and 1945, while their nations fought a war of weapons, the four great warlords of the twentieth century - Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt - fought a war of the mind. At the heart was a series of psychological duels in which they lied, schemed, charmed, flattered and deceived to win. What was curious was that these duels took place not while they were enemies but while they were supposed to be allies. Yet their behaviour was egotistic, sometimes petulant, sometimes monstrous, and politically, despite the rosy glow in which some are seen today, always selfish. The duels of the warlords decided the strategy for the greatest battles in history. They were also the epicentre of a seismic shift in world power - from the age of European empires to the age of two ideologically opposed superpowers, with devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of people.

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Youthquake 65

Production Company

Intervista Digital Media

Producer

Sandra Harzer-Kux, Christian Kux

Archive Researcher (s)

Christoph Dreher and Crew

Duration

55'

First Shown

01/07/05 ARTE

Country of Origin

Germany

Synopsis

The film Youthquake ’65 focuses on the influence of the exciting period around 1965. In the years between 1964 and 1966 a number of political, social, and cultural revolutions occurred in Europe, which inspired a whole generation of young artists to experiment with radically new means of expression. A great number of them were musicians whose songs somewhat functioned as pressure-relief valves for a boiling youth and protest culture.

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