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Alcatraz: Defying The Rock
1 x 60’, 2005, SD
Alcatraz was the world’s most notorious prison, housing the worst and toughest criminals in American history. This film uncovers the fascinating story behind the building of the prison, revealing how a rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay was transformed into an awe-inspiring maximum-security jail, with impenetrable walls and surrounded by a deadly sea.
Hoff Productions
It’s easy to imagine that the past was lived in black and white, but of course it wasn’t. This landmark series uses modern colouration techniques to present a history of America in color, for the first time. Decade by decade, this ambitious series puts the color back in history, and brings the history back to life! From jazz-age speakeasies to the attack on Pearl Harbor, from the Great Depression to Elvismania, iconic images of America are vibrantly brought to the screen.
Arrow Media/Smithsonian Networks
Think you know all about American History - Jamestown, Plymouth, Salem and the conflicts that shaped the US: the Revolution, the Civil War, WW I & II, the Cold War & Vietnam. But do you? ‘America’s Hidden Stories’ investigates deep into American history using archeology, forensic science & reconstruction, newly discovered written & photographic records and all the techniques of Hollywood to bring the past back to life and shed new light on stories we think we know.
Alcatraz was the country’s first maximum security penitentiary; holding infamous gangsters and cons like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and ‘The Birdman’ Robert Stroud. Over 29 years, these desperate inmates challenged the prison again and again. The Rock was tough, but the inmates were convinced they were tougher.
Hoff Productions
The entire history of aviation is captured under one massive roof at The Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. This Hangar contains a mind-boggling array of aircraft and space artefacts. This programme features the many engines, helicopters, ultra-lights, and experimental flying machines that have all played their parts in the journey of man’s attempt to fly.
Fiveson Entertainment/Smithsonian Networks
What began as a live-fire exercise on the southwest coast of England ended in a tragedy that cost 1,000 American lives — ten times the number who died on Utah Beach. Exercise Tiger almost compromised the entire D-Day invasion when ten American top-secret officers, were lost in the English Channel. Using eyewitness accounts and film that has never been broadcast, we tell the true story in full for the first time.
America In Color
17 x 60’, 2017-2018, 4K
America’s Hangar
1 x 60’, 2007, HD
Lone Wolf Documentary Group/Smithsonian Networks
TVT Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Alcatraz: Living Hell
1 x 60’, 2007, HD
America’s Secret
D-Day Disaster
1 x 60’, 2014, HD
America’s Hidden Stories
14 x 60’, 2018-2020, 4K
History