Page 14 - Spring Lineup 2019

The Battle For Britain’s Heroes
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
All countries have an official version of their history. It is a story built around grand achievements, victories and successes. However, around the world people are now challenging this by raising, often ignored, uncomfortable truths such as involvement with slavery, racism or colonialism. This is history at its most heated. Now the debate has come to Britain and Journalist Afua Hirsch explores why people get so upset when she raises what to her are simple facts of our past.
Uplands Television
Follow the journeys of two men as they reveal Albania’s secret heroism in WWII. Norman Gershman, a renowned Jewish-American photographer determined to document first-person accounts of the Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian who must fulfill the promise made to a Jewish family his father rescued during the Holocaust and return to them a set of Hebrew books they left behind.
JWM Productions
Tigers do more than just crouch in China. The Flying Tigers were US airmen who flew into China during the Second World War. Some say that their presence in the Far East was the final straw that led to Japan’s decision to attack Pearl Harbor. For six months, from December 1941 to June 1942, they provided a crucial last ditch aerial defence of China. Only fragments of their story have been told - until now.
Propelled by mystery, the Battle of Little Bighorn is perhaps best known by a single famous image: a long-haired General, clad in buckskin, fighting an army of Native Americans on the top of a hill. But in all likelihood, the beloved idea at the root of the battle’s fame probably didn’t happen at all. This documentary explores how a single afternoon in 1876 shaped the myth of a nation in unexpected ways.
The Biscuit Factory/Smithsonian Networks
In the 1930s, a black postal worker from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that would become part travel guide and part survival guide. The Negro Motorist Green Book helped African-Americans navigate safe passage well into the 1960s, and also served as a catalyst for new businesses. Explore some of the segregated nation’s safe havens and notorious “sundown towns” and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and innovation in this documentary, ‘The Green Book: Guide to Freedom’.
BESA: The Promise
1 x 86’, 2009, HD
Battle Of Little Bighorn
1 x 60’, 2018, 4K
LIC China
Impossible Factual/Smithsonian Networks
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
1 x 60’, 2019, 4K
Flying Tigers
4 x 60’, 2015, HD
History