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While Christopher Columbus charted a route West from Europe, there was another set of adventurers whose exploits were just as influential. Part history, part travelogue, Into the Rising Sun is the story of the early Portuguese explorers who charted a course east to India, mapping Africa’s coastline and establishing the beginnings of a world economy.
Mare Nostrum Productions
Marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News, brings a captivating documentary featuring 28 eyewitnesses. Never before has this collection of key individuals been gathered to tell their personal stories and roles they played in history. Time has lent the opportunity to speak on the previously unspeakable, and ‘JFK 50: Eyewitness to History’ has captured it all.
Dallas Morning News
An explosive biography that reveals the real John F. Kennedy: a president who was prepared to risk his political career and, at the height of the cold war, his country’s security in return for sex. In a terrible irony, just as the American press finally braced itself to reveal the story, the assassination in 1963 took his life but saved his reputation.
The Jefferson Bible is a compilation of biblical texts revealing the approach to life and religion of one of America’s most eclectic Founding Fathers. But this iconic treasure is falling apart and to preserve it, it must be dismantled page by page. The restoration allows for a fascinating exploration of the history of religion and rigours of modern science.
Biscuit Factory/Smithsonian Networks
Explore the dramatic relationship between two seminal Americans, President John F. Kennedy and poet Robert Frost, which reached its tragic climax in a surprising encounter with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War. Born out of these events is Kennedy’s remarkable speech about poetry and power, which alters the life course of a group of Amherst college classmates who witness this compelling address and continue to exemplify in their contemporary lives a portrait of challenges facing America. Northern Light Productions
John Philip Holland was the Irish-born inventor of the submarine. A mild mannered teacher, he created one of the most formidable weapons of war. An Irish patriot, whose first working submarines were funded by Irish revolutionaries, he later developed the first US and British submarines. A self-taught genius, his remarkable invention was exploited by US corporate interests, and his personal legacy was undermined and forgotten... Until now.
Into The Rising Sun
4 x 60’, 1999, SD
Jefferson’s Secret Bible
1 x 60’, 2011, HD
JFK 50: Eyewitness
To History
1 x 60’, 2013, HD
JFK’s: The Last Speech
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
JFK’s Women: The
Scandals Revealed
1 x 60’, 2006, HD
Quickfire Media
Dearcán Media & Macdara Vallely
John Philip Holland:
Inventor Of The Submarine
1 x 60’, 2017, HD
History