Page 14 - Autumn Lineup 2019

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
1 x 60’, 2019, 4K
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. 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 triumph.
Impossible Factual/Smithsonian Networks
A group of amateur divers hunt for “the Holy Grail of shipwrecks” – the last American warship sunk off the US coast in WWII. But when they finally find portions of the long-lost Eagle 56, they discover a decades-old cover-up, and evidence that the ship was actually the victim of a rogue Nazi U-boat. If the divers can find the entire ship, the last survivors of The Greatest Generation may finally get the WWII medals they deserve.
Lone Wolf Documentary Group/Smithsonian Networks
‘JFK: The Last Speech’ explores 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.
This series explores the days and weeks after June 6th, 1944, when the allies poured into Europe via the beaches of Normandy. But despite securing the beachheads, Nazi forces kept an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe. These are the stories of desperate battles waged on the edge of defeat to break the Nazi the stronghold and free the rest of Europe.
Parallax Film Productions
Take a trip to France to discover the construction secrets to some of its most legendary megastructures. See how Napoléon the 1st instigated many buildings that are anchored in the Parisian landscape. The Arc de Triomphe, the Vendôme Column, the Palais de la Bourse, the church of La Madeleine, the building of bridges and piercing of canals... How, after the Virgin Mary appeared 18 times in the Grotto of Massabielle the Christian Church built the Sanctuary of our Lady of Lourdes. And finally discover how and why Paris is the city it is today after Napoléon the 3rd, along with Baron Haussmann’s, modernisation. Creating the major road links, we know today and the building of the Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon.
Hunt for Eagle 56
3 x 60’, 2019, 4K
Hitler’s Last Stand
4 x 60’, 2018, HD
Northern Light Productions
La Famiglia
Legendary Megastructures
3 x 60’, 2019, HD
JFK: The Last Speech
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
History