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August 1814 and Washington is in flames. The President and Congress have fled and the American army collapses whilst conquering troops burn America’s capital. As the British Navy surrounds nearby Baltimore, the David-vs-Goliath battle will determine the fate of America. This fascinating documentary reveals the story surrounding the 200th anniversary of America’s National Anthem, and the battle that helped create it.
Biscuit Factory/Smithsonian Networks
Actor Tom Cavanagh hosts this humorous and quirky series, venturing beyond the exhibit halls into the back rooms, high-tech vaults and cutting-edge labs of the world’s most renowned museum complex, to showcase the Smithsonian’s rarely- seen treasures.
Carago Wells Productions/Smithsonian Networks
In Tattoo Odyssey, renowned photographer Chris Rainer travels to the remote Indonesian island of Siberut to visit the Mentawai, a jungle tribe whose bodies are embedded with ink. From here the film then embarks on an adventure that connects the ancient tribes with the modern tattoo aficionados of the west. What Chris discovers is a deep understanding of what it means to express oneself as a human being.
Britain. 3000 BC. Out of a divided, tribal, violent nation arises a surprising new society. Unified, organised, to such an extent that they can harness the expertise to drive and build the world’s most mysterious monument - Stonehenge. Leading Stonehenge expert Prof. Mike Parkers opens up his groundbreaking discoveries telling the story of Stonehenge. For the first time we will meet the people who worshiped, celebrated, lived and died in the shadow of Stonehenge.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/ Oxford Scientific Films/Channel 4
Surrounded by violent killers, notorious gangsters, and ruthless thugs – for the inmates confined in Alcatraz, the choice is to give up or fight to survive. From the infamous public enemies to the small time robbers, these men invented survival strategies to make it through the long hours in their tiny cells and the darkness of punishment in D Block.
Hoff Productions/National Geographic
A Terrible Beauty is the untold story of Ireland’s Easter Rising. It is a docudrama with accounts from the Notts & Derbyshire Regiment, the “Sherwood Foresters” and the Irish rebels who faced them. Over six days in April 1916, during the heart of the First World War, Dublin was gripped by a rebellion that would tear the city apart and leave countless casualties on both sides.
Star-Spangled Story:
Battle For America
1 x 60’, 2014, HD
Stonehenge: Bringing
Back The Dead
1 x 60’, 2013, HD
Stories From The Vaults
14 x 30’ & 1 x 60’, 2007-2008, HD
Surviving Alcatraz
1 x 60’, 2007, HD
90th Parallel Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Tile Films
Tattoo Odyssey
1 x 60’, 2010, HD
A Terrible Beauty
2 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2013, HD
History