Educational

10 x 30′, HD

Tucked away in the Canary Islands is a wildlife park that is fast becoming the most visited park on earth. For the past 2 years running, Loro Parque has been voted “The World’s Best Zoo” by subscribers of Trip Advisor, echoing the highest possible accreditations of animal welfare, conservation and environmental bodies across the globe. Go behind the scenes to meet the animals and the keepers and doctors who love and care for them.   Distributed in cooperation with Greenhills Media.

66 x 30′, HD

Social tolerance meets cultural diversity as a group of conflicted young people from migrant backgrounds face the ultimate challenge of trying to be true to themselves while conforming to the expectations of their parents and communities.  Their life-changing journeys have pushed the young people to their emotional limits and caused them to question their place in the world. Distributed in cooperation with Network Ireland Television.

1 x 60′, HD

This award-winning documentary showcases how Chicago answered President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s call to become “an arsenal of democracy” and to start producing war material to help defeat Germany, Japan and Italy.  The whole populace came together and city was turned into important production center during WWII. Narrated by Bill Kurtis, the documentary also explores how the relationship between President Roosevelt and Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly helped win the war.

1 x 52′ or 1 x 70′, HD

The incredible true story of Ireland’s Dr. Aidan MacCarthy, who survived some of the most harrowing experiences of World War II – evacuation from Dunkirk then almost four years of POW captivity and surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 70 years later, his daughter travels to Japan in search of the mysterious donor of a Japanese Samurai sword which her father had brought back with him after the war. Distributed in cooperation with Network Ireland Television.

1 x 53′ and 1 x 83′, HD

Hundreds of immigrant factory workers and their families boarded the steamship Eastland for a leisurely summer cruise on the Chicago River, unsuspecting of its history of near-capsizings. EASTLAND combines story lines of immigrant exploitation, greed, corruption, a cover-up, and 844 casualties in one of America’s worst maritime tragedies.

1 x 42′ and 1 x 56′, HD

The award-winning doc tells the fascinating story about a little-known US Navy program that, in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, recruited and trained 15,000 aircraft carrier pilots on Lake Michigan. The pilots were then shipped out to the war in the Pacific to help defeat the Japanese.   As a result of the Midwest’s challenging wind and weather, as well as the inexperience of some of the pilots, more than 100 WWII fighter planes went to the bottom of Lake Michigan.  Narrated by Bill Kurtis, the documentary also shows recovery and restoration of three rare warbirds. 

1 x 42’, 1 x 52’ and 1 x 56’, HD

A fierce WWII battle at sea, unreported for more than 60 years, is revealed at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand in underwater video.  There lay the US submarine Lagarto and the remains of her 86 crewmen.  Learn how their husbands’ and fathers’ disappearance shaped family members lives. See how wreck divers helped solve the mystery behind the discovery of the first sunken US submarine from WWII to be found since the war in this award winning doc.

1 x 60′, HD

July 31, 1715:  A fleet of 11 Spanish galleons set sail for Spain from Havana, Cuba, loaded with untold riches of silver, gold and jewels.  A few days into their voyage, the entire fleet sank off the coast of Florida due to the fury of a massive hurricane. Six galleons have been found. The treasures from the remaining five have been lying scattered along the ocean floor waiting to be discovered. Join us for this modern day treasure hunt as a team of explorers receive the ultimate payoff.

Available for broadcast outside of the USA only, no streaming rights available.

6 x 60′, HD

Provides an often emotionally raw look into the lives of a diverse group of children as they transition from the innocence of childhood, through the turbulence of adolescence and emerge as young adults.  Through yearly candid interviews over a course of 14 years, Millennials echoes in real life what the Oscar nominated film Boyhood has done in fiction. Distributed in cooperation with Network Ireland Television.

In 1940’s wartime Britain, Ace Brenan “Paddy” Finucane became the youngest wing commander in the history of the Royal Air Force.  His exploits became famous as far afield as America and Australia as the handsome 21 year old war icon became a symbol of hope and pride.  In his meteoric but brief career, Paddy was celebrated as one of the top Fighter Ace Pilots of World War II.  Distributed in cooperation with Network Ireland Television.

53 x 30′, SD/HD

This hard-hitting series focuses on the downside of globalization and the denial of human rights in certain areas of the world such as Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the USA.  Moving stories are told from the eyes of the locals who live through the violations. Distributed in cooperation with Network Ireland Television.