Tim Cragg

Directed by Dan Vernon & Viv Perry

Produced by Story Films / Netflix

Technical: 3 part series. Colour, 2.40:1. Arri Mini LF & Cooke FF Anamorphic lenses

The docuseries retraces the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, which allegedly happened to a woman named Linda Napolitano in November 1989 who said she was taken from her apartment in Lower Manhattan. She reported the incident to UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, who later claimed to have found over two dozen witnesses who saw Napolitano that night floating above her building. Hopkins, who used hypnosis techniques to help Napolitano recover memories of the alleged abduction, was married at the time to filmmaker Carol Rainey, now a vocal doubter of the incident. The series chronicles Napolitano’s relationship with Rainey and Hopkins, the case’s journey into the mainstream press, and the widespread public skepticism surrounding it. 

Directed by Anthony Philipson

Produced by BBC Studios / Netflix

Technical: 90 min, colour, Arri Mini LF, Cooke FF Ana, 2:1 aspect ratio

In Einstein and the Bomb, Einstein (as depicted by Aidan McArdle as well as through archival footage) is characterized as a brilliant scientist with fierce moral conviction — famously, Einstein was a radical pacifist with an almost childlike wonder at the world’s greatest scientific mysteries. 

“As a child, 4 or 5, my father showed me a compass,” Einstein narrates in the film. “This experience made a deep and lasting impression on me. Since this needle behaved in such a determined way, something deeply hidden had to be behind things… The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”

Einstein and the Bomb depicts points in Einstein’s life, pinging back and forth between his status as a refugee in England, as well as the early ideas that would eventually lead to his groundbreaking theory of relativity.

The film also explores conflicts with Hitler and the Nazi establishment, reenacting the incidents that led Einstein to believe that Nazi Germany was developing atomic weapons of their own. His fear and unease was enough to convince him to write a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, unwittingly initiating an arms race that would eventually lead to a reality that Einstein feared most.

“I’ve made one great mistake in my life,” Einstein says in the film. “Had I known the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have taken part in opening that Pandora’s box.”.

Lover Killer Stalker - Netflix

Directed - Sam Hobkinson

Produced - Curious Films / Netflix

Technical: 90 min, Colour, Arri Mini LF, Cooke FF Anamorphics

Dave was recently out of a long-term relationship and eager to restart his romantic life, so he did what most people do: He tried online dating. Liz and Cari were two of his most promising connections, both single moms with winning personalities who helped bring him out of his shell in different ways. It should have been an opportunity for this hard-working, devoted dad to enjoy a second chance at casual romance, but it turned into a twisted love triangle, putting Dave and everyone he cared about at risk. Using interviews with those involved – including the law enforcement officers who cracked the case – alongside vivid reenactments that bring viewers into the tension and paranoia of Dave’s four year nightmare,

David Holmes The Boy Who Lived

Directed by Dan Hartley

Produced by SKY / Lightbox / HBO - Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Vanessa Davies, Amy Stares, Nancy Abraham, and Daniel Radcliffe

Technical: 90 min Colour, Arri Mini, Angeniuex Optimo’s

Gymnast David Holmes played Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the Harry Potter films until a tragic on-set accident left him paralysed. With his life turned upside down, David's extraordinary spirit of resilience becomes a source of strength and inspiration to everyone around him. Featuring intimate interviews with David, Daniel Radcliffe, friends, family, and colleagues, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived reflects on living with adversity, forging a new identity, and the bonds that bind us together and lift us up.

Beckham Netflix (4 part series)

Directed by Fisher Stevens

Produced by John Battsek, billie Shepherd, Nicola Hewson

Technical: 4 part series, photographed on Arri Mini LF and Canon k35mm lenses in a 2:1 aspect ratio

Award winning film makers are granted unprecedented access to david, his wife Victoria, his family , his friends and his team mates. The result is an intimate portrait of a man as well as a chronicle of the late-modern sports and celebrity culture.

Encounters - Netflix (4 part series)

Directed by Yon Motskin

Produced by Amblin, Boardwalk Pictures, Vice Studios

Mysterious lights in the sky over Texas and a nuclear power plant in Japan. Spacecrafts over schoolyards in Wales and Zimbabwe. It’s not science fiction – these stories of extraordinary mass sightings are true. Now, with the help of acclaimed filmmakers, the stories of experiencers, top scientists, and military insiders are brought to the screen in this timely and thrilling four-part series that sets aside skepticism to focus on belief, wonder, and the very human impact of encounters with extraterrestrial life.

Messengers

In early 2008, residents in and around the small central Texas town of Stephenville experienced something unexplainable: UFO sightings, reported by hundreds of people, including local business leaders and law enforcement. Steve Allen, the owner of a trucking company, described blinding lights and a feeling of great peace. Pat Leatherwood, a bank chairman, saw a “flying Dorito.” Constable Lee Roy Gaitain and his son watched an orb appear in the sky and then suddenly zoom away. According to one former military analyst, the Stephenville event and surrounding data prove we should no longer be asking, “Are UFOs real?” but rather, “What’s your version of reality?”

The Broad Haven Triangle

It all started in a field behind a school. In 1977, the Cold War was raging, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was in theaters, and a group of boys spotted a cigar- shaped spacecraft rising from the trees beyond their playground. Suddenly, the area surrounding the Welsh coastal town of Broad Haven was gripped by over 450 reports of UFO and alien encounters – the largest mass sighting in U.K. history. As investigators and media dug into the sightings, they realized many bore a close resemblance to tales from Welsh and Celtic folklore, in which faeries are known as tricksters with sinister intent. So were the otherworldly visitors in Broad Haven a new phenomenon... or had they been there all along, hiding in the sea?

Lights Over Fukushima

Tomonori Izumi is the 29th chief monk of Enmyoin Temple, which is only a few miles up the coast from the Daiichi nuclear power plantin Japan. In 2011, he walked out onto the temple’s plaza, and saw what he describes as an undeniable UFO – and thenthe earthquake came. That 2011 quake sparked a massive tsunami that set off the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, during which many residents saw mysterious balls of light over the reactors in the wake of their meltdown. Researchers have long traced the connection between nuclear energy and UFOs, with a clear rise in sightings coming after the advent of the nuclear bomb. But otherworldly sightings run deep in Japanese culture, like anime, where natural and supernatural are one. So were these balls of fire UFOs? Hitodama, or souls of the dead? Or, as many believe do they signify an alien intelligence that cares about us, and wants to restore balance to the world.

Believers

It was a bright and sunny day in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, when 62 young students at Ariel School saw spaceships and strange humanoid figures in their playground. This 1994 encounter – considered by many to be the most significant of the 20th century – profoundly changed the lives of the children, the headmistress, and even the preeminent Harvard psychiatrist who came to investigate what they’d seen. For some former students, the hostile aftermath of that day – in which parents, media, and other authority figures discounted their experience – continues to be traumatizing. It also raises important questions: Are kids reliable witnesses? Why isn’t eyewitness testimony enough evidence, when it is other in many other situations? How can we bring empathy to credible witnesses, even as so many of us still struggle to embrace their truth? What does this say about who we are?

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me

Directed by Ursula Macfarlane

Produced by Propagate & Volition Entertainment

Distribution: Netflix

Technical: 1hr 56 min, Colour 2.40:1 Photographed on Arri LF with Cooke FF Anamorphics

From the heights of her modeling fame to her tragic death, this documentary reveals Anna Nicole Smith through the eyes of the people closest to her.

Branson

Directed Chris Smith

Produced by Library Films

Technical: 4 Part Series. Photographed with Arri Mini LF and Arri Signature Primes

This docuseries examines the life and adventures of businessman Richard Branson sixteen days before his historic first flight into space. Blending insights from family members, business associates, and journalists with decades of archival and home video footage, the series unveils the man behind the many ventures and adventures.

The Figo Affair: the Transfer That Changed Football

Directed by Ben Nicholas & David Tryhorn

Produced by Pitch International / Netflix

Distribution: Netflix

Technical: 1hr 45 min, Colour 2.40:1 Photographed on Arri LF with Cooke FF Anamorphics

This documentary spotlights one of the most contentious deals in football history and the extraordinary player at the center of the storm: Luís Figo.

Trust No One - The Hunt For The Crypto King

Directed by Luke Sewell

Produced by Minnow Films, Zoe Hutton, Morgan Matthews

Distribution Netflix

Technical: Colour 90 min, 2.40:1 Red Gemini & Cooke Anamorphic Lenses

When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there's more to his death than meets the eye.

Bad Sport - Hoop Schemes

Directed by Luke Sewell

Produced by RAW TV, Tim Wardle, Alex Marengo, Adam Hawkins

Distribution: Netflix

Technical: Colour, 60 min, 2.40:1, Red Gemini & Cooke Anamorphic lenses

Digs into the point-shaving scandal at Arizona State University in 1994. The controversy — which involved, among others, basketball player Stevin "Hedake" Smith fixing games for a payoff — ended with five men sentenced to prison or probation for their involvement.

Director: Michael Harte

Distribution: Netflix

Produced by: Raw / Netflix

Technical: 1 hr 24 min, Colour , RED Gemini S35, Cooke Anamorphic

Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Dennis Nilsen, confessed to killing 15 people in 1983. Over a five-year period, he picked up vulnerable young men, lured them back to his home and strangled them, before disposing of their bodies under the floorboards.

The truth about how and why he killed has been the subject of much speculation in books and documentaries over the decades since. Now, with unique access to a wealth of personal archive left in his cell after his death, including over 250 hours of never-before-published cassette tapes of his private recordings, this film will take us into Nilsen’s world. From a young boy growing up in a quiet Scottish fishing village to a cold-blooded murderer prowling the streets of London.

Set against the backdrop of 1980s Britain, when mass unemployment drew young men to London in search of their fortunes, only to find themselves destitute and easy prey, and weaving together interviews from police, journalists, survivors, bereaved families, and - for the first time - the killer’s own voice, this feature length documentary explores how Nilsen was able to get away with multiple murders and attacks, unchallenged, for five years.

Director: Sam Hobkinson

Producer: Bernie Higgins, RAW, Netflix

Distribution: Netflix Original Series

Technical: 3 x 1hr, 2.40:1 Red Gemini camera with Angenieux and Cooke Anamorphic lenses.

Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, a three-part documentary series, examines how the FBI took down the five mafia empires of New York City at the height of their powers during the 1980s.

The five empires in question are the Italian-American families formed by organised crime figure Salvatore Maranzano in 1931, the same year of his death. The families later came to be known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese families.

The families reigned supreme in New York City in what is described in the trailer for the new documentary as “the golden era of the mob” in the 1970s and ‘80s, prompting the FBI to try and take down all five families, all at the same time.

Director: Sam Hobkinson

Producer: Nick Kent

Distribution: Arts Alliance / Netflix

Technical: 1hr 22, Colour, 2.35 : 1, Arri with Agenieux lenses

A cinematic journey into the waters of the Indian Ocean chronicling the unbelievable story behind artist Damien Hirst’s most ambitious project to date.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable charts an extraordinary tale from chance discovery and excavation of an ancient shipwreck, to the exhibition of its cargo.
The eponymous art works were displayed across the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice from 9th April – 3rd December 2017.

This mind-bending voyage into the murky waters reveals a character whose life is surrounded by myth, mystery and speculation

Director: Yon Motskin

Producer: Clare Sloane Vance

Distribution: HBO Max

Production Company: Invention/ Jigsaw

Technical: 50 min, Aspect Ratio: 2:1, Canon K35mm lenses

Young, aristocratic billionaire William Baekeland charms his way into an exclusive group of wealthy world travelers - only to disappear with their money. Is he a brilliant imposter who spins fabulous lies and invents fictional personas to con the rich or just a kid who went too far trying to escape his past?

This film was shot entirely remotely with director Yon and his team in NY.

Director: Anthony Philipson

Producer: James van de Pool

Distribution: BBC / PBS / Canal

Technical: 90 min, Color 1.85:1, Arri with Cooke iPanchro Classic Lenses

Awards: BAFTA Nomination 2020

This feature-length drama documentary tells the real story of the mission as it happened. With access to hours of declassified cockpit audio recorded by the astronauts themselves, '8 Days' is a stunning 21st century retelling of the story of the men who went to the Moon.

Director: Dan Smith

Producer: Anthony Geffen

Distribution: Sky

Technical: 90 minute, Colour, 3D, RED and Angenieux Lenses

In a tale of discovery, adventure and magic, join David Attenborough on a journey through the world-famous Natural History Museum in London

As the doors are locked and night falls, Attenborough meets the extinct creatures that fascinate him the most, as they magically come alive in front of his eyes.

This 90 minute 3D spectacular, with its ground-breaking CGI technology, is a special collaboration of experts and curators from the Natural History Museum.

Director: Darren Aronofsky / James Kent

Producer: Nutopia & Protozoa Productions

One Strange Rock is the extraordinary story of Earth — our curiously calibrated, interconnected planet — and why it is special and uniquely brimming with life among a largely unknown but harsh cosmic arena. Anchoring the series is an elite group of astronauts who see Earth’s bigger picture; they provide unique perspectives and relate personal memoirs of our planet seen from space.

Hosted by Will Smith

This Is Football - Wonder

Directed by James Ersline

Produced by Brutal / October Films for Amazon

Technical: Colour, 60 min, 1.85:1 Red Gemini and Zeiss Standard Speeds, Angenieux Optimo

A documentary about footballer Lionel Messi

Director: Sam Hobkinson

Produced : Raw TV for ScyF

Father Vince Lampert was a young priest when he first visited the old farmhouse.  As it was his first time working in the role of exorcist, he was understandably nervous.  He kept reminding himself that it was just a meeting.

The lady of the house invited him in, and they sat with her husband to discuss the situation.  She said she had spells of waking in the middle of the night, and she would speak in a different language.  It had all started 15 years before, when the woman had tried to help a friend. She had said to her friend, "What's ever in you, I invite to come into me."  She had felt an immediate change.  Her life had fallen apart.  They had seen neurologists, psychologists, and all kinds of doctors with no luck.  Father Lampert was their last resort.  Father Lampert suggested a prayer for her, to ask God to give her the strength to deal with the situation.  No sooner did he finish an invocation of the Holy Trinity than the woman lunged at him, obviously possessed.  Father Lampert was facing a real-life possession.

A year earlier, at Father John Ryan's funeral, Father Lampert was approached by the bishop and asked to take over as the exorcist for Indianapolis.  It had been Father Ryan's role, and it was now going to be Father Lampert's role.  He hadn't wanted the job at first, but the decision was made. 

Six months after the funeral, Father Lampert was off to Vatican City to train with an experienced exorcist.  When he reached his destination, it wasn't clear that the building was even in use.  Father Lampert was met by Father Carmine De Filippis, a robust, imposing man who seemed like just the type of person someone would want facing off against a demon.  Father Carmine took him to the room where he performed the exorcisms, sitting him in a corner so he could watch and learn.  He gave Father Lampert a copy of the Roman Rites, then escorted a woman into the room.  The woman didn't seem possessed.  Still, Father Carmine had his rituals.  The instant Holy Water touched the woman, it burned.  Her eyes rolled back into her head.  She began speaking Latin in a voice that was too deep to be hers.  Father Lampert knew he was seeing the paranormal.  The demon mocked Father Carmine as he spoke the prayers of exorcism.  The woman began foaming at the mouth.  Nothing frightened Father Lampert more than when the telephone rang, and Father Carmine stepped away from the demon-possessed woman to answer it.  He ran over what he might do if she turned violent.  How was he supposed to defend himself against a demon?  When Father Carmine finally returned, it was not a moment too soon.  Father Lampert's world had been rattled by the experience.  Father Carmine continued the exorcism, and went on to perform more that day. 

This went on for weeks while Father Lampert learned.  He saw each person on a regular basis until the demons were cast out.  Father Lampert read up on demonology every morning before he went to see Father Carmine.  If he could learn the names of the demons, and get them to reveal their names, then Father Lampert would have more control over the demons.  The weeks passed, and Father Lampert watched exorcism after exorcism.  Finally, there was a woman who'd found herself involved in the occult.  As the exorcism progressed, the woman spoke in tongues, wrenched her body in nearly impossible positions, and foamed at the mouth.  Eventually, the woman levitated, floating in midair.  Father Carmine told Father Lampert that the paranormal manifestations were just parlor tricks, designed to keep an exorcist from doing what they were supposed to do. 

After three months of training, Father Lampert returned to the United States.  Waiting for him was a parcel from Father Ryan's office.  Inside was the prayer book and stole that he had used when performing exorcisms.  The torch was being passed to him.  Father Lampert tried on the stole, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.  Was he really going to be able to do this?

Then the call came from the couple in the old farmhouse.  The woman was truly possessed.  Father Lampert prayed for help, and he could hear Father Carmine's voice in his head reminding him to always perform exorcisms on holy ground.  He managed to restrain the demon with Father Carmine's old forehead trick, but he knew it was only restrained. 

Father Lampert found a disused convent, which had a chapel.  They arranged that the exorcism would take place there.  Father Lampert brought a young priest in training as an assistant.  The convent was empty, save for the group there for the exorcism.  Father Lampert put on the old stole and took out the old prayer book.  He felt protected.  And then, using what he'd learned from Father Carmine, the exorcism began.  The demon mocked him, but he continued.  Eventually, the temperature in the room dropped.  Father Lampert tried to put all of the distractions behind him and continued praying.  Finally, the demon mentioned the word "we".  Father Lampert realized that the woman wasn't just possessed by one demon, she was possessed by multiple demons.  He began commanding the demons to name themselves.  Eventually, they did.  They left with each naming.  Father Lampert learned the hard way, however, that pride goeth before a fall.  It wasn't his strength that was going against the fallen angels.  It was God's.  He continued to pray.  He continued to demand the demon's name.  The demon eluded him, until finally, Leviathan revealed its name, insisting it had a right to be there.  Out of options, he took the end of the stole and pressed it to the woman's forehead.  It burned her.  She jumped up and ran out of the room.  Father Lampert and the younger priest ran out after her.  Finally, she appeared, and they chased her until she was cornered.  After spraying her with Holy Water, the demon began to recoil. Father Lampert commanded the demon to repeat after him if it was going to leave.  It repeated the words, but in the wrong order.  It mocked him.  Father Lampert briefly questioned himself, but found the courage to insist upon the right order for the words.  The demon finally complied, and left the woman.  Her fifteen year battle was finally over.

For Father Lampert, he knew he was an exorcist.  He knew life would never be the same.

Director: John Maggio

Producer: Hannah Olson

Starring: Alex Baldwin

Distribution: PBS

Technical: 120 minutes, B&W, 1.85 : 1, Arri with Zeiss Super Speeds

Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks in one of the most remote places on earth, the ill-equipped expedition navigated deadly rapids in crude dugout canoes. Hunger and exhaustion were compounded by the rainforest’s unforgiving topography, which forced the men to carry heavy canoes long distances. What was anticipated to be a relatively tranquil journey turned out to be a brutal test of courage and character. Before it was all over, one member of the expedition had drowned and another had committed murder. Roosevelt would badly injure his leg and beg to be left behind to die. More than a dramatic adventure story, Into the Amazon shines a light on two of the western hemisphere’s most formidable men, and the culture and politics of their two formidable nations.

Director: Ian MacMillan

3 x 1hr BBC Production

The Sound and the Fury is a three-part series on the revolution in 20th century music.

The series features contributions from 20th century music experts, historians and composers, including Alex Ross, Gillian Moore, Head of Contemporary Culture at the Southbank Centre, as well as composers, conductors and performers including: Pierre Boulez, John Adams, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark Anthony Turnage, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, John Tavener, George Benjamin, Julian Lloyd Webber and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Director: David Belton

Producer: Sarah Colt

Distribution: PBS

Technical: 120 minutes, Colour, 1.85 : 1, Varicam

Lyrical and meditative, The Amish answers many questions Americans have about this insistently insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to five hundred year-old traditions have by turns captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused for more than a century. With unprecedented access to the Amish built on patience and hard-won trust, the film is the first to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group. In doing so, it paints an extraordinarily intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life. It questions why and how the Amish, an insistently closed and communal culture, have thrived within one of the most open, individualistic societies on earth.

Murder of a President

Directed by Rob Rapley, written by Candice Millard

Produced by Apograph Productions / WGBH, Stephanie Haberman

Distribution: PBS 2016

Technical: Arri Alexa, Cooke S4, Colour, 1.85:1, 120 minutes

Cast: Shuler Hensley, Kathryn Erbe, Will Janowitz, Michael Murphy, James Eckhouse, Sean mahon, Adam LeFevre..

The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

Director: Rob Rapley

Producer: Mark Samels

Distribution: PBS / Apple

Technical: 122 minutes, Colour, 1.85 : 1, Arri and Cooke S4 lenses

In the early 20th century, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest, with radioactive radium, thallium, and morphine in everyday products. The pace of industrial innovation increased, but the scientific knowledge to detect and prevent crimes committed with these materials lagged behind until 1918. New York City's first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris, and his chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, turned forensic chemistry into a formidable science and set the standards for the rest of the country.

Director: James Kent

Exec Producer: Nick Kent, Tabitha Jackson, Oxford Film & Television

Distribution: Ch4 / Sheffield Film Festival 2012

Awards: Prix Italia for TV Performing Arts

Technical: 60 minutes, Colour, 2.40: 1

This hour-long documentary, directed by BAFTA and Emmy award-winning director James Kent, meets Japanese teenager Momoka and Scottish music student Paul Murray to explore how Chopin’s extraordinary Ballade Number 1 transforms the lives of ordinary people and illustrates how classical music still penetrates contemporary life in unexpected and powerful ways.

It introduces Momoka, a 15-year-old pianist from Sendai, Japan, whose community was decimated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquakes. For Momoka, the Ballade embodies the anguish and rebellion she feels but doesn’t allow to surface.

For 22-year-old Paul from Glasgow, the piece is life-changing. Paul grew up in Bellshill, a poor, working class suburb of Glasgow. He first played piano at 15, and it opened up a whole new world for him. During his first term at uni Paul was diagnosed with a brain tumour and then MS, which both eventually caused him to lose the ability to walk and to play with his right hand. Waiting in his hospital bed in between operations over three months, he played the Ballade again and again on the iPod his dad Stephen had given him. It was that single piece’s emotional pull that Paul credits with the return of his memory.

Director: Callie T Wiser

Producer: Mark Samels

Distribution: PBS

Technical: 1hr 52 min, Colour, 1.85 :1, Arri, Agenieux

The Amish: Shunned follows seven former members of the Amish community as they reflect on their decisions to leave one of the most closed and tightly-knit communities in the United States. Estranged from family, the ex-Amish find themselves struggling to understand and make their way in modern America.

Director: Rob Rapley

Producer: Mark Samels

Cast: Richard Brooks, Neal Huff, Jeanine Serralles, Kate Lyn Sheil, T. Ryder Smith

Distribution: PBS

Technical: 122 minutes, Colour, 1.:85 :1, Arri, Master Primes

Bringing to life the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, The Abolitionists takes place during some of the most violent and contentious decades in American history, amid white-hot religious passions that set souls on fire, and bitter debates over the meaning of the Constitution and the nature of race. It reveals how the movement shaped history by exposing the fatal flaw of a republic founded on liberty for some and bondage for others, setting the nation on a collision course. In the face of personal risks — beatings, imprisonment, even death — abolitionists held fast to their cause, laying the civil rights groundwork for the future and raising weighty constitutional and moral questions that are with us still.

Director: David Belton & Sarah Colt

Produced by Sarah Colt, Mark Samels, Cathleen O’Connell, Callie T. Wiser, WGBH

Featuring: Michael Emerson, Laila Robins, Toby Jones, Jefferson Mays, Creighton James, Jeffrey DeMunn, Zahn McClarnon, peter McRobbie, Sarah Parish, Les Papp II, Byron Jennings

Awards: Nominated for WGA Award

Technical : 6x 1hr Release 2010

Despite American devotion to the separation of church and state, religion and religious dissidents have played a crucial role in the development of the nation. This six-hour miniseries traces that history and the struggle to define religious liberty, from the arrival of the Puritans to the religious issues of the present day, using historical dramatizations, archival footage and interviews with religious historians. Actor Campbell Scott narrates.

Director: Rob Rapley

Producer: Mark Samels

Technical: 90 minutes

A daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism amongst a group left abandoned in the high Arctic.

On August 1, 1884, a rescue vessel pulled into the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire carrying First Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and the five other remaining survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Three years earlier, 25 men had set sail for the far North, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data about the Arctic — a vast area of the world's surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Greely and his men completed that task, only to be abandoned in one of the harshest environments on Earth. The Greely Expedition reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

Director: David Belton

Producer: Adriana Bosch

Technical: 6 x 1hr

Awards: Peabody Award

LATINO AMERICANS is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. The changing and yet repeating context of American history provides a backdrop for the drama of individual lives. It is a story of immigration and redemption, of anguish and celebration, of the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions of people today.