Vodka: A Russian Fairytale

History of the political events and the wars which broke the former state of Yugoslavia into several nations and caused an international political and humanitarian crisis. Using interviews with all the major participants and archive footage of the events, the series impressively performed the double feat of making understandable something which had appeared intractable and of producing 'immediate' history.

The Death of Yugoslavia

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag legacy, hearing from victims and perpetrators of the system.

Gulag

When 33 Chilean miners emerged from underground before a worldwide audience of over a billion, they made a pact not to speak about what happened underground. Now six of them remember the untold story of the first seventeen days - when no one outside knew if they were alive. Filming down a Chilean mine with fellow miners, 17 Days Buried Alive explores the nightmare of living in dark tunnels half a mile underground, eating a spoonful of tuna every two days and not knowing if they would ever be found.

Chilean Miners - 17 Days Buried Alive

The Legend of Shorty is the story of a man and a myth