single documentaries

Hotel 9/11

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4 and US History Channel 2008)

The most remarkable untold escape and rescue story from 9/11- from the guests of the Marriott Hotel which stood between the twin towers and was crushed when they fell.

7/7: The Miracle of Carriage 346

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4 2008)

The extraordinary and inspirational survival stories of commuters who were stood next to the bomber in Piccadilly Line Carriage 346, most of them seriously injured, but who lived to tell the tale.

7/7: The Angels of Edgware Road

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4 2008)

The inspirational story of the courageous commuters who entered the bombed carriage in the Edgware Road tunnel to save the lives of fellow passengers- and the effect it has had on their lives.

What Did You Do in the Great War Daddy?

1 x 60 minutes (BBC4 2007)

The story of the greatest loss of fathers in British history- half a million died in the Great War- and the lasting effect it had on their children.
Shortlisted for Grierson award.

9/11: Into the Underworld

1 x 60 minutes (History Channel US and Channel 4 2007)

The heart breaking story of the emergency service workers and relatives who searched beneath Ground Zero to find their colleagues and loved ones.
Shortlisted for RTS award.

9/11: The Miracle of Stairway B

1 x 60 minutes (History Channel US and Channel 4, 2006)

How a small group of firefighters and civilians survived after the south tower collapsed on top of them and they were buried alive.
Winner of RTS award.

Stags and Hens: Sex in the Nineties

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4, 2006)

The secret history of how a highly sexualised nineties rite of passage could end in the sexual betrayal of the bride and groom on the eve of their wedding.

The Story of Club 18-30: Sex in the Eighties

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4, 2006)

The truth about these sex in the sun holidays. Reps and holidaymakers, now in their forties, go back to re-live the time of their lives in the eighties.

Secrets of the Dating Agency

1 x 60 minutes, Revealed (Five, 2005)

The secret history of the dating agency and its massive expansion in the past fifty years.

Children of the Doomed Voyage

1 x 50 minutes (Timewatch, BBC2, 2005)

The story of the doomed evacuee ship the SS Benares, sunk in the middle of the Atlantic in 1940 and the miraculous survival of some of the children.
Shortlisted for RTS award.

Little Kinsey

1 x 60 minutes (BBC4, 2005)

The controversial story of the long forgotten British Kinsey Sex Survey undertaken by Mass Observation in 1949 and the sex lives of the British in the immediate post war years.
Shortlisted for RTS award.

The Man Who Predicted 9/11

1 x 60 minutes (US History Channel and Channel 4, 2005)

The tragic but inspirational story of Cornish security guard Rick Rescorla, who predicted 9/11and saved many lives in it- but who died trying to rescue those trapped inside the twin towers.
Winner of RTS award.

Bad Boys of the Blitz

1 x 60 minutes Revealed (Five 2005)

The British crime wave in World War 2, the part played by Frankie Fraser- and the police attempts to put the robbers behind bars.

Britain’s Boy Soldiers

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4, 2004)

The story of Britain’s under age soldiers and their sacrifice in World War 1.
Winner of RTS award.

The Affair

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4, 2003)

The secret history of extra marital affairs in 20th century Britain.
Short-listed for RTS and Grierson award.

The Real Tom Jones

1 x 60 minutes, Channel 4, (The Real), 2002

The intimate inside story of Britain’s most enduring sex symbol, from no-hoper valley boy to Las Vegas superstar.
Nominated for Indie Award 2002.

Horror on the Home Front

1 x 60 minutes (Channel 4, 2003)

The secret history of a nation in crisis during World War 1 with mass grief, starvation and strikes. Shortlisted for Grierson and History Today award.
Winner of RTS award.

A Pocketful of Posies

1 x 50 mins, BBC2, 2001

An evocative child’s eye view of growing up in the Edwardian era featuring some of the nation’s oldest men and women.

Prisoners of the Kaiser

1 x 60 mins, Channel 4, (Secret History), 2000

The story of the British servicemen POWs held captive in Germany between 1914 and 1918. Many died from starvation, disease and ill treatment.

Sex in a Cold Climate

1 x 60 mins, Channel 4 (Witness), 1998

An expose of nuns’ abuse of young unmarried mothers in Irish Magdalene Homes between the 1930s and 60s. Winner of Chicago International Film Festival award. Voted by Broadcast Magazine number 8 in top ten documentaries that changed the world. Inspired Peter Mullen’s multi-award winning feature film The Magdalene Sisters. (Released on DVD/video in Europe and the United States to accompany The Magdalene Sisters)

The Roses of No Man’s Land

1 x 60 mins, Channel 4, 1997.

The last surviving British nurses describe their work at the battlefront and at base hospitals during the First World War.
Winner of Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival.

Stolen Lives

1 x 30 mins, Channel 4, 1994

The hidden history of the long term inmates of Meanwood mental hospital.

series

A Century Of Fatherhood

3 x 60 minutes BBC 4, 2010

This series reveals the story of the revolution in fatherhood during the last hundred years in Britain.

Last Voices of the Great War

6 x 60 minutes History Channel UK, 2008

This series draws on Testimony’s unique collection of a hundred filmed interviews with veterans to provide a deeply personal view of the British experience of the most traumatic war in human history.

Their Finest Hour

6 x 60 minutes UKTV History and 6 x 30 minutes ITV West/West Country, 2008

The story of the unsung heroes of World War Two – the workers who made the aircraft, built the ships, dug the coal, kept the railways running, rescued the injured and produced the food that Britain needed to win the war.

Britain’s Love Story

3 x 60 minutes ITV1, 2007

The story of the revolution in love, sex and marriage in the last fifty years explores modern themes of true love, forbidden and blind love.

West Country Childhood

6 x 30 minutes ITV West/West Country, 2007

An exploration of the lost world of West Country children from the First World War up until the beginning of the 1960s. It features dramatic, heart rending and uplifting childhood stories.
Shortlisted for RTS award.

Disappearing Britain

3 x 60 minutes Five (co-production with Lion), 2006

Celebrity journeys of discovery into histories which hold a deep personal significance for them. Sarah Lancashire explores wakes weeks holidays, Ricky Tomlinson revisits the lost world of coal miners and Wendy Craig explores the British obsession with tea drinking.
Runner up best factual series in Televisual Bulldog Awards, 2007. Nominated by Five for Bafta.

Sex Love and War

5 x 60 minutes UKTV History, 2006

Extraordinary candid testimony from British servicemen and women reveals the secret world of sex outside of marriage during World War Two on the home front and abroad.

Love Child

2 x 60 minutes ITV1, 2005

The heart rending story of adoption in Britain in the past sixty years. It attracted a large late night audience of 2.5 million after midnight with a 27% share. The help-line received over 8,000 calls, a record response.

The West at War.

6 x 30 minutes ITV West, 2005

Stories of servicemen and women from Bristol and the South West who took part in battles from the beaches of Normandy to the jungles of Burma.
Winner of RTS award.

Hope and Glory

6 x 30 minutes ITV West, 2004

The stories of the newcomers from the Commonwealth and Empire and how they transformed life in the South West in the post-war years.
Shortlisted for RTS award.

The Fifties and Sixties in Colour

3 x 60 minutes ITV1, 2003

A fresh and entertaining look at the social revolution of the 1950s and 60s using spectacular and long forgotten colour archive film. Explores teenage rebellion, family life and the age of the car.
Winner of Focal International Award for best use of archive in a factual production.

Married Love

3x60mins Channel 4, 2002

Extraordinarily candid accounts of sex and marriage in 20th century Britain. The series looks at the hidden history of sexless marriages, the female orgasm and the male sex drive.
Nominated for a Grierson Award; and winner of Royal Television Society award 2002.

Some Liked It Hot

2x 60mins ITV1, 2001

The post-war story of the British on holiday, combining spectacular colour archive with vivid memories. With an audience of around 6 million this was the most popular social history series on any channel in 2001.
Nominated for RTS Education Award.

Green and Pleasant Land

6x60mins, Channel 4, 1999

The untold story of the British countryside in the first half of the twentieth century. Bitter sweet memories of country childhoods, semi-feudal estate life, village sex, poverty, the countryside at war and the post-war rural revolution.
Nominated for Indie award, 2000. Winner of Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival.

Far Out

3x60 mins, Channel 4, 1999

The dawning of New Age Britain and the secret history of the alternative society reaching back to the early 20th century. Early communes, spiritualists, witches, mystics, sex, drugs and nirvana.
Winner of Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2000.

Hooked

6x 30 mins, Channel 4, 1998

The hidden history of Britain’s most addictive 20th century pleasures. Smoking, gambling, chocolate, drink, drugs and sex.

Veterans

2 x 50 mins, BBC1, 1998

The last British survivors of the First World War tell their extraordinary stories of survival in the trenches between 1914 and 1918. Winner of Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival.
Nominated for best history documentary, New York Film Festival.

Call of the Sea

6x40 mins BBC2, 1997

Memories of a seafaring nation during the first half of the last century. The lure of a life at sea, the fishing industry, mutiny, sailors at war, women who dared and the heroism of Britain’s lifeboatmen.

A Man’s World

6x40 mins BBC2, 1996

An oral history of masculinity in Britain between 1900 and 1960. The boy, rites of passage, the lover, the father, the worker and the soldier.

Forbidden Britain

6x40 mins BBC2, 1994

The secret history of some of today’s major social issues. Juvenile crime, extra-marital affairs, riots, homelessness, sexual abuse and unemployment.
Winner of Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival.

A Labour of Love

6x40 mins BBC2, 1993

Bringing up children in Britain the first half of the 20th century. Childbirth, class and gender, free time, poverty, families at war, substitute families.
Winner of Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival. Nominated for BAFTA and RTS Awards.