DOCUMENTARIES
UnDER FIRE:
JOURNALISTS IN COMBAT
Winner of the Peabody Award and shortlisted for the Academy Awards, Martyn Burke's film UNDER FIRE: JOURNALIST IN COMBAT, takes the viewer into the psychological cost of covering wars. Having been through wars himself, Burke lets the latest wave of combat reporters tell of the invisible toll that war takes as jarring footage of what they experienced plays on the screen.
IDI AMIN:
MY PEOPLE LOVE ME
Martyn Burke dared Idi Amin to drive him around Kampala with no security. Amin took the challenge and for three hours they went all over the Ugandan capital together.
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CARNIVALS
The funny, poignant documentary following raucous carnies working at a huge carnival as it criss-crosses America at the height of the country’s turmoil.
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ISLAM VS. ISLAMISTS
The story of courageous anti-Islamist Muslims in Western Europe, Canada and the United States and the extraordinary challenges they face in taking on Islamists, extremists.
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CONNECTIONS
Canadian TV viewers were riveted as major mafia figures were exposed in sting operations recorded by Connections team's hidden cameras.
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WITNESSES
Witnesses went to a war barely noticed in the west; a war that foreshadowed the 9/11 era. Living in caves and mud forts with Afghan fighters, Burke chronicled the lives of those caught up in a war that would foreshadow what was to come.
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THE HOLLYWOOD TEN AND OTHERS
A History of Politics in Fillm Producer, Director Filmed with the participation of many of those most involved House Un-American Activities hearings into communism in the film industry split Hollywood – and the nation, in a bitter divide that continues to this day.