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Barry L. Frankhauser

The Māori Television network produced a TV documentary on the subject, using his thesis as a starting point, which aired in 2004.

Battle of Orgreave

The event took place on 17 June 2001 and was filmed by film director Mike Figgis for a Channel 4 documentary.

J. B. Malone

During the 1960s, Malone presented a television documentary series on RTÉ entitled Mountain and Meadow, in which, accompanied by a cameraman, he introduced viewers to a variety of hill walks in Wicklow and surrounding counties.

Kelly's Roast Beef

Kelly's has become nationally known and has been featured in the PBS documentary Sandwiches That You Will Like and on the Food Network show $40 a Day.

Nadia Santini

In 2010, German filmmaker Lutz Hachmeister created a television documentary called Three Stars, which Santini starred in amongst other chefs from Michelin starred restaurants.


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1997 Pepsi Independence Cup

Along with a television documentary on the history of Indian cricket broadcast on Doordarshan, India's Test cricket captains were honoured during the 2nd final at the Eden Gardens in Calcutta (now Kolkata) – from the then 86-year old Lala Amarnath to the then-captain, 24-year old Sachin Tendulkar.

A Terrible Revenge

The book originated as a script for a television documentary by the Bavarian Broadcasting.

Abgehauen

Abgehauen is a 1998 German television documentary directed by Frank Beyer and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Manfred Krug.

Anagrams of Desire

The book examines Carter's five radio plays, her two film adaptations, The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987) and discusses the critically neglected television documentary The Holy Family Album (1991) and the BBC 2 Omnibus documentary about Carter: Angela Carter's Curious Room (1992).

Balint Vazsonyi

The one-hour television documentary about the tour has been aired on WETA-TV, Washington's PBS station.

Blalock–Taussig shunt

The 2004 HBO television movie Something the Lord Made, based on Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe's 1989 article of the same name, was made about his role in the historic Blue Baby surgery, as was the 2003 public television documentary Partners of the Heart.

Bönz Malone

While Malone was at Youth Communication Malone was featured in "What's Going On," the Marc Levin television documentary about graffiti and street life.

Chloe Coscarelli

Coscarelli was featured in the Cooking Channel television documentary "The Veg Edge" and has appeared on NBC's The Today Show, CBS's The Doctors, VH1, CNN, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell Show and the Fran Drescher Show.

Christopher Austin

He was the composition tutor of Paul Morley in the BBC television documentary How to Be a Composer.

Circulus

The band featured in an SVT (Swedish) music television documentary called This Is Our Music in 2005, and were interviewed on BBC2's The Culture Show on 3 February 2007 as part of an item on the 'new folk'.

Codex Tchacos

National Geographic, which restored and conserved of the codex, has also created a two-hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.

David Sweetman

He subsequently became a television documentary director and producer, collaborating with Roderick Gradidge for a series on architecture, with Stephen Bayley for a series on design, and with Anton Dolin and Wayne Sleep for a series on the ballet.

Emily Bruni

Bruni is best known for portraying Helene Dufosse in TV series Agatha Christie's Marple and the Empress Catherine the Great in the 2005 television documentary Catherine the Great.

Georgia Cassimatis

While undertaking this degree, she won an award for her television documentary on politician Tanya Plibersek.

Harry Dodson

Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 – 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences.

Harvest of Shame

Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.

Hollywood and the Stars

Hollywood and the Stars' was a 1963 NBC American television documentary series produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television.

Horten Ho 229

In early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen, and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.

Ijen

Ijen and its sulfur mining was featured as a topic on the 5th episode of the BBC television documentary Human Planet.

In the Beginning There Was Light

P.A. Straubinger first encounters inedia in a television documentary about Nicholas of Flüe, who lived in the 15th century and was believed to have nourished himself with "divine light".

Jane Margaret Rogers

In 2010, Jane Margaret Rogers appeared in an episode of Channel 4's television documentary Country House Rescue.

Jay Winter

Jay Winter was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," which won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a Producers Guild of America Award for best television documentary in 1997.

Jean-Luc Brassard

He is currently a radio commentator and narrator of the French version of the television documentary program How It's Made.

John P. Hammond

In the early part of the 1990s, Hammond hosted the 1991 UK television documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, detailing the life of the legendary Delta bluesman, Robert Johnson.

Jon Jefferson

Prior to writing books, Jefferson worked as a staff science writer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; as an educator and administrator at Planned Parenthood of East Tennessee; as a freelance magazine and newspaper journalist; and as a television documentary writer/producer.

Kate Rusby

The previously unreleased song "Wandering Soul" was Rusby's contribution to the soundtrack for Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand, an eight-part BBC television documentary series originally broadcast in November 2004.

Kevin Stillmock

Pet Projects: A television documentary series that featured Brittany Murphy was one of the first animal-oriented television series that Animal Planet later made famous.

Linda Stratmann

She has appeared in the Channel 5 television documentary, Scream, about the history of anaesthesia, Hypnosurgery Live on Channel 4, Medical Mavericks on BBC Four by Michael J. Mosley and an episode of "Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook".

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003.

Peggy Hettrick murder case

A&E's true crime television documentary series, Investigative Reports, produced and narrated by Bill Kurtis featured a 2004 episode, Murder Illistrated, that dealt with the Peggy Hettrick case.

Pietra Brettkelly

When filming in southern Sudan in 2006 for the television documentary series Ends of the Earth for Television New Zealand, Brettkelly met Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft.

Post-racial America

Actor and director Mario Van Peebles made a television documentary titled Fair Game that challenged the idea that the United States had become a post-racial society.

Private Screenings

Private Screenings is a television documentary and reality series airing on Turner Classic Movies since 1995, and one of three original programs currently aired by the network, the others being The Essentials and 31 Days of Oscar.

Refrigerator Mothers

Refrigerator Mothers is a 2003 television documentary film by Kartemquin Films for PBS's P.O.V. series.

Roger Deakin

He also made several television documentary films covering subjects as diverse as rock music, Essex, Hank Wangford, allotments and the world of horse racing.

Seán Savage

A controversial British television documentary, Death on the Rock was produced about the events surrounding Savage's death.

Suzhou Museum

The multi-year process of designing, building and inaugurating the new museum was chronicled in PBS's American Masters television documentary series in an 2010 episode entitled "I.M. Pei: Building China Modern".

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak is a 2009 television documentary film directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze about children's author Maurice Sendak.

Tom Freiling

In 2004 producer David W. Balsiger used George W. Bush on God and Country, along with David Aikman’s book A Man of Faith, as the basis for his controversial television documentary George W. Bush: Faith in the White House.

Vietnam Requiem

Vietnam Requiem was an ABC News Closeup Series television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord.

Water Education Foundation

In 2009 the Foundation won a regional Emmy award for the 2008 public television documentary, Salt of the Earth: Salinity in California’s Central Valley hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez.

Wendy Holden

Shell Shock: The Psychological Trauma of War, which accompanied a four-part television documentary, and the novelisation of the film The Full Monty, which became an international bestseller in nine languages and was published as a classroom aide;

What a Year

What a Year was an Australian television documentary series, hosted by former ACA host Mike Munro and supermodel Megan Gale in 2006 and Bert Newton and Julia Zemiro in 2007.

White Cloud, Kansas

White Cloud is featured in episode 4 of the 2008 television documentary Stephen Fry in America.

William Farr

In The Sewer King, an episode in the 2003 British television documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, Farr was played by Norman Lovett.

Wythenshawe

In 2009, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (former wife of Prince Andrew) went to Wythenshawe to make a television documentary for ITV1 entitled The Duchess On The Estate.