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Atlantic Europe

Bob Quinn in his documentary series Atlantean speculates that western European Celtic culture is actually an earlier, pre-Celtic, Atlantic culture that included Atlantic Europe and people of the Maghreb such as Berbers and that it continues today.

Baker Boys: Inside the Surge

Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, is a 2010 four-part documentary series following the soldiers of Baker Company, Task Force 1-15 Infantry, 3d Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), during their deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom at Combat Outpost Carver during the troop surge of 2007.

Hardwick Hall

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Hall as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.

Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About (documentary series), a 2013 series of documentaries presented by Brainstorm Media and DirecTV

The Circus, Bath

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Circus as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.


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Adolphe Vorderman

In a 2007 episode of the BBC genealogical documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, Carol Vorderman researched her great grandfather Adolphe.

Alan Robson

He has also appeared on dozens of hit TV shows as an expert on the paranormal, including Larry King Live and appeared in the BBC One documentary series Trouble in Store.

Andrew Jenks

In January 2010, MTV signed Jenks to do a documentary-series titled World of Jenks.

Arctic Son

Arctic Son was produced and directed by Andrew Walton, aired on PBS's P.O.V. documentary series in 2007, and was screened as part of the Seattle International Film Festival.

Battles BC

Battles BC is a 2009 documentary series looking at key battles in ancient history.

Brian Lindstrom

He was awarded a Telly for work on The Visionaries, a PBS documentary series hosted by Sam Waterston.

Chuck Scarborough

Scarborough was the host of the syndicated programs Images – A Year in Review and Memories...Then and Now in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and also co-anchored the NBC network documentary series Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Maria Shriver and Mary Alice Williams.

Costa Serena

In 2009 Costa Serena and her crew was featured in the six-episode National Geographic Channel documentary series "Cruise Ship Diaries".

Dominic Sutherland

In 2003 he directed "Churchill - Secrets of Leadership" before working as a director on the 2005 documentary series Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', for which he shared the Grierson Award for Best Historical Programme.

Freddie de Guingand

In 1973 he made an appearance and was interviewed on the now famous British TV documentary series The World at War.

Fredrik Lindström

In the 2000s, Lindström has become a household name in Sweden through his documentary series Värsta språket about the Swedish language on Sveriges Television.

Gare de Lyon rail accident

The accident was featured on season 2 of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster in the program Paris Train Crash (also known as Runaway Train).

George Lewith

A 2006 BBC documentary series, Alternative Medicine, was criticised by several people, including Lewith, in the Guardian over a controversial sequence in which acupuncture appeared to be used as a replacement for general anaesthesia during open heart surgery.

GH episodes

Episodes of Ghost Hunters, an American drama-documentary series ran on Syfy/the Sci Fi Channel since 2004

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.

John Hoskyns

Hoskyns was interviewed about Stepping Stones and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Karen X. Tulchinsky

She was story editor for the documentary series KinK, a story editor and writer on the drama series The Guard, a creative consultant on Glutton for Punishment (Food Network) and a consulting producer on Dussault Inc. and The Opener.

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.

Kitchen Boss

Unlike the documentary series Cake Boss and the reality series Next Great Baker, Kitchen Boss is a studio-based, straight cooking program, in which Buddy cooks various Italian-American dishes from his family's recipes.

Laura Danly

Laura Danly has also been a common guest scientist on the documentary series The Universe in all seven series and on How the Universe Works.

Laurette Spang-McCook

She later appeared in the Battlestar Galactica episode of Sciography documentary series on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002.

Los Cenzontles

With support from the James Irvine Foundation, Los Cenzontles began developing a 3 part documentary series in 2003.

Lucia Hossu-Longin

Lucia Hossu-Longin is a Romanian TV producer/director, best known for the documentary series Memorialul Durerii.

Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park

The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park hosted the zoo documentary series, Weiches Fell und scharfe Krallen ("Soft fur, sharp claws"), produced by the German TV company, NDR.

Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

The 1992 documentary series was presented as 10 video programs, each 60 minutes long, and was released on VHS after being aired on public television.

Mitchell Block

Among the films and documentary series that Block has conceived, created and produced are Carrier and Another Day in Paradise, both of which were broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service and the National Geographic Channel internationally.

Morning Glory Funeral Home scandal

The case was featured in the Season 3 episode "A Deadly Business" of the cable television documentary series Dr. G: Medical Examiner.

Moscow hostage crisis chemical agent

Prof. Thomas Zilker and Dr. Mark Wheelis, interviewed in the BBC's "Horizon" documentary series, dispute that the gas could have been based on fentanyl.

New South China Mall

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green made a short film about the South China Mall called "Utopia Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall." The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS's documentary series POV.

New Zealand longfin eel

It was only after the Animal Planet documentary series River Monsters aired that these attacks were made public knowledge and fact.

On Freddie Roach

On Freddie Roach is a documentary series about boxer and trainer Freddie Roach, produced by Jim Lampley.

Page Moss

On 30 June 2008 the neighbourhood was featured on the BBC TV documentary series Panorama, focusing upon the local youth gang culture, namely the "Moss Edz" and their feuds with adjoining areas, specifically Dovecot, whom they refer to as "Dovey Edz".

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.

Piers Gibbon

He had a regular spot on Resonance FM where he and David McCandless received a Sony Award nomination for the documentary series The Good Drugs Guide.

Pizzicato Five

The album would spawn two of their most loved songs: "Twiggy Twiggy" and "Baby Love Child" (the latter song finding its way onto the Futurama episode "Leela's Homeworld" as well as Adam Curtis' 2011 documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", in which it serves as title music.

Robin Kevan

In 2007 he appeared on the BBC's documentary series Mountain presented by Griff Rhys Jones in which it highlighted his work in cleaning up Snowdon in Wales.

Ronald Easterbrook

Footage of the arrest is also shown in the 2010 documentary series Flying Squad: The Real Sweeney, shown on National Geographic Channel.

Siegmund Weltlinger

Towards the very end of his life, he was interviewed in the now famous documentary series, The World at War.

Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia

The sequence of ownership is featured in Jonathan Nossiter's film Mondovino and documentary series of the same name, which contain statements by Lodovico Antinori, and the Frescobaldi and Mondavi families then joint owners during the time of production, which displays opposing accounts on the events.

Texas Seven

One year later, on March 23, 2012, Investigation Discovery aired an episode of Werner Herzog's documentary series On Death Row which dealt with Rivas and Garcia.

The Stagg Party

The documentary series follows around commercial and erotic/glamour photographer Ellen Stagg as she photographs her favorite models, prepares her images, and handles her day-to-day life in a field generally reserved for men.

Tim Hayward

He has appeared on Good Food channel's Market Kitchen and the BBC1 documentary series Ever Wondered About Food?.

Torquil Silvanus Matthew Septimus Riley-Smith

Riley-Smith was profiled on the BBC documentary series Trouble at the Top, in an episode titled "Queen of the Airwaves."

Trish Williamson

The daughter of journalist Harold Williamson, who notably worked on the BBC current affairs and documentary series Man Alive in the 1960s, Williamson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and studied at Durham University.

Überlingen mid-air collision

The National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster featured this mid-air collision in the episode entitled Collision at 35,000 feet release in 26 September 2011.

Utah Shakespearean Festival

Designed by Douglas N. Cook, it is world-renowned for its accuracy in duplicating Shakespeare's Globe; the BBC used it as a filming location in 1981 for a documentary series on Shakespeare.

World War II In HD Colour

World War II In HD Colour is a 13-episode television documentary series recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell.