United States
Last Edited: 21-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
America, Empire of Liberty
Date Title Cast Parameters
23-Sep-2002 to

Schwartz's City Sounds
Tony Schwartz, Alan Dein
Producer: Mark Burman
5 files
1:08:27, 62.6 MB, S
28-Jan-2004 The Man Who Made America
Merriweather Lewis
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Produced by Julian Carey
27:38, 19439, S
01-Mar-2004 to
05-Mar-2004

The 1000 Mile Husky Race
The Iditarod
Edward de la Billiere
Produced by Joann Stevens

13:43, 12875, m
13:43, 12864, m
13:55, 13061, m
14:02, 13165, m
13:42, 12853, m

02-Mar-2004
09-Mar-2004

Crossing the Boundary
The Russo-American History of Alaska
and the Bering Strait
Richard Creasey
Produced by Mark Rickards

28:02, 26295, S
27:53, 26144, S

02-May-2005
The Lost Voices of Crystal City
Interned German Immigrants in WWII
Nigel Wrench
Produced by Jo Meek

28:17, 26522, S
24-Apr-2004 Archive Hour – I Too Am America
Slavery in New York City
Caryl Phillips
Produced by Jane Beresford

BBC TV 2
07-Jun-2004
The Man Who Forged America

MP4 VIDEO
59:20, 605245
09-Aug-2004
To Be a Kennedy Hero
Ivan Howlett
Producer: Nick Patrick

28-Sep-2004
Gerrymandering
James Silva
Produced by Sue Ellis

37:26, 35104, S
24-Oct-2004 to
07-Nov-2004
The Last Hitch-Hiker Rides Again
Kevin Connolly
Producer Tony Grant
3 files
41:50, 38.3 MB, S

  1. UKTV 5
    2002

  2. UKTV 4
    2005

  3. UKTV 4
    2005
UK TV Documentaries on 9/11
  1. 9/11 The Firefighters' Story


  2. The Man Who Predicted 9/11


  3. The Road to 9/11

  1. narrated by Mike Puzziferri
    filmed, produced and directed
    by Paul Berriff
  2. narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
    produced and directed by
    Steve Humphries
  3. narrated by Samira Ahmed
    written and produced by Sabin Streeter
MP4 VIDEOS
  1. 56:04, 572304


  2. 48:48, 497496


  3. 59:43, 609492
26-Feb-2005 Archive Hour
Lance Corporal Baronowski’s Vietnam
Produced by Alan Hall
BBC TV 2
13-Apr-2005
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln -
Days That Shook the World
Nsrrated by Peter Guiness
Director: Dan Clifton
Producer: David Upshal
AVI VIDEO
27:59, 284467
missing beginning
12-Apr-2005
19-Apr-2005
Politically Incorrect and Out on a Limb
Paul Jackson
Producer: Paul Kobrak

28:08, 26379, S
28:03. 26312, S
08-Sep-2005
Hobo Heaven
Annual hobo festival in Britt, Iowa
Gerry Anderson
Produced by Peter Everett

27:51, 26116, S
03-Oct-2005
Separate but Equal
American segregation in the 1950s
Presented and produced by Tony Phillips
28:04, 26320, S
22-Nov-2005
After Katrina
New Orleans after the hurricane
Alvin Hall
Produced by Sue Ellis

27:55, 26186, S
25-Nov-2005
Holding On
A Texas contest ends in tragedy
James Maw
Produced by Lawrence Grissell

27:57, 26207, S
26-Nov-2005
A Bright Light in the Night
The history of American motels
Joe Queenan
Produced by Miles Warde

27:36, 25891, S
01-Dec-2005
The Battle of Lozells
Amardeep Bassey
Producers Smita Patel and David Akinsanya
27:46, 26034, S
02-Jan-2006
The Greenspan Years
Alan Greenspan’s Tenure as Federal Reserve
Chairman
Howard Davies
Produced by Paul O’Keefe

28:40, 26885, S
31-Jan-2006 to
14-Feb-2006
Playing Rosa's Tune -
Music of the Civil Rights Struggle

Stephen Evans
Producer: Paul Evans
3 files
1:24:35, 77.4 MB, S
12-Apr-2006
The Frisco Quake
100th anniversary of the San Francisco
earthquake
Sean Street
Produced by Alan Hall

28:12, 26450, S
29-Apr-2006
23-Jan-2007

Inside the New Yorker
Naomi Gryn
Producer Sue Ellis
28:15, 26486, S
UK ITV3
Jun-2006?

The History Makers: Abraham Lincoln
written, produced and directed by Simon Freeston
narrated by Ian Brooker

AVI VIDEO
42:07, 425769

11-Jul-2006
Project Pooch
Troubled Oregon youths training dogs
Dylan Winter
Produced by Jolyon Jenkins

27:50, 26101, S
24-Aug-2006
Big Easy Blues: The Rebuilding of New Orleans
Stephen Sackur
Produced by Bill Law

28:07, 26374, S
27-Sep-2006
Letters from Guantanamo
Producer: Kate Taylor
43:25, 40712, S
04-Oct-2006
11-Oct-2006

Live Free or Die
Justin Webb
Produced by Tony Grant

14:00, 13139, S
14:05, 13214, S

16-Nov-2006
The Comic Battle for America
Stephen Armstrong
Producer Robyn Read
28:03, 26307, S
02-Jan-2007
Chasing Shadows
CIA ‘black” interrogation sites
Nick Hawton
Produced by Andy Denwood

37:18, 34970, S
08-Jan-2007
18-Apr-2007

Diz for Prez
Dizzy Gillespie’s 1964 Presidential campaign
Michael Craig
Produced by Kate Taylor

28:04, 26316, S
BBC TV4
11-Jan-2007
The Man In the Mansion:California Governors
written and presented by PJ O'Rourke
produced and directed by Jeremy Monblat
MP4 VIDEO
58:59, 601364
BBC TV2
23-Feb-2007
to
09-Mar-2007

The Wild West
  1. Custer's Last Stand
  2. Billy the Kid
  3. Gunfight at the OK Corral
Narrated by Michael Praed
written by Colin Swash
  1. Toby Stephens
    Director: David Stewart
  2. David Leon, Colin Stinton
    Director: Tim Robinson
  3. Liam Cunningham, Christopher Fulford
    Director: David Stewart

AVI VIDEO


58:50, 601562
59:00, 603346
57:23, 587690

16-Apr-2007
23-Apr-2007
30-Apr-2007

Death to America:
Anti-Americanism Examined


Justin Webb
Producer Bill Law
27:54, 26161, S
28:12, 26452, S
27:47, 26058, S

17-Apr-2007
A Garden in New York
Stephen Evans, Camilla Hellman
Producer: Judith Kamptner
28:12, 26443, S
14-Jun-2007
Untouchable
Joe Queenan
Producer: Geoff Bird
28:04, 26317, S
30-Jun-2007
Whose Side Is Bart Simpson On?
Phill Jupitus
Producer: Martin Rosenbaum
28:11, 26436, S
16-Aug-2007 to
06-Sep-2007

The Clinton Years
  1. From Poetry to Prose
  2. The Comeback Kid
  3. A Call to Arms
  4. Sex, Lies and Videotape
Gavin Esler
Produced by Mark Savage

27:57, 26218, S
27:53, 26143, S
28:15, 26493, S
28:14, 26475, S

22-Aug-2007
The GI Blues of Elvis Presley
Paul Gambaccini
Producer: John Sugar
28:11, 26423, S
13-Nov-2007
The Longest Harvest
the American Wheat Harvest
Dylan Winter
Produced by John Byrne

27:50, 26095, S
10-Jan-2008
Doonesburyland
Joe Queenan, Steve Bell, Martin Rowson
Produced by Miles Warde

27:48, 26079, S
21-Jan-2008
The Divine Detective
Tom Mangold
Produced by Adam Fowler

27:55, 26173, S
06-Feb-2008
Oliver and Zaltzman: Transatlantic
John Oliver, Andy Zaltzman
Producer: Colin Anderson
28:09, 26394, S
29-Feb-2008
A Race Apart
Sarfraz Manzoor
Produced by Alan Hall

28:08, 26384, S
03-Mar-2008 to
07-Mar-2008

The FBI at 100
  1. In the Beginning
  2. Don't Shoot G Man, Don't Shoot
  3. A Good War
  4. Commies, Bugging and Secret Files
  5. Dirty Tricks
  6. End of the Empire
  7. The Mafia and the Mob on Wheels
  8. The Federal Bureau of Incompetence
  9. the Catastrophe
  10. Tomorrow's Bureau
Tom Mangold
Produced by Adam Fowler

10 files
2:19:19, 127 MB, S
02-Apr-2008
Marshall’s Plan
Allan Little
Produced by Jane Beresford

28:03, 26309, S
25-Apr-2008
The Child Preachers
John McCarthy
Produced by
Kirsten Dwight
27:48, 26074, S
13-Jun-2008
Tribal Gathering
Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut
Jane Little
Produced by Richard McIlroy

28:16, 26510, S
30-Jun-2008
07-Jul-2008
14-Jul-2008
21-Jul-2008

American Dreams
  1. Michigan and a failing economy
  2. Houston and the Immigrant Influx
  3. Fort Riley, Kansas and the military
  4. Washington DC and politics
James Naughtie
Produced by Bill Law, Sue Ellis, Mark Savage

28:10, 26423, S
28:03, 26301, S
28:27, 26682, S
28:08, 26382, S

10-Jul-2008
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Peter Curran
Produced by Alison Vernon Smith

27:53, 26146, S
26-Jun-2008
Material Girls – Barbie and Madonna at 50
Emily Maitlis
Produced by Marya Burgess

28:12:, 26449, S
02-Oct-2008
09-Oct-2008

Soul and Skin:
Religion and Race In the Battle for the
White House

  1. Mind The God Gap
  2. the issue of race
Rob Watson
produced by Joanna Carr

28:15, 26486, S
27:51, 26116, S

18-Oct-2008
Honouring the Office: Playing the White
House

Paul Gambaccini
Produced by John Sugar

28:15, 26492, S
13-Nov-2008
From Manchester to the Mississippi
CP Lee, Joe Boyd
Producer: Nicola Swords
28:01, 26279, S
05-Dec-2008
A Dream of Eleanor -
the UN Declaration of Human Rights
Mary Robinson
Produced by Kate Taylor

28:11, 26434, S
06-Jan-2009
Obama: Professor President
Kwame Anthony
Producer: Judith Kampfner
37:38, 35138, S
20-Jan-2009
The Legacy of George W Bush
Justin Webb
Produced by Neil Rozelle

28:04, 26316, S
21-Jan-2009
Condensed History of George W Bush
Adam Long, Simon Germond, Ben Haethcote
Produced by Mandy Baker

14:30, 13606, S
28-Jan-2009
04-Feb-2009

The Few - Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
Andrew Keen
Produced by Anne Reevell

14:04, 13189, S
13:59, 13115, S

07-Mar-2009
14-Mar-2009

Baseball and Me
  1. the Boston Red Sox
  2. Red Sox vs Yankees
Simon Schama
produced by Philip Sellers

28:02, 26297, S
28:07, 26371, S

09-Apr-2009
The Great Architect of Home
Frank Lloyd Wright
Susan Marling
Producers Kate Bland and Susan Marling
27:59, 26237, S
24-Apr-2009
Anthropology at War
US army's embedding of anthropologists
with combat brigades
Mark Whitaker
28:24, 26627, S
13-May-2009
The Manuscript Hunter
Mark Whitaker
28:25, 26646, S
25-May-2009
01-Jun-2009

Hearts and Minds
Intellectuals and the CIA during the Cold War
Nick Fraser
produced by Simon Hollis

28:08, 26377, S
28:10, 26419, S

22-Jun-2009 Broken Arrow -
a missing nuclear bomb from 1958
Gerry Northam
produced by John Byrne
27:43, 26000, S
03-Aug-2009
Benjamin Jealous: The Future of the NAACP?
Gary Younge
produced by Barney Rowntree

27:50, 26106, S
CBC IDEAS
17-Aug-2009
18-Aug-2009
The Trail of Tears
Philip Coulter,  Paul Kennedy
produced by Philip Coulter

53:48, 50448, S
53:53, 50531, S
11-Oct-2009
US Health Reform: Beware of Side Effects
Justin Webb
Producer: Gemma Newby
28:03, 26303, S
20-Oct-2009
Return from Guantanamo
Sami al-Hajj talks to Gavin Esler
produced by Kate Taylor

36:49, 34527, S
11-Nov-2009
Find Me A New York Jewish Princess
Tim Samuels
Produced by Mohini Patel

25:50, 24232, S
26-Dec-2009 Brandreth's Pills Gyles Brandreth
produced by Chris Bond
27:58, 26228, S
12-Jan-2010
Closing Guantanamo
Jon Manel
produced by Sally Chesworth

36:24, 34136, S
18-Jan-2010
Obama's Babies
Peter White
produced by Susan Mitchell

28:04, 26315, S
10-Apr-2010
The Ambassador's Reception
Maureen Freely
Producer: Gemma Newby
27:57, 26214, S
19-Apr-2010
Fly Me to The Reverend Moon
John Waite
produced by Geoff Bird

27:51, 26120, S
05-May-2010
Cutting the Lifeline --
migrant workers and their families back home
John Miller
produced by Vera Frankl

27:33, 25837, S
25-Jul-2010
McCarthy: There Were Reds Under the Bed
David Aaronovitch
Producer: Kati Whitaker

27:40, 25939, S
26-Aug-2010
Svelte Sylvia and the Hollywood Trimsters
Karen Krizanovich
Producer: Kate Taylor

27:55, 26187, S
CBC IDEAS
05-Jan-2011
The Age Of American Decline
Paul Kennedy
53:59, 50622, S
15-Jan-2011
Ship of Spies
Tom Mangold
Producer: Laurence Grissell

27:45, 26018, S
21-Feb-2011 Designing Camelot --
Jacqeline Kennedy and the redesign
of the White House
Katty Kay
produced by Martin Smith
26:52, 25192, S
13-Apr-2011
20-Apr-2011

Bronzeville Lives: Chicago's Black Metropolis
Producer: Mark Burman
28:00, 26263, S
28:02, 26283, S

19-Apr-2011
American Jihad
Jonny Dymond
produced by Mike Wendling

36:48, 34504, S
31-May-2011
The Men with the Ear of the President
Jonathan Powell
produced by David Stenhouse, Lucy Lloyd

36:48, 34512, S
07-Jun-2011
Unbuilding Detroit
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
27:53, 26149, S
BBC TV4
16-Jun-2011
Unnatural Histories: Yellowstone
Narrator Deborah Maclaren
Producer Susie Painter
AVI VIDEO HD
59:04, 1476492
04-Jul-2011
Down and Out in the City of Angels
Rob Campbell
Producer: Sara Jane Hall

27:56, 26129, S
22-Jul-2011
Horsepower -- horse races in California 
Jane Smiley
Producer: Susan Marling

27:52, 26081, S
29-Aug-2011
The Peace Corps Writers
Bridget Kendall
Producer: Dominic Byrne

27:38, 25859, S
05-Sep-2011 to
09-Sep-2011
The 9/11 Letters
  1. Caryl Phillips
  2. Naomi Alderman
  3. Joseph O'Neill
  4. Lionel Shriver
  5. Michael Morpurgo
Producer Julian May, Beattie Rubens 13:42, 12834, S
13:46, 12888, S
13:36, 12735, S
13:47, 12909, S
13:42, 12831, S
16-Oct-2011
23-Oct-2011

Younge on Obama -
Performance Notes on a Presidency
Gary Younge
Producer: Peggy Sutton

28:07, 26314, S
27:49, 26027, S

28-Nov-2011 Blood Stained Banner Gary Younge
Producer: Peggy Sutton
27:49, 26034, S
11-Dec-2011 The Blood Telegram Jonny Dymond
produced by Dina Mufti
27:45, 25978, S
17-Jan-2012
Three Generations of Incarceration
-- Los Angeles
Gary Younge
Producer: Barney Rowntree

36:56, 34554, S
28-Jan-2012 Phil Collins: King of the Wild Frontier Patrick Humphries
Producer: John Sugar
27:33, 25786, S
08-May-2012
Something Rotten in Mayfield
Tom Mangold
Produced by Gemma Newby

34:08, 31964, S
14-May-2012
Poetry, Texas
Produced by Pejk Malinovski
27:52, 26087, S
11-Sep-2012
Latinos USA
Claire Bolderson
produced by Bill Law

36:50, 34468, S
29-Sep-2012
Tehrangeles
Maz Jobrani
Producer: Shoku Amirani
27:45, 25965, S
26-Nov-2012
Walking on Planet C --
Nile Rodgers, NYC and Cancer

Nile Rodgers
Producer: Paul McClean

27:43, 25936, S
10-Dec-2012
Positively Flawed? Affirmative Action and the
Future of America

Gary Younge
Producer: Peggy Sutton

27:48, 26020, S
19-Dec-2012
Train Hopping in the USA
Peter Bowes
Producer: Sara Jane Hall

27:52, 26080, S
05-Jan-2013
Reimagining the City, New Orleans
Nik Cohn
Produced by Rachel Hooper

27:48, 26026, S
03-Feb-2013
Guns: An American Love Affair       
D.D. Guttenplan
Producer: Peggy Sutton

27:31, 25752, S
07-Mar-2013 Dreamers of the Black Metropolis --
Chicago in the 1930's
Rita Coburn Whack
produced by Mark Burman
27:48, 26011, S
21-Mar-2013 Destination Freedom Presenter: Donnie Betts
Producer: Simon Hollis
27:55, 26173, S
22-Mar-2003 Forgotten Black Cowboys Sarfraz Manzoor
produced by Mark Rikards
27:31, 25789, S
10-Jun-2013
Ebony: Black on White on Black
Gary Younge
Readers: Ricky Fearon, Omaka Ofefor
Producer: Mark Burman

27:58, 26242, S
26-Aug-2013
God's Trombone: Remembering King's Dream
Gary Younge
Producer: Peggy Sutton
27:26, 25679, S
19-Nov-2013
Gettysburg James Naughtie
Producer: Paul Kobrak
36:44, 34369, S
31-Aug-2014
The Map That Made Manhattan
Producer: Simon Hollis
27:59, 26183, S
17-Oct-2916 to
21-Oct-2016
The Robber Barons
  1. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  2. Jay Gould
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. John D Rockefeller
  5. JP Morgan
Adam Smith
TJ Stiles, Joanna Cohen, Steve Fraser
Producer: Phil Tinline
5 files
1:10:40, 80.8 MB, S