The Longest Night is a 1972 made-for-TV movie written by Merwin Gerard and directed by Jack Smight. The plot concerns the kidnapping of Karen Chambers, daughter of wealthy Alan Chambers. The kidnapper holds her underground in a homemade coffin. He leaves her there until he receives the ransom money. Her family frantically searches for her. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. This is based on the true 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
A series of mini-films about the fate of war children, which are aimed at personally introducing modern children to the time of the Great Patriotic War. Each of the films is a reconstruction of a local wartime event, presented through the eyes of a child. A story of fear, heroism, a brave heart, early maturity and precocious wisdom of a little man doomed to survival, hourly struggle and possible death. The main message in the slogan of the project is: "We cannot change the past, but we can prevent its repetition in the future." Some of the scenarios of the project are based on real stories of war children, sent as part of the campaign of the same name, which was launched in the spring of 2020.
A five-part series that explores the forgotten story of the incredible engineering feats and secret survival techniques of five legendary battles fought underground during World War I.
A comprehensive series detailing the great air battles the Second World War as they have never been told. Featuring rarely seen aerial combat footage of all the major combat aircraft types from World II.
Abdulrahman Thaher satirically discusses his experiences in Palestine and throughout the Arab world during the turbulent 1990s and early 2000s in this studio television program.
A film novella about a Soviet spy, a pilot of the 'Condor' Legion, connected to the testing of the jet 'Swallow' by Willy Messerschmitt – the Me-262 (in the film, the 'Albatross') – and the disruption of a promising project during the Great Patriotic War.
Top US, European and Iraqi leaders - political and military - tell the inside story of their private talks, phone calls, deals and clashes. Former members of Saddam Hussein's regime tell - for the first time on television - just what he said to them as the threat of war grew. Over three episodes, the series gets the insiders to tell what happened at crucial moments on the road to war following 9/11, the first year after the invasion as Iraq's liberation became a US occupation and Iraq's descent into civil war.