June 2023 - Go Button Media

By Go Button Mediain Cursed Histories, Engineering Evolved, Factual, Press, Revolutions That Changed History

Super Channel pushes Go Button docuseries about engineering, history and revolutions

Canadian pay TV network Super Channel has greenlit three factual series under its partnership with prodco Go Button Media and distributor Off The Fence.

The three series are part of the 36-hour, six-series deal the trio made earlier this year and are now in production.

Engineering Evolved (6×60′) focuses on the transportation technology that moves ships, cars, trains and submarines around the world and Cursed History (6×60′) explores the strange histories and legends of those who lived or died by a curse.

Finally, Revolutions that Changed the World (6×60′) examines the rise and fall of selected empires, monarchs and military leaders, many of whom learned the hard way that power is far from absolute and that allegiance is always conditional. Leaders examined include Spartacus, Queen Boudicca and Louis XVI.

Read more on c21media.net.

08Jun

By Go Button Mediain Factual, Mapping Disaster

C21 Screenings: Mapping Disaster

Mapping Disaster

Autentic Distribution

Disasters can strike, anytime, anywhere. Under blue skies and without warning, the smallest break from the ordinary can set disaster in motion. In the eye of the storm, the inevitable seems inescapable. But what can be learned in the aftermath of earth’s most catastrophic forces?

Read more on C21media.net.

05Jun

By Go Button Mediain Factual, Press, Secret Nazi Bases, Secret Societies: In the Shadows

DCD Rights closes CEE sales

Canal+ has acquired the rock doc Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui (1 x 91 min.) for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while A+E Networks EMEA has licensed Secret Societies: In the Shadows (6 x 60 min.) for Poland, Hungary and Romania.

Finally, Poland’s TV Spektrum has sprung for a package that includes series three of Secret Nazi Bases (6 x 60 min.), series seven and eight of Aussie Gold Hunters (40 x 60 min.) and the Gold Hunters spin-off Aussie Gold Hunters: Mine SOS (6 x 60 min.).

Read more on Realscreen.com.

01Jun

By Go Button Mediain Factual, No Roses on a Sailor's Grave, Press

WWII veteran's quest to find D-Day shipwreck and build a memorial to lost shipmates

EXCLUSIVE: Seventy years after she was sunk off the French coast in the wake of D-Day, a chance encounter launched an extraordinary project to locate the wreck of a British ship… and commemorate those who went down with her.

The 158-foot-long headquarters ship, one of thousands that set forth across the Channel, was part of the first wave heading for Sword Beach in Normandy.

“I had certain qualms in my stomach, but you very quickly dismissed that because you’re busy,” Patrick Thomas, now 98, recalls.

“When we arrived there initially, we didn’t get a very friendly welcome.

“The Germans were rattling machine gun bullets on the hull. I saw the infantry running up the beach and sometimes they’d get shot and go down.”

For the next two weeks, in the heat of battle, LCH185 played a key role in defending the landing beaches and saving survivors from other Allied vessels, which were taking a fearful pounding from relentless German attacks.

Then, on June 25, Patrick’s world changed forever when LCH185 was hit by an acoustic mine. The veteran recollects that cataclysmic moment.

“I didn’t hear the explosion, but it must have lifted the stern up and driven the bow under. The next thing I knew, we were underwater.”

Read the full article on Express.co.uk.