Category: Factual

Secret Nazi Bases secures second season, global sales
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Secret Nazi Bases secures second season, global sales

U.K.’s DCD Rights has secured a number of global sales for the Go Button Media-produced factual series, co-commissioned by CBC’s documentary Channel and UKTV.

CBC’s documentary Channel and UKTV have renewed Go Button Media’s factual series Secret Nazi Bases for a second season.

The 8 x 60-minute docuseries explores the ruins of old Nazi bunkers, bases and hidden tunnels to find old uncovered documents from the Third Reich. It executive produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan from the Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media and is expected to premiere in 2021 on documentary Channel in Canada and UKTV’s Yesterday channel.

Season two of Secret Nazi Bases has been sold to a number of territories by U.K. distributor DCD Rights, including A+E Networks for Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and Discovery for Spain, Andora and Benelux. Both seasons were picked up by French network Planete for French-speaking Europe and Africa, as well as Mediaset in Italy. UKTV acquisitions manager Daniel Thomas brokered a pre-investment deal for the second season.

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UKTV, Documentary uncover more Nazi Bases
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UKTV, Documentary uncover more Nazi Bases

Multichannel operator UKTV and Canada’s documentary Channel have commissioned a second season of their historical factual series Secret Nazi Bases.

The 8×60’ second run will be produced by Toronto-based Go Button Media and distributed by London-based sales house DCD Rights.

The series explores the mysteries and secrets surrounding decaying Second World War structures and the nefarious plans put into motion to further Hitler’s plan to dominate the world. It will air on UKTV’s Yesterday channel in 2021.

DCD has already sealed deals for the second season with A+E Networks in CEE and Scandinavia, Discovery for Spain, Andorra and Benelux, and Planete for French-speaking Europe and Africa.

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Secret Nazi Bases' "Villa Winter" Awarded Silver Remi

Go Button Media is excited to announce that Episode 3: Villa Winter of the documentary series Secret Nazi Bases has been selected to win a Silver Remi Award at The 53rd WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival for best Historical Program.

Many thanks to WorldFest Houston for the award and congratulations to the Secret Nazi Bases team!

About Secret Nazi Bases

The collapse of the Third Reich left as many secrets as it did relics. Still today, remnants of the Nazi’s schemes lie concealed in structures scattered across the globe. Skeletons of projects give way to mysteries. Conspiracies abound about science fiction scenarios. The Nazis were nothing if not methodical, and a deeper look reveals even darker plans. From tunnels to towers, artillery sites and communication centres; the remains of these schemes lie waiting to reveal truths about the Fuhrer’s tactics and dreams in Secret Nazi Bases.

As facts about these outposts materialise, the viewer will ponder how the events of World War II could have taken a very different turn. What did Hitler have planned?

Secret Nazi Bases appears on Documentary Channel, Science Channel (as Secret Nazi Ruins), UKTV, Discovery EMEA (as Secret Nazi Ruins) and Hollywood Suite, and distributed by DCD Rights.

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Award For Helping To Find A Lost D-Day Wreck
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Award For Helping To Find A Lost D-Day Wreck

By Max James

A diving club’s help in finding the wreck of a ship lost during D-Day for one of the few who survived its sinking 75 years ago was rewarded with an award at the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) annual conference this month.

Southsea Sub Aqua Club had joined the search for the ship that went down in 1944 with the loss of 35 of the 40-man crew. It started with the chance meeting of archaeologist John Henry Phillips, 25, and naval veteran Patrick Thomas, 95, during a D-Day commemoration. Patrick told John the story of how he had escaped but the ship had never been found and how he wished to honour his teenage friends who died in the sinking.

The story of how John found the wreck and the friendship between the two has been made into a feature-length documentary called No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave.

The role of Southsea Sub Aqua Club in helping to identify the wreck has honoured with the Adopt A Wreck Award at the NAS conference in Portsmouth.

The club did extensive research into wrecks in the Baie de Seine and their detailed survey work is to be used in a bid to gain these rapidly decaying ships better protection.

Alison Mayor from the club said: ‘The wreck is just one of at least 150 in the Baie de Seine believed to be associated with the Allied forces invasion. Our report has been submitted to the French Maritime Cultural Department and will form part of the documentation supporting the application for UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. We hope that our work will help keep the memory of these events alive and properly recorded within history’.

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