Catalogue Pilot Film & Television Productions Ltd
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productions 2020 Catalogue Pilot Film & Television Productions Ltd. is a leading international television production company with an outstanding reputation for producing and distributing innovative factual entertainment, history and travel led programmes. The company was set up by Ian Cross in 1988; and it is now one of the longest established independent production companies under continuous ownership in the United Kingdom. Pilot has produced over 500 hours of multi-genre programming covering subjects as diverse as history, food and sport. Its award winning Globe Trekker series, broadcast in over 20 countries, has a global audience of over 20 million. Pilot Productions has offices in London and Los Angeles. CONTENTS Mission Statement 3 In Production 4 New 6 Tough Series 8 Travelling in the 1970’s 10 Specials 11 Empire Builders 12 Ottomans vs Christians 14 History Specials 18 Historic Walks 20 Metropolis 21 Adventure Golf 22 Great Railway Journeys of Europe 23 The Story Of... Food 24 Bazaar 26 Globe Trekker Seasons 1-5 28 Globe Trekker Seasons 6-11 30 Globe Trekker Seasons 12-17 32 Globe Trekker Specials 34 Globe Trekker Around The World 36 Pilot Globe Guides 38 Destination Guides 40 Other Programmes 41 Short Form Content 42 DVDs and music CDs 44 Study Guides 48 Digital 50 Books 51 Contacts 52 Presenters 53 2 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 MISSION STATEMENT Pilot Productions seeks to inspire and educate its audience by creating powerful television programming. We take pride in respecting and promoting social, environmental and personal change, whilst encouraging others to travel and discover the world. Pilot’s programmes have won more than 50 international awards, including six American Cable Ace awards. www.pilotguides.com 3 IN PRODUCTION Art Trails: Explorers in Art FORMAT: 3 X 52’ Conquistadors, War and Revolution: A Short History of Mexico FORMAT: 3 x 52’ Empire Builders 2 FORMAT: 10 x 52’ Ghosts and Legends FORMAT: 10 x 52’ Grassroots Season 4 FORMAT: 1 x 52’ Ratlines of the Nazis FORMAT: 2 x 52’ Slow TV Season 4 FORMAT: 1 x 26’ 4 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 www.pilotguides.com 5 NEW Hidden Algeria Hidden Algeria is an alluring destination guide that explores one of the least known countries on our planet – the People’s Republic of Algeria. We visit the idyllic villages and towns of the Mediterranean coast, we experience the magic of the Sahara desert, uncover the raw beauty of the Aures mountains and we celebrate the vibrant city life in Algiers, Constantine, Tlemcen and Oran. The films also give glimpses into the innumerable treasures of antiquity that are found in the Berber kingdom of Batna and the Roman towns of Tipaza and Timgad. FORMAT: 3 x 52’ ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD – Algiers – The Mediterranean Coast – The Sahara 6 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 Ultimate Blitzkrieg: WW2 Battle of Crete The 3 x 1 hour documentary tells the story of the famous World War 2 battle and the four year German occupation of the Greek Island of Crete that followed. With the help of documentary footage from the day, CGI and expert contributors, survivors revisit the island of Crete and its battlefields to tell the story of this unique and bloody battle and its aftermath. FORMAT: 3 x 52’ ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD – Invasion – Evacuation – Occupation www.pilotguides.com 7 TOUGH SERIES Join us as we explore some of the toughest terrains in the world, traversing across the frozen glaciers of Iceland, through the tropical forests of Vietnam and the desert heat of the river Nile. Meeting the people, cultures and vehicles that makes these journeys possible. Tough Trucks In this mini-series we explore some of the most unique and hard-core truck journeys on the planet. Destinations for this six part series are Iceland, Guatemala, Turkey, Morocco, Ethiopia and Russia. Our hosts take a series of truck journeys across these lands exploring the many fascinating cultural, natural and historical sites along the way, including unique geological locations in Iceland, ancient Mayan sites in Guatemala and rarely visited Silk Road destinations in Eastern Turkey. FORMAT: 6 x 52’ ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD – Iceland – Guatemala – Turkey: Silk Road Journey – Morocco – Siberia – Ethiopia 8 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 Tough Trains Tough Boats From the makers of Globe Trekker, Tough Trains In these 6 episodes we undertake epic journeys is a series that takes viewers on unforgettable by boat, in some of the toughest environments train journeys .Trips that should take hours often on earth. During our journeys we look at how take days, and nights that should be spent in the technology of boat travel has been adapted towns are spent aboard tough trains. Interminable to survive, trade with and connect isolated delays, lack of timetables, incredible bribery- communities. fuelled escapes are all experiences from these memorable rail journeys in some of the world’s FORMAT: 6 x 52’ most remote and exciting destinations ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD FORMAT: 6 x 52’ – The Amazon ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD – Tanzania – The Arctic – Across Bolivia: From the Pantanal to the Pacific – Great Lakes, USA – Russia’s Ice Trains – The Philippines – Vietnam: The Reunification Express – Egypt – India’s Independence Railroads – Cuba’s Sugar Trains – The US Transcontinental Railroad www.pilotguides.com 9 TRAVELLING IN THE 1970S In these two entertaining and nostalgic specials, traveller Dean FORMAT: 2 x 52’ Cycon experiences how travel has changed over the past 50 ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD years and celebrates a truly golden decade in travel. Be it on the open road or up in the air, advances in technology in the ‘70s gave us opportunities to see the world as never before. The Road of Freedom Up, Up and Away Dean gallivants across the USA and Europe exploring We go travelling back in time with Dean to ride a Harley the modes of travel that made the 1970s so uniquely Davidson, a muscle car, dune buggy, family station wagon entertaining. This decade was a time when luxury air travel and VW Campervan. Dean hops on a 747 and takes part was the paragon of stylish living and the family vacation in the louche Pan-Am lounge experience that came with became a rite of passage. While some young Americans the birth of Boeing’s giant of the skies. Following that he drove across the country in their super-charged V8 inter-rails to Europe bedding down in a hostel armed with a muscle cars, others strapped on a rucksack to follow the dog-eared copy of the ‘Let’s Go’ travel guide. In Amsterdam, Kerouacian dream of limitless horizons and freedom found he goes in search of the infamous Hippy trail to India, and whilst exploring the vastness of their country. back home he recounts the story of the Greyhound bus – the all American public carriage. Traveling in the ‘70s is a fun-filled travelogue not to be missed. 10 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 SPECIALS These 5 programmes celebrate the art, culture, cuisine and landscapes of Los Angeles and the French Riviera. Art Trails of the Riviera Global LA The Riviera isn’t just a holiday destination The world comes to Los Angeles in this restricted to the obvious pleasures four part miniseries. Southern France has to offer. The region also presents the traveller with an extraordinary art trail which changed the FORMAT: 4 x 22' face of art as we know it. ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD FORMAT: 1 x 52' – Asian Fusion ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD – Brits In LA – Desert City: Escape to Palm Springs – Haunted LA www.pilotguides.com 11 HISTORY Empire Builders From the Romans to the Raj, the Ottomans to the Incas, great empires have come and gone through the ages; but all have left behind extraordinary legacies, monuments, inventions and innovations that were so revolutionary that they changed the course of history. Japan The Spanish Empire Bringing to life ten great empires, In this episode we travel through time to In this episode we discover how the riches each episode visits the ten most explore the past 1500 years of Japan’s bestowed by the New World would usher in significant sites, discovering how history through 10 of its most famous and a golden age for Spain not just making it the spectacular buildings. most powerful nation in Europe but a global they were built, for what purpose, superpower. and what they reveal about the empire’s rise and fall. FORMAT: 11 x 52’ ASPECT RATIO: 16:9, HD America The Roman Empire From the Declaration of Independence In this episode of Empire Builders we through to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, explore 10 sites that defined the Roman America has shaped the world we live in. Empire and highlight it as the most powerful We explore the development through the economic, political and military force in the iconic buildings and structures that chart world of its time. the nation’s history. 12 PILOT PRODUCTIONS 2020 The British Empire Egypt Moslem Empires: We explore 10 sites that made history, and We travel through time to appreciate 3000 Ottomans, Mughals and Moors chart the rise and fall of the British empire. years of ancient Egyptian history through Investigating 10 influential sites, we the amazing stories of 10 of its most delve into the historical and cultural famous and spectacular buildings. events that shaped the rise and fall of the Muslim empires. Christian Empires: Byzantium, Kings of Europe Part 1: The Maya Crusaders and Venice France, The Habsburgs and Russian Tsars* Travelling through the remote jungles We visit Byzantium’s greatest church, Kings of Europe Part 2: of Central America we discover the the Haghia Sophia in modern day Istanbul, End of Empire* extraordinary history of the grandest the Crusaders’ greatest fortress, Crac and most spectacular cities inhabited We explore the last hurrah of Europe’s de Chevalier in modern day Syria, and St by the Maya.