Catalog

Fire On The Mountain

The History Channel

Cine Master's Series Award 2004; Emmy nominated. The catastrophic Storm King Mountain fire claims the lives of 14 wildland firefighters. The scenario is eerily reminiscent of the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy in Montana immortalized by Norman Mclean ("A River Runs Through It") in his book "Young Men And Fire". Norman's son John travels thousands of miles in search of the facts that will set the record right and finds cover-ups and mismanagement at the heart of the Colorado tragedy.

Moon Shot

Turner

Peabody award, primetime Emmy nomination. The quest for the moon as seen through astronaut eyes. Two of America's original Mercury astronauts, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, tell the tale of the greatest race in human history; the race for the moon. Tom Shales of the Washington Post wrote, "If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't we have more shows as terrific as Moon Shot".

BIOTERROR

NOVA

Emmy Winner: News and Documentary, 2001. Following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks, NOVA and the NY Times joined forces with LWDG to create this special. Based on the research of NY Times reporters Judy Miller, Bill Broad and Steve Engelberg from their best selling book, Bioterror moves from America's foremost bio-warriors to Kazahkstan and the home of the former Soviet Union's massive, super-secret bio-weapons factory.

The Beast of Loch Ness

NOVA

NOVA 1998: Its existence has been debated for decades, its legend transcends centuries but it's reality is put to the test in this examination of most accepted scientific and anecdotal evidence. Following a team of MIT alums, NOVA brings science and technology to bear on this most popular cryptozoological phenomenon.

Titantic's Lost Sister

NOVA

Titanic's sister ship is surrounded by mystery. Search for the wreck of the Britannic and explore the clues as to how it sank. With legendary undersea explorer Robert Bollers.

Fire Wars

NOVA

Every year, thousands of men and women wage America's war on fire in our majestic wilderness. Fire Wars offers an up-close look at the war on wildfire---a war so intense, you can feel the heat.

Battle Alert In The Gulf

NOVA

NOVA patrols with the most mighty armada in the world; a US Battle Group stationed in the Persian Gulf. The newest aircraft carrier (Stennis) takes over for the oldest (Independence) and the supporting ships that patrol one of the world's hot-spots. This special examines the role of each ship in the group and watches operations from a battle cruiser's combat information center to a fast attack sub's cloistered control room.

The Ravens

LonewolfDG.com

In 1967, it started as gossip and whispers in bars all over Southeast Asia. Apparently, there was another war as nasty and dangerous as the war in Vietnam. US Air Force Pilots, tired of the strict rules and regulations of the Vietnam War, began to volunteer for a mysterious program called, The Ravens.

Second Home

The Hoffman Collection

Primetime PBS special. In 1985 our camera crew follows the prepatory events of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in the days before she departs for her six month deployment and for the first two weeks at sea. The dramatic documentary flight deck sequences in this film were studied by the producers of Top Gun which was released a year later.

Pearl Harbor Legacy of Attack.

National Geographic

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard tackles one of the enduring mysteries of World War in the role of a Japanese midget sub in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Narrated by Tom Brokaw

Failure is Not An Option

The History Channel

The Space Race comes alive through the eyes of the ultimate insider--retired NASA Mission Control Flight Director Gene Kranz--in this History Channel Special.

Lincoln's Secret Weapon

NOVA

Join the battle to save a legendary Civil War battleship. March 1862. Cannons blare, troops cheer, and shells bounce off ironclad hulls into the waters just off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. After four hours at near point-blank range, The Union's warship the USS Monitor battles the Confederacy's well-armored CSS Virginia to a draw, altering--in one morning--the course of the Civil War and naval combat.

Submarine!

The Hoffman Collection

NOVA 1991: All submarines are secret technology,but no submarines are as secret as the FMB's or Fleet Ballistic Missle submarines: the boats which carry our sea-borne nuclear arsenal around the world, hidden from view beneath the waves. NOVA was invited to send a crew on a secret deployment and record the activities of life on board.The result was an eye-opening and sobering look at what is possible if a submarine crew is ever asked to perform the unthinkable.

Dirty Bomb

NOVA

Emmy Nominee 2004

Produced for NOVA, aired in February of 2003. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks the scientific community turned its attention to a destructive and potentially economically devastating threat; homemade radiologiocal weapons; a 'Dirty bomb'. LWDG explores known threats from Chechnya, the case against the accused Jose Padilla and imagines a realistic scenario of a dirty bomb attack on the city of London.

The First Platoon

The Hoffman Collection

A primtime PBS special follows a US Marine Corps 2nd Lt and his tough Tech Sergeant and their platoon as it excercises in blistering winter conditions 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in north Norway.

Hitler's Lost Sub

NOVA

International Documentary Association Award: Continuing Series. Deep sea divers stumble on a missing U-boat from WWII. Its identity and its mission would turn a weekend adventure into a six year quest and claim three lives in the process. NOVA Special.

Black Magic

The Hoffman Collection

American Film Festival Blue Ribbon. A street game becomes a state championship whose prize takes four inner city girls three thousand miles away to London, England and a life time away from their every-day world. PBS Special.

To The Moon

NOVA

The mission was impossible. The odds were astronomical. The results were spectacular. Lone Wolf Documentary Group and NOVA present the fascinating story behind the Apollo space program, including the most remarkable feat in human history--the historic walk on the moon in 1969.

Jimmy Dolittle: An American Hero

The Hoffman Collection

In the 20th century, there was only one Jimmy Doolittle, and this program is the only one that was made with Jimmy incredibility telling his own story.

MAYDAY!

National Geographic

Men and women take to the sea every day in one of the most hazardous trades on Earth: commercial fishing. Every trip carries the possibility of accident or death for these mariners and the rescuers whose job it is to save them. Mayday! Lost at Sea, produced in association with National Geographic for PBS, tells their story.