FILMOGRAPHY

About Lone Wolf Documentary Group

Lone Wolf Documentary Group has been operating for ten years in South Portland, Maine. The Co-owners are filmmakers Kirk and Lisa Wolfinger. There are twelve full time staff members as well as a host of independent producers and editors, working out of Los Angeles and Boston.


LONE WOLF DOCUMENTARY GROUP

FILMOGRAPHY

The History Channel / Discovery Times / National Geographic / Turner / Nova / National PBS / Hoffman Collection / Short Films


The History Channel

DEEP SEA DETECTIVES
On-going episodic series featuring deep dives to treacherous wrecks. 57 episodes to date.

TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces has made international headlines announcing their location of two new pieces of the legendary ship at 12,400 ft below the Atlantic, These pieces shed new light on the World's most famous ship wreck.

CONQUEST OF AMERICA
4 hours featuring the discovery of the four corners of North America. A theatrical docudrama with expert interviews.
2 Emmy nominations.

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
2 hour special based on Gene Krantz' bestseller which profiles the untold stories from NASA's mission control during the Project Apollo days.

Beyond The Moon
A sequel to our popular Failure Is Not An Option picking up after the Moon landings and ending with the shuttle Columbia disaster.

WITCH HUNT
Theatrical special drawn from the trial excerpts presenting new theories about the famous events in Salem Village

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
2 hour special based on John Maclean's account of the Storm King Mountain CINE Master's Series and Special Jury Award 2004.

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Discovery Times

THE RAVENS
US soldiers operate covertly fighting a secret war in Laos as the pressure to withdraw form Vietnam increased

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National Geographic

PEARL HARBOR: LEGACY OF ATTACK
National Geographic Special
The 60th Anniversary of the famous attack, simulcast on National Geographic Channel & NBC.
Hosted by Tom Brokaw

MAYDAY: LOST AT SEA
National Geographic Special
The perils of working at sea: disaster and rescue stories.

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Turner

MOON SHOT
Turner Original Productions
4 part series: Peabody Award & nominated for two primetime Emmy's.
Based on the bestseller by Alan Shepard. A personal account of America's quest for the Moon as seen through astronaut eyes.

ABDUCTED BY UFO's & SEARCHING FOR UFO's
Turner's TOPX
Two 90 minute specials. Dramatic, stylized renderings of people who have experienced the 'abduction' phenomena followed by stories of people compelled to track and investigate 'contact'.

PORTRAIT OF AMERICA
TURNER BROADCASTING
A sweeping profile of America. 1-hour per state; episodic format.

PORTRAIT OF CASTRO'S CUBA
A timely, lively look at Castro's island at the moment they lose Soviet support and prepare to go it alone.
Gold Chris Award

Kansas
Columbus Film Festival
Chris Award

New Hampshire

South Carolina

HAUNTED
TBS TOPX
Real people, real houses, other worldly experiences.

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NOVA

Contributions to WGBH's Premiere Science Adventure series

Bioterror
An Emmy winning special in collaboration with the New York Times. Detailing the threat of biological weapons past, present and future.

Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
A team of archeologists explore the cave deep in the Judean Desert from which the Bar Kokhba revolt was directed.

DIRTY BOMB
The threat of a low-grade radiological attack seems imminent; NOVA explores.

FIRE WARS
NOVA and BBC
A 2 part NOVA Special A diary of the catastrophic wildfire season of 2000.

HITLER'S LOST SUB
PBS/Nova & Ch4 (England)
Three divers attempt to identify a sunken wreck, one of the mysterious and lethal German U-Boats of World War II.
(Outstanding Achievement 2001 International Documentary Association)

LINCOLN'S SECRET WEAPON
PBS/Nova & Ch4 (England)
Following a team of US Navy divers as they salvage the Monitor, the Civil War ironclad battleship that changed Naval warfare.

TO THE MOON
PBS/Nova & Ch4 (England)
A view of NASA's race to get to the Moon, from behind the scenes, told by the scientists, engineers and astronauts who made it happen.

BATTLE ALERT IN THE GULF
On patrol with the US Battle Group in the Persian Gulf.

THE BEAST OF LOCH NESS
Bob Rines, famed investigator of the Loch Ness Monster, makes a second attempt to reveal the mystery.

TITANIC'S LOST SISTER
Golden Hugo Chicago Intl. Film Festival
Titanic's discoverer, Dr. Bob Ballard, searches for her forgotten sister Britannic and the cause behind her mysterious sinking.

DAREDEVILS OF THE SKY
Death-defying aerobatics by the US team and the sport's contribution to aviation history which has helped pioneer modern flight safety.

SUBMARINE!
Best of Show: Houston International Film Festival
On board America's most secret of subs; the ballistic missile submarine.

PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD

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National PBS

MAKING SENSE OF THE SIXTIES
6 part series: Primetime PBS. A controversial look at a tumultuous decade.

3000 MILE GARDEN
6-hour series co-produced with Channel 4 and PBS. Exchange of letters between two gardeners across the Atlantic develops into a humorous and revealing relationship.

ER, LIFE ON THE EDGE
TNational PBS; 1996 Premiere. A real-world look at life in the "ER".

COMA: THE JOURNEY BACK
3 Compelling stories of people who have survived long-term coma
Emmy Award

SHOWDOWN ON TOBACCO ROAD
Gold Hugo Chicago Film Festival. Smoking in America. Pitting the health concerns against individual rights

HOW HITLER LOST THE WAR
Intriguing look by Allied and Axis veteran's at how dangerously close Adolph Hitler came to winning WWII

JIMMY DOOLITTLE: AN AMERICAN HERO
Blue Ribbon American Film Festival
An American hero, aviation legend and originator of the right stuff.

WINGS OVER WATER
Details the birth of naval aviation and the aircraft carrier from its genesis in the early 20th Century through Vietnam.

SUBMARINE: STEEL BOATS, IRON MEN
Blue Ribbon IFPA
The first film to travel with a nuclear submarine on patrol and profile the men who volunteer

SECOND HOME
Blue Ribbon IFPA
Flight deck operations and a personal look at the men who work the most treacherous job at 1000 feet.

FIRST PLATOON
American Film Festival Blue Ribbon
Winter combat exercises in north Norway with new Marine recruits and their "green" 1st Lt.

SPACE WORKER
Revealing look at NASA and its people following the Challenger disaster.

OLYMPIC CHALLENGE
Gold Hugo Chicago Film Festival
Behind the scenes with athletes and workers at the LA Olympics.

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The Hoffman Collection

BLACK MAGIC
National PBS; Blue Ribbon American Film Festival
4 inner-city girls, double-dutch champions, win the trip of their lives to London.

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SHORT FILMS

CLAYTON
PBS-ZOOM Baxter School For The Deaf Episode #610.

PARACHO
Zoom/WGBH; March 2000 premiere. A tiny Mexican town builds guitars for the world.

STEVE TOBIN: PORTRAIT OF A SCULPTOR
World class sculptor struggles with changing mediums

PineLand

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