Open Media Footage Used Around the World 

Faking It: Jimmy Savile

“Now, in new documentary special ‘Faking It: Jimmy Savile’ experts in body language, speech and forensic psychology analyse television footage of Jimmy Savile for the first time.” The Mirror

Shearwater Media / Discovery+

Featuring archive from Is This Your Life? - Jimmy Savile

Lost Magic Decoded

“...expect to hear some tasty stories about magic tricks of yore, and to see some pretty baffling modern-day magic” The New York Times

Sharp Entertainment / History Channel

Featuring archive from The Secret Cabaret

Hating Peter Tatchell

“Peter Tatchell has protested against everyone from Mike Tyson to Tony Blair. So what did the human rights campaigner make of the documentary Hating Peter Tatchell?” The Guardian

WildBear Entertainment / Netflix

Featuring archive from Is This Your Life? - Peter Tatchell

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Open Media’s celebrated live discussion series After Dark was described in the national press as ‘the most original programme on television’.

Other productions include:

  • Magic, illusion and freak show The Secret Cabaret

  • Challenging interview series Is This Your Life?

  • Amazing documentary specials such as Mossad: The Spy Machine

  • High-profile lecture series Opinions

Key personalities in our archive:

• Watergate figures John Ehrlichmann and Gordon Liddy

Edward Teller (so-called father of the H-Bomb) and Richard Perle

• Socialites the Duchess of Argyle, Claus von Bulow and Bianca Jagger

• Businessmen Adnan Khashoggi, James Goldsmith and George Soros

• Prime Ministers Edward Heath, Garret FitzGerald and Albert Reynolds

• Writers Heathcote Williams, Anthony Burgess, David Irving and Patricia Highsmith

• Sportspeople Ian Botham, Fatima Whitbread and John Fashanu

• Musicians Harry Belafonte, Abdullah Ibrahim, Billy Bragg, Yehudi Menuhin, Eartha Kitt and Sinéad O’Connor

• Feminists Andrea Dworkin, Shere Hite, Germaine Greer and Kate Millett

• Film stars Oliver Reed and Olivia Newton-John

• Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s most extended tv appearance ever

Ricky Jay, the magician and actor, and the amazing James Randi

 

Open Media archive collection digitised by the British Film Institute

After Dark

Groundbreaking reinvention of the discussion format: Live and with no scheduled end time

Opinions

Television lectures with iconic guests including Sir James Goldsmith and Dennis Potter, George Soros and Alan Clark

Orient: Club for a Fiver

A fly-on-the-wall documentary, following a dramatic year in the fortunes of Leyton Orient Football Club

The Secret Cabaret

Magic series fronted by Simon Drake and Ricky Jay, a new and shocking twist to the presentation of illusions

Don’t Quote Me

Quiz show with guests including Ian Hislop, Trevor McDonald, Sandi Toksvig, Harry Enfield and Tim Rice

Equinox

Science documentaries: The Big Sleep, Superpowers, Theme Park Heaven, Secrets of the Super Psychics

Is This Your Life?

Not the sort of chat show you're used to: Challenging interviews hosted by Andrew Neil - BAFTA Nominated

Mossad

‘Mossad: The Spy Machine’ a documentary special about the history and work of the Israeli Secret Service

Specials

Jerry Sadowitz, John Wells, The Talking Show, Weird Thoughts, Andrew Roberts on Suez and more…

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AFTER DARK

THE SECRET CABARET

IS THIS YOUR LIFE?

OPINIONS

DON’T QUOTE ME

SPECIALS

DOCUMENTARIES

THE TALKING SHOW