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the Line Films is an award-winning television production
company specialising in wildlife, adventure, travel
and historical documentaries. The company was initially
set up in 1993 to document the first successful Irish
expedition to the summit of Everest and has gone on
to produce some of the most widely broadcast Irish-made
documentaries of recent years.
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crews have filmed in over 90 different countries world-wide
and in some of the highest, most remote and hazardous
locations on Earth. The extreme places and lengths we
go to in making our films have been rewarded with numerous
nominations, prizes and awards from some of the world's
most prestigious film and television festivals. In recent
years our films have won prizes at Banff and Graz, won
the Best Documentary series in the Irish Film and Television
Awards and both the Best Documentary Series and Spirit
of the Festival Award in the International Celtic Film
Festival. Our documentaries have been broadcast world-wide
in over 180 different countries on RTÉ, TG4, National
Geographic, Discovery Channel Europe & UK, BBC, Channel
5, Discovery USA, ZDF, History Channel, Sky, ARD, Travel,
PBS, WGBH, ABC Australia, Odyssey, Adventure One, Planete,
Arte and many more.
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the Line Films like to instigate new research and were
co-funders of the historic forensic investigations into
the 'Black Diaries' of Roger Casement. The company also
jointly head a major on-going project to locate the
wrecks of Sir John Franklin's ships under the ice of
the Canadian arctic.
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