JEREMIAH is the story of man imprisoned in the infamous Hanoi Hilton and his family.  Jeremiah Denton spent eight years as a prisoner while his wife Jane struggled to raise her seven children during the turbulent 1960's.  They had no news about him until one day he appeared on the nightly news in a North Vietnamese staged 'press conference.'  He had just been tortured for days and looked beaten and disheveled as he gave apparently defiant answers to his questioner.  But all the while he was blinking in Morse Code the word T-O-R-T-U-R-E.  At home his wife decided she needed to let the world know that her husband and the other POWs were suffering and that they should not be forgotten.  She was instrumental in helping to organize the POW/MIA Movement with its iconic black flag.  Jeremiah returned home to become a Senator from Alabama.

JEREMIAH was produced for Alabama Public Television and aired nationally on PBS.  It received a National Edward R Murrow award, four regional EMMYs and four Telly Awards.
#GEORGEWASHINGTON is a twenty-first century look at an eighteenth century man.  Data-mining George Washington's letters, journals and account books give us new insights into the man allowing us to see what made him the man that he was.  Echo Films worked with the University of Virginia to produce this short video which shows the power of using data-mining to shed new light on historical subjects.

#GEORGEWASHINGTON was produced for Curiosity Stream, an online site for cutting edge documentaries started by the founder of the Discovery Channel.  Currently, it is a 12-minute mini-doc but we are working on funding a full-length film.
The Lost Battalion tells the story of the most dramatic event during one of the bloodiest weeks of World War I. ​ Major Charles Whittlesey led a group of Brooklyn toughs and western farm boys into the forbidding Argonne Forest.  Although Whittlesey would break through the German defenses, he found himself and his men surrounded and cut off.  They hung on day after day while the world waited to hear if they would survive.  Damon Runyon, one of America's most beloved sports-writers, would pick up on their story and make them reluctant celebrities. The story of the Lost Battalion lives on as one of the great tales of war and the price soldiers pay.

​You can watch the first 2 minutes here.  

Watch the entire film at HistoryFix.com! 

This film is a co-production of ECHO Films and Chieftain Productions.
​Produced by Mark Fastoso, John Patrick King and Luis Blandon, Jr.
                                                                                                                                     Major Charles Whittlesey. Colorized by Marina Amaral  @marinamaral2
The May Day Speech is a mini-doc about a speech that POW wife Louise Mulligan gave at Constitution Hall in Washington DC to try and rally support for the burgeoning POW/MIA movement.  The speech has become an important historical event in the story of the POW wives.  No one filmed Louise giving the speech...but we were able to have her read it on camera from her original text.

The May Day Speech was produced for the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas as part of their exhibition on the history of the POW wives.