TORONTO — Global distributor Blue Ant International announced today it has acquired the international licensing rights to Secrets of the Imperial War Museum, a six-part series that offers an exclusive inside look at the extensive collections of the world-renowned Imperial War Museums in the UK.
“Secrets of the Imperial War Museum gives audiences incredible access to artifacts from past and present, offering new perspectives on history and culture,” said Solange Attwood, executive vice-president at Blue Ant International, in a press release.
“After more than a year of lockdown restrictions on some of the world’s most beloved museums, this series is a rich experience that will ignite a fascination to learn more about the items and events that shaped our society.”
The collections of the Imperial War Museums cover conflicts involving Britain from the First World War to Afghanistan and Iraq, and are comprised of “more than 30 million objects and 50,000 hours of film, ranging from Teddy Bears to battleships and from rare hundred-year-old archive film to GoPro digital footage shot just months ago,” says the press release.
The series “captures life affirming, and sometimes tragic stories through the eyes, memories, hard work and humour of the people associated with them,” the release adds.
“In addition, the series captures the final months of development of two new ground-breaking galleries at Imperial War Museums London: the Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries scheduled to open this autumn, and the reopening of HMS Belfast on the fiftieth anniversary of its arrival to the river Thames.”
Produced by Spring Films, the series was commissioned for Channel 5 in the UK. It is now available for worldwide distribution outside of the UK and Ireland through Blue Ant International.
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