In Line of Fire
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In Line of Fire

Memories of a Documentary Filmmaker

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Line of Fire

Memories of a Documentary Filmmaker

About this book

In the Line of Fire is the personal memoir of Antony Thomas, a documentary filmmaker whose work has won international acclaim and many prestigious awards.

From the full range of documentaries made over a fifty-two-year career, the author focuses on subjects that affected him deeply and remain relevant to this day; the pernicious effects of racism, the 'seamless border' between intelligence and crime, the last colonial wars in Africa, the conflicts in the Middle East, the rise of Islamic extremism, the politicisation of Evangelical Christians in the United States and the origins of fake news – to mention just a few.

Thomas brings these disparate experiences together by taking a very personal approach and using every opportunity to take the reader 'behind the camera' where he shares the difficulties, the moral problems and the dangers that he and his colleagues sometimes faced, including the moment when the entire team was condemned to death in a military camp in Zambia.

Eleven years later, Thomas was back in the line of fire, coping with vicious attacks from MPs and sectors of the press, following the broadcast of his controversial docudrama Death of a Princess.

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Information

Publisher
Unicorn
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781914414336
eBook ISBN
9781911397151

Table of contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. CONTENTS
  4. FOREWORD
  5. CHAPTER 1: THAT NIGHT ON TWIST STREET
  6. CHAPTER 2: AGAINST ALL ODDS
  7. CHAPTER 3: CAMBRIDGE AND THE CONSEQUENCES
  8. CHAPTER 4: THE PROPAGANDIST
  9. CHAPTER 5: COMPROMISE
  10. CHAPTER 6: THE FABULOUS REEF
  11. CHAPTER 7: WAR IN THE ZAMBEZI VALLEY
  12. CHAPTER 8: PORTUGAL, DREAM OF EMPIRE
  13. CHAPTER 9: SURRENDER TO EVEREST
  14. CHAPTER 10: THE ABBOT OF HOKE KYO
  15. CHAPTER 11: THE ARAB EXPERIENCE
  16. CHAPTER 12: SIX DAYS IN SOWETO
  17. CHAPTER 13: THE SEARCH FOR SANDRA LAING
  18. CHAPTER 14: WORKING FOR BRITAIN
  19. CHAPTER 15: DEATH OF A PRINCESS
  20. CHAPTER 16: ACTION AND REACTION
  21. CHAPTER 17: TRADERS IN DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
  22. CHAPTER 18: TRUTH, LIES AND CONSEQUENCES
  23. CHAPTER 19: REMEMBER: GOD DOESN’T TAKE COINS
  24. CHAPTER 20: THE QUR’AN
  25. CHAPTER 21: FOR NEDA
  26. EPILOGUE
  27. INDEX
  28. COPYRIGHT