Documentaries

The untrodden mountains of Crete became the pockets of resistance of the people against the conquerors during World War ΙΙ, from Myrtos, Vorizia, Damasta, Anogia to Sfakia. The Cretans proved in practice that the struggle to defend freedom is a matter for everyone, children, adults, elderly, men and w...

A place where time did not count, a meeting place, a library: Chrysoula and her partner open a clock shop at Antigonidon street in Thessaloniki and in just 12 square meters, they discover a whole world. Narrator: Chrysoula PapadopoulouResearcher: Sissy PapadopoulouPodcast Creation:...

In February 2011, armed assailants robbed two banks in Fthiotida. This was followed by a cinematic chase by police officers, with a shootout and a deadly outcome. Narrator: Christos VlachosResearcher: George KaragiorgosPodcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisAudio...

A funeral takes a unexpected turn in Skotani, when an old village custom is revived. Interviewee: Elisavet ChronopoulouInterview by: Konstantinos KokiasmenosProducer: Charis PagonidouSound Designer: Iasonas TheofanouSound Editor: Dimitris PapadakisTranslator: Eva KesserlingVoiceover: Melia Kreiling Istorima...

For Pavlina Vamvoura, the journey of motherhood began when she felt ready. At the right time. She turned to a sperm bank and today, she is raising twin girls. Narrator: Pavlina VamvouraInterview: Efrosyni KyriaziPodcast creation: Efrosyni KyriaziSound Design: Dimitris PatsarosSound...

Istorima reversed series Istorima series reversed Vivi never met her grandfather, Giorgos, and her grandmother, Paraskevi. All he had heard was that they were lost in the wreck of the Atlantic Empress, in 1979. Growing up, Vivi realized that she knew almost nothing about her mother's family, as...

The trek begins on September 15, 1943 in the village of Myrtos when the German officer declares to the president of the village that the village will burn and gives a deadline of two hours for the residents to take what they can and leave. On the same day as the destruction of Myrtos, the conquerors enter the village of Gdohia, after previously arresting and executing on the spot in various places twelve villagers from Gdohia and Kato Symi, including three women and a six-month-old baby.

The legend of the icon of Panagia Kakaviotissa in Lemnos, considered the only roofless church in Greece, built in a rock hollow. In 1834, the last hermit of the region, before leaving for Mount Athos entrusted the icon of the Virgin to a local resident, with a request: to raise her to the temple of...

From Anogeia of Crete to Peru, Vassilis Dramountanis tells how he first caught the mandolin in his hands and since then, it has accompanied every moment of his life. Narrator: Vassilis DramountanisResearcher: Nikos KallergisPodcast Creation: Efrosyni KyriaziSound Design: Dimitris PatsarosSound...

Eleni goes to study in Mexico and is fascinated by the beauties of the place and its people. As she prepares to marry the love of her life, an unexpected event changes everything. Interviewee: Eleni DoudaliInterview by: Athina StambouliProducer: Andreas PappasSound Designer: Giorgos RamantanisSound...

A family with an icon, Our Lady of Thracian Doxatos, in the Asia Minor Catastrophe. A child with his father at the family watermill in Crete. A young man with a disability with a friend, at the Monastery of Pammegistos Brigades, on Lesvos. Three stories about an event experienced by our storytellers...

Thanasis grew up with his aunts, because he was orphaned from an early age. Despite the hardships and poverty, he managed to study and become a doctor, which was his life's dream, despite the questioning he received from his social environment. A trip of a lifetime from Patras, to Sweden and to his...

A little boy is at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with a gun in his hand. For the next few years of his life he will carry an unpayable “debt” to his family. Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymized Researcher: Myrsini Giannakopoulou Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou Sound Des...

In the 1980s, a young theologian becomes a “Smuggler of God” and undertakes the dangerous mission of illegally transporting Bible passages from land and sea to Bulgaria and Albania. Narrator: Makis Papadatos Interview: Demi Hatzi Podcast Creation: Demi Hatzi Sound Design and...

Corfu, 1996. Taking a break from studying for her university entrance exams, Maria Petsetidi is playing against the greatest chess player in the world. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t lose! Interviewee: Maria PetseridiInterview by: Georgia AsimakopoulouProducer: Thanos PsichogiosSound Designer: N...

A king from Kythnos falls in love with a beautiful but false girl who never talks, so as not to be ashamed. He is determined to make her break her silence. Narrator: Sofilia Tsorteki Researcher: Elena Fornaro Podcast Creation: Daphni Matziaraki Sound Design: Alex Ratzis Audio...

Persecution, murders, attacks, traffic accidents: Giorgos Megas, a motor police officer, talks about his experiences the last 30 years on the road. Narrator: Giorgos Megas Researcher: Spyros Karampikas Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis Audio Editing:...

On Friday, April 26th, Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete, documenting the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. The...