Documentaries

Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary of a total duration of 55 minutes, about the daring plan of two young students to take down the swastika from the Acropolis on the evening of May 30, 1941, almost a month after the surrender of Athens to the Nazis. The documentary...

Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and ... Read more

Digital nomad Nicholas Leecock is escaping mundane life in London and dives into the incredible food of Athens and the crystal-clear waters of the Aegean. Interviewee: Nicholas LeecockInterview by: Johnny PavlatosProducer: Johnny PavlatosSound Editor: Johnny Pavlatos Istorima is the largest...

In 1922 in Pontos, women and children from Tokati villages were led on a death march by the Turks, in order to exterminate them. Among them, is a young mother. When they pass through a Turkish neighborhood, she makes the decision to abandon her child outside a bakery to save him. Years later, she goes...

Series: Occupation through the eyes of its children The flight of a bird leads us from the city of Veria to the neighboring village of Daskio. There, two village children, Vasilis and Giorgis, experience the Occupation differently than the children of the city, while for them the withdrawal of the...

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...