FilmRoos was an American film production company that produced such
documentary television series
Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries.
Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film.
*Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...
as ''
Ancient Mysteries
''Ancient Mysteries'' is a television series that was produced by FilmRoos and originally broadcast on A&E Network, A&E between and with reruns airing until 2000. Reruns were also re-broadcast on The Biography Channel during the 2000s. The serie ...
'' (1994), ''
Mysteries of the Bible
''Mysteries of the Bible'' is an hour-long television series that was originally broadcast by A&E from March 25, 1994 until June 13, 1998 and A&E aired reruns of it until 2002. The series was about biblical mysteries and was produced by FilmRoo ...
'' (1994) (which garnered them several
CableACE Award
The CableACE Award (earlier known as the ACE Awards; ACE was an acronym for "Award for Cable Excellence") is a defunct award that was given by what was then the National Cable Television Association from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in Amer ...
nominations), ''
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years'' (1998), and ''
Banned from the Bible'' (2003) for the
A&E Network
A&E is an American basic cable network, the flagship television property of A&E Networks. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries, television drama, dramas, and ...
.
Originally formed in August 1990 as ''Christy Connell Roos Entertainment Group'',
Bram Roos (1949–2004) partnered with
Michael Christy and
Katheryn Connell, but later bought them out and renamed the company ''FilmRoos''. It was later bought by Jordan Friedberg, who handled production duties for FilmRoos.
In 1995, Walter Goodman wrote in the ''New York Times'' that their A&E network special offered the viewer, "many...rewards."
Peter Davison composed music for some of FilmRoos' productions.
References
Variety Magazine: Obituaries: Bram Roos (TV producer) October 8, 2004
Review of ''Who Wrote the Bible?''
External links
Internet Movie Database: FilmRoos
Film production companies of the United States
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