A BBC Wales-produced doc that used animation to bring to life the memories of children in Victorian England has taken one of the top awards at the annual History Makers International conference.
The Children Who Built Victorian Britain was made for diginet BBC4 and was named Best History Production of 2011 on day one of the event here in New York.
Producer Julian Carey from BBC Wales accepted the award yesterday and credited history professor Jane Humphries, who researched 600 testimonials from children who worked at the time.
It beat stiff competition from programmes including Windfall Films’ The Dambusters which staged a dramatic re-enactment of the Second World War bombing raid for Channel 4 in the UK, and The Loving Story from Augusta Films for HBO.
Dambusters did scoop the Most Innovative Production award while The Loving Story, about a 1950s mixed race couple in Virginia, won Best Social Change Project.
Another HBO film, The Battle for Marjah, scooped the Best Current Affairs Programme award. Produced by Wall to Wall, the film follows US Marines on the ground in Afghanistan.
The Kennedys, from Muse Entertainment, took Best Historical Drama.
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