The Library and Information Center of Panteion University has acquired, in digital form, the material and various cuts of the television series “Greece: The Hidden War” from its producer, Jane Gabriel. This three-episode series—“The Battle for Athens,” “The Civil War,” and “The Return”—traces the deep scars that British policy choices of the 1940s left for decades on the fabric of Greek society and on democracy itself. The producer has granted us permission to publicly screen the series through our Library’s YouTube channel.
Jane Gabriel is the producer and director of more than 30 documentaries for Channel 4 and for the BBC’s current-affairs series Correspondent. Filmed in Chile, Greece, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, her works have received awards from the Royal Television Society and One World Media. Focusing on the personal testimonies of people whose voices have been excluded for decades, Jane’s films reveal lives constrained by abuses of power, prejudice, violence, and poverty—and the lives of those still waiting for justice. In 2006, Jane was the founding editor of openDemocracy 50.50, publishing critical, women-centered perspectives on issues of social justice, gender, and religion.