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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: POW Documentary Receives Awards

Date: December 26, 1999

VIETNAM POWS: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
WINS NATIONAL PRIMETIME EMMY

Washington, DC -- Knightscenes, Inc., a Washington, DC-based film and video production company, has won a Primetime Emmy Award for its fifty-two minute documentary commemorating the release of American Prisoners of War from Vietnam. Vietnam POWs: Stories of Survival was awarded the Emmy in the category of Outstanding Non-Fiction Special by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Saturday, August 29th, in Pasadena, California. The documentary was produced by KnightScenes for the Discovery Channel in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the American POWs' return.

The show's narrator is Terry MacDonald. Stories of Survival details the courage and determination of a group of fighting men who wouldn't die.

The program reminds us of the honor and sacrifice of James Stockdale, Dick Stratton, Everett Alvarez, John McCain, Paul Galanti, Michael Benge, Norman McDaniel and all their compatriots. It is now available on home video from Discovery.

At the gala premiere of the film February 18, 1997 at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Visitors Center in downtown Washington, Stories producer Brian Leonard of Knightscenes said: "I've always dreamed of doing a show like this, focusing on battlefield diaries. The reaction of everyone--especially the POWs--makes it all worthwhile. It couldn't have come out better." After winning the Primetime Emmy, Brian Leonard exulted: "We won the big one!"