Greg Barker

First-of-its kind, six-hour documentary series explores 400-year history of religion in the public life of the United States.

Greg Barker's documentary covers the 2010 International Holy Koran Competition, a sort of Islamic spelling bee held in Cairo annually, in which young Muslims from around the world gather to see not only who has best memorized the Koran, but who can recite it with the most spirit and beauty. Barker focuses on three ten-year-old competitors with compelling stories: a boy from Takijistan educated at a fundamentalist madrassa, a girl from the more relaxed culture of the Maldives, and a boy from Senegal travelling without his parents. The competition is gruelling, featuring all-night sessions (it takes place during Ramadan) as 110 competitors are whittled down to 12 finalists, and Barker's engrossing film captures its scope, including fascinating characters such as the competition's director, Dr. Salem Abdel-Galil, deputy minister of the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Egypt and a prominent moderate Islamic figure in Cairo. As much a look at the variety and diversity of modern Islam as the story of brilliant young children matched in a battle of wits and memory, Koran By Heart offers clich -busting insight with every image.

Second trailer for Sergio. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power's biography 'Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World,' Sergio is the story of the dashing U.N. diplomat who served in the United Nations for more than 30 years, and was considered by some a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy. A humanitarian of the highest order, his long career brought him to hot spots like Swaziland, Cambodia and East Timor, earning him praise for his hands-on work inside nations in crisis. In 2003, just after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Sergio reluctantly agreed to serve as the Secretary General's special representative in Baghdad. It was to be his most perilous assignment yet. With visceral immediacy, filmmaker Greg Barker recreates the events of Aug. 19, 2003, when Sergio was targeted by Al Qaeda terrorists. A truck bomb explosion ravaged the U.N. headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing more than 20 people and wounding more than 100. 'Sergio' chronicles the dramatic search and rescue attempt, combining harrowing testimony from Vieira de Mello's fianc , fellow U.N. official Carolina Larriera, and the military paramedics who risked their lives to save him, with haunting footage shot on the day of the bombing, reenactments of the rescue attempt and flashbacks to key moments in Sergio's remarkable life and career. The explosion plunged Vieira de Mello and American professor Gil Loescher, who was in Sergio's office, into a two-story hole, where they remained trapped by bricks and debris. Within minutes of the bombing, U.S. Army Reservist William von Zehle located Vieira de Mello and Loescher. Frustrated by the delay in the delivery of rescue equipment, Von Zehle and Army medic Andre Valentine spent hours trying to extricate the pair, using a woman's purse and string to remove the bricks that buried the victims one-by-one. Eventually, Loescher was freed from the hole and helicoptered out after his legs

Coercion -- Misguided Greg Barker is blackmailed into following the commands of an elusive stranger in order to save his kidnapped girlfriend and retrieve an important possession. With no other options, Greg must decide how far he is willing to go to save everything