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“Recording Evil,” a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in World War II, has started filming across three continents.

The documentary was commissioned by Israel’s Public Broadcaster, Kan 11, to mark the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Told through tens of thousands declassified British intelligence documents, “Recording Evil” reveals the candid conversations of Nazi officers and soldiers held as prisoners of war during WWII. Unaware of hidden listening devices in British internment facilities, the prisoners spoke freely about their involvement in the Holocaust providing unfiltered accounts that provide details that have never before been made public.

Filming is currently underway at multiple historical locations across the U.K., including facilities and archives where the original Nazi prisoner recordings were made and stored. The doc will also shoot in Germany, in the U.S. and Israel, were leading researchers and historians...

The U.K.’s BBC has acquired four-part documentary series “Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” featuring actor and human rights activist Samuel L. Jackson from producer and distributor Fremantle.

The series, directed by Simcha Jacobovici (“Atlantis Rising”), sheds new light on 400 years of human trafficking, as millions of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas by Western European slave traders. It follows deep sea divers at U.K., Caribbean and Florida dive sites as they search for and locate ships that sank drowning the enslaved humans aboard, while on land, experts investigate the stories behind related locations, in Ghana, England and the Americas.

Each episode follows separate story lines: the location and investigation of sunken slave ships, and a historical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade led by Jackson, author Afua Hirsch and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici. The show will play on the BBC Two channel.

Fremantle has taken global rights to Enslaved, a six-part documentary series hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.

The series will chart the horror of slavery through underwater archaeology. Created by doc outfit Associated, the series is being timed to coincide with the 400-year anniversary since the first African was brought to the New World as a slave.

Journalist Simcha Jacobovici (The Naked Archaeologist) will helm the series which will retrace the harrowing sea voyage that brought millions of Africans, over hundreds of years, to a life of slavery. The doc and its host Jackson, who is a licensed diver, will go in search of the sunken slave ships that went down with their human cargo. The actor’s own ancestors came from Gabon in West Africa.

“For me, this is much more than a TV series,” said Jackson “For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give...