Writing

Gary Parker

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Writing

Credits

11 titles

An Emmy-winning writer-producer, he has created and developed documentary content for major networks including PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, History, Animal Planet, and Smithsonian. Over his career, he has worked on hundreds of films across five continents. During his time with Discovery Networks, he served as a script doctor, helping shape and refine documentaries to improve narrative clarity and audience engagement. His work focuses on crafting compelling stories from real-world material, with experience spanning both documentary filmmaking and scripted adaptation. He has also developed a range of drama projects based on historical events and published works

Known for

Behind the camera

Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures poster
6.6

Follow ocean legend Sylvia Earle, renowned underwater National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, writer Max Kennedy and their crew of teenage aquanauts on a year-long quest to deploy science and photography to inspire President Obama to establish new Blue Parks to protect essential habitats across an unseen American Wilderness.

Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures

2017

Fight Science poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fight Science

2007

Survivor poster
NR

Survivor is more than the saga of a perilous journey. It's a story of a mother's bond, a species' endurance, and one extraordinary calf's breath-taking survival.

Survivor

2022

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NR

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination of the world for more than a century. Teen guerilla fighter, Civil War soldier, notorious bandit, James holds a place in popular legend like no other. Through expert accounts, historic analysis and forensic science, this revealing exposé traces the outlaw's life from his humble Southern childhood through his rise to infamy and his mysterious death.

Jesse James: Legend, Outlaw, Terrorist

2005

Lizzie Borden Had an Axe poster
NR

The murder of Lizzie Borden's Mother and Father undergoes a forensic investigation - on this Discovery Channel special

Lizzie Borden Had an Axe

2004

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10.0

The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?

On the Brink: Doomsday

1997

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10.0

The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?

On the Brink: Doomsday

1997

National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult poster
5.2

Was Adolf Hitler influenced and motivated by the occult? Through the years, historians have debated the mysterious connection between the occult, Hitler and the Nazi party, including some who maintain that Hitler killed others to keep his occult beliefs a secret. NGC examines how Hitler's involvement with the German Worker's Party brought him face-to-face with occultists who may have influenced his beliefs.

National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult

2007

Lions of Crocodile River poster
7.0

Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.

Lions of Crocodile River

2007

The Curse of Tutankhamun poster
NR

As legend has it, there is an ancient curse associated with the mummys and tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs. Disturbing these embalmed remains has been said to bring bad luck, illness and death. Shortly after unearthing King Tut's tomb, Carnarvon was found dead.

The Curse of Tutankhamun

1999

Secret History of Religion: Doomsday - Book of Revelation poster
7.7

The theology of the Book of Revelation

Secret History of Religion: Doomsday - Book of Revelation

2006