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The Folklorist is NewTV's Emmy® Award-winning television series that offers a captivating look at some of the lesser-known stories in history.

Assassin Nation is a half-hour television series that exposes assassination attempts made on American Presidents. In the pilot episode, Allan Pinkerton uncovers a deadly plot against Abraham Lincoln before he's taken the oath of office.

This student production was produced, shot, and edited by Alexi Reibman. The script was written by Jessie Alperin and Tayler Stander. There have always been two sides in our world; the light and the dark. Our world has been slowly changing and transforming, but one thing has always stayed the same; Our land and our people have been split into two. One with light, while the other remains in the darkness. The founders, the people who made our world this way, created a box and called it the source. It contains all the power. Whichever side has the source, owns the power, whilst the other side remains without it - living in the shadows.

Heroes Around Us is a new, half-hour monthly magazine-style television program that presents the true stories of ordinary people who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in their communities.

American Ruins is a half-hour documentary series that explores the history behind abandoned landmarks across the American landscape.

The Folklorist explores the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, one of the starting points in the American Revolution with the Boston Massacre, an enigmatic day in New England's history with the Dark Day, and a temporary stop in World War I with The Christmas Truce. Also featuring Campfire segments with Neil Armstrong, Santa Claus, Demons, and Babe Ruth.

The Folklorist explores the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the little known tale of an American Army of Two, a classic Aesop Fable called The Grasshopper & the Ant, and a retelling of the story of Amelia Earhart. Also featuring Campfire segments on the Vietnam War, the Pharaoh's Curse, and Julius Caesar versus the Pirates.

Host John Horrigan explores the story behind the love that launched the career of the most successful pirate captain in history, a nuclear meltdown that was long forgotten, an April Fool's prank that caused hysteria in a small town, and a tragic tale of two lovers who met an untimely end. Also featuring Campfire segments of George Washington, The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Dracula, and Houdini.

Host John Horrigan explores the stories behind one of history's most famous inventors in, "The Tale of Nikola Tesla," the mysterious image that emerged during WWII and quickly spread across the continents in, "Kilroy Was Here," the efforts one man made during the American Revolution to avoid picking a side in, "The Grape Island Alarm," and the devastating effects that hit New England during, "The Great Hurricane of 1938." Also featuring Campfire segments on Leonardo DaVinci and Muhammad Ali.

Host John Horrigan explores a heroic tale of two men caught on an enemy occupied island, how a tornado saved our nation's capital, and a mysterious figure who frightened the English countryside in the 1800s. Also featuring Campfire segments on Thomas Edison, Gertrude Ederle, and The Trojan Horse.

Host John Horrigan explores the story behind an ancient lost city, a unsolved hijacking of a plane, a night where the sky was on fire, and a mysterious individual visiting a grave each year. Also featuring Campfire segments on Christopher Columbus, Walt Disney, Aladdin, and Medusa.

Host John Horrigan tells the story of an infamous financial schemer in Boston, an American hero who was saved from a poisonous plot, a tragic snowstorm that took Midwesterns by surprise, and an unsolved case of a mysterious creature alarming residents in a small town. Also featuring Campfire segments on Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, and President Barack Obama.

Host John Horrigan tells a story of an explorer's attempt to survive in a snowy wasteland, a town that descends into hysteria when visited by an unknown beast, and two young ladies enchant the world with their mystical photographs.

Host John Horrigan tells a stories of a divine intervention that helped turn the tide for the British Expeditionary Force in WWI, a mysterious weather anomaly that creates a panic across the world in 1816, and three WWII Prisoners of War who devised an ingenious plan to try and escape the German prison camp known as Stalag III.

Host John Horrigan tells a story of two brave men who hold their stations atop a doomed lighthouse, a woman who fights for her right to ride on a streetcar, and how an unbelievable discovery attracts the attention of the greatest showman on Earth.

Host John Horrigan tells the stories of a famous frontiersman and his legendary fight for survival, a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight for her country, and the rise and fall of one of history's most famed pirates.

Host John Horrigan tells the stories of an eccentric woman who tricked her way into the aristocracy, five gold miners who found themselves under attack by a group of strange creatures, and a seizure of arms by the British that caused alarm in the American colonies.