A documentary produced by TVB has won a major media award in the United States.
The broadcaster's Fifty Years After the War was one of three international winners at the 55th annual Peabody Awards for cable and broadcasting, announced in Athens, Georgia last week.
Executive producer, Emily Wong Yuk-kit, said the programme had analysed how World War II changed the face of Asia, particularly China.
'We are very proud because the Peabody is such a difficult award to win,' Ms Wong said.
'We had a lot of positive feedback after it aired last August as we rarely make such special projects.' Ms Wong said the secret to the three-part documentary's success may have been the exclusivity of its interviews and extensive research.
Among those interviewed was Yoshie Tojo, the granddaughter of wartime Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo, explaining her grandfather's human side despite him being blamed for sparking war in the Pacific.
'Also Chinese tend to remember only the Nanjing massacre, so we also wanted to cover other tragedies in China at that time such as the dumping of two million chemical weapons in the northeastern provinces when the Japanese retreated after their surrender,' Ms Wong said.
The BBC won the two other international awards.
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