Chip Duncan founded The Duncan Group in 1984 with the hope of producing independent documentaries and feature films. The company mission is to create high quality, multi-cultural, non-fiction programming for broadcast television, giant screen, home video, internet and classroom education markets around the world. The Duncan Group has won more than 60 national and international awards for television programming and production. Its work has been distributed in more than 90 countries around the world and on television networks and stations including PBS, The Discovery Channel, Showtime, Lifetime, HBO, Discovery UK, CBS, TLC, The History Channel, The Wisdom Channel, WTTW-TV (Chicago), Maryland Public Television, Iowa Public Television, and Wisconsin Public Television.