A LAW IN THE MAKING: Four Months inside the Ministry

(granada/itv) 1 x 90mins

Filmed record of the passage of the Consumer Protection Act. The first unstaged observational film inside the British government.

BREAKING THE CYCLE

(c4) 3 x 60

Observational series following both sides of an ongoing industrial dispute between Governors and prison officers inside Wandsworth prison. As a strike looms, we filmed Ministers and officials in the Home Office and Prison Service.

DECISION: BRITISH COMMUNISM

(granada/itv) 3 x 60mins

Royal Television Society Award for Best Current Affairs Documentary.
A series of the party's effort to be Euro-Communist

DECISION: STEEL / OIL / RATES

(granada/itv) 3 x 90

Un-staged observational films of decisions at the top of major multinationals and government institutions, including British Steel and Occidental Petroleum. The British Steel film has been used extensively in training at both London and Harvard Business Schools.

IN SEARCH OF LAW AND ORDER - UK

(c4) 3 x 60
TX:  1995

Policing / Sentencing / Punishment: Series setting out other ways of approaching crime and community safety in Britain.

POLICE

(bbc)

Eleven unstaged observational films inside the Thames Valley Constabulary (BAFTA / TV Critics Circle/ ETMA Awards) The episode on rape changed the way police handle rape cases. All are used in training.

POLICE: OPERATION CARTER

(bbc) 5 x 60

Observational series on a campaign by Regional Crime Squad No.5 to crack gangs of London armed robbers.

STATE OF THE NATION: INSIDE THE BRUSSELS HQ

(granada/itv) 1 x 90mins

Verite record of the struggles to pass a directive against waste. The first unstaged observational film allowed inside the EU headquarters.

THE SPACE BETWEEN WORDS

(bbc/kcet/pbs) 5 x 60

Un-staged observational films on communication: Family/School/ Work/ Politics / Diplomacy. Began ‘fly on the wall’ observational style in the UK. Includes the first unstaged observational films inside the US Senate, the State Department, the United Nations, and inside the Plessey Company.

AMNESTY

(bbc4) 1x 60/90 (in development)

50^th Anniversary in 2011 - a film about the Human Rights Organisation which is recognized throughout the world. We look at how Amnesty changed the world and how the world has changed Amnesty.

BLOOD AND LAND

(bbc 2) 1 x 60

A portrayal of the bloody fight for land in South Africa, 10 years after the end of Apartheid.

CCTV SYMPHONY

(c4) 1 x 60 (in development)

Made entirely from CCTV footage and set to music, this unique 24 hour portrait of Britain that will alter your perception of CCTV and also tell you about Britain today.

CUTTING EDGE: REVENGE OF THE BIN MEN

(c4) 1 x 60
TX:  2nd march 2009

Observational film watching bin men and council officials trying to enforce new recycling rules against popular resistance to change

CUTTING EDGE: THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MURDER MANSION

(c4) 1x60
TX:  9th april 2009

The inside story of the killings in the Foster family

FIRST CUT: YOU ARE SO VAIN

(c4) 1 x 30
TX:  3rd july 2009

Exploring the world of personalised number plates

GIRL COPS

(bbc1) 8 x 30mins
TX:  27th feb 2006

Observational series about Manchester’s female cops.

HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO

(bbc4) 1 x 90min
TX:  22nd may 2008
(winner best documentary britdocs 2007)

Deeply moving observational film by Kim Longinotto about the Mulberry Bush School in Oxfordshire, the last chance for emotionally disturbed children aged 5 to 11.

MURDER BLUES: OPERATION TRIDENT

(bbc 1) 3 x 60

Highly praised observational series following a year of the work of the elite Metropolitan police teams tackling black-on-black gun crime.

MY HEART BELONGS TO DAD

(bbc2) 1 x 90
TX:  18th oct 2006

Shortlisted Best Documentary Grierson Awards 2007 Moving observational film about single fathers raising their children on their own

POTTERS BAR – SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH

(bbc1) 1 x 60

Follows the British Transport Police and Health and Saftey Executives 3 year investigation into the cause of this horrific crash

PROPERTY TO DIE FOR

(bbc 2) 1 x 60

A story of life and death on the Moscow property market where the civil law and corruption erodes any sense of security.

SEPTEMBER MOURNING

(itv/ard) 1 x 66
TX:  11 september 2002

Documentary following four British families affected by 11 September over the following year.

THE PROTECTORS

(bbc 1) 2 x 60

NOMINEE BROADCAST BEST TV DOCUMENTARY 2005
NOMINEE RTS BEST TV DOCUMENTARY 2005

Observational doc’s about how probation and police officers deal with dangerous sex offenders when they come out of prison and return to the community.

THE RISE AND FALL OF DETROIT

(bbc) 1 x 60

With GM almost bankrupt this ‘poem’ to Detroit will chart the rise and fall of America’s motor car city.

WAS CRIPPEN INNOCENT? REVEALED

(five) 1 x 60
TX:  1st july 2008

This documentary film takes an exclusive look at the remarkable forensic work conducted this year into what has been called ‘the crime of the century’. Experts in DNA analysis have cast serious doubt over the 1910 conviction of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen for the alleged murder of his wife, Cora.

WELCOME TO POTTERS BAR

(bbc1) 1 x 60mins
TX: : wednesday 23rd april 2003

This film follows some of the survivors and bereaved families as they piece their lives together

THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME

(bbc1) 3 x 60
TX:  21st july 2009

A landmark experimental observational documentary series with Nick Ross. He assesses the scale of crime in a major city over short period, how the justice system fails to deal with it and what can be done to stop it.

AFTER THE BREAK

(bbc2) 3 x 60

A review of the Children’s Act twenty years on. We follow the impact of the Family Courts decisions in separated families over many years. With the best of intentions, how have those decisions played out over time?

THE PRICE OF LIFE: Great Ormond Street Hospital

(bbc2) 3 x 60

A landmark access series in Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. The films will follow key medical teams, their elite medical achievements and the effect on children’s lives.

NIMBY BRITAIN

(itv) 1 x 60
TX:  jan 2009

A report from the front line on the impact of Britain’s expanding population on the demand for housing, transport and amenities.

CUTTING EDGE: 9/11 FAKER

(c4) 1 x 60
TX:  11th sept 2008

Story of a woman who falsely claims to have survived 9/11

STORYVILLE: THE BURNING SEASON

(bbc4/abc/cbc) 1 x 90
TX:  6th aug 2008

We follow the efforts to save the orang-utan and the Indonesian rain forests, where burning forest to plant palm trees produces huge damage to the environment as well as killing thousands of orang-utans. But it’s the only local source of income. Can carbon trading save the situation?

TEEN MUM HIGH

(bbc learning)
TX:  12th may 2008

Access documentary inside one of Britain’s schools for teenage mums and pregnant schoolgirls

THIS WORLD: INSIDE A SHARIA COURT

(bbc) 1 x 60 min
TX:  1st oct 2007

British Muslim Ruhi Hamid goes to Nigeria to see how Shari’ah law works in practise alongside UK style civil law to see if it could work here.

THIS WORLD: RACE FOR THE BEACH

(bbc2/sbs) 1 x 30/60 min
TX:  14th june 2007

Observational doc following the making of the first Muslim woman life saver. She hopes to change the image of Lebanese after the riots on the beach in Sydney. She wears a full length `burqini’ and struggles to pass the test, but becomes world famous in the process.

HOUSE OF CRIME

(bbc3) 3 x 60
TX:  10th aug 2006

Filmed inside Birmingham prison, the series explores the work and experiences of prison staff.

I’M THE DADDY (ONE LIFE for BBC1)

1 x 40/60
TX:  17th may 2006

Ian Mucklejohn is the first single man in Britain to have created his own children without a female partner. He made triplets which he raises himself.

CHINATOWN

(bbc2) 3 x 60mins
TX:  24th jan 2006

Dynastic saga featuring Britain’s invisible minority - the Chinese - at a moment of transition and transformation.

WHO KILLED PC BLAKELOCK?

(bbc 2) 1 x 90
TX:  2nd march 2004

90 minute special on the build-up and events of October 6th 1985 seen from both the local community and police perspectives.

WORLDS APART

(bbc1) 1 x 40
TX:  24 july 2003

Rich and poor families living on the same street.

RAIL COPS

(bbc1) 4 x 40 and 8 x 30
TX:  january 2003

Series inside the British Transport Police.

FELTHAM SINGS!

(channel 4/century films) 1 x 1hr
TX:  17 december 2002

BAFTA Award winning musical about the lives of young offenders in prison: writer Simon Armitage / director Brian Hill.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

(c4) 3 x 60
TX:  august 1999

First major series on management consultants. Using real cases and clients, it focussed on McKinsey & Co. who let cameras in for the first time.

IN SEARCH OF LAW AND ORDER - USA

(c4 / kqed-tv / pbs) 3 x 1 hr
TX:  feb 1999

Shot in Boston, Fort Worth, Texas and a poor suburb of San Francisco. Dealing with violent mayhem on a major scale, it tracks good examples of how to challenge juvenile violence within and beyond the justice system. Used to launch the National Youth Justice Board - several of its projects are now in the UK.