Britain’s Viking Graveyard
Windfall Films
A team of archaeologists is hunting for the remains of one of the largest armies ever to invade Britain, one of the most significant Viking...
Awards
The Group has won Emmys, BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards and many others.
Check out our award-winning shows below.
Operation Bridge Rescue
Windfall Films
OPERATION BRIDGE RESCUE follows the race to rebuild the Blenheim Covered Bridge in New York – an icon of early American engineering.
2020 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards
Winner: Bronze Award
When Bridges Collapse: The Genoa Disaster
Windfall Films
On 14 August 2018, the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy collapsed, sending twenty-seven vehicles plummeting to the valley below. Forty-three...
2020 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards
Winner: Silver Award
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle
Windfall Films
The remarkable story of perhaps the strangest phenomenon in science – Quantum Entanglement. It’s a story of mind-bending concepts and brill...
2020 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards
Winner: Silver Award
How To See a Black Hole: The Universe’s Greatest Mystery
Windfall Films
The first images of a Black Hole, revealed for the first time. Black Hole Hunters bring the viewers into the laboratories, behind the comput...
2020 New York Festivals TV and Film Awards
Winner: Gold Award
Mutiny
Windfall Films
In a unique experiment 21st century men are challenged to re-live one of the greatest feats of maritime adventure and endurance in naval his...
Broadcast Awards 2018
Nominated: Best Original Programme
Nominated: Best Popular Factual Programme
Hunting Nazi Treasure
BriteSpark Films
8 x 60' The series chronicles one of the greatest heists in history and the present-day efforts to locate gold and artwork stolen by the Naz...
Canadian Screen Awards 2018
Nominated: Best History Series
Nominated: Best Writing for City of Loot
Nominated: Best Editing for Rommel
Nominated: Best Archival Research across the series
Lost Secrets of the Pyramids
Windfall Films
2 x 60', CBC(Canada), Channel 4(UK), Discovery Science (US), France TV (France) Unearthing the deepest secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza....
Canadian Screen Awards 2018
Winner: Best History Documentary Program or Series
EVE
Leopard Drama
25 x 30' Life changes beyond recognition for the Clarke family when Eve, the world's first fully sentient 'artificial person', comes to live...
Royal Television Society Scotland 2016
Winner: Best Children's Programme
Winner: Best Sound
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards
Winner: Best Children’s television episode for lead writer/creator Emma Reeves
Broadcast Awards
Nominated: Best Children’s Programme
BAFTA Children’s Awards
Nominated: Best Performance for Poppy Lee Friar as ‘EVE’
London Screenwriters Festival
Nominated: Best British Children’s Television writing for Emma Reeves
Televisual Bulldog Awards
Nominated: Best Children’s Programme
Murder Trial
Windfall Films
1x120 A television first inside a British Courtroom.
BAFTA TV AWARDS 2014
Winner: Best Single Documentary
BAFTA Craft Awards 2014
Winner: Best Director
RTS Awards 2014
Winner: Best Single Documentary
Broadcast Awards 2014
Winner: Best Documentary Programme
BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013
Nominated: Best Single Documentary
Broadcast Awards 2014
Shortlisted: Best Documentary Programme
BAFTA TV Awards 2014
Nominated: Best Single Documentary
BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013
Nominated: Best Single Documentary
D-Day: As It Happens
Windfall Films
2 x 60 Tells the story of this pivotal event in real time.
BAFTA Craft Awards 2014
Winner: Best Digital Creativity in 2014
Digital Emmy Awards 2014
Winner: Best Digital Programme Non Fiction
RTS Design and Craft Awards 2013
Winner: Design and Craft Innovation Award
Broadcast Digital Awards 2014
Winner: Best Multi-Platform Project
Webby Awards 2014 (People's Choice)
Winner: Best Experimental & Innovation
Webby Awards 2014
Winner: Education & Discovery
Your Inner Fish
Windfall Films
Using fossil evidence and our DNA history Neil Shubin traces back different parts of our body’s anatomy to animals that lived millions of ye...
Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014
Winner: Best Biological/Life Science Programmes
Winner: Best Limited Series
Winner: Best Writing
Wildscreen Festival Awards 2014
Winner: Panda Award in the Science category
Winner: Special Jury Prize
Strip the City
Windfall Films
14 x 60' (2 seasons) CGI reveals how the Earth's geology shapes our cities. Strip the City uses stunning CGI animation and expedition-driven...
New York Festivals 2014
Finalist: Best Documentary
Canadian Screen Awards 2014
Finalist: Best Documentary Series
Attack of the Zeppelins
Windfall Films
The Zeppelin, the most terrifying weapon in the Great War. Attack of the Zeppelins explores how the Germans unleashed a new terror campaign...
Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014
Winner: Best Technological Sciences Programme
Animal Superpowers
Windfall Films
3 x 60' Patrick Stewart investigates the incredible superpowers of nature’s deadliest animals.
New York Festivals International Television & Films Awards 2013
Winner: Silver Medal for Science/Nature
Escape from Colditz
Windfall Films
1x90 A crack team recreate the most audacious escape plan in history; flying from the roof of Colditz Castle in a home-made glider.
Grierson Awards 2013
Shortlisted: Best Historical Documentary
Foxes Live: Wild In The City
Windfall Films
An interactive live event for Channel 4. Foxes provoke either love or hate: urban menace or furry friend?
Broadcast Digital Award 2013
Winner: Best App or Website for a Programme
BAFTA
Nominated: Digital Craft Award
THE WORLD OF MATTHEW BOURNE
Leopard Films
A 90' film for Channel 4. For 25 years, Matthew Bourne has been delighting audiences with adaptations of the best-known ballets and operas....
CZECH CRYSTAL 2012
Winner: Recordings of Opera, Operetta, Musicians, Dance, Ballet, Concerts Category
Prix Italia 2013
Winner: Performing Arts Category
Easter Eggs Live
Windfall Films
A live interactive event for Channel 4. The wonderful world of eggs revealed.
Grierson Awards 2013
Shortlisted: Best Science or Natural History Documentary
BACH: A PASSIONATE LIFE
Leopard Films
A 90 minute film for BBC2. Internationally renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man AND the musician. The u...
CZECH CRYSTAL 2013
Winner: Documentary programmes dedicated to Music and Dance
Big Bigger Biggest
Windfall Films
6x50' for Nat Geo Big, Bigger, Biggest is back - and it's bigger than ever. 6 episodes revealing the key inventions that allowed structures...
Marlitime Media Awards 2013
Winner: Icebreaker 2nd Place
Finalist: Canal Finalist
The War on Britain’s Roads
Leopard Films
60' for BBC1
Grierson Awards 2013
Shortlisted: Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme
The Holding
Leopard Drama
A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.
FANTASPORTO, International Fantasy Film Awards, 2012
Winner: Susan Jacobson, Best Director
The Chicago International Film Festival, 2011
Nominated: The Gold Hugo After Dark Competition
Inside Nature’s Giants
Windfall Films
Most wildlife documentaries show how animals behave, but by exploring their anatomy, veterinary scientist Mark Evans, comparative anatomist...
Grierson Awards 2012
Nominated: Best Science Documentary
New York Festivals Television & Film Awards
Winner: Gold Medal Best Science/Nature Film
Learning on Screen Awards 2011
Nominated:
BAFTA 2010
Winner: Best Specialist Factual
Broadcast Awards 2010
Winner: Best Popular Factual Programme
Highly Commended: Best New Programme
Wildscreen Festival 2010
Nominated: Best Series - Panda Awards
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2010
Nominated: Best Factual Entertainment Programme
Thomson Reuters Awards 2010
Winner: Communicating Zoology
RTS Awards 2009
Winner: Best Science & Natural History Programme
Dambusters: Building The Bouncing Bomb
Windfall Films
1 X 120' No CGI, no special effects; this is for real.
History Makers 2011
Winner: Best History Documentary
RTS 2012
Winner: Best History Programme
Broadcast Awards 2012
Nominated: Best Popular Factual Programme
Race and Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo
Windfall Films
Feature-length doc Rageh Omaar explodes the myths about race and IQ.
Grierson Awards 2010
Winner: Best Science Documentary
Learning on Screen Awards 2011
Nominated:
Sons of Cuba (Victory Is Your Duty)
Windfall Films
1 x 45' 1 x 56' 1 x 88' Behind the scenes access to the Havana Boxing Academy in Cuba, the breeding ground for future Olympic Champions.
Grierson Awards 2010
Winner: Best Newcomer Jonathan Gill Award
Rome Film Festival 2009
Winner: Best Documentary
Los Angeles Latin American Film Festival 2009
Winner: Best Documentary
British Independent Film Awards 2009
Nominated: Best Documentary
Generals At War
Windfall Films
6 x 50' Commanders from the great battles of WWII go head-to-head in a game of skill, bluff and counterbluff.
History Makers Awards 2010
Winner: Most Innovative Production
The Operation: Surgery Live
Windfall Films
4 x 60' Four patients go under the knife for pioneering life-changing operations. Broadcast live with interactive elements.
Broadcast Digital Awards 2010
Winner: Best Multi-Platform Project
BANFF Rockie Awards 2010
Nominated: Best Cross-Platform Project
Missing Live
Leopard Films
Missing Live is Leopard's flagship interactive series on BBC1. The series has been inundated with calls from the public offering help to fin...
Royal Television Society 2010
Nominated: Best Daytime Programme
CorpComms Award 2008
Winner: Best Use of Broadcast as Part of a Communication Strategy
An Englishman in New York
Leopard Drama
Picking up where the 1975 classic ‘The Naked Civil Servant’ left off, John Hurt reprises his role as Quentin Crisp. This entertaining and po...
Berlin International Film Festival/Teddy Award, 2009
Winner: John Hurt, Outstanding Performance as an Actor
Winner: Richard Laxton, Best Director
Hamburg Lesbian and Gay Film Festival/ The Globula 2009
Winner: Best Feature
BAFTA TV Awards, 2010
Nominated: John Hurt, Best Actor
BAFTA TV Craft Awards, 2010
Nominated: Joey Attawia, Costume Design
The Day the Immigrants Left
Leopard Films
A 60' film for BBC1. What happens when you deprive a British town of its foreign work-force? Hosted by Evan Davies The Day The Immigrants Le...
Rose D'Or 2010
Nominated: Best Mini Series
Missing (Drama)
Leopard Drama
Multiple series for BBC1. ‘Missing’ is a compelling investigative series set around a Missing Persons Unit in Dover. Whether it’s a secret f...
Mental Health Award 2009
Shortlisted: Best Drama Series
Absolute Zero
Windfall Films
2x60' An epic journey into the quest for cold, from the dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.
The American Institute of Physics
Winner: Science Writing Award Broadcast category 2009
The American Institute of Physics
Winner: Science Communication Broadcast Award - Science Writing in Film Award 2008
The Umbrella Assassin
Windfall Films
1 x 60' The real story of the Cold War assassination of Georgi Markov - known as the 'Umbrella Murder'.
Emmy Awards, 2007
Nominated: Emmy
Emmy Awards, 2008
Nominated: Historical Programming
Richard is my Boyfriend
Windfall Films
1 x 75' An innovative ‘reality drama’ from the same team who made 'Born With Two Mothers'.
Chicago Film Festival 2008
Winner: Hugo Silver Plaque for Feature Length Telefilm, Drama
INPUT 2008
Selected: INPUT 2008
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2008
Winner: CINE Golden Eagle
You’re not splitting up my Family
Windfall Films
1 x 90' Filmed over 10 years, this is the story of two young boys and the decisions that changed their lives forever.
Royal Television Society Awards 2008
Winner: Best Observational Documentary
Chicago Film Festival 2008
Winner: Silver Hugo Social/Political Documentary
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2008
Winner: CINE Golden Eagle
Cash in the Attic
Leopard Films
The show that helps you find hidden treasures in your home, and then sells them for you at auction.
Royal Television Society Programme Awards, 2008
Nominated: Best Daytime Programming
My Brilliant Brain
Windfall Films
3 x 50' Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human - the brain.
Banff Rockie
Winner: Best Science & Natural History Programme 2007
Monster Moves
Windfall Films
6 x 50' Hauling the heaviest structures across land, sea and air - Monster Moves returns for a fourth series.
RTS 2007
Nominated: Best Graphic Design
Mysterious Creatures
Leopard Drama
A 90' film for ITV1. This true story of love, loss and reconciliation charts the lives of a couple whose daughter suffers from Asperger’s Sy...
Mental Health Media Awards (Sponsored by BAFTA), 2007
Winner: Best Single & Serial Drama
Royal Television Society: Best Hair and Makeup
Nominated: Sharon Martin
The Hunt for Hitler’s Scientists
Windfall Films
1 x 60' The race to capture elite German scientists and their high- tech weapons.
US International Film & Video Festival 2006
Winner: Gold Camera Award
DNA
Windfall Films
5 x 50' An EMMY award-winning history of DNA - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix discovery with Dr Watson himself.
Emmy Awards 2005
Winner: Outstanding Science, Technology & Nature Documentary
ABSW Awards 2004
Winner: Best Science Documentary
Grierson: Science or the Natural World 2003
Winner: Best Documentary
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2004
Winner: Best Science Documentary Series
New York Festival 2004
Winner: Gold Medal - Best Science & Technology Series
Indie Awards 2004
Winner: Best Science Documentary Series
D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
Windfall Films
1 x 120' The definitive account of what really happened on D-Day.
New York Festivals 2005
Winner: Gold World Medal - History & Society
BAFTA 2004
Nominated: Specialist Factual
RTS 2004
Nominated: Programme Award (History)
Born With Two Mothers
Windfall Films
1 x 90' What would happen if a mother using IVF was given the wrong baby?
Grierson Awards 2005
Nominated: Best Drama Documentary
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Windfall Films
1 x 50' Engineer Bashar Altabba discovers the tragic history of the Thailand to Burma Railway.
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2004
Winner: CINE Golden Eagle - Best History Documentary
US International Film and Video Festival
Winner: Silver Screen
Dambusters
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The amazing technical story behind the most audacious bombing raid of WWII.
Royal Television Society Awards 2002
Winner: Best History programme
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2003
Winner: Best History Documentary 2003
>New York Festivals 2003
Winner: Gold World Medal, Arts Category
US International Film and Video Festival 2003
Winner: Certificate for Creative Excellence
Escape from Colditz
Windfall Films
3 x 50' Allied Officers return to Colditz Castle to retrace the routes of their legendary escapes.
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 2001
Winner: Grand Jury Prize - Best History Documentary
The Day The World Took Off
Windfall Films
5 x 50' This landmark series on the origins of the Industrial Revolution challenges traditional views of this dramatic period in history.
Royal Television Society Awards, 2000
Nominated: Best Documentary Series
Fifteen
Windfall Films
3 x 50' The agony and ecstasy of being 15 years old.
Royal Television Society Awards, 2000
Winner: Best Documentary Series
BAFTA, 2000
Nominated: Documentary Series
The Tourist Trap
Windfall Films
6 x 30' The prototype of all Reality Shows as we know them today.
INPUT 1999
Selected: INPUT 1999
The Decision
Windfall Films
6 x 50' Difficult decisions made by, for and about children in trouble.
Royal Television Society Awards 1999
Winner: Best Documentary Series
Twockers
Windfall Films
1 x 50' Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax- teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate.
INPUT 1999
Selected: INPUT 1999
The Curse of the Methuselah Tree
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The story of the oldest living thing on Earth.
Beijing Scientific Film Festival 1999
Winner: Special Jury Prize
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
Winner: Best Environmental Film
Oil On Canvas
Windfall Films
6 x 30' This series answers everyone’s first questions about the art, craft and science of painting.
Academia Film Festival, Czech Republic 1997
Winner: J.A. Komenski Prize
The Ultimate Guide: Elephants
Windfall Films
1 x 60' As the name implies - this film leaves no questions unanswered.
Jackson Hole Wildlife Festival 1997
Winner: Award for Innovation
New York Festivals
Winner: Gold Medal for Best Wildlife & Grand Award
International Wildlife Festival
Winner: Best of Festival
Winner: Best Produced
Winner: Best Special FX
Winner: Best Scientific Content
Winner: Merit Award for Educational Value
Metropolis
Windfall Films
6 x 30' How technology shaped our modern city.
CableACE Awards 1995
Winner: Best International Documentary Series
Lost Civilisations
Windfall Films
15 x 30' Seven Millennia of history come to life again in 10 ancient civilisations.
Emmy Awards, 1995
Winner: Best Factual Series
Reality on the Rocks
Windfall Films
3 x 50' Ken Campbell's oddysey to the heart of ultimate meaning in the universe.
Image and Science Awards 1995
Winner: Prix Special du Jury
Wanted: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Windfall Films
1 x 80' Anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow hunts down the mortal remains of the legendary outlaws.
Ohio State Award for Documentary Films 1993
Winner: Award for Documentary Films
Equinox: The Elements
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The chemical elements personified by the poet Roger McGough.
Banff Television Festival
Winner: Best Popular Science Film
Cable Ace Award
Winner: Best Informational Special
Royal Television Society Awards
Winner: Award
INPUT 1992
Selected: INPUT 1992
Love in the Cold War
Windfall Films
1 x 60 The two sons of the US Communist party leader; one brought up in the USSR, the other in the USA.
CINE Golden Eagle Awards 1991
Winner: CINE Golden Eagle
Chicago Film Festival
Winner: Silver Plaque
Red Star in Orbit – The Russian Right Stuff
Windfall Films
3 x 50' The epic story of the Soviet Space Programme.