Christopher Spencer (Director)

The Bible

The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Release Date2013-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count949

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.

Release Date2006-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count29

American Visions

Time magazine critic and writer of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.

Release Date1997-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Son of God

In the Holy Land, the Roman occupation has produced a cauldron of oppression, anxiety and excessive taxes levied upon the Jewish people. Fearing the wrath of Roman governor Pontius Pilate , Jewish high priest Caiaphas tries to keep control of his people. That control is threatened when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, performing miracles and spreading messages of love and hope. Those who fear that Jesus will inspire a revolution decide that he must die.

Release Date2014-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count359

Space Race

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.

Release Date2005-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count22

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Release Date2003-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count9

Arthouse

Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.

Release Date1997-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

The Human Body

The Human Body is a seven-part documentary series that looks at the mechanics and emotions of the human body from birth to death.

Release Date1998-05-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count26

Stonehenge: Decoded

Stonehenge Decoded presents world renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why.

Release Date2008-10-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count13

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff

Release Date2007-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.

Release Date2013-06-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.

Release Date1992-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

Just weeks after VE day, Winston Churchill found himself in new battle: to be reelected Prime Minister. Confident of his victory after leading through WWII, he never expected his countrymen to turn so vehemently on their Great British Bulldog

Release Date2015-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Waco: Madman or Messiah

Few had ever heard of the Branch Davidians and their leader until a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that led to a 51-day stand-off with the FBI. Who was David Koresh and why were many prepared to die for him?

Release Date2018-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism

Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.

Release Date1995-03-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Space Race

The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.

Release Date2005-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Jumbo: The Plane That Changed the World

Documentary about the development of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The 747 was a game changer, the airliner that revolutionised mass, cheap air travel. But the first wide-bodied plane was originally intended as a stopgap to Boeing's now-abandoned supersonic jet. This is the remarkable untold story of the jumbo, a billion-dollar gamble that pushed 1960s technology to the limits to create one of the world's most recognisable planes.

Release Date2014-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

747: The Jumbo Revolution

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircraft against which all others are judged. But its 45-year journey has been anything but smooth. This is the definitive story of the Boeing 747, from its milestones and triumphs to its turning points and disasters. Witness its history through rare archival footage and tales from pilots, engineers, designers, and passengers who were there when it all began.

Release Date2014-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Animal Passions

A British documentary on zoophilia presenting various personal, religious, psychological, and sociological views on the phenomenon of sexual relations between humans and other animals.

Release Date2004-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Falklands' Most Daring Raid

Documentary film about the then longest range bombing mission in history, which changed the outcome of the Falklands War.

Release Date2012-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Churchill: When Britain Said No

Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just led the country to victory in the World War II.

Release Date2015-06-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Pearl Harbor: The Accused

This documentary reveals new insight into events leading up to the attack, focusing on the story of Admiral Husband Kimmel, who was stripped of his rank, forced into obscurity, and accused of negligence.

Release Date2016-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Stepping Out

A couple's untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski's The Tenant in UK cinemas.

Release Date1977-01-09

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count4

Spinoza: the Apostle of Reason

Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in sixteenth century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal. He lived in an age of turmoil, when the Dutch Republic and the English Commonwealth had polarised the entire continent. His scepticism enraged the Jewish elders and led to his excommunication.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

David Starkey's Magna Carta

David Starkey looks at the origins of Magna Carta, the document that has underpinned British liberties since it was created in 1215 to check the abuses of King John.

Release Date2015-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Waco: Madman or Messiah

Followers from around the world travel to Mount Carmel to hear the preaching of David Koresh, a local Texas working-class kid turned prophet of God and leader of the religious group The Branch Davidians.

Release Date2018-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Fighting the Red Baron

Two modern Red Arrows pilots take on the challenges faced by World War I pilots by performing photo reconnaissance, artillery ranging, and bombing missions in period aircraft - culminating in a classic dogfight.

Release Date2010-06-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Bugging Hitler's Army

An examination of British Intelligence's World War II systematic eavesdropping on German prisoners of war.

Release Date2012-02-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector