Nick Murphy is a British film director and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Awakening and Blood. He has directed episodes of the television series Prey, The Last Kingdom, A Christmas Carol and the docudramas How Art Made the World, Surviving Disaster, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Heroes and Villains. He also wrote the episodes for all the docudramas he directed.
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.
Release Date:2025-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:13
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
Release Date:2022-12-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:56
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Release Date:2019-12-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:187
In this anthology series, heroic scientists risk all to deal with deadly outbreaks.
Release Date:2019-05-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:120
In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their mission takes them to the edge of the solar system, and to the edge of insanity, as they realize true horror isn't waiting for them in outer space—it's already on their ship.
Release Date:2018-12-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:174
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.
Release Date:2018-02-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Handsome Reporter
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:41
A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
Release Date:2017-06-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:752
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.
Release Date:2016-04-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:32
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
Release Date:2015-10-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1768
It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.
Release Date:2013-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:379
When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.
Release Date:2012-10-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Sports Teacher
Vote Count:157
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Release Date:2011-08-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Teacher 1
Vote Count:1402
Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Release Date:2009-06-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled in Napoleon's struggle. The opponents are the English but the enemy are the revolutionaries authorities who seek to keep him in his place. Using his astonishing tactical mind, his sheer audacity and extraordinary military bravery, Napoleon emerges victorious and sets out on a path that would one day lead him to the throne of France.
Release Date:2007-11-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Heroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour long episode featured a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán Cortés, Richard I of England, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The statements at the beginning of each episode read: "This film depicts real events and real characters. It is based on the accounts of writers of the time. It has been written with the advice of modern historians." In the United States the show is aired on The Military Channel and was called "Warriors".
Release Date:2007-11-11
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:5
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
Release Date:2007-02-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:302
Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.
Release Date:2006-09-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:22
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
Release Date:2006-01-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, the measurement of distances in India, and the decimal system created by Leibnitz.
Release Date:2005-09-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Nigel Spivey reveals how the images which surround us today come from the ancient world. It's an epic journey spanning five continents and a hundred thousand years of history.
Release Date:2005-05-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5
Enlightening, uplifting and refreshingly innovative, this series takes a pioneering journey through the unexplored galaxy inside our own heads. Combining cutting edge science with extraordinary experiments, dazzling graphics and inspiring human stories, it shows how personality is formed throughout our lives and how our minds work to win friends and influence people. By exploring the science behind the workings of the human mind, the programmes reveal what each of us can do to make the most of its remarkable capability - including how to literally 'think faster' and even master our most powerful emotions.
Release Date:2003-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1