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.
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 Date2018-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Handsome Reporter
Episode Count6
Vote Count42
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Release Date2011-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Teacher 1
Vote Count1424
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 Date2012-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sports Teacher
Vote Count159
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 Date2015-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1823
In this anthology series, heroic scientists risk all to deal with deadly outbreaks.
Release Date2019-05-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count125
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 Date2017-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count774
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 Date2025-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count57
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 Date2018-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count180
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 Date2013-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count386
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 Count24
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 Date2022-12-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count60
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 Date2007-02-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count313
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.
Release Date2016-04-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count34
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 Date2005-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
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 Date2003-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
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 Date2007-11-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count5
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 Date2019-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count197
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
Release Date2006-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Release Date2009-06-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
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 Date2007-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2005-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
