JAMES WRIGHT
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
CREDITS
TONY ROBINSON’S MARVELLOUS MACHINES
6x48 MINS, UKTV, 2023
James filmed across the UK and Europe stories including the Human Zoo.
HILTER’S ENGINEERS
6x48 MINS, SKY HISTORY, 2022
Stuff stuff stuff
HIDDEN AMERICA 1
12x45 MINS, DISCOVERY, 2022
Stuff stuff stuff
SECRETS OF THE LOST ARK
12x50 MINS, ITV and DISCOVERY, 2021
A series about history and biblical myth in which we try to track down the location of the illusive Ark of the Covenant.
ABANDONED ENGINEERING 5
12x50 MINS, UKTV, 2020
Working within the format of a magazine engineering show about abandoned buildings, I focused on human stories. In Paris we visited their abandoned ‘Human Zoo’ where people from the French colonies were put on display. In Wessex are the remains of military buildings, there I told the story of the brave Greenham Women.
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED 6
12x45 MINS, DISCOVERY, 2021
James filmed across the UK and Europe stories including the Human Zoo.
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED 5
12x45 MINS, DISCOVERY, 2020
James filmed across the UK and Europe stories including the Human Zoo.
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED 4
12x45 MINS, DISCOVERY, 2019
James filmed across the UK and Europe stories including the Human Zoo.
NOVA: BACK TO THE MOON
1x50 MINS, PBS, 2019
The United States has committed itself to going back to the Moon. In the 50th anniversary year of Neil Armstrong’s One Small Step this film discovers WHY we should go back, and HOW we’re going to do it. We find out how the discovery of polar water could kick-start a lunar economy, and we meet the geologists, robot-makers and entrepreneurs who want to get there first.
NOVA: RISE OF THE ROCKETS
1x50 MINS, PBS, 2019
In 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the mighty Saturn V rocket on their voyage to the Moon. 50 years later, NASA is building a new mega-rocket, but a new breed of private space-barons want a slice of the space-market and they’re building weird and wonderful new rockets to get there.
BREAKTHROUGH
6x45 MINS, PBS, 2018
Stuff stuff stuff