Leslie Woodhead

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Leslie Woodhead

Directing 89 January 1, 1937

James Leslie John Woodhead, OBE is a British documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where…

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NOVA

NOVA

7.0 1974 TV Show
ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse

7.0 1967 TV Show
World in Action

World in Action

7.0 1963 TV Show
Television

Television

8.0 1985 TV Show
Histoire Immédiate

Histoire Immédiate

10.0 2011 TV Show
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

7.0 2019 Movie
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

5.2 1992 Movie
9/11: The Day That Changed the World

9/11: The Day That Changed the World

8.3 2011 Movie
Children of Beslan

Children of Beslan

6.8 2005 Movie
The Day Kennedy Died

The Day Kennedy Died

7.0 2013 Movie
Endurance

Endurance

6.4 1999 Movie
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

7.0 1990 Movie

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James Leslie John Woodhead, OBE is a British documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. He was posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2019
    Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

    Movie Director

  2. 2017
    Diana: The Day Britain Cried

    Movie Director

  3. 2017
    Diana: The Day We Said Goodbye

    Movie Director

  4. 2015
    The Day They Dropped The Bomb

    Movie Director

  5. 2013
    The Day Kennedy Died

    Movie Director

  6. 2012
    The Hunt For Bin Laden

    Movie Director

  7. 2011
    Histoire Immédiate

    TV show Director

  8. 2011
    9/11: The Day That Changed the World

    Movie Director

  9. 2009
    How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

    Movie Self - Narrator

  10. 2006
    Godless in America

    Movie Director

  11. 2005
    Children of Beslan

    Movie Director

  12. 2005
    Srebrenica: Never Again?

    Movie Director

  13. 2004
    The Russian Newspaper Murders

    Movie Narrator

  14. 2003
    My Life As A Spy

    Movie Director

  15. 2003
    Star Wars Dreams

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  16. 2002
    A Very Modern Dictator: A Profile of Slobodan Milosevic

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 2002
    Here is New York

    Movie Director

  2. 2000
    The Holocaust on Trial

    Movie Director

  3. 1999
    A Cry from the Grave

    Movie Director

  4. 1999
    Endurance

    Movie Director

  5. 1998
    444 Days

    Movie Director

  6. 1996
    Tony Bennett's New York

    Movie Director

  7. 1994
    Land of Dreams - Randy Newman's America

    Movie Director

  8. 1993
    The Last Soviet Citizen

    Movie Director

  9. 1992
    Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

    Movie Executive Producer

  10. 1990
    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

    Movie Director

  11. 1989
    Under the Sun

    TV show Producer

  12. 1987
    The Lau of Malaita

    Movie Director

  13. 1985
    Television

    TV show Director

  14. 1981
    Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

    Movie Director

  15. 1980
    Invasion

    Movie Director

  16. 1976
    Three Days in Szczecin

    Movie Director

  17. 1974
    NOVA

    TV show Director

  18. 1969
    The Stones in the Park

    Movie Director

  19. 1967
    ITV Playhouse

    TV show Director

  20. 1963
    World in Action

    TV show