Windfall Films has established an international reputation as a producer of innovative television programmes.

We have applied our distinctive style and meticulous standards to a range of genres, including science, social, and history documentaries, factually-based dramas and original format shows.

Windfall have pioneered a new hybrid form of factually-based drama that has put us at the forefront of innovation in the film industry. Following the success of Born With Two Mothers, we have again combined actors with professionals playing themselves in Richard is My Boyfriend, where a real judge decides whether a woman with learning difficulties should be sterilized.

Our new and sensitive approach to observational documentaries has not only won us awards, but also the respect of the professions we depict. Films such as The Decision, Fifteen and The Lion’s Den have been used to help train social workers, doctors and teachers into a better understanding of the people they work with.

As one of the leading producers of science & technology programmes in the UK, we have a unique ability to breath life and drama into subjects that could be dry in other hands. Cutting-edge computer technology was combined with remarkable interviews in the Emmy award-winning series DNA. Described in the Telegraph as having “The dramatic tension of a Hollywood movie", it once again showed how Windfall was able to make documentaries as compelling as drama.

In Reality On The Rocks, we reinvented the science documentary by using comic actor Ken Campbell’s quest to get to grips with time and space as a way of bringing hilarity to a subject long associated with dusty libraries. Our latest science programme, Absolute Zero, comprehensively charts the conquest of cold, bringing to life the hard-fought rivalries behind the science.

Our influence on historical documentaries has also been notable. Films such as Wanted: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid set a trend in adventure history documentaries, putting the researchers’ quest to find the real story at the centre of the film. More recently in The Great Escape: Revealed, we followed archaeologists and veterans in an unprecedented investigation into the remarkable creation of a secret escape route.

The company has been influencing documentary film-making since their beginnings, pioneering the now widely-used ‘ancient archive’ look, in films such as The Elements and the series Lost Civilisations, using grainy photography to reenact historical scenes.

Windfall has also set the trend for several popular television formats. The Tourist Trap is seen by many as the first reality TV show, using spy-on-the-wall footage long before contemporary shows such as Big Brother. Lost! was also a television first, with even the cameramen kept in the dark of the secret location they were about to be dropped in.

Formed in 1988 by three ex-BBC producers, David Dugan, Ian Duncan and Oliver Morse, Windfall Films continues to set the standard for serious programming in the UK.