Windfall Films

Why Ships Crash

How did such an advanced ship crash in one of the most closely monitored shipping lanes in the world?

1 x 60'

Shortlisted for Best Television or Film Contribution at the Maritime Foundation Media Awards 2022

WWII: Secrets From Above

Matching archive to its original locations reveals WWII secrets from above

6 x 60'

Shortlisted for Innovative Use of Technology in Storytelling at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2022

Unearthed - Series Five

Uncovering hidden secrets and decoding the mysteries behind some of the world’s most iconic structures from ancient to present day

20 x 60' & 2 x 90'

Lost Empire of Persia; winner of a Bronze award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

When Disaster Strikes

3 x 60'

Winner of a Silver award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

New York Super Airport

The 8-billion-dollar race to build America’s first major new airport in 25 years

3 x 60'

Finalist at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

Neutrino: Hunting the Ghost Particle

A team of scientists are constructing an audacious experiment to hunt for a mysterious new ‘ghost’ particle

1 x 60'

Winner of a Gold award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

Nominated for Best Science Documentary at Grierson 2022: the British Documentary Awards

NASA Mars Landing: Inside the Mission

A landmark one-hour documentary exploring the secrets of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover

1 x 60'

Winner of a Gold award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

Lost Tombs of the Ancient Maya

An immersive dive into the rise and fall of this great civilisation

1 x 60'

Winner of a Bronze award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022

Jabbed! Inside Britain's Vaccine Triumph

The inside story of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce and their race against time to secure vaccines as Covid-19 death rates soared

1 x 60'

Winner of Best News and Current Affairs at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2021

Nominated for Health & Life Sciences Journalism Award at the British Journalism Awards 2021

Finalist at the New York Festivals of TV & Film 2022

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: Inside the Great Cathedral Rescue

New discoveries about the cathedral that will help restorers bring Notre Dame back from the brink

1 x 60'

Winner of a Bronze Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2021

Polar Extremes

Can the stories of the past reveal what will happen to the poles – and the rest of our planet?

1 x 120'

Winner of a Silver Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2021

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

An immersive investigation into the vanished world of this remarkable civilisation

2 x 60'

Winner of a Silver Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2021

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Revealing the skill, knowledge and bravery needed to care for the flock in this rugged land

1 x 100'

Winner of Best Photograpy Factual at BAFTA Craft Awards 2021

Nominated for Best Original Programme Broadcast Awards 2021

Britain's Viking Graveyard

Is a mass grave of ancient skeletons in Repton the last resting place of hundreds of Viking invaders?

1 x 60'

Winner of a Gold Award at the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards 2020

Einstein's Quantum Riddle

The story of perhaps the strangest concept in science – Quantum Entanglement

1 x 60'

Nominated for Best Science Documentary Grierson Awards 2020

Winner of Silver Award at the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards 2020

When Bridges Collapse

This film investigates what caused the bridge to fail so catastrophically and asks if other bridges are at risk.

1 x 60'

Nominated for Best Science Documentary Grierson Awards 2020

Winner of Silver Award at the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards 2020

Operation Bridge Rescue

1 x 60'

Winner of Bronze Award at the New York festsivals TV and Film Awards 2020

Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me

Alastair Campbell candidly talks about his experience living with depression

Shortlisted for Best Science Documentary at the Greirson Awards 2019

How To See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery

One of the great astrophysical achievements in human history

1 x 60'

Winner of New York Festivals TV and Film Awards 2020 Gold Award

Winner of Silver Award at AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards 2019 for In-Depth Reporting

Shortlisted for Best Science Documentary at the Greirson Awards 2019

Saving Planet Earth: Fixing a Hole

The remarkable story of how we defeated the first great man-made threat to our planet's environment

1 x 60'

Winner of Best Science Film at Green Screen 2019

Winner of a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals Television & Film Awards 2019

Winner of Best International Documentary, AFO Science Film Festival 2018

Winner AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award 2018

Nominated for The Rockie Awards 2019

Selected for InScience International Science Film Festival 2018

Selected for Silbersalz Science Film Festival 2018

Winner of United Nations Environment Programme Ozone Award 2017

Building Giants Series One

The race to build the world’s next generation of engineering wonders

8 x 60'

Winner of a Bronze World Medal at the New York Festivals Television & Film Awards 2019

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

The secrets of the pyramids finally revealed

1 x 60'

Winner of a Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals Television & Film Awards 2019

Winner of Best History Film at The Canadian Screen Awards 2018

Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb

Constructing a mega tomb to keep Chernobyl safe

1 x 60'

Winner of the Television catagory at the Priz Roberval 2018

Mutiny

Reliving Captain Bligh's epic survival feat Channel 4

5 x 60'

Nominated for Best Original Programme & Best Popular Factual Broadcast Awards 2018

Eclipse:Secrets of the Sun

A rare opportunity to study the sun

1 x 60'

Winner of Silver World Medal in the Science & Technology category at the New York Festivals 2018

Operation Lighthouse Rescue

Can it be saved, before it’s too late?

1 x 60'

Winner Bronze World Medal New York Festivals Awards 2017 in the Science & Technology category

Winner of Special Jury Award at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2016

Nominated for New York Festivals Awards 2017 in the Science & Technology category

Nominated in the Technology & Innovation category at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2016

Inside Einstein's Mind

The story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science

1 x 60'

Winner of Best Physical Science at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2016

Nominated for Best Science Award at the Grierson Awards 2016

Nominated for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming EMMYS 2016

Nominated for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction EMMYS 2016

Nominated for Physical Science category at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards

Making North America

Revealing the incredible story of a majestic continent.

3 x 60'

Winner of the Silver Award for Television In Depth Reporting at the Science Journalism Awards 2016.

Nominated in the Long Form Series and Earth and Sky categories at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2016

Raising The Costa Concordia

The exclusive inside story of the race to raise and re-float the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship.

1 x 60'

Winner of The David Gosling Award for Best Television or Film Contribution in the Maritime Media Awards 2015

Your Inner Fish

Meet the family you never knew you had.

3 x 55'

AAS Kavli Science Journalism Award 2014 won by Your Inner Fish

Wildscreen Panda Awards 2014: Winner of Best Science Series and the Special Jury Prize

Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014: Winner of Best Limited Series, Best Biological/Life Sciences Programme and Best Writer

Nominated for Outstanding Science and Technology Progamming and Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction at the EMMYs 2015

Nominated for Best Limited Series, Best Presenter-Led Program, and Best Writing at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2015

EMMYs 2015: Winner of Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction

National Academy of Science Awards 2015: Winner of Communication Award for Film/TV/Radio

Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico

We follow Rodrigo Medellin as he tracks of swarm of endangered 'Tequila' bats

1 x 60'

Wildscreen Panda Awards 2014: Winner of Best People and Nature Award

Winner of Best People and Nature Program & Conservation Hero at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2015

Monster Moves - Season 6

The sixth season following the men who move the impossible.

6 x 50'

Maritime Media Awards 2014: Monster Moves Huge Hoverscraft nominated for Best Producer and Director (Lee Reading).

World's Biggest Ship

Following the construction of the world’s biggest mega ship : the Maersk Triple-E

6 x 60'

Maritime Media Award 2014: Peter Oxley nominated for Best Producer

Attack Of The Zeppelins

During World War 1 the Germans terrorised London by dropping bombs from Zeppelin airships.

1 x 60

Winner of Best Technological Sciences Programme - Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014

Murder Trial

A television first inside a British Courtroom.

1x120

Grierson Trust Awards 2014: Winner of Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme

BAFTA TV Awards 2014: Winner of Best Single Documentary

RTS Awards 2014: Winner of Best Single Documentary

Broadcast Awards 2014: Winner of Best Documentary Programme

BAFTA Scotland Awards 2014: Nominated for Best Single Documentary

BAFTA Craft Awards 2014: Winner of Best Director Nick Holt

D-Day: As It Happens

Tells the story of this pivotal event in real time.

2 x 60

Broadcast Digital Awards 2014: Winner of Best Multiplatform Project

Digital Emmy Awards 2014: Winner of Best Digital Programme Non Fiction

RTS Design and Craft Awards 2013: Winner of Design and Craft Innovation Award

BAFTA Craft Awards 2014: Winner of Best Digital Creativity in 2014

Webby Awards 2014 (People's Choice): Winner of Best Experimental & Innovation

Webby Awards 2014: Winner of Education & Discovery

Easter Eggs Live

The wonderful world of eggs revealed.

Wildscreen Awards 2014: Nominated for a Panda Award in the Innovation catagory

Broadcast Digital Awards 2014: Nomintaed for Best Multiplatform Project

Grierson Awards 2013: Shortlisted for Best Science or Natural History Documentary

Strip the City Series 1

Strip The City uses stunning CGI animation to strip major cities naked.

6x60

New York Festivals 2014: Finalist Best Documentary

Canadian Screen Awards 2014: Finalist Best Documentary Series

Escape from Colditz

A crack team recreate the most audacious escape plan in history; flying from the roof of Colditz Castle in a home-made glider.

1x90

Grierson Awards 2013: Shortlisted for Best Historical Documentary

Big, Bigger, Biggest is back - and it's bigger than ever. 6 episodes revealing the key inventions that allowed structures to evolve from simple and small into complex and BIG. Each episode opens showcasing the largest example of its kind and asks the question, ‘how did it grow so big?’ Then a whirlwind tour of CGI, demonstrations and actuality delivers the answer. Superstructures grow, evolve, bend, twist, move and collapse to reveal their secret workings - buckle up and prepare to be amazed!

6x50' for Nat Geo UK

Marlitime Media Awards 2013: Icebreaker 2nd Place

Maritime Media Awards 2013: Canal Finalist

Animal Superpowers

Patrick Stewart investigates the incredible superpowers of nature’s deadliest animals.

3 x 60'

Episode 3: Extreme Survivors

New York Festival's Internation Television & Films Awards Silver Medal for Science/Nature 2013

Foxes Live: Wild In The City

Foxes provoke either love or hate: urban menace or furry friend?

Broadcast Digital Award 2013: Winner of Best App or Website for a Programme

Nomination for BAFTA Digital Craft Award 2013

Inside Nature's Giants: Sperm Whale

The BAFTA-winning team battle through the night to explore the mysteries of the largest predator on Earth - the Sperm Whale.

1 x 90'

New York Festivals Television & Film Awards: Winner of a Gold Medal Best Science/Nature Film

Grierson Awards 2012: Nominated for Best Science Documentary

Dambusters: Building The Bouncing Bomb

No CGI, no special effects; this is for real.

1 X 120'

RTS 2012: Winner of Best History Programme

Broadcast Awards 2012: Nominated for Best Popular Factual Programme

History Makers 2011: Winner of Best History Documentary

Inside Nature's Giants Series 2

Getting under the skin of the largest animals on the planet.

3x60'

Winner of 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for Communicating Zoology

Nominated for Learning on Screen Awards 2011

Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo

Rageh Omaar explodes the myths about race and IQ.

Feature-length doc

Winner of Best Science Documentary - Grierson Awards 2010

Nominated for Learning on Screen Awards 2011

Inside Nature's Giants Series 1

Natural History as you’ve never seen it before… from the inside out.

4 x 60'

Winner of Best Specialist Factual - BAFTA 2010

Winner of Best Science & Natural History Programme - RTS Awards 2009

Winner of Best Popular Factual Programme - Broadcast Awards 2010

Highly Commended for Best New Programme - Broadcast Awards 2010

Nominated for Best Series - Panda Awards at the Wildscreen Festival 2010

Nominated for Best Factual Entertainment Programme - Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2010

The Operation: Surgery Live

Four patients go under the knife for pioneering life-changing operations. Broadcast live with interactive elements.

4 x 60'

Winner of Best Multi-Platform Project - Broadcast Digital Awards 2010

Nominated for Best Cross-Platform Project - BANFF Rockie Awards 2010

Generals At War

Commanders from the great battles of WWII go head-to-head in a game of skill, bluff and counterbluff.

6 x 50'

Winner of Most Innovative Production - History Makers Awards 2010

Absolute Zero

An epic journey into the quest for cold, from the dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.

2x60'

Science Writing Award Broadcast category 2009, The American institute of Physics.

Science Writing in Film Award 2008, The American Institute of Physics Science Communication Broadcast Award.

Sons of Cuba (Victory Is Your Duty)

Behind the scenes access to the Havana Boxing Academy in Cuba, the breeding ground for future Olympic Champions.

1 x 45' 1 x 56' 1 x 88'

Winner of Best Newcomer Jonathan Gill Award - Grierson Awards 2010

Best Documentary – Rome Film Festival 2009

Best Documentary – Los Angeles Latin American Film Festival 2009

Nominee Best Documentary - British Independent Film Awards 2009

Monster Moves - Season 4

Hauling the heaviest structures across land, sea and air - Monster Moves returns for a fourth series.

6 x 50'

RTS Nomination 2007 for Best Graphic Design

My Brilliant Brain

Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human - the brain.

3 x 50'

Banff Rockie: Best Science & Natural History Programme 2007

You're not splitting up my Family

Filmed over 10 years, this is the story of two young boys and the decisions that changed their lives forever.

1 x 90'

Royal Television Society Awards: Best Observational Documentary 2008

Chicago Film Festival: Silver Hugo Social/Political Documentary 2008

Cine Golden Eagle 2008

Richard is my Boyfriend

An innovative ‘reality drama’ from the same team who made 'Born With Two Mothers'.

1 x 75'

Chicago Film Festival: Hugo Silver Plaque for Feature Length Telefilm, Drama 2008

Selected for INPUT 2008

Cine Golden Eagle 2008

The Umbrella Assassin

The real story of the Cold War assassination of Georgi Markov - known as the 'Umbrella Murder'.

1 x 60'

Nominated for an Emmy, 2007

Nominated for an Emmy – Historical Programming 2008

The Hunt for Hitler's Scientists

The race to capture elite German scientists and their high- tech weapons.

1 x 60'

US International Film & Video Festival: Gold Camera Award 2006

Born With Two Mothers

What would happen if a mother using IVF was given the wrong baby?

1 x 90'

Nominated for a Best Drama Documentary, Grierson Awards 2005

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Engineer Bashar Altabba discovers the tragic history of the Thailand to Burma Railway.

1 x 50'

Cine Golden Eagle: Best History Documentary 2004

US International Film and Video Festival: Silver Screen

Fifteen

The agony and ecstasy of being 15 years old.

3 x 50'

Royal Television Society Award: Best Documentary Series 2000

Nominated for a BAFTA (Documentary Series) 2000

D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict

The definitive account of what really happened on D-Day.

1 x 120'

Gold World Medal History & Society, New York Festivals 2005

Nominated for a BAFTA (Specialist Factual) 2004

Nominated for an RTS Programme Award (History) 2004

DNA

An EMMY award-winning history of DNA - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix discovery with Dr Watson himself.

5 x 50'

EMMY: Outstanding Science, Technology & Nature Documentary 2005

ABSW Award: Best Science Documentary 2004

Grierson: Best Documentary on Science or the Natural World 2003

CINE Golden Eagle: Best Science Documentary Series 2004

New York Festivals Gold Medal: Best Science & Technology Series 2004

Indie Award: Best Science Documentary Series 2004

Dambusters

The amazing technical story behind the most audacious bombing raid of WWII.

1 x 50'

Royal Television Society Award: Best History programme 2002

CINE Golden Eagle: Best History Documentary 2003

Gold World Medal, Arts Category, New York Festivals 2003

Certificate for Creative Excellence, US International Film and Video Festival 2003

The Day The World Took Off

This landmark series on the origins of the Industrial Revolution challenges traditional views of this dramatic period in history.

5 x 50'

Nominated for Royal Television Society Awards: Best Documentary Series 2000

Escape from Colditz

Allied Officers return to Colditz Castle to retrace the routes of their legendary escapes.

3 x 50'

CINE Golden Eagle & Grand Jury prize for Best History Documentary 2001

The Curse of the Methuselah Tree

The story of the oldest living thing on Earth.

1 x 50'

Beijing Scientific Film Festival: Special Jury Prize

Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival: Best Environmental Film

Twockers

Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax- teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate.

1 x 50'

Selected for INPUT 1999

The Decision Series 2

Difficult decisions made by, for and about children in trouble.

6 x 50'

Royal Television Society Award: Best Documentary Series 1999

The Tourist Trap

The prototype of all Reality Shows as we know them today.

6 x 30'

Selected for INPUT 1999

The Ultimate Guide: Elephants

As the name implies - this film leaves no questions unanswered.

1 x 60'

Jackson Hole Wildlife Festival: Award for Innovation

New York Festivals: Gold Medal for Best Wildlife & Grand Award

International Wildlife Festival: Best of Festival, Best Produced, Best Special FX, Best Scientific Content, Merit Award for Educational Value

Equinox: The Elements

The chemical elements personified by the poet Roger McGough.

1 x 50'

Banff Television Festival: Best Popular Science Film

Cable Ace Award: Best Informational Special

Royal Television Society Award

Selected for INPUT 1992

Oil On Canvas

This series answers everyone’s first questions about the art, craft and science of painting.

6 x 30'

Academia Film Festival, Czech Republic: J.A. Komenski Prize

Love in the Cold War

The two sons of the US Communist party leader; one brought up in the USSR, the other in the USA.

1 x 60

CINE Golden Eagle

Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival

Reality on the Rocks

Ken Campbell's oddysey to the heart of ultimate meaning in the universe.

3 x 50'

Image and Science Awards: Prix Special du Jury 1995

Lost Civilisations

Seven Millennia of history come to life again in 10 ancient civilisations.

15 x 30'

EMMY: Best Factual Series 1995

Wanted: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

Anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow hunts down the mortal remains of the legendary outlaws.

1 x 80'

Ohio State Award for Documentary Films

Metropolis

How technology shaped our modern city.

6 x 30'

Cable Ace Award: Best International Documentary Series

Red Star in Orbit - The Russian Right Stuff

The epic story of the Soviet Space Programme.

3 x 50'

EMMY: "Outstanding Historical Programming"

Chicago Film Festival: Silver Plaque

"The Mission" Prix de Reportage, Jules Verne Prize/ Paris