JACK MACINNES

Two part series for BBC Two marking the first anniversary of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. Key players on all sides from David Cameron to David Petraeus tell the first hand story of the mistakes that led to disaster alongside members of the Taliban and the Afghans who spent twenty years trying to make democracy work.

Brook Lapping for BBC Two. Commissioning Editor - Gian Quaglieni, Executive Producer - Greg Sanderson, Series Producer & Director - Jack MacInnes, Producer - Jecca Powell, Editors - Toby Marter, Bruce Law

BAFTA, International Emmy, Grierson, Peabody, Broadcast and RTS award winning series following refugees on perilous journeys to Europe in 2015-6.  "Within minutes of watching Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (BBC 2, 9pm), I was weeping. I did not stop until the credits rolled. I have not stopped thinking about it since." The Guardian.  "a scarily intimate, uniquely sympathetic portrait of a human tragedy" The Telegraph. "One of the most remarkable and important pieces of documentary film-making I have ever seen…..it will make you want to be, if not a better person, then a more grateful". The New Statesman. "This wasn't tin-rattling or handwritingingly worthy, it was just truly empathetic, in the finest tradition of documentary-making". AA Gill, Sunday Times.

Keo Films for BBC Two, PBS and Canal+.  Series Director - James Bluemel, Producer - Itab Azzam, Editor - Simon Sykes, Series Producer - Jane Merkin, Executive Producer - Will Anderson, Commissioning Editor - Clare Paterson.  

Edit Producer on this Netflix series on the disastrous 1999 festival

Raw TV for Netflix. Series Directed by Jamie Crawford, Exec Producers - Tim Wardle, Tom Pearson, Producers - Cassie Thornton, Sasha Kosminsky, Edit Producer - Jack MacInnes, Editors - Chris Duveen, Hugh Williams

Series two of a three year project following six children across the UK each from a disadvantaged background as they try to make the best of their talents in the face of social and financial adversity. I directed the series, concentrating on the Boys film in the edit (Girls film was co-directed with the series producer Zehra Yas).

Blast! Films for BBC Two. Commissioning Editor - Hamish Fergusson, Executive Producers - David Hodgkinson, Sacha Baveystock, Series Producer - Zehra Yas, DV Director - Brent Gundesen, Editors - Martin McDonnell, Audinga Kucinskaite

Two part series following brain surgery cases from both the patient and the doctor’s perspective - allowing us into the big questions about human consciousness

Blast! Films for Channel 4. Executive Producers - Alex Sutherland, Alistair Pegg, Series Director - Jack MacInnes, Series Producer - Vikki Miller, Film Editor - Leigh Brzeski, Producer Director - Gus Palmer, Producer - Laura Coquereau, Production Manager - Nancy Rushforth, Commissioning Editor - Alisa Pomeroy

Single documentary made with Carmen and Lupita Andrade, Mexican conjoined twins who moved to Connecticut aged 2 and 17 years on are still fighting for their right to stay in the USA for life saving treatment.

Barcroft Studios for Channel 4. Commissioning Editor - Alf Lawrie, Executive Producers - John Farrar, Lizzie Wingham, Editor - Craig Cotterill

Three part series picking up where the BAFTA winning Exodus: Our Journey to Europe left off.  An intimate portrait of the migration crisis, revisiting some of those who arrived in 2015 and meeting those still making the increasingly difficult and dangerous journeys in search of a better life.

Keo Films for BBC Two, PBS and Canal+.  Directors: Jack MacInnes, Abi Mowbray, Series Director: James Bluemel, Producer: Itab Azzam, Series Producer: Jo Abel, Executive Producer: Will Anderson

 The first ever access series inside the House of Commons.  Made with Michael Cockerell. "Granted unprecedented access, the cameras on the floor of the Commons make the bear pit of PMQs feel louder and more raucous than it does from the bird’s-eye view we see on the news. Up close and personal, they look almost human" The Guardian "Cockerell records it all impartially and fairly, I think, but also with humour and a mischievous eye. It looks like it was fun to make and that translates to the viewing experience" The Telegraph

Atlantic Productions for BBC Two. Director Episode Two. Other directors - Sam Benstead, John Holdsworth.  Series Producer - Emma Whitlock, Executive Producer - Anthony Geffen, Commissioning Editor - Darren Kemp. 

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams bids an emotional goodbye to the cathedral.  "This was beautifully written. The weaving together of word and image, art and architecture, politics and spirituality captured the majestic sweep of Canterbury’s place in English history" The Telegraph

BBC Arts for BBC Two.  Executive Producer - Basil Comely, Commissioning Editor - Mark Bell.  

I played a short term role towards the end of this series on Northumbria police, shooting extra sequences, master interviews and edit producing.

72 Films for BBC One. Commissioning Editor - Hamish Fergusson, Executive Producers - John Douglas, Kirsty Cunningham, Series Producer - Lucy Morgan, Series Directors - Nick Leader, Holly Challinor

Jeremy Paxman joins dedicated art lover and author of ‘Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story’, Bernadette Murphy at the climax of her seven-year mission to solve one of the most perplexing art mysteries of our time: did van Gogh really take a razor to his own ear, and what led him to commit such an act?

Lion Television for BBC Two.  Executive Producer - Bill Locke, Commissioning Editor - Emma Cahusac.  Jeremy Paxman on Van Gogh

Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the turbulent history of Istanbul. "Sebag Montefiore considers Hagia Sophia, the vast church that Theodora and Justinian commissioned as an unfathomable expression of their magnificent virtue, to be the greatest building in Europe and his response to its glories felt unmanufactured. The wonderment was gilded with learning but the reverence was fierce and fine." New Statesman

Director Episode Two.  Executive Producer: Mike Smith.

Historian Thomas Asbridge revisits the story of Sir William Marshal, known in the Middle Ages as the greatest knight in the world - a man whose career lets us into the dramatic upheavals and fascinating contradictions of his time. BBC Two 2013.  Executive Producer: John Farren. 

"It’s been a fascinating insight into the ancient tenements, slums, bars and back alleys, conjuring up the dirt, the smell and the crush of the metropolis. It was a world away from the marble, mosaics and columns of the villas and palaces we’re familiar with. " Radio Times.  "Professor Beard was on top form (sorry – her mildly jolly-hockey-sticks air is infectious) as she doled out gobbets of information about the lives of ordinary Romans, deduced from the tombstones that line the Appian Way, the quieter corners of ruins overshadowed by big bruisers like the Colosseum and from treasure troves hiding in plain sight, such as the Monte Testaccio – Broken Pot Mountain...Wherever she went, Beard broke a site apart and let knowledge flood out" The Guardian

Co-Director Episode One.  Series Director: Hugo MacGregor, Producer: Caterina Turroni, Executive Producer: Richard Bradley.  

The first complete poem by Sappho to be discovered in centuries prompts an investigation of the poet who gave us our words Sapphic and Lesbian, presented by Margaret Mountford.

Maya Vision International for BBC Four. Producer: Sally Thomas, Commissioning Editor: Greg Sanderson

My directorial debut - part of a seven-episode series for broadcasters across the world, revealing the extraordinary legacy of Middle Eastern culture to the West throughout history.  

 Director Episode Four, the Muslim Renaissance.  Series Producer: John Fothergill, Executive Producer: Bill Locke.  

 Presented by Brendan Walker and Marty Jopson.  Light-hearted science series looking at how our lives were transformed in the 1950s by new inventions and consumer goods.

Channel 4, 2012.  Director Episode Three: the Bedroom.  Series Producer: Michael Douglas, Executive Producer: Jonathan Hewes. 

Film directed by Mary Cranitch and presented by Bettany Hughes on the goddess known as Aphrodite to the Greeks and Venus to the Romans, who had a long history before and since. I finished the film, directing new scenes, commissioning graphics and directing the final weeks of the edit.

Sandstone Global for BBC Four. Commissioning Editor - Mark Bell, Presenter - Bettany Hughes, Executive Producers - Rachel Bell, Producer Directors - Mary Cranitch, Jack MacInnes, DOP - Tim Knight, Editors - Alex Muggleton, Aleksandar Nicolic