ICON FILMS PRODUCTIONS

2008

Travellers' Century
3 x 60 for BBC4
A three part series led by explorer, writer & broadcaster Benedict Allen who retracea the steps of three of  Britain’s most iconic, 20th century, literary travellers; Eric Newby, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Laurie Lee.

2007

Street Monkeys
5 x 60 for National Geographic and Smithsonsian
Distributed by Granada International
Set in the urban landscape of Durban, one of South Africa’s fastest growing cities and recently adopted home of the Vervet monkey, the series explores the interaction between the species and humans.  Giving us an intimate look at the internal power struggles of this primate society – how they live, learn and adapt in their new world and how humans cope when their real estate comes under threat.  The 5-part series discovers just how well the two primates get on sharing their home.  

Bird's Eye Britain: The One Show Inserts
6 x 4 mins for BBC One
Historian and Archaeologist Neil Oliver takes a new look at some major landmarks of British Landscape in this revelatory series of short films. Neil's used to looking at the coal face of history in the bottom of a trench but in this series he teams up with aerial photographers and pilots to take to the air and reveal a new level of significance to sites and structures of some of our best known monuments and world heritage sites like Avebury, Maiden Castle and Hardian's wall.

Back From The Brink: The One Show inserts
6 x 4 mins for BBC One
Naturalist Steve Backshall makes a tour around Britain to come face to face with some of our more endangered species who have made it back from the brink of extinction. His journey takes him behind the scens at Kew Gardens, to a holiday camp in North Wales and right into a White-Tailed Eagle's nest in Scotland. Along the way he meets the unsung heroes who dedicate their lives to keeping our rarer wildlife on the UK map.

Nick Baker's Weird Creatures 2
8 x 50 mins for Five, Animal Planet and Granada International (High Definition)
Nick Baker searches the planet and returns with an even weirder menagerie of strange and bizarre wild animals.

Tiger Kill
1 x 50 mins for BBC Natural History Unit
Top Natural HIstory camermen Simon King and Alphonse Roy share their field craft, technical skills and local knowledge on this epic struggle to record the elusive and fleeting moment of a tiger at the peak of its powers, an event very rarely recorded in nature documentary.  This achievement delivers priceless insight into the species and offers a timely reminder of its precarious existence.



2006
Saving Planet Earth - Tigers
1 x 25 mins for BBC Natural History Unit
News reporter Fiona Bruce investigates the plight of the tiger in India.

Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures - Series 1
7 x 50 mins for Five, Animal Planet and Granada International
Naturalist Nick Baker travels the globe in search of nature’s weirdest and most wonderful creatures and investigates how they came to be the way they are.

Supersize Crocs
1 x 50 mins for WNET/Five/Granada International/ National Geographic (High Definition)
Are there any 20ft+ crocs left in the wild? Join herpetologist Romulus Whitaker as he searches the world for this elusive crocodilian Holy Grail.

Tom Harrisson – the Barefoot Anthropologist
1 x 50 mins for BBC4
A biography - presented by Sir David Attenborough - of the explorer, pioneering anthropologist, guerrilla fighter, award-winning documentary film-maker and conservationist, Tom Harrisson.

One Planet Living
1 x 5 mins for World Wildlife Fund
At current consumption rates, we will need three planets to support us. We only have one. How can we reduce our impact on the world we live in?



2005
Paranormal Pigeons
1 x 50 mins for Five and Animal Planet
Animal migration is a phenomenon which has existed since the dawn of time. How do pigeons and other species do it?

Last Lions of India
1 x 50 mins for BBC Natural History Unit
A year in the life of the last remaining population of Asiatic Lions.

Gangsters Wives
1 x 50 mins for Five
An insight into the mad, bad world of the women who devote their lives to gangsters, through the eyes of someone who’s been there – Kate Kray.

Einstein’s Brain
1 x 47 mins for NGCI and Channel 4
An international hunt for the nature of genius.



2004
The King Cobra and I
1 x 50 mins for BBC Natural History Unit
Romulus Whitaker tracks the true King of the Indian Jungle in this unique portrait of the world’s largest venomous snake.

Holy Cow!
1 x 50 mins for Devillier Donegan Enterprises / PBS
The history of the cow - from prehistoric aurochs to transgenic über-beasts.

Diagnosing Darwin
1 x 50 mins for National Geographic Channels International
Investigating the mysterious cause of Charles Darwin’s long and ultimately fatal illness.

White Slaves Pirate Gold
1 x 50 mins for Timewatch BBC
A mysterious wreck with a treasure hoard off the Devon coast unlocks the secret history of 17c Barbary Pirates and their trade in European slaves.

A Different Ball Game – South America
5 x 30 mins (Spanish and International versions) for National Geographic Channels International
Dr. Luisa Elvira – Peruvian anthropologist, travels through her native Latin America to find the indigenous sports still being played. Returning series



2003
The Great Cats of India
1 x 60 mins for Animal Planet and Granada
Indian natural history cameraman Alphonse Roy goes in search of the four big cats of India, from the Himalayas to the Gir Forest



2002
Out There: Shark Hunting
1 x 30 mins for National Geographic Channels International
Father and son team John and Sune Nightingale travel the globe investigating the alarming decline in world shark populations.



2001
Temple of the Tigers: India’s Bandhavgarh Wilderness
1 x 60min for Devillier Donegan Enterprises / PBS
A portrait of tigers in the old hunting reserve of the Maharajas of Rewa in central India.
Icon Films’ third film in the award winning Living Edens Series.

Quest for the True Cross
1 x 60min for Channel Four / Discovery / CTVC
Is the Titulus Crucis - small piece of wood held in the Church of Santa Croce, Rome - a fragment of the True Cross?

Yeti – Hunt for the Wildman
1 x 60min for Channel Four / Channel Four International / The Learning Channel
An expedition to the remote Himalayan peaks of Bhutan in search of the Migö (Yeti).

A Different Ball Game
6 x 30min series for National Geographic Channels International
Presented by sports journalist Emma Levine – crossing Central Asia in search of little known indigenous sports.

The Berkeley Estate with Chris Chapman
4 x 30min series for HTV West
Photographer Chris Chapman documents a year in the life of the thousand year old Berkeley Estate.

2000
Indian Journeys
3 x 60min series for BBC2 / PBS / CTVC
A three part religious and travel series. Author and traveller William Dalrymple follows the route of three epic spiritual journeys, across India and the Middle East.



1999
Journey into Amazonia
3 x 60min for Devillier Donegan Enterprises / PBS
This series explores the diversity of three distinct habitats in the Amazon rain forest.

Anamalai – The Elephant Mountain
1 x 60min for Devillier Donegan Enterprises / PBS
Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu – a year in the life of this remarkable sanctuary.
Icon Films’ second film in the award winning Living Edens Series.

Nibha and the Elephants – Animal People
1 x 30min for BBC1
The temple elephants and their mahouts at Guruvayur Elephant Stables.

The Croc Crusader – Animal People
1 x 30min for BBC1
Rom Whitaker’s unique crocodile sanctuary in south India.



1998
Bhutan: The Last Shangri-La
1 x 60min for ABC Kane / DDE / PBS
An exploration of the rich flora and fauna of this remote Himalayan Kingdom.
Icon Films’ first film in the award winning Living Edens Series.



1997
Joanna Lumley in the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon
1 x 75min for BBC1
A BBC Everyman Special in which the actress Joanna Lumley retraces her Grandparents journey across Bhutan.



1996
The Elephant Men
1 x 60min for Channel 4 / WNET
A look at the relationship between mahouts and their elephants in India.


1994
Heart of a Nomad
1 x 60min for Channel 4
David Attenborough interviews the famous explorer and author Wilfred Thesiger.

Tibet and the End of Time
1 x 60min for Time Life / NBC
The final episode of the 10 part Time Life Series "Lost Civilisations.”