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Russell Barnes

Directing

Biography

Russell Barnes has been producing factual television for 30 years, working with presenters including Richard Dawkins, David Reynolds, Harry Hill and Afua Hirsch. His directing credits include the Broadcast Award-winning Genius of Charles Darwin and Grierson-nominated history films Armistice and 1941 and the Man of Steel and he produced the Digital BAFTA and Emmy award-winning series The Virtual Revolution for BBC2.

On the crew 19

The Genius of Charles Darwin poster
The Genius of Charles Darwin
2008
Art That Made Us poster
Art That Made Us
2022
Long Shadow poster
Long Shadow
2014
Dead & Nowhere
2008
Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch poster
Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch
2019
Extinct
2001
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World poster
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
2003
Hackers in Wonderland poster
Hackers in Wonderland
2000
Root of All Evil? poster
Root of All Evil?
2006
World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel poster
World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
2011
The Genius of Charles Darwin poster
The Genius of Charles Darwin
2008
1945 and the Wheelchair President poster
1945 and the Wheelchair President
2015
World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly poster
World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly
2012
Armistice poster
Armistice
2008
The Enemies of Reason poster
The Enemies of Reason
2007
Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard poster
Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard
2024
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea poster
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Nixon in the Den poster
Nixon in the Den
2017
Summits: Munich 1938
2008