
Julian Thomas's Documentaries
Feature Credits
In this section
'Predators' True to Nature Ltd NETFLIX/SKY NATURE Producer/Director (1 Series)
-Producer/Director on two of six episodes of this Landmark Wildlife series. The series followed individual characters through the course of a year in the wild.
'Inside Natures Giants' Windfall Films CHANNEL 4 Series Producer/Director
-CGCUS & NGCI: BAFTA, RTS Award and Broadcast Award winning series. This series traced the evolution of animals through their internal anatomy.
"...The most original and different C4 programme so far this year" - David Glover - Commissioning Editor, C4
"...Inside Nature's Giants pushes the envelope and has the ambition we aspire to..." Dan Korn - VP, Discovery UK.
'Dinosaur with Stephen Fry' Mentorn Media CHANNEL 5 Series Edit Producer
-Sixty minute documentary where Stephen Fry tells the 180-million-year-story of dinosaurs.
'Journey of Warriors' IFA Media DISCOVERY Show Runner (60 Mins)
-With a bushcraft expert and ‘A’-List celebrity guests surviving in the remote wilderness of China recreating key historical moments from Chinese military history.
'Made in a Day' DSP NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Exec. Prod. (12 x 30mins)
-The last decade has seen a revolution in manufacturing and distribution. With extensive use of high-end Photo-Real CGI and international filming, this is the story of how some of the biggest Brands in America – Tesla, ULA Rockets, Tabasco or Jeep – can now Made in a Day. - NGCI & Disney+
'The Secret Life of Electric Sky SMITHSONIAN Producer/Director
the Rainforest 3D'
-Winner, Best Documentary - Int’ 3D Society LumierTM Award 2013. 3D Wildlife and scientists at the Smithsonian’s rainforest research base in Panama - howler monkeys, sloths, bats, frogs, forest flora and macro shoot with 3D rig designed and built specifically for this film.
'Made in the USA' DSP NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Show Runner ( 1 Series)
-Sixty minute factual Documentary.
'The Pacific' Voltage CHANNEL 5 Series Producer/Director (1 Series)
-This was a four part series exploring the wildlife of the Pacific Ocean - (shot during lockdown)
'Nature's Strangest Mysteries' Wall to Wall Media ANIMAL PLANET Series Producer
-This was a twenty-six part series investigating the greatest mysteries in the natural world.
'Operation Thai Cave Rescue' ITN Productions DISCOVERY Senior Producer
-This Emmy nominated, fast turn around documentary followed the extraordinary rescue mission to save twelve soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
'Volcanoes: Dual Destruction Emporium Prod. SMITHSONIAN Senior producer
/ Tale of Two Volcanoes'
-This was a fast-turn-around science documentary comparing the first thirty days of eruptions of volcanoes in Hawaii and Guatemala.
'UNDISCLOSED - (NDA)' Fulwell 73 NETFLIX Senior producer
-With an estimated spend of $500 million a week and $200-billion total - the Qatar World Cup in 2022 is the most expensive sporting event in history - by far. With unrivalled access to the Supreme Committee organising the event, the movers and shakers of the country, this Observational Documentary series follows what it takes to build and stage the tournament, and the transformation gripping the country and people of Qatar...
'Kings Cross Fire ITN Productions CHANNEL 5 Producer/Director
- 6 Hours that Shocked Britain'
-This was a feature length documentary looking at the devastating fire at Kings Cross.
'Super Hurricanes; ITN Productions DISCOVERY Show Runner
Inside Monster Storms'
-This was a fast turn-around documentary. Following on the heels of two of the most devastating hurricanes in recent memory, Science Channel takes an in-depth look at the reasons why these massive storms continue to get bigger and stronger. Featuring interviews with leading meteorologists, scientists, and engineers, who examine the basic science of hurricanes.
'Future China 2049' Beach House Pictures NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Series
Producer/Director
-This was a three, sixty-minute episode series on China's dream to become one of the most developed nations on the planet. Using cutting edge CGI, we reveal how close China has come to realising that dream.
'Easyjet - Inside the Cockpit' ITN Productions ITV1 Senior Edit Producer (Ep. 3)
-Completion of third episode, from assembly to delivery.
'The Girls who don’t Age' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Producer
-This sixty minute documentary follows the incredible story of three girls who have stopped ageing. Frozen in time and destined to live their lives as toddlers, what is affecting these girls, how are they cheating time and could they help us unlock the secrets of the ageing process?
'My Legs won’t stop Growing' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Producer
-Through the lives of three inspiring young women, this sixty-minute documentary explores a number of conditions that cause the lower limbs to grow or swell excessively.
'America’s Tallest Teens' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Producer
-This was a sixty minute documentary following three of the tallest teenagers in America.
'Littlest Diva - Tiny at 20' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Producer
-This sixty minute documentary looks at two-year-old toddler Charlotte Garside from Hull. She weighs just 7lbs and still only fits into newborn baby clothes. When they first see her, people often think she is a doll. This little girl has the medical profession and her family baffled, because nobody yet knows why she is unable to grow normally.
'Real Life Hulks' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Producer
-Sixty minute documentary.
'My Babies Head Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY TLC Executive
Won’t Stop Growing' Producer
-This sixty minute documentary looks at three babies with hydrocephalus resulting in them having unusually large heads.
'Chaos Caught on Camera' Barcroft Productions Ltd DISCOVERY Show Runner
-Ten thirty-minute episodes. A novel and graphical post-watershed look at the science behind the most extraordinary events ever caught on camera.
'Amanda Knox Trial: Barcroft Productions Ltd CHANNEL 5 Producer/Director
5 Key Questions'
-Fifty minute special. In a specially built studio set - the same size and layout of the crime-scene - two lawyers forensically test the evidence surrounding the 2007 murder in Italy of British student Meredith Kercher - and try to pre-empt the 2013 re-trial against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito - did they do it?
'Secret Life of the Sun' BBC Scotland BBC2 Studio Director
-This was a fifty minute episode. As-Live special on the physics of the sun – with Kate Humble and Helen Czertski, shot in a specially built studio at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire.
'Guy Martin on Speed' North One Television CHANNEL 4 Producer
-In this sixty minute programme, TT racing ace Guy Martin takes on a series of speed records - human powered aircraft, sledging, cycling and riding a bike across a lake - in an new series for C4.
'The Elephant King' Aqua Vita SMITHSONIAN Producer/Director
-In this fifty minute documentary, the soap opera of elephant life unfolds around one dry-season waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park. The lead bull Greg is missing - through the eyes of scientist Caitlin O'Connell, we decode the battles and decipher the Pachyderm politics in the race to decide who’ll be the next Elephant King.
'Prehistoric Autopsy' BBC BBC2 Studio Director
-Three fifty minute episodes, on this studio directed series creating life-size models of 3 of our most famous common ancestors by analysing the evidence in the skeletal and fossilised remains - Neanderthal, Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis.
'Tallest Tower - Prospect Pictures CHANNEL 4 Producer/Director
Construction of the Shard'
-A sixty minute, fast turn-around documentary following the construction of the Shard, London’s newest skyscraper, and Europe’s tallest building.
'Wildebeest Migration 3D' Electric Sky SKY 3D Producer/Director
-This first feature length 3D documentary follows the largest mass migration of animals on the planet; the Wildebeest Migration around the Serengeti Plains of Africa.
'Wonders 3D' Electric Sky SKY 3D Series Director
-This was a stunning, visual gem revealing hitherto unseen angles on some of the world’s most iconic subjects - a breathtaking 3D series on London, the Carlsbad Caverns, Venice Carnival, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas.
'Building the Brand 3D' Electric Sky SKY3D Series Producer/Director
-Ten amazing factories. A series following the creation of 10 of the world's most iconic products from blueprint end product; from handcrafted Gibson guitars and Pierce fire trucks, to production line Apache helicopters.
'Vampire Island' Electric Sky HISTORY Producer/Director
-For centuries, the vampire myth has frightened cultures around the world. But in recent decades, assorted scientists, archeologists and forensic specialists have investigated the real-life inspirations behind these blood-sucking night dwellers. Their discoveries might surprise you. The intriguing and spooky documentary Vampire Island provides the facts behind the legend.
'Secrets of the Stones' RTE Cork RTE Series Producer/Director
-Two sixty minute films, the Secrets of the Stones is a 2009 documentary series that explores the history of Ireland's most iconic ancient sites. The series aims to separate myth from truth, and to re-examine and rebuild these sites.
'National Treasures' Balista Media HISTORY Producer/Director
-Six, sixty-minute documentary series.
'Restoration Village' Endemol Shine UK BBC 2 Producer/Director
-Seven, sixty-minute episodes for broadcast television.
'Building the Future' Wall to Wall DISCOVERY Producer/Director
-Building the Future is a landmark series from the Discovery Channel about humankind's phenomenal ingenuity in engineering and shaping the world around us.
