1. James Barker
Freelance TV documentary producer-director and film
researcher
5 Tannery Cottages
24 Station Road
Gomshall
Guildford
Surrey GU5 9LF
Telephone: 01483 209530
Mobile: 07801 339608
Email: jamesbarker1952 @hotmail.co.uk
Curriculum Vitae
Career synopsis
A history graduate from University College London with a keen interest in modern political
and military history, I worked at the Imperial War Museum as a film cataloguer. In that
time, I also assisted many researchers from TV and film companies in their trawl through
the IWM’s vast film collection.
After a few years at the IWM I switched from being a game-keeper to a poacher. Since
then have carried out research in the film libraries and archives of Europe, North and
South America and the Middle East as well as burrowing my way ever deeper into the
IWM’s huge pile of filmic treasures.
During this time, I have also worked as an assistant producer locating potential witnesses
and carrying out interviews and, where necessary, as a stills researcher.
I have also been a producer/director, most notably for Jeremy Isaacs Productions for its
twenty-four part COLD WAR series for CNN. I have also maintained my connection with
the Imperial War Museum by directing a large number of short films which are currently
running in its exhibition galleries - BLITZKRIEG, THE BLITZ and EASTERN FRONT
for Flashback Television with Flashback Television Ltd (Producer: Taylor Downing) and
the films in THE HOLOCAUST and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY exhibitions made
with October Films (Producer: Annie Dodds).
I have also acted as a film research consultant for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington DC and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and currently serve on the Advisory
Committee for the Film Program of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany, Inc.
I have lectured on the themes of film and history and I have written articles for TV trade
magazines and history journals like ‘History Today’.

2. Credits include:
Archive The Passing Bells (Red Planet Pictures) – 4 x 90 mins WW1 drama
Producer for the BBC and foreign TV broadcasters, tx’d autumn 2014
Archive WWII’s Greatest Raids (Impossible Factual Ltd) – 6 x 46 mins
Producer docs for National Geographic/AHC, tx’d autumn 2014
Archive Mad Dog: Gaddafi’s Secret World (Fresh One tProductions) – a
Producer BBC Storyville and Showime USA production, tx’d BBC-4, February
2014
Film Arctic Convoy: PQ 17 (BBC) – a 60 min. documentary presented by
Researcher Jeremy Clarkson, tx’d January 2014
Film The Routemasters: Running London’s Roads (Blast! Films) – 6 x
Researcher 60 mins docs for BBC-2, tx’d June-July 2013
Archive Film D-Day – As It Happens (Windfall Films) presented by Peter Snow,
Producer tx’d 5th
and 6th
June 2013, Channel-4
Archive Film Top Secret Weapons Revealed (World Media Rights), 6 x 46 mins
Producer docs for Discovery and BBC World, tx’d 2012-13
Archive Film Nazi Collaborators, Narrow Escapes (World Media Rights), tx’d
Researcher Yesterday Channel, 2010 and 2011
Archive Film Blitz Street (Impossible Pictures) 4 x 46 mins docs with Tony
Reserarcher Robinson as presenter, tx’d May 2010
UK Film The War (Ken Burns - Florentine Films), tx’d PBS, USA, 2005
Archive
Consultant
Director Titanic’s Doomed Sister (Carlton TV Ltd – executive producer:
Peter Davey), tx’d The National Geographic Channel and Channel-
5, March 2004.
Director Crimes against Humanity (October Films Ltd – producer: Annie
Dodds), for the Imperial War Museum. opened in December 2002.
Director The Real Rommel (October Films Ltd – executive producer: Angus
Macqueen), first tx’d Channel-4, August 2002.
Producer Churchill’s Secret Army (Carlton TV Ltd – series producer: Martin
Smith), three-part series tx’d Channel-4, January 2000.
Director The Holocaust Exhibition – thirty one short video and sound
programmes (October Films Ltd – producer: Annie Dodds), opened
by HM Queen Elizabeth II in June 2000.

3. Producer COLD WAR – five episodes, BERLIN, AFTER STALIN, MAKE
LOVE, NOT WAR, DÉTENTE and STAR WARS (Jeremy Isaacs
Productions – series producer: Martin Smith),
tx’d CNN and BBC-2, 1998-99. Nominated for BAFTA Best Factual
Series Award 1998.