Person
Alison Millar
Directing · Cullybackey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Biography
A BAFTA, IFTA, RTS and Prix Italia winner, Alison Millar is one of the UK and Ireland's most respected documentary film-makers and the founder of Erica Starling Productions Ltd, an independent documentary production company in Belfast. She is a regular filmmaker for the Channel 4 investigative documentary series Dispatches, but she actually began her career in front of the cameras, co-presenting the legendary arts and crafts series for children, Hartbeat, with Tony Hart in the 1980s.
Known for

ITV Exposure
Director

Lyra
Director

The Day Mountbatten Died
Executive Producer

The Disappearance of Captain Nairac
Director
Sisters of the Lodge
Director

The Disappeared
Director

The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper
Director

The Changin' Times of Ike White
Executive Producer

Showbands: How Ireland Learned to Party
Executive Producer
Searching for Shergar
Herself - Presenter
Filmography
- 2025The Disappearance of Captain NairacDirector
- 2022LyraDirector
- 2022Bodies of Evidence: The Butcher SurgeonDirector
- 2020The Changin' Times of Ike WhiteExecutive Producer
- 2019A Carryin' StreamHerself
- 2019The Day Mountbatten DiedExecutive Producer
- 2019Showbands: How Ireland Learned to PartyExecutive Producer
- 2018Searching for ShergarHerself - Presenter
- 2013The DisappearedDirector
- 2011ITV ExposureDirector
- 2011The Men Who Won't Stop MarchingDirector
- 2011Sisters of the LodgeDirector
- 2008The Father, the Son and the HousekeeperDirector
- —When the Rapping StopsDirector
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