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Leslie Woodhead

Directing · Born 1937-01-01

Biography

James Leslie John Woodhead, OBE is a British documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. He was posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany.

Known for

Filmography

2019Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those ThingsDirector
2017Diana: The Day Britain CriedDirector
2017Diana: The Day We Said GoodbyeDirector
2015The Day They Dropped The BombDirector
2013The Day Kennedy DiedDirector
2012The Hunt For Bin LadenDirector
2011Histoire ImmédiateDirector
20119/11: The Day That Changed the WorldDirector
2009How the Beatles Rocked the KremlinSelf - Narrator
2006Godless in AmericaDirector
2005Children of BeslanDirector
2005Srebrenica: Never Again?Director
2004The Russian Newspaper MurdersNarrator
2003My Life As A SpyDirector
2003Star Wars DreamsNarrator (voice)
2002A Very Modern Dictator: A Profile of Slobodan MilosevicDirector
2002Here is New YorkDirector
1999A Cry from the GraveDirector
1999EnduranceDirector
1998444 DaysDirector
1996Tony Bennett's New YorkDirector
1994Land of Dreams - Randy Newman's AmericaWriter
1993The Last Soviet CitizenDirector
1992Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez DisasterExecutive Producer
1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside StoryDirector
1989Under the SunProducer
1987The Lau of MalaitaDirector
1985TelevisionDirector
1981Strike: The Birth of SolidarityDirector
1980InvasionDirector
1976Three Days in SzczecinDirector
1974NOVAWriter
1969The Stones in the ParkDirector
1967ITV PlayhouseDirector
1963World in Action

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