Sam directed ‘The Day Mountbatten Died’, broadcast on BBC Two at 9pm on Monday 19th August, 2019.

“excellent, painstaking…superb documentary” Times.

“a respectful masterpiece” Guardian

“Essential viewing for our leaders” Telegraph

Last year he directed ‘The UN Sex Abuse Scandal’ ‘for Channel 4 and for PBS Frontline – and ARTE.

The film won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award for Television – International. It has been nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigation, and shortlisted at the Griersons for both the best International Documentary and the Current Affairs awards.

Sam was Ronachan’s Executive Producer on ‘Escape From Isis’ which won the 2016 International Emmy for Current Affairs for Channel 4 and PBS Frontline. The film also won a string of other awards including the RTS for International Current Affairs.

In the same year, he also won the RTS best Domestic Current Affairs Award for ‘Kids in Crisis’ with ERICA STARLING for Channel 4’s Dispatches. He was Ronachan’s executive producer on Germany’s New Nazis, a Panorama special, and Britain’s Great Adoption Scandal, an Exposure special for ITV.

In a career that has spanned twenty years at the BBC and a further ten in the independent sector, Sam has won BAFTAs and Grierson awards as Executive Producer and Director. He has made a broad range of current affairs and contemporary history documentaries for all the UK’s main channels – as well as international broadcasters such as PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera, ARTE and ABC Australia.

Sam was a producer on BBC 1’s flagship current affairs strand, Panorama, before going on to produce two BBC landmark series presented by Peter Taylor about the Irish Troubles: ‘Loyalists’ and ‘Brits’. Together with ‘Provos’, these formed what a Guardian editorial described as a “towering trilogy” ; he executive produced the Grierson award winning ‘SAS: Embassy Siege’ before returning to Panorama as deputy editor during the Iraq War; after leaving the BBC, he ran Mentorn’s current affairs department for five years.

Sam has regularly returned to directing – most notably in the Grierson award-winning series ‘Secret Iraq’, described by The Sunday Times as “Excellent …Informative and exciting in equal measure – this is proper documentary television”, while continuing to executive produce a range of films, from Alison Millar’s Bafta winning investigation ‘The Shame of the Catholic Church’, to her IFTA winning ‘The Disappeared,’ to the award winning Netflix series, ‘The Traffickers’.