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Directing Credits

Justin Hardy is an award winning and much sought-after director renowned for tackling the world’s rich history with tremendous scripts, visual flair and historical rigour. 

 

50 Ton Pot Run: Locked Up Abroad Movie of the Week - 

 2021, National Geographic/Disney+

 

The Windsors: Behind the Royal Dynasty - 2020, Channel 4/CNN

A Prince in the Tower, HistoryHit - 2019 

China's Forgotten War with Rana Mitter - 2018

HistoryHit

Lost Reels of Nineveh with Amara Thornton - 2018 

HistoryHit

Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan - 2018 

 HistoryHit

Theresa V Boris: How May Became PM 

Juniper Productions for BBC 2 - 2017 

The Halcyon- 2017

Left Bank Productions for ITV  

  • Episode 1.6

  • Episode 1.5

The Green Park - 2016

Feature Documentary, Definition Films Production

Captain Webb - 2015 

Marathon Films Production, UK-TV

A Spell On You - 2015 

House of Film Distribution (Los Angeles)

The Jesus Mysteries - 2014 

Juniper Productions for National Geographic 

37 Days - 2014

Hardy Pictures for BBC 2

  • One Long Weekend

  • One Week in July 

  • One Month in Summer 

Love Me Till Monday - 2013 

Hardy Films for Verve Pictures & Curzon Cinemas

 

London's Burning - 2011

Juniper Productions for Channel 4 

The Man Who Crossed Hitler - 2011

Hardy Pictures for BBC 2

Bloody Foreigners - 2010

Hardy Pictures for Channel 4 

  • The Untold Great Fire of London 

The Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen - 2009 

Hardy Pictures for BBC 4

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth - 2009 

Hardy Pictures for Channel 4 

  • The Last Battle 

  • Episode 1.1 

Heist - 2008 

Hardy Pictures for BBC 4 

City of Vice - 2008

Hardy Pictures/ Touchpaper for Channel 4 

  • Episode 1.5

  • Episode 1.4

  • Episode 1.1 

The Relief of Belsen - 2007

Hardy Pictures for Channel 4  

A Harlot's Progress - 2006 

Hardy Pictures/ Touchpaper for Channel 4 

Trafalgar: Battle Surgeon - 2005

Hardy Pictures for Channel 4

 

Princes in the Tower - 2005 

RDF for Channel 4 

Medici: Grandfathers of the Renaissance - 2004

Lion TV for PBS and Channel 4 

  • Power vs Truth

  • Medici Popes

  • Magnificent Medici

  • Birth of a Dynasty 

 

Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real - 2004 

Darlow-Smithson for Discovery Channel 

Georgian Underworld - 2003

Juniper Productions for Channel 4 

  • The Peterloo Massacre 

  • An Invitation to a Hanging 

The Peoples Duchess, Channel 4 - 2002

The Great Plague - 2001 

Juniper Productions for Channel 4

Beech is Back, ITV - 2001

  • Episode 1.4

  • Episode 1.3 

 

The Gentleman Thief, BBC 1 - 2001

Burnside, ITV - 2000

  • Trial by Fire: Part 2

  • Trial by Fire: Part 1

 

Hope & Glory, BBC 1 - 2000

  • Episode 2.2

  • Episode 2.1

  • Episode 1.6

 

Harbour Lights, BBC 1 - 2000

  • The Safe Side

Wing and a Prayer, Channel 5 - 1999

Episode 2.4

Episode 2.3

The Bill, ITV, 1997-1999

Cracked Up

Guiding Hand

No Claims Bonus

Hook, Line & Sinker 

Strictly Supernatural - 1997

Cafe Productions for PBS 

Eyewitness - 1996 

Cafe Productions for PBS

London Bridge - 1995

Carlton Television 

A Feast at Midnight - 1994

Kwai River Productions for Entertainment Films 

Edvard, BBC -1988

 

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Relief of Belsen - The arrival of the untrained medics to the camp; 

"Iain Glen gave one of the great performances, in one take in the pouring rain, captured so well by Douglas Hartington."

                                                               - Justin Hardy 

Praise for 37 Days

“The skill of this brilliant production is the way it guides us, step by step, through the catastrophic chain of events that led to war.  Never have political negotiations been so absorbing. “ - Mike Mulvihill, THE TIMES

“37 Days is fabulous – a forensic political thriller, but still very human, as much about the people involved as the momentous events themselves. It's convincingly written and has loads of great performances, but Ian McDiarmid's Grey stands out. And the dates flicking past – 32 days to war, 30 days to war, 28 days to war – give the whole thing a sense of urgency and doom. Like an advent calendar, but the last window is a window on to hell.” – Sam Wollaston, THE GUARDIAN

"Justin Hardy directs with a lyrical feel for the awful intimacy of hand-to-hand fighting"  

                       - London Evening Standard 

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Nigel Havers in 'The Gentleman Thief' - 2001

The Halcyon, Premiere Trailer 2016,  ITV

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