
Director
Russell Barnes
Russell Barnes has been producing factual television for 30 years, working with presenters including Richard Dawkins, David Reynolds, Harry Hill and Afua Hirsch. His directing credits include the Broadcast Award-winning Genius of Charles Darwin and Grierson-nominated history films Armistice and 1941 and the Man of Steel and he produced the Digital BAFTA and Emmy award-winning series The Virtual Revolution for BBC2.
Directed

Root of All Evil?
Director · 2006

The Enemies of Reason
Director · 2007

The Genius of Charles Darwin
Director · 2008

World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
Director · 2011

Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard
Director · 2024

Long Shadow
Director · 2014
Extinct
Director · 2001

The Genius of Charles Darwin
Director · 2008

World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly
Director · 2012

Armistice
Director · 2008

Art That Made Us
Director · 2022

1945 and the Wheelchair President
Director · 2015

Hackers in Wonderland
Director · 2000
Dead & Nowhere
Director · 2008

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Director · 2003

Nixon in the Den
Director · 2017
Summits: Munich 1938
Director · 2008