TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY FILMS
War, Lives & Videotape, BBC, 29 June 1991
(Mon vidéojournal d’Afghanistan, ARTE)
The film follows what happens when Nick Danziger returns to Kabul, Afghanistan, to try and negotiate the release of orphaned children abandoned in an asylum and growing up among chained inmates. The film also gives a portrait of a city under siege and devastated by war.
Awarded the Prix Italia for best television documentary. Nominated Documentary of the Year by the Royal Television Society, and awarded a First Mention by the ecumenical jury at the 23rd International Documentary Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland).
Down and Out in Paris and London, Channel 4, 1993
Presenter: Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger follows in the footsteps of novelist George Orwell whose book 'Down and Out in Paris and London' exposed conditions of the homeless 60 years ago. He discovers that for the homeless of Paris and London conditions have changed very little.
Adventures in the Land of S.P.L.A.J., Channel 4, 12 July 1993
Presenter: Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger gives an often hilarious account of his attempts to gain an interview with Colonel Gaddafi in Libya and penetrate the bureaucracy of the Great SPLAJ (Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahuriya) in Tripoli.
Orphans of War, Channel 4, 1996
The story of photographer and journalist Nick Danziger's quest to bring three orphaned children out of Afghanistan in the hope of adopting them. The programme follows a year in the life of Danziger and the three children in the West as they adapt to a radically changed lifestyle.
Mongolia, The Discovery Channel, 1999
Nick Danziger goes in search of Mongolia's Tsaatan people, a dwindling community of nomadic reindeer herders
Afghanistan, The Discovery Channel, 1999
Nick Danziger meets the Kirghiz people of Afghanistan, hoping to be the first to film them since the end of the Soviet-Afghan war
AIDS: The Global Killer, Channel 4 / Tele Piu / Planète, 2000
Nick Danziger talks to Zambian sex workers who, if the price is right, have unprotected sex; to patients suffering social stigma and lack of drugs; to Roman Catholics willing to make a stand against the Church; to Moscow drug addicts who share needles with no access to needle exchange; to segregated prisoners and to prostitutes, and to British patients who receive drugs.
The Unquiet Peace, BBC / The History Channel, 2001
Photojournalist Nick Danziger returns to Kosovo to trace the refugees he met while covering the war in 1999.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, The boy who never grew up, BBC, 5 July 2004
One of the 20th century's greatest photographers, Jacques Henri Lartigue worked in virtual obscurity until 1962, when a chance meeting revealed his work to the world. Nick Danziger explores some of the staggering 250,000 images he took over nine decades.
A Digital Picture of Britain, BBC, 12 June 2007
From Gatwick Airport to a modern-day revisit of classic paintings of London, three photographers are pointing the lens in a bid to chronicle their local landscapes in the South East region. Using the latest digital technologies, Emily Allchurch, Nick Danziger and Kalpesh Lathigra are challenged to take their own urban, rural and industrial landscapes to create A Digital Picture of Britain in the 21st Century.
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES
French Letters (4 films), Channel 4, 1994.
Presenter: Nick Danziger.
French Letters 1, 30 March 1994
A look at the France tourists never see: illegal immigrants, rundown housing estates and villages with dark secrets. The first programme looks at the sapeurs-pompiers (fire brigade) based in the notorious La Courneuve housing estate in the Paris suburbs.
French Letters 2, 06 April 1994
The work of the Marseilles `illegals' brigade who seek out clandestine immigrants in France.
French Letters 3, 13 April 1994
Nick Danziger visits a valley in the Vosges where the unsolved murder of a toddler 10 years ago brought the village of Lepanges into notoriety.
Room at the top, 20 April 1994
In the final programme, Nick Danziger goes to Paris to investigate the practice of pistonner - or greasing the pistons of family life with bribery. He concentrates on the Boussentas, a Moroccan immigrant family who lack friends in high places.
Postcards From The Edge (6 films), Channel 4, 1996
Presenter: Nick Danziger.
A study of people who live on the fringes of contemporary Britain, Documentary film using a montage of film and black-and-white stills to present a series of powerful, intimate human stories, narrated by the subjects themselves.
Glasgow, Halifax, 6 June 1996
Mary, a mother of nine children, eight of whom have succumbed to the ravages of drugs that affect her part of Glasgow tells her story. Also 26-year-old Anthony confronts his parents in the hope of discovering why they put him in care as a child.
Newcastle, Cardiff, 13 June 1996
Danziger visits Newcastle's West End to interview an ex-wrestler and war hero who refuses to be intimidated by the gangs of glue-sniffing children terrorising the neighbourhood; and Tiger Bay, Cardiff to meet a single mother for whom an up-coming DJ job and singing career may lead her to a possible way out of drugs and despair.
Barrow-in-Furness, Skerray, 20 June 1996
The final programme in the three-part series looks at two former shipworkers who, after 35 years at the Vickers shipyard, were forced into uncertainty and unemployment following mass redundancies; and at a young family trying to make a go of crofting in the isolated community of Skerray in the Scottish Highlands.
The Fight For Hearts and Minds (2 films), Channel 4, 1997.
Presenter: Nick Danziger
A two-part report from the NHS frontline.
The heart transplant, 06 January1997
This programme reveals the stresses and fears of a trainee heart surgeon at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex. Includes Nick Danziger's black and white stills.
The breaking point, 07 January 1997
A rare insight into life beyond the walls of a psychiatric hospital. During a night on call, two junior doctors at the Maudsley in South London are faced with suicide attempts, manic outbursts and a woman who is brought in by the police for creating a disturbance.
The Establishment (6 films), Channel 4, 1999
Presenter: Nick Danziger
A six-part series in which photojournalist Nick Danziger meets six archetypal establishment figures.
The Duke of Westminster, 14 March 1999
The Duke of Westminster, Britain's richest landowner talks about running an international business, and about how inheriting his title ended his dreams of a quiet life.
The Bishop of Durham, 21 March 1999
The film has two parallel themes and narratives. The first is the position of the Church of England in relation to the local communities and second is concerned with Bishop Michael Turnbull himself, a man who has a very strong, quiet faith and often struggles against his natural personality to fulfil his very public duties.
The Commander-in-chief , Army, 28 March 1999
Photojournalist Nick Danziger shadows General Sir Michael Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as he awaits the government's Strategic Defence Review.
The Masters of Trinity College, 11 April 1999
Nick Danziger visits Trinity College, Cambridge, to gain an insight into the workings of this closeted, archaic institution and the people who run it. The Master, Sir Michael Atiyah, retires and is succeeded by Prof Amatya Sen. Contributions from Prof Sir Michael Berridge, Dr Greg Winter, Prof Gareth Jones and head porter Rodney Eusden.
The Editor of the Times, 18 April 1999
Nick Danziger profiles the editor of The Times, Peter Stothard. Filmed over several months, the programme presents an intimate portrait of the man and a revealing insight into one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism.
Lord Gowrie - Patron of the Arts, 25 April 1999
Nick Danziger follows Lord Gowrie as he prepares to step down after four years as chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Women Facing War (11 films), ICRC, 2002
The impact of armed conflict on women seen through the eyes of women in countries/regions affected by war throughout the world. Filmed in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Mariatu: An amputee victim of the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone recounts her story.
Shinaz lives with daily fear of threats to her personal safety.
Sarah: A Survivor of sexual violence, recounts her story.
Qualam: A woman describes her life as a refugee in Afghanistan.
Dzidza: The story of a woman who lost her husband and two sons at Srebrenica eight years ago.
Oljadescribes her feelings on learning finally of her missing husband's death.
Efrat: A woman awaits news of her brother, an Israeli border patrol soldier who has gone missing.
Mah-Bibi at ten years old is destitute and begs for food to support herself and her younger brothers.
Zakiya support herself and her seven children in the absence of her detained husband.
Nasrin: A widow and mother, explains how medical care has helped her regain mobility after a mine accident.
Watan-i-dur (8 films) Public Service Announcement for Afghan Television, 2006Afghanistan: Development in action: True life accounts of the impact of the UK’s development programme in Afghanistan.
Text by Gordon Adam, Media Support Solutions, and Nick Danziger. Photography by Nick Danziger.
Made for the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
War, Lives & Videotape, BBC, 29 June 1991
(Mon vidéojournal d’Afghanistan, ARTE)
The film follows what happens when Nick Danziger returns to Kabul, Afghanistan, to try and negotiate the release of orphaned children abandoned in an asylum and growing up among chained inmates. The film also gives a portrait of a city under siege and devastated by war.
Awarded the Prix Italia for best television documentary. Nominated Documentary of the Year by the Royal Television Society, and awarded a First Mention by the ecumenical jury at the 23rd International Documentary Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland).
Down and Out in Paris and London, Channel 4, 1993
Presenter: Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger follows in the footsteps of novelist George Orwell whose book 'Down and Out in Paris and London' exposed conditions of the homeless 60 years ago. He discovers that for the homeless of Paris and London conditions have changed very little.
Adventures in the Land of S.P.L.A.J., Channel 4, 12 July 1993
Presenter: Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger gives an often hilarious account of his attempts to gain an interview with Colonel Gaddafi in Libya and penetrate the bureaucracy of the Great SPLAJ (Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahuriya) in Tripoli.
Orphans of War, Channel 4, 1996
The story of photographer and journalist Nick Danziger's quest to bring three orphaned children out of Afghanistan in the hope of adopting them. The programme follows a year in the life of Danziger and the three children in the West as they adapt to a radically changed lifestyle.
Mongolia, The Discovery Channel, 1999
Nick Danziger goes in search of Mongolia's Tsaatan people, a dwindling community of nomadic reindeer herders
Afghanistan, The Discovery Channel, 1999
Nick Danziger meets the Kirghiz people of Afghanistan, hoping to be the first to film them since the end of the Soviet-Afghan war
AIDS: The Global Killer, Channel 4 / Tele Piu / Planète, 2000
Nick Danziger talks to Zambian sex workers who, if the price is right, have unprotected sex; to patients suffering social stigma and lack of drugs; to Roman Catholics willing to make a stand against the Church; to Moscow drug addicts who share needles with no access to needle exchange; to segregated prisoners and to prostitutes, and to British patients who receive drugs.
The Unquiet Peace, BBC / The History Channel, 2001
Photojournalist Nick Danziger returns to Kosovo to trace the refugees he met while covering the war in 1999.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, The boy who never grew up, BBC, 5 July 2004
One of the 20th century's greatest photographers, Jacques Henri Lartigue worked in virtual obscurity until 1962, when a chance meeting revealed his work to the world. Nick Danziger explores some of the staggering 250,000 images he took over nine decades.
A Digital Picture of Britain, BBC, 12 June 2007
From Gatwick Airport to a modern-day revisit of classic paintings of London, three photographers are pointing the lens in a bid to chronicle their local landscapes in the South East region. Using the latest digital technologies, Emily Allchurch, Nick Danziger and Kalpesh Lathigra are challenged to take their own urban, rural and industrial landscapes to create A Digital Picture of Britain in the 21st Century.
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES
French Letters (4 films), Channel 4, 1994.
Presenter: Nick Danziger.
French Letters 1, 30 March 1994
A look at the France tourists never see: illegal immigrants, rundown housing estates and villages with dark secrets. The first programme looks at the sapeurs-pompiers (fire brigade) based in the notorious La Courneuve housing estate in the Paris suburbs.
French Letters 2, 06 April 1994
The work of the Marseilles `illegals' brigade who seek out clandestine immigrants in France.
French Letters 3, 13 April 1994
Nick Danziger visits a valley in the Vosges where the unsolved murder of a toddler 10 years ago brought the village of Lepanges into notoriety.
Room at the top, 20 April 1994
In the final programme, Nick Danziger goes to Paris to investigate the practice of pistonner - or greasing the pistons of family life with bribery. He concentrates on the Boussentas, a Moroccan immigrant family who lack friends in high places.
Postcards From The Edge (6 films), Channel 4, 1996
Presenter: Nick Danziger.
A study of people who live on the fringes of contemporary Britain, Documentary film using a montage of film and black-and-white stills to present a series of powerful, intimate human stories, narrated by the subjects themselves.
Glasgow, Halifax, 6 June 1996
Mary, a mother of nine children, eight of whom have succumbed to the ravages of drugs that affect her part of Glasgow tells her story. Also 26-year-old Anthony confronts his parents in the hope of discovering why they put him in care as a child.
Newcastle, Cardiff, 13 June 1996
Danziger visits Newcastle's West End to interview an ex-wrestler and war hero who refuses to be intimidated by the gangs of glue-sniffing children terrorising the neighbourhood; and Tiger Bay, Cardiff to meet a single mother for whom an up-coming DJ job and singing career may lead her to a possible way out of drugs and despair.
Barrow-in-Furness, Skerray, 20 June 1996
The final programme in the three-part series looks at two former shipworkers who, after 35 years at the Vickers shipyard, were forced into uncertainty and unemployment following mass redundancies; and at a young family trying to make a go of crofting in the isolated community of Skerray in the Scottish Highlands.
The Fight For Hearts and Minds (2 films), Channel 4, 1997.
Presenter: Nick Danziger
A two-part report from the NHS frontline.
The heart transplant, 06 January1997
This programme reveals the stresses and fears of a trainee heart surgeon at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex. Includes Nick Danziger's black and white stills.
The breaking point, 07 January 1997
A rare insight into life beyond the walls of a psychiatric hospital. During a night on call, two junior doctors at the Maudsley in South London are faced with suicide attempts, manic outbursts and a woman who is brought in by the police for creating a disturbance.
The Establishment (6 films), Channel 4, 1999
Presenter: Nick Danziger
A six-part series in which photojournalist Nick Danziger meets six archetypal establishment figures.
The Duke of Westminster, 14 March 1999
The Duke of Westminster, Britain's richest landowner talks about running an international business, and about how inheriting his title ended his dreams of a quiet life.
The Bishop of Durham, 21 March 1999
The film has two parallel themes and narratives. The first is the position of the Church of England in relation to the local communities and second is concerned with Bishop Michael Turnbull himself, a man who has a very strong, quiet faith and often struggles against his natural personality to fulfil his very public duties.
The Commander-in-chief , Army, 28 March 1999
Photojournalist Nick Danziger shadows General Sir Michael Walker, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as he awaits the government's Strategic Defence Review.
The Masters of Trinity College, 11 April 1999
Nick Danziger visits Trinity College, Cambridge, to gain an insight into the workings of this closeted, archaic institution and the people who run it. The Master, Sir Michael Atiyah, retires and is succeeded by Prof Amatya Sen. Contributions from Prof Sir Michael Berridge, Dr Greg Winter, Prof Gareth Jones and head porter Rodney Eusden.
The Editor of the Times, 18 April 1999
Nick Danziger profiles the editor of The Times, Peter Stothard. Filmed over several months, the programme presents an intimate portrait of the man and a revealing insight into one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism.
Lord Gowrie - Patron of the Arts, 25 April 1999
Nick Danziger follows Lord Gowrie as he prepares to step down after four years as chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Women Facing War (11 films), ICRC, 2002
The impact of armed conflict on women seen through the eyes of women in countries/regions affected by war throughout the world. Filmed in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Mariatu: An amputee victim of the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone recounts her story.
Shinaz lives with daily fear of threats to her personal safety.
Sarah: A Survivor of sexual violence, recounts her story.
Qualam: A woman describes her life as a refugee in Afghanistan.
Dzidza: The story of a woman who lost her husband and two sons at Srebrenica eight years ago.
Oljadescribes her feelings on learning finally of her missing husband's death.
Efrat: A woman awaits news of her brother, an Israeli border patrol soldier who has gone missing.
Mah-Bibi at ten years old is destitute and begs for food to support herself and her younger brothers.
Zakiya support herself and her seven children in the absence of her detained husband.
Nasrin: A widow and mother, explains how medical care has helped her regain mobility after a mine accident.
Watan-i-dur (8 films) Public Service Announcement for Afghan Television, 2006Afghanistan: Development in action: True life accounts of the impact of the UK’s development programme in Afghanistan.
Text by Gordon Adam, Media Support Solutions, and Nick Danziger. Photography by Nick Danziger.
Made for the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
