Biography
Morgan Matthews is an English, BAFTA award winning documentary director.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile
2024
Executive Producer
This feature-length documentary for ITV1 and ITVX is the first detailed up to date telling of the dark double life of Gary Glitter - real name Paul Ga...

Big Gay Wedding with Tom Allen
2024
Executive Producer
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of same-sex marriage in England and Wales, Tom Allen explores the fight for equal marriage and arranges a dream wedd...

The Railway Children Return
2022
Director
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, ...

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King
2022
Executive Producer
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there's more to his death than meets the eye...

Catching a Predator
2021
Executive Producer
With exclusive access to Greater Manchester Police's 2017-19 investigation, this is the story of serial male rapist Reynhard Sinaga’s conviction – the...

The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
2020
Executive Producer
This documentary brings to life the stories of four people believed by their family and friends to be “DB Cooper,” a man who hijacked a 727 flying out...

The Last Survivors
2019
Executive Producer
Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and followin...

Killer in Our Classroom: Never Again
2018
Executive Producer
Documentary following students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in the aftermath of one of the worst mass school shooti...

Grenfell
2018
Executive Producer
Documentary exploring the Grenfell Tower Fire that shocked the UK in June 2017.

Four Days That Shook Britain
2018
Executive Producer
One year on from the first of four terror attacks which hit Britain in 2017, this documentary tells the personal stories of people who were caught up ...

Williams
2017
Writer, Director, Director of Photography
This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams

This Was My Dad - The Rise & Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
2017
Director
A Storyville documentary: film-maker Morgan Matthews records a period of more than ten years in the life of his father Geoff and Geoff's eccentric par...

Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
2015
Executive Producer
Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards the...

X+Y
2014
Screenplay, Director
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathem...

Shooting Bigfoot
2013
as Himself
A fascinating and touching portrait of men who are obsessed with monsters and their adventures to find them.

Shooting Bigfoot
2013
Director
A fascinating and touching portrait of men who are obsessed with monsters and their adventures to find them.

Britain in a Day
2012
Director
On Saturday 12 November 2011, an eclectic range of British people turned the camera on themselves, capturing the entertaining and mundane, the excitin...

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter ...

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Director of Photography, Director
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter ...
Scenes from a Teenage Killing
2011
Director
Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the film explores the impact of teenage killings on families of different religion, race and class.
The Fallen
2008
Director
A powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq talk openly about their loved ones ...

Beautiful Young Minds
2007
Director
This BAFTA nominated documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted teenage...
Blue Suede Jew
2007
Director
Documentary maker Morgan Matthews goes on an extraordinary journey from the Holy Land to Graceland with Gilles Elmalih 'The Elvis from Jerusalem'. An ...
Taxidermy: Stuff the World
2005
Director
Every two years taxidermists from around the world converge on Springfield, Illinois for the biggest event in animal stuffing - the world taxidermy ch...
500 Miles
N/A
Director
A broken family is forced to come together when 16 year old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to ...

Gypsy Boy
N/A
Director
Adapted from Mikey Walsh's wildly engrossing hit memoir of growing up in England's Romany Gypsy community in the 1980s.