
Colin Barr
Production
Biography
Colin Barr is an Executive Producer and Director.
Known For

Twelve famous faces embark on one of the toughest tests of their lives, for Stand Up To Cancer. And Ant Middleton and his instructors are making no allowances for their celebrity status.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
10 Days to War

With unparalleled and intimate access, this four-part series follows Manchester's murder detectives over the course of a year as they try to unravel complex cases in dramatic real time.
The Detectives: Murder on the Streets

Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Danny Boy

One family, fifty years of scandal. The rise and fall of a media mogul and the unravelling of his deeply troubled family. A staggering tale of money, sex, privacy and power.
House of Maxwell

This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams
Williams
The true story of Joyti De-Laurey, a wife and mother whose job as a secretary at investment bankers Goldman Sachs eventually led her to spend millions of pounds of her employers' money without their knowledge.
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million

Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests status with fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch and descends into marital and monetary chaos.
Maxwell
Explores what it's like to live with a disability in the UK today.
Defying the Label

Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
Best: His Mother's Son

In this one-off documentary, Space Dive tells the behind-the-scenes story of Felix Baumgartner's historic, record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth. The world watched with bated breath when Felix became the first person to freefall through the sound barrier on 15 October 2012, after jumping from 128,100ft (24 miles) from the edge of space.
Space Dive

This documentary examines the 1999 London bombings that targeted Black, Bangladeshi and gay communities, and the race to find the far-right perpetrator. He terrorized a city, seeking to ignite a race war but justice was served by those who wouldn't let his hate win.
Nail Bomber: Manhunt

How do you live with a death sentence? Real stories from the prisoners facing their final days - and the victims' families desperate for closure.
Life and Death Row

The powerful and inspiring story of Andy Woodward, one of the first footballers to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse in the national game. After being abused by football scout paedophile Barry Bennell.
Floodlights

Series marking the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, telling the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the young soldiers themselves. It includes specially edited footage shot on "helmet cam" taken by the armed forces personnel while fighting in the conflict, something rarely seen on television before.
Our War

Follow the final three years of Ozzy Osbourne's life as he and Sharon plan a return home after 25 years in LA and prepare for the ultimate farewell gig.
Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home

A team of independent experts re-examine the evidence in the Chillenden murders case.
The Chillenden Murders

Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise that their lives are about to be shattered
Damilola, Our Loved Boy

A woman exacts finely choreographed revenge for an improper act from when she was 17. But what happened to her back then? And what will happen to the men she imprisons?
Shamed

It started with a 999 call from a lorry driver in Essex and ended in one of the UK’s biggest ever police investigations, a hunt for those responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants. Spanning Britain, Europe and Vietnam, this film shows how detectives cracked open a multimillion-pound international smuggling ring with its roots in a seemingly innocuous haulage business in the heart of Northern Ireland.