Steve Humphries

Steve Humphries


in UK
Steve Humphries is a former history and sociology lecturer at the University of Essex. After moving into television as a producer with LWT he set up Testimony Films to specialise in oral history programme-making. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Television Society’s Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to television.

Movies for Steve Humphries...

Title: Britain's Greatest Generation
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: May 8, 2015
Type: TV
Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.
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The Paedophile Next Door
Title: The Paedophile Next Door
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: November 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Historian Steve Humphries examines failures in policies and legislation put in place to protect youngsters from sexual abuse, and discovers radical new solutions proposed by an increasing number of child-protection experts, which challenge deep-rooted attitudes and emotional reactions to paedophiles. Senior lecturer Sarah Goode believes the most promising way to reduce the number of child-abuse cases is to encourage people to seek treatment before they target victims. Her theory is supported by an interview in this programme in which Humphries meets a man who makes an extraordinary confession on camera.
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A Day Of Violence
Title: A Day Of Violence
Character: Smithy
Released: August 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Mitchell Parker lies dead on a morgue slab. In life, 'Mitchell' served the low ranks of Debt Collectors, surrounded by all the filth and scum that the world had to offer. He thought his luck was in, when on a routine collection he stumbles across 100,000 in cash, hidden in the sofa of one of his clients. A dark and haunting past hangs over the head of 'Mitchell Parker', one that will lead him on a journey of redemption and ultimately sacrifice. Hunted by the gang whose Money he has stolen. He must evade capture and use the money to rid himself of his demons once and for all. Witness his last days of life.
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Ford's Dagenham Dream
Title: Ford's Dagenham Dream
Character: Director
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In the 1950s Ford of America began to introduce its dream of "happy families on wheels" to the UK, producing cars at Dagenham for the average British family - and in the 1960s and 1970s, for boy racers as well.