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Jonathan Lewis (British film-maker and author)
Jonathan Lewis is an award-winning British film-maker and author. He is responsible for over ninety films and the author of three books.

Film career
After leaving film school, Lewis formed his own production company, notable for Before Hindsight (Metropolis Pictures, 1977), an examination of British newsreel coverage of European fascism.. Between 1983 and 1987 Lewis worked in Current Affairs at Thames Television's flagship news programme, TV Eye, originally This Week, making films on a wide range of subjects including illegal street trading, skin cancer, the Miner’s Strike, masonic corruption and the death of Pope John Paul I, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, cocaine smuggling, the shooting down of KAL 007, the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, the secret sale of arms to Iraq, the 1986 Royal Wedding and the 1987 General Election. He produced and directed Intimidation - the first episode of This Week when it returned to the screen in 1986. Also in the eighties, he also worked for All Our Working Lives (BBC, 1984) making two episodes, Working the Land and The Plane Makers. His single foray into fiction was the science fiction television film, The Plant (1995). Thereafter, Lewis made major TV documentaries or documentary series for Channel 4 or consortia led by the BBC and PBS, through its commissioning affiliate WGBH, first as director, including People’s Century (BBC, WGBH, 1995), The Boer War (Channel 4, 1999) ; and then as producer/director, including Hell in the Pacific (Channel 4, 2001) , First World War, which he also narrated (Channel 4, 2003) , Stalin (Channel 4, 2004) , and China from the Inside (PBS, 2007). Lewis has directed over ninety films ; an incomplete filmography can be found on the Internet Movie Database. The rushes of over twenty of his films have been preserved in full for posterity. The films themselves are principally preserved at the National Film Archive and the Imperial War Museum, London. The British Film Institute has acquired all his papers and scripts.

Film awards
Lewis’s awards include the Silver Hugo for film drama at the Chicago Film Festival (Towers of Babel, 1982), an International Emmy for Best Documentary ("1933: The Master Race" - episode in Peoples’ Century, 1996) , and the Japan Prize and the George Foster Peabody award for Hell in the Pacific (2001) , as well as the Golden Gate Special Jury Prize, the History Today Film of the Year, the International Monitor Award, the Learning On Screen Award, the Medical Journalism Award, the 	Global Awareness Award, the World Media Festival Gold, the Pye Award, the Cine Golden Eagle and the British Environment and Media Awards for best documentary.

Books
Lewis has co-written two non-fiction books, Hell in the Pacific (Channel 4 Books/Macmillan, 2001) and Stalin (Methuen/Pantheon, 2004). His first novel, the thriller, Into Darkness (Preface Publishing, 2010) draws on his film and television background.

Personal
Lewis was born in Oxford on 7 May 1949. He is the son of Geoffrey Lewis (1920-2008), Emeritus Professor of Turkish, Oxford University. He was educated at the Dragon School, Magdalen College, Oxford and the National Film School (now National Film and Television School), Beaconsfield, where he was in the original intake. Lewis is married with two children and divides his time between his Oxfordshire home and restoring a vintage motor-yacht.