Tony Mitchell
A multi award-winning director/producer Tony has just wrapped as series producer & drama director on the BBC's highly anticipated four part series CIVILISATIONS: RISE & FALL - airing in Nov 2025.
Previously he was show runner on the six-part factual drama series ALEXANDER: THE MAKING OF A GOD for Netflix. Prior to that he directed two seasons of the drama series THE BAXTERS for MGM, the movie GRACE & GOLIATH, the Emmy nominated miniseries THE BIBLE for History Channel and the 10 part series A.D. THE BIBLE CONTINUES for NBC. FLOOD was his award-winning feature debut for Lionsgate, starring Tom Hardy, Robert Carlyle, Sir Tom Courtenay, David Suchet & Joanne Whalley.
Other credits include the Emmy nominated drama SUPERVOLCANO, the sci-fi series PRIMEVAL for ITV, and Emmy winning documentary THREADS OF LIFE for the BBC. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS was his epic four part BAFTA winning factual drama series, while his miniseries NEANDERTHAL was an RTS award winner.
With a reputation for bringing visual ambition and production value to his work, Tony is regularly engaged as a creative consultant on projects that aspire to deliver new forms of storytelling. They include Nat Geo's CGI spectacular EGYPT RISING, Ubisoft's gaming TV hybrid GUILLOTINE, plus the natural history drama PLANET OF THE ANTS.
Born and raised in Toronto, now living in London, England he holds both Canadian & UK passports.
FILMOGRAPHY
CIVILISATIONS: RISE & FALL
TV DOCUDRAMA SERIES (Series Producer & Drama Director)
4 x 1hr docudrama's for the BBC beginning at a civilisation’s highpoint and ending with the moment of its collapse, each episode charts the fateful slide from prestige to ignominy.
The mighty Pharaohs and the noble Samurai, the glory of Rome and the wondrous Aztecs. Four iconic civilisations. Four momentous films. Four warnings from history.
Working in partnership with the British Museum we tell each retreat from glory through surviving artefacts. These artefacts act like stepping stones through our story, the witnesses to a civilisation transitioning away from strength and prosperity towards catastrophe. Each one is a window into a moment in time when a fresh nail was hammered into the civilisation’s coffin.
Stunning drama recon created using UnReal assets and shooting on a Virtual Production Stage in Budapest, Hungary.
ALEXANDER: The Making of a God
TV DOCUDRAMA SERIES (Showrunner)
A 6 part Netflix docudrama series revealing the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great, through his radical transformation from warrior prince to living god. Starring Buck Braithwaite (Masters of the Air) and Mido Hamada (American Sniper)
THE BAXTERS
TV DRAMA SERIES (series director)
Directed 20 episodes (2 seasons) for MGM and Amazon TV of this ensemble family drama based on novels from New York Best Selling author Karen Kingsbury. They follow Elizabeth and John Baxter, and their adult children as they navigate life's highs and lows, both with and without God.
GRACE & GOLIATH
FEATURE FILM (director)
Directed this zero to hero movie for Cinemagic about Hollywood big shot Josh Jenkins who sweeps into Belfast to make a movie, but before long his world crashes and he loses everything. Hotel cleaner Lily invites him to stay with her crazy family and gradually the people of this 'strange' city touch his heart forever.
A.D.
TV DRAMA SERIES (series director)
Directed 3 episodes of this epic sequel to the smash hit miniseries The Bible. It follows the book of ACTS. It dramatizes the complete message of Christ and the transformation of Saul to Paul and how the high priest of Judea manages life after the Crucifixion of Christ as the disciples begin spreading His word.
FLOOD
MINISERIES & MOVIE (director)
Directed 2 x 90 min episodes
portraying the timely yet terrifying story of what happens when a tidal surge floods London. Starring Tom Hardy, Robert Carlyle, Tom Courtenay, David Suchet & Joanne Whalley
*New York Festival Winner -
Best TV Entertainment Program
*Silver Medal for Feature Length Entertainment in the Film Category
THE BIBLE
TV DRAMA MINISERIES (director)
Directed 3 episodes of this Mark Burnett miniseries, which became the biggest selling miniseries of all time, about God's creation and physical landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
* EMMY Nominated -
Best Outstanding Mini Series
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
SON OF GOD
FEATURE FILM (director)
Directed sequences of this movie telling the life story of Jesus from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection. Re-cut material from the successful TV series was the basis of this movie. Distributed by Fox International this feature film went on to gross over $70 million worldwide.
SUPERVOLCANO
TV DRAMA MINISERIES (director)
Directed this 2 x 1 hr disaster drama miniseries shot in Vancouver about Yellowstone's Supervolcano and the chaotic consequences of its eruption. Starring Gary Lewis.
*EMMY Nominated - Visual Effects
*BAFTA Nominated - Visual Effects
*RTS Nominated - Cinematography & Editing
ATLANTIS
1 x 90 TV DRAMA (director)
Directed this 90 min CGI special dramatizing the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis. Shot entirely in a green screen studio in Cape Town and using state-of-the-art tracking sensors with previs graphics to deliver over 700 shots.
MAIL ORDER MURDER
DOCU DRAMA SERIES (director)
6 episodes and shot on location in Toronto for Discovery ID.
Included this season: a Russian mother is stabbed 11 times in her laundry room, a young Filipina looks for an escape from poverty only to find herself in an even more deadly situation, and a hopeful bride disappears two years after her arrival in the U.S.
PRIMEVAL
TV DRAMA SERIES (director)
Directed 2 episodes of this popular ITV Saturday night drama series revealing what happens when strange anomalies start to appear all over England. Professor Cutter and his team track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future. Then release them through a time traveling portal.
HOMINID
TV DOCUDRAMA (director)
Shot in South Africa this 2 part miniseries follows the journey of two different groups of modern humans as they encounter other human species. The first group encounters Homo erectus and is forced to cross the Thar Desert to reach the sea. The second group encounters Neanderthals in Europe.
SURVIVING DISASTER
DOCU DRAMA (director)
This simulation of real life disaster situations produced by Spike and hosted by former Navy SEAL
Cade Courtley. Avalanche retells a worst-case scenario and what viewers can do to survive them.
THREADS OF LIFE
DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL (director)
Professor Robert Winston presents this BBC 1 special to celebrate the cracking on the Human Genome. He travels to Africa, Australia, Europe and the US to investigate how genetics affects us all, and sometimes in strange and challenging ways.
NIAGARA FALLS
DOCUMENTARY (director)
More than the celebration of a natural wonder this a study of human achievement and folly on an epic scale, a tale of affable lunacy, high drama, danger and desire. The Falls were the nation’s first great symbol, an emblem for the vast untamed continent with its beauty and its limitless resources. What happened to that beauty, and those resources, is the story-line of the film.
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
DOCU DRAMA (series director)
Directed 4 x 1hr fact-based dramas shot entirely in Morocco. Set during the Age of the Pharaohs these films reveal the compelling true stories of people who lived at the heart of the world's greatest civilization.
*BAFTA Winner - Cinematography
*BAFTA - Nominated - Editing, Visual Effects & Sound
*PACT Winner - Historical Doc
NEANDERTHAL
MINISERIES (director)
Directed 2 x 1hr factual dramas shot entirely in Donegal, Ireland. Set 35,000 years ago these dramas depict the last time two species of human came face to face and decided the fate of us all.
*RTS Winner - Impact Prime Time
*PACT Nominated -
Historical Doc Award
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED
DOCUMENTARY SERIES (director)
Jeff Goldblum, the star of Jurassic Park, narrates this five hour documentary series for Discovery Channel about the dinosaurs that roamed North and South America, Europe, Africa and Australia and Antarctica.
BAFTA AWARD
2001
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
RTS AWARD
2001
NEANDERTHAL
NEW YORK TV & FILM
FESTIVAL
2009
FLOOD
INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE
FESTIVAL
2002
PACT AWARD
2002