Morgan Matthews

Directing

Morgan Matthews

Morgan Matthews is an English, BAFTA award winning documentary director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

X+Y poster
6.7

Struggling to connect with those around him, a teenage math prodigy trains for the International Mathematical Olympiad, where a budding romance with a fellow contestant breaks through his emotional walls and teaches him that love cannot be calculated.

X+Y

2014

X+Y poster
6.7

Struggling to connect with those around him, a teenage math prodigy trains for the International Mathematical Olympiad, where a budding romance with a fellow contestant breaks through his emotional walls and teaches him that love cannot be calculated.

X+Y

2014

500 Miles poster
5.0

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 reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.

500 Miles

2026

The Railway Children Return poster
6.5

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, is far away from home.

The Railway Children Return

2022

Gypsy Boy poster
NR

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

Gypsy Boy

When Harry Left Hogwarts poster
7.2

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 films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2. Hear the personal stories of the faces we know, and those we don't, as we come to the end of one of the most successful eras in cinema history. Special feature on select editions of Deathly Hallows 1 & 2.

When Harry Left Hogwarts

2011

Britain in a Day poster
6.7

On Saturday 12 November 2011, an eclectic range of British people turned the camera on themselves, capturing the entertaining and mundane, the exciting and unusual, the poignant and the everyday. The result, Britain in a Day tells the fascinating story of the British public in their own words. Following on from the feature film Life in a Day, this 90-minute film directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews offers an extraordinarily candid look at 21st-century life across the UK, crafted from over 750 hours of footage, including 11,526 clips submitted to YouTube. The documentary offers remarkable insight into the lives, loves, fears and hopes of people living in Britain today. This captivating self-portrait of Britain forms part of the BBC's Cultural Olympiad.

Britain in a Day

2012

Williams poster
7.4

This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams

Williams

2017

Williams poster
7.4

This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams

Williams

2017

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NR

Documentary maker Morgan Matthews goes on an extraordinary journey from the Holy Land to Graceland with Gilles Elmalih 'The Elvis from Jerusalem'. An Israeli living in the bitterly divided West Bank, Gilles is convinced that Elvis's music can restore world peace. He also claims to have a spiritual connection that allows him regular communication with Elvis from beyond the grave. Personal messages from Elvis materialise in the form of scrunched up, handwritten, Hebrew notes that mysteriously appear around the house.

Blue Suede Jew

2007

Shooting Bigfoot poster
6.8

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

Shooting Bigfoot

2013

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NR

Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the film explores the impact of teenage killings on families of different religion, race and class.

Scenes from a Teenage Killing

2011

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7.0

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 and their grief. Epic in scale and spanning seven years of war, this landmark three-hour film gives a rare insight into the personal impact and legacy of this loss.

The Fallen

2008

This Was My Dad: The Rise & Fall of Geoffrey Matthews poster
6.0

A Storyville documentary: filmmaker Morgan Matthews records a period of more than ten years in the life of his father Geoff and Geoff's eccentric partner Anna.

This Was My Dad: The Rise & Fall of Geoffrey Matthews

2017

Beautiful Young Minds poster
6.9

This BAFTA nominated documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted teenagers from over 90 countries compete for medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The film follows a group of brilliant teenagers as they battle it out to become the chosen six selected to represent the UK.

Beautiful Young Minds

2007

Taxidermy: Stuff the World poster
6.5

Every two years taxidermists from around the world converge on Springfield, Illinois for the biggest event in animal stuffing - the world taxidermy championships. This documentary uses the 2005 ceremony as a way into the lives of a handful of the individuals who spend their spare time mounting dead animals and taking part in local competitions on their way to the big time.

Taxidermy: Stuff the World

2005