Directing

Christopher Sykes

Born 1945-07-10 · Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

He made a number of films with and about the American physicist Richard Feynman, including 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out', 'Fun to Imagine' and 'The Quest for Tannu Tuva'. He filmed a memorable encounter with Bob Dylan for the BBC Omnibus documentary 'Getting to Dylan' and made a trilogy about the one-time Hollywood mogul and head of Cannon films Menahem Golan.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion poster
8.0

Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion

2003

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion poster
8.0

Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion

2003

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion poster
8.0

Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.

To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion

2003

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6.5

Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!

The Last Moguls

1986

Getting to Dylan poster
NR

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

Getting to Dylan

1987

Getting to Dylan poster
NR

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

Getting to Dylan

1987

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NR

A look at the decline of the 200-year-old slate roofing tile industry in North Wales, which once supported thousands of workers and their families and since dwindled to just a few working quarries.

The Slatemakers

1980

Shooting Versace poster
7.0

Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?

Shooting Versace

1998

Dear Mr. Tzabar, poster
NR

A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self-imposed exile in London.

Dear Mr. Tzabar,

2004

No Ordinary Genius poster
NR

An intimate, moving, and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynman—the most extraordinary scientist of his age.

No Ordinary Genius

1993

No Ordinary Genius poster
NR

An intimate, moving, and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynman—the most extraordinary scientist of his age.

No Ordinary Genius

1993

The Quest for Tannu Tuva poster
NR

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

The Quest for Tannu Tuva

1988

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out poster
8.0

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intriguing attributes by featuring an extensive conversation with the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. During the course of the interview, which was conducted in 1981, Feynman uses the undeniable power of the personal to convey otherwise challenging scientific theories. His colorful and lucid stories make abstract concepts tangible, and his warm presence is sure to inspire interest and awe from even the most reluctant student of science. His insights are profound, but his delivery is anything but dry and ostentatious.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

1981

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema poster
10.0

The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in his eighties, still buzzes with energy, talking lovingly about what inspires him as he anticipates making a new blockbuster and receiving the Oscar he’s always wanted. - Denver Film Society

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema

2015

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema poster
10.0

The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in his eighties, still buzzes with energy, talking lovingly about what inspires him as he anticipates making a new blockbuster and receiving the Oscar he’s always wanted. - Denver Film Society

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema

2015

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema poster
10.0

The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in his eighties, still buzzes with energy, talking lovingly about what inspires him as he anticipates making a new blockbuster and receiving the Oscar he’s always wanted. - Denver Film Society

Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema

2015

Exiles: Edward Said poster
9.0

Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.

Exiles: Edward Said

1988

After the Massacre poster
NR

97 British soldiers are sent to Beirut as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in the wake of the September 1982 Sabra-Chatilla massacre.

After the Massacre

1983

Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life poster
NR

The life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life

1989

Before the Massacre poster
NR

A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege and bombardment of West Beirut, home to the PLO and the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. The filming took place in the days immediately before the infamous Sabra-Chatila massacre, carried out by Lebanese Phalangist troops inside an area under Israeli military control.

Before the Massacre

1982

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NR

The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.

Letters from an Indian Clerk

1987

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NR

The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.

Letters from an Indian Clerk

1987

The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing poster
1.0

A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing.

The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing

1992

Mentioned in Dispatches poster
NR

The extraordinary story of Tim Page, war photographer. Page was wounded four times in Vietnam. The fourth and final time, he was logged 'dead on arrival'. But he survived against all the odds.

Mentioned in Dispatches

1980