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
8.0Top 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
8.0Top 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
8.0Top 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
Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!
The Last Moguls
1986
NRIn 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
NRIn 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
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
7.0Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?
Shooting Versace
1998
NRA 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
NRAn 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
NRAn 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
NRThe 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
8.0Richard 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
10.0The 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
10.0The 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
10.0The 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
9.0Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.
Exiles: Edward Said
1988
NR97 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
NRThe life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life
1989
NRA 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
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 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
1.0A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing.
The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing
1992
NRThe 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
