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Alison Millar

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Cullybackey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Biography

A BAFTA, IFTA, RTS and Prix Italia winner, Alison Millar is one of the UK and Ireland's most respected documentary film-makers and the founder of Erica Starling Productions Ltd, an independent documentary production company in Belfast. She is a regular filmmaker for the Channel 4 investigative documentary series Dispatches, but she actually began her career in front of the cameras, co-presenting the legendary arts and crafts series for children, Hartbeat, with Tony Hart in the 1980s.

Best known work

60 Minutes

60 Minutes

1968
The Changin' Times of Ike White

The Changin' Times of Ike White

2020
ITV Exposure

ITV Exposure

2011
The Disappeared

The Disappeared

2013
Lyra

Lyra

2022
The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper

The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper

2008
The Day Mountbatten Died

The Day Mountbatten Died

2019
Searching for Shergar

Searching for Shergar

2018
A Carryin' Stream

A Carryin' Stream

2019
When the Rapping Stops

When the Rapping Stops

Filmography

  1. TBA

    When the Rapping Stops

    Director

  2. 2025

  3. 2022

    Lyra

    Director, Producer

  4. 2022

  5. 2020

  6. 2019

    A Carryin' Stream

    as Herself, Director

  7. 2019

    The Day Mountbatten Died

    Executive Producer

  8. 2019

  9. 2018

    Searching for Shergar

    as Herself - Presenter, Director, Producer

  10. 2013

  11. 2011

    ITV ExposureTV

    Director

  12. 2011

  13. 2011

  14. 2008

  15. 1968

    60 MinutesTV

    as Self (1 episode)

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