Leslie Woodhead

Leslie Woodhead

James Leslie John Woodhead, OBE is a British documentary filmmaker. For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. He was posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany.

On screen

  • How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

Behind the camera

  • Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
  • Diana: The Day Britain Cried
  • Diana: The Day We Said Goodbye
  • The Day They Dropped The Bomb
  • The Day Kennedy Died
  • The Hunt For Bin Laden
  • 9/11: The Day That Changed the World
  • How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
  • Children of Beslan
  • My Life As A Spy
  • A Very Modern Dictator: A Profile of Slobodan Milosevic
  • The Holocaust on Trial
  • A Cry from the Grave
  • Endurance
  • 444 Days
  • Tony Bennett's New York
  • Land of Dreams - Randy Newman's America
  • The Last Soviet Citizen
  • The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
  • Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
  • The Stones in the Park

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