Donal MacIntyre

Investigative Documentaries and Undercover Reporter

Filmography

Posted on November 09, 2004

Filmography -  shows reported, presented or directed by Donal Mac Intyre

Filmography

Donal Mac Inyre has been a network reporter for 15 years working mostly for the BBC1 and BBC2 but with stints at ITV and Five in the UK. His reports have also been broadcast on Sky and BBC News. His work has been broadcast in over 75 countries.

1993 – On-The-Line (BBC2):

Reporter on two sports exposes in this award winning investigative sports series.
His exposes on doping in horse racing and abuse in greyhound racing won him international attention. MacIntyre won awards in the US and Ireland for his work.

1994 – BBC Documentaries

`Taking Liberties` – Mac Intyre joined the award winning strand fighting for the rights of marginalised in society.

World In Action (ITV):

Two Royal Television Society awards came his way when he joined this remarkable strand. During his stint here he worked undercover on seven programmes. Variously he lived in a crack house for three months, exposed pensions scams, funeral parlours and lived undercover as a doorman in Nottingham for a year.
MacIntyre Undercover (BBC):

 9th November 1999 – Football violence
16th November 1999 – Abuse in care homes
29th November 1999 – Fashion Victims
December 6th Nigerian Con Men
This strand was broadcast in over 50 countries. The book of the series `One Man Four Lives` sold over 40,000 copies.
This was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award

11th June 2001 – The Oklahoma Bomber
MacIntyre reported and investigation into the life of Timothy McVey. This was nominated for  a BAFTA.

April/May 2002 – MacIntyre Investigates  (BBC):
- 25th April 2002 Street Crimes London
- 2nd May 2002 Drugs (yaba/methamphetamine) – Burma/Thailand
- 9th May 2002 The Trade in Sex Slaves – London
Foundling – one Man’s Story – Northern Ireland / Australia
The Life of SIr Peter Blake R.I.P. – The Amazon
The Trade in Rare Mountain Gorrilas – Rwanda
Violent Children – An investigation – UK

September 2002 – Wild Weather (BBC)
A four part adventure series around the world investigating the environmental impact of our changing weather. As presenter MacIntyre spent two years travelling for this £3 million series. This was nominated for a BAFTA. For the BBC and The Learning Channel

MacIntyre’s Million (Five): An Intenational Undercover series exposing the trade in body parts in India, in endangered animals across the globe and the trade in arms in Eastern Europe
- 3rd December 2003 – Body Butchers – UK, India.
- 10th December 2003 – Noah’s Ark – India, South Africa, Malaysia
- 17th December 2003 – Semtex for Sale – Kosovo, Montenegro, Italy, Paris.
For Five and Discovery Times
2004 – A two part undercover expose on care homes for the elderly and the learning disabled. FIVE

Feb 2004 – Misuse of a Miracle – narrated By Donal
(This film is an outcome of the project: The battle against antibiotic resistent bacteria
that was funded in 2002 by the European Commission, under the Community action on the prevention of AIDS and certain other communicable diseases. Screened Feb 2004 in New Zealand
More info: http://europa.eu.int/
Review: http://www.stuff.co.nz/

2004/2005 MacIntyre UK Undercover

In this wide ranging series MacIntyre did exposes on credit card fraud, car crime, street robbery, sex abusing doctors and dentists. In addition he did an expose on corrupt prison officers. In this year also his six years of work on exposing racism in the Police came to fruition when his  colleague went undercover in the Police training school.

28th August 2004 – MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival screening of "Gangster", part one of three documentaries dealing with Britain’s biggest crime families

30th November 2004 - Can You Trust Your Dentist – Five
7th December 2004 – Can You Trust Your Doctor – Five

MacIntyre’s Underworld (Five):
- 22 March 2005 – Gangster (28th August 2004 at Edinburgh Festival)
Discovery Times
- 29th March 2005 – Supergrass
- 5th April 2005 – Vendetta

1st August 2005 – Misused Legacy of a Saint (Five News & Sky)

An exclusive undercover investigation on the abuse of the learning disabled in Morther Teresa’s home in India. This was to win him another journalism acolade in New York

Britain’s Toughest Towns – Five
- 5th October 2005 – Glasgow
- 5th October 2005 – Liverpool
- 12th October 2005 – Belfast
- 13th October 2005 – Manchester
- 19th October 2005 – Portsmouth
- 19th October 2005 – Bristol
- 26th October 2005 – Newport
- 26th October 2005 – London
2006 – THE EDGE OF EXISTENCE
An adventure travel series living with some of the world’s most remote tribe`s and investigating how they are coping with the ever encroaching modern world.

This is for Discovery and Five and is to be broadcast in March 2007.

 

MacIntyre’s Underworld – Series 2 – Five:
- 21st November 2006 – Get Conroy
- 28 November 2006 – Mad Dog
- 5th December 2006 - Cocaine and Coconuts
- 12th December 2006 – The Taxman

December 2006 – Jan 2007 Cancer Research anti-tobacco campaign "Smoke is Poison" advertisements.

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