THE DETECTIVES: Fighting Organised Crime
***** BAFTA AWARDS 2022 : BEST FACTUAL SERIES nominee *****
RTS CRAFT AWARDS 2021
Documentary Editing WINNER 2021 / Documentary Directing NOMINEE 2021
BROADCAST - Best documentary series NOMINEE 2022
GRIERSON - Best Factual Series SHORTLIST 2021
‘Line of Duty can but aspire to the sort of tension that this expertly edited police documentary creates.’ THE TIMES
‘Not for the faint-hearted’ THE GUARDIAN
‘TV Gold’ THE SUN
SERIES DIRECTED & FILMED BY : BENEDICT SANDERSON
EDITORS: SAM BERGSON, OTTO BURNHAM, BRAD MANNING
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: MORGAN MATTHEWS, SOPHIE JONES, KATE COLLIER
COLOURIST: TIM O’BRIEN
MINNOW FILMS FOR THE BBC 2021
2 x 60 mins
Filmed over 3 years with extraordinary access to specialist officers, this observational/ verité documentary series follows two unfolding gangland police investigations in Greater Manchester, UK. Episode 1 focuses on an operation to capture a gang carrying out violent kidnappings and spreading terror throughout the Manchester underworld. Episode 2 follows a team of officers as they attempt to solve a brutal daylight murder in East Manchester.
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