Mick Gold

Mick Gold studied English Literature at Sussex University, followed by an MA in Film & Television at the Royal College of Art. His work includes 'Europe After the Rain', a history of Dada and Surrealism; 'Schiele In Prison' - a study of painting and paranoia in fin de siecle Vienna; `Watergate', a 5 part history of the downfall of President Nixon which won an Emmy in 1995; 'Star Wars', the story of President Reagan and the Soviet Union; 'Hostage', a 3 part series on the hostage crisis in Lebanon (First Prize, History Documentary Festival, Pessac, 1999); 'Death of Apartheid', a 3 part series on the relatively peaceful transfer of power in South Africa (Emmy nomination); and 'Endgame In Ireland', the secret history of the peace process in Northern Ireland (BAFTA nomination, Peabody Award). Gold made six films for the BBC2 series 'Private Life of a Masterpiece': Velzquez's The Rokeby Venus; Goya's The Third of May 1808; Degas's Little Dancer aged Fourteen; Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People; Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross and Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross. Gold directed 4 x 1-hour films for C4 Dispatches, written and presented by Andrew Rawnsley: Gordon Brown, Where Did It All Go Wrong? (2008), Crash Gordon (2009), Cameron Uncovered (2010), A Year Inside Number 10 (2011). Gold was series producer & director of 'Blues America', 2 x 1-hour films on history of the blues for BBC4 with Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, and Elijah Wald. Gold directed the final film in the series 'Inside Obama's White House', The Arc of History, for BBC2 in 2016, nominated for a Grierson award and a BAFTA.