Boyd Estus

Boyd Estus is a director of photography and producer/director in the motion picture industry whose credits include the Academy Award-winning The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, the Academy Award-nominated Eight Minutes to Midnight, and many Emmy-winning television programs. He has worked on location around the world shooting and directing feature films and documentaries.

Career

Boyd Estus has extensive experience in the production of film documentaries dealing with history, music, and science. An innovator in the development of technique of "docu-drama" for compelling storytelling, Estus is known for making his subjects vivid and understandable to a broad audience.

Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

In addition to making films for the BBC and other overseas broadcasters, Estus has made many films for American broadcast television including the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and PBS television where he was a founding member of the film unit at WGBH Boston.

Filmography American Experience (PBS) Murder at Harvard Annie Oakley Streamliner Secrets of a Master Builder (James Eads) Houdini Ulysses S. Grant Public Enemy #1: Dillinger Alone on the Ice (Admiral Byrd) Reconstruction Golden Gate Bridge

Frontline (PBS) Apocalypse (BBC co-production) The O.J. Verdict Harvest of Fear (NOVA co-prod.) From Jesus to Christ (BBC co-prod.) Exonerated Organ Farm Commanding Heights (BBC co-prod.)

NOVA (PBS) Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America Pharaoh's Obelisk (Secrets of Lost Empires) Search for a Safe Cigarette Survivor MD (sub-series) China Bridge (Secrets of Lost Empires) Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius Cut to the Heart Kidnapped by UFO’s? Medieval Siege (Secrets of Lost Empires) Roman Bath (Secrets of Lost Empires) So You Want to be a Doctor? Animal Hospital Eclipse of the Century

PBS Television Benjamin Franklin The Real Louisa May Alcott Woody Guthrie: I Ain’t Got No Home Antiques Roadshow FYI At Home in Utopia The Powder and the Glory Some Kinda Funny "Porto Rican"? The New Medicine NOW (PBS Public Affairs) Earthbound Religious America The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific

National Educational Television; WGBH Between Time and Timbuktu

BBC, Channel 4 (UK), et al. History of Soul Music Hiroshima Together On Broadway (Kiri Te Kanawa & André Previn) ABBA The Big Fight Heaven & Earth (James Taylor) Me and Uncle Sam Three Tales (Steve Reich) The British Empire (American Revolution) DNA (NOVA co-prod.) Angry America (A&E co-prod.)

History Channel + Discovery Channel + HBO The Conquerors: General William Howe Forensics of the Bible Anything2Win Hitler’s Last Book Prophets of Science Fiction Shay’s Rebellion Breaking Vegas Armageddon George Washington & The Generals TR – An American Lion Unsolved History: Forensic Presidents, Salem...Witch Trials, Aztec, Pearl Harbor History’s Mysteries: The Strange Case of Lizzie Borden The American Presidency Brilliant Minds Amazing Medical Stealth and Beyond Boomer Nation Hope Diamond Miracle Hunters The Real JAG’s Reel Sex Breathing Room Unsolved Mysteries (NBC, CBS, Lifetime) Building the New MFA