James Barrat
James Barrat is the author of
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human
Era.
For over twenty years, this award-winning filmmaker has
created
documentary films for broadcasters including National Geographic
Television, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the
Learning Channel, Animal Planet, and public television affiliates in the
US and Europe.
James scripted many episodes of National Geographic Television’s
award-winning Explorer series, and went on to produce many one-hour and
half-hour films for the National Geographic Channel’s Treasure Seekers,
Out There, Snake Wranglers, and Taboo series. In 2004 he created the
pilot for History Channel’s #1-rated original series Digging for the
Truth. His high-rating film Lost Treasures of Afghanistan, created for
National Geographic Television Specials, aired on PBS in the spring of
2005.
The Gospel of Judas, which he wrote, produced, and directed, set ratings
records for NGC and NGCI when it aired in April 2006. Another NGT
Special, the 2007 Inside Jerusalem’s Holiest, features unprecedented
access to the Muslim Noble Sanctuary and the Dome of the Rock. In 2008
James returned to Israel to create the NGT Special Herod’s Lost Tomb,
the film component of a multimedia exploration of the discovery of King
Herod the Great’s Tomb by archeologist Ehud Netzer. In 2009 he
produced Extreme Cave Diving, an NGT/NOVA special about the science of
the Bahamas Blue Holes. It won 6 million viewers on PBS.
James has also worked as Executive Producer for the Travel Channel, and
Senior Writer and Producer for TLC’s historical film series Great
Castles of Europe and Great Palaces of the World. He wrote and
directed Intrigue in Istanbul, a one-hour special for the Discovery
Channel. For UNESCO’s World Heritage Site series, he wrote and directed
films about the Peking Man Site, The Great Wall, Beijing’s Summer
Palace, and the Forbidden City.
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