About James

James is an award winning and award nominated media professional; specializing in factual content programming for both television and digital media.

A dual citizen of Canada and the UK, James has worked on a variety of history documentaries as an Associate Producer, Researcher, Story Editor and Writer.

These include Camp X: Secret Agent School, Black Watch Snipers, War Story, Battle Factory, Real Vikings and The World Without Canada for the History Channel Canada, The Weapon Hunter for the Smithsonian Channel, and The Dictators Playbook for PBS and National Geographic.

He is currently the host of Hitler’s Most Wanted a ten-part history series for Discovery Canada, UKTV and History Channel Australia.

Awards

Excellence in Journalism Award

The History Factor won its first award in November 2015.

“The Battle of Monte Cassino” video won the Canadian Ethnic Media Association‘s 2015 Excellence in Journalism Award for Best Internet Video.

Canadian Screen Award and Yorkton Film Festival Award

For his work on the History Channel Canada’s Camp X: Secret Agent School, James was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award.

For his work on the award winning Real Vikings (a companion to the popular Vikings drama on the History Channel), he was nominated for a Yorkton Film Festival award