DOCUMENTARIES & CURRENT AFFAIRS
Our Programmes
Moonstone Films makes investigative documentaries and current affairs films. Our programmes have revealed abuse in childrens' care homes, the cover-up of child sexual abuse by community leaders in the UK, the human cost of the Government’s drive to save money by slashing its legal aid budget. We work in the UK and abroad - and have a special interest in the MIddle East.
Our Executive Producer
Tony Stark’s broadcast experience covers commissioning, executive producing and an extensive career in documentary film-making. He was Head of Documentaries at BBC Arabic where he commissioned a range of long-form investigative documentaries . He's executive produced for Channel Four News. And, as a documentary film-maker, he has spent over 20 years producing and directing long-form programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and for a variety of American PBS channels. He has made three major TV series and 25 other one-off documentaries – films that have been made in Africa, Russia, Europe, North and South America and the Middle East.
He's made crafted historical documentaries, observational films, presenter-led programmes, undercover and investigative approaches. Five of the programmes he's made or commissioned have been recognized at international film festivals, including nominations for a BAFTA and a Foreign Press Association award.
Tony’s career began at BBC TV where he produced and directed films on a variety of network programmes. He left the BBC in 1989 to become an independent film-maker. He has written a history of transplant surgery, published by Macmillan and a tie-in with a BBC1 series.
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TONY STARK
INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARIES COMMISSIONED FOR BBC ARABIC
 Knife to the Heart - BBC 1 series4 x 60 min documentary series exploring the dramatic history of transplant surgery |  Inside the FBI - Channel 4 seriesA four part series for British & American TV investigating the history and modern day image of the prestigious Federal Bureau of Investigation. |  Terror - Channel 4 seriesWhat makes people use indiscriminate violence as a political weapon? Four programmes investigating the use of terror. |
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 The Brotherhood - US TV60 mins for the US PBS Network. Award-winning Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff reveal a movement that preaches peaceful co-existence while supporting suicide bombings and offering inspiration for jihadi groups. |  The Big Heist - Channel 4Who masterminded the biggest bank raid in British History? |  Jesus Christ Airlines - Danish TVThe pilots called it Jesus Christ Airlines. It was one of the biggest air operations in history, keeping more than one million people alive during Biafra's 18 month civil war with Nigeria. This film is about the pilots bravery and the conflicts and cover-ups that unfolded around Jesus Christ Airlines. |
 Immigration is a Time Bomb - Ch 4The case against current Government policy on immigration – made by Rod Liddle, columnist and former editor of the BBC's Today programme. |  Can Condoms Kill? BBC PanoramaHardliners in the Vatican say condoms can kill - they have holes in them and fail to protect against AIDS. They say there is science to prove it. Panorama goes on a worldwide hunt to test these claims. |  No Go Britain - BBC 4What’s life really like for people who live in some of Britain’s toughest districts? To find out, 6 O’Clock News reporter Adrian Addison spends several weeks living in two of Britain's toughest districts. |
 A Shadow over Europe - BBC 4Veteran foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler uncovers how the Czechs made their Sudeten German minority pay for six years of brutal Nazi occupation and why this hidden tragedy is now a hot political issue. |  AIDS - the Global Killer. Channel 4Why has the front-page treatment given to AIDS in the 1980s all but faded away? It certainly hasn’t faded from people’s lives as renowned photojournalist Nick Danziger discovers in this 90-minute special shot in Russia, Zambia and the UK. |  Mo Mowlam - Channel 4Mo Mowlam was the most popular female politician Britain had ever known So why was she removed from her Northern Ireland post - while nasty rumours about the after-effects of the illness she’d been suffering from were doing the rounds. |
 Murder in Memphis - Channel 4Martin Luther King was shot dead in Memphis in 1968. His assassin - James Earl Ray - died in prison serving a life sentence for the killing. But was he really the man who murdered Amercia's most famous black civil rights leader? Or was he, as lawyer Bill Pepper believes, an innocent man set-up to take the rap in a wide-ranging Government conspiracy? |  Voices of Sorrow - BBCAlmost six years of civil war in Sudan have devastated a generation: "Voices of Sorrow" reveals the magnitude of the human tragedies caused by the conflict and explains why the North and the South of Sudan are unable to live together in peace. |  Rape on Trial - BBC PanoramaPanorama investigates why the number of convictions for rape are at an all time low. |
 The New Fundamentalists - Ch 4Should we be concerned about what's going on in state schools run by Christians who believe the world was created in six days? Columnist Rod Liddle thinks we should. In this film he meets influential Evangelical Christians and finds people with views that are way out of kilter with the rest of us. |  Hermon's Beat - BBCWhat's it like to run the toughest police force in Britain - the Royal Ulster Constabulary? This profile of Chief Constable Sir Jack Hermon was made for the Everyman strand Picture: Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives |  Sir John's Shuttle - Ch 4 DispatchesSir John Thompson, Britain's former Ambassador at the UN, assesses the chances of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours in the aftermath of the Gulf War. |
 Blood Sunday - Ch 4 Secret HistoryIn 1972 a civil rights march through Londonderry ended with the Paratroop Regiment shooting dead 13 people. This documentary unravels the events that led up to the shootings - and shows why solders' claims that they were shot at before opening fire were unlikely to be true. |