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Education: Solihull School, Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK and Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK.
Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC, a documentary film-maker and the author of five books on war.
Rees began his career as an editor on the BBC documentary series 'Timewatch'.
He wrote, directed and produced the 1997 series 'The Nazis: A Warning from History', the 2001 series 'Horror in the East' and the 2005 series 'Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. Rees also wrote, directed and produced the documentary 'World War II Behind Cl
Education: Solihull School, Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK and Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK.
Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC, a documentary film-maker and the author of five books on war.
Rees began his career as an editor on the BBC documentary series 'Timewatch'.
He wrote, directed and produced the 1997 series 'The Nazis: A Warning from History', the 2001 series 'Horror in the East' and the 2005 series 'Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. Rees also wrote, directed and produced the documentary 'World War II Behind Closed Doors'.
He has won many awards for his television films, including a BAFTA, a Grierson Award, an International Documentary Award, a British Press Guild Award and a BANFF festival award.
Rees also wrote the companion books to his series 'The Nazis: A Warning from History', 'Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II', 'The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin' and 'Auschwitz: A New History'.
In 2006 he won History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards for his book on Auschwitz making him the first person to win both a BAFTA for a television series he has written, produced and directed as well as a British Book Award for a book he has written.
Rees's latest book titled 'Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII' was released in September 2007 by Ebury Press.
In 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield University for services to history and television.
In May 2010 Rees launched WW2History.com, a subscription multimedia educational resource on World War II.
In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (DUniv) by The Open University.
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