Editing World in Action (section)

===Producer-directors===
The series was known for its gritty visual style, almost always shot on location, and a number of its producer-directors went on to work on major film projects. Those working on the series in its early years included [[Michael Apted]], later to direct ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]'', ''[[Gorillas in the Mist]]'', and the [[James Bond]] film ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', as well as the ''[[Up Series]]'' documentaries (the earliest programmes were part of the ''WIA'' series), and [[Mike Hodges]], who went on to direct ''[[Get Carter]]'' and ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]''. Director John Goldschmidt made several films for the series in the early 1970s. Later, [[Paul Greengrass]], director of the feature films ''[[United 93 (film)|United 93]]'', ''[[The Bourne Supremacy]]'', and ''[[The Bourne Ultimatum (film)|The Bourne Ultimatum]]'' and of the drama-documentaries ''[[Bloody Sunday (TV drama)|Bloody Sunday]]'' and ''The Murder of [[Stephen Lawrence]]'', cut his directing teeth on ''World in Action''. [[Leslie Woodhead]], director of ''The Stones in the Park'', the award-winning ''[[A Cry From The Grave]]'', many ''[[Disappearing World (TV series)|Disappearing World]]'' films and also regarded by many as a founder of the [[docudrama|drama-documentary]] movement,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1103146/index.html|title=Drama Documentary|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> worked on ''World in Action'' for many years as a producer-director and executive. Long-time ''World in Action'' alumni who went on to direct and produce Granada's international award-winning ''Disappearing World'' films include Brian Moser, its instigator and original producer, and Charlie Nairn.

Among the more recent generation of filmmakers to emerge from ''World in Action'' were [[Alex Holmes]], who became editor of the [[BBC2]] documentary strand ''Modern Times'' and went on to write and direct the [[BAFTA]]-winning dramatised documentary series ''Dunkirk'' for the BBC and ''[[House of Saddam]]'' for the BBC and [[HBO]]; and Katy Jones, a former ''WIA'' producer who became a key collaborator with the screenwriter [[Jimmy McGovern]] as a producer on the drama-documentaries ''[[Hillsborough disaster|Hillsborough]]'' (1996) and ''[[Sunday (2002 film)|Sunday]]'' (2002).