James Jones' films have been broadcast on the
BBC,
Channel 4, Sky, HBO, Apple TV+ and
PBS Frontline. Jones has tackled subjects including suicide in the military and homelessness. He has also made films in North Korea and Saudi Arabia. His film
Children of the Gaza War was broadcast on the BBC in July 2015 on the first anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war. In 2016 he made a feature-length documentary
Unarmed Black Male about the murder trial of a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia. In 2017 he co-directed
Mosul with Olivier Sarbil. In 2019, he released a feature documentary on the
drug war in the Philippines, ''
On the President's Orders'', for
PBS's
Frontline,
Arte France, BBC's
Storyville and Bertha Doc Society, in which he follows a newly installed police chief of
Caloocan City who is a supporter of president
Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug campaign. It played at the
Sheffield DocFest and Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. In 2022, his film
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was broadcast on
Sky Documentaries. It told the story of the
Chernobyl disaster using personal interviews with people who were there and newly discovered, dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant. The film was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Documentary and won a BAFTA for Best Editing. In 2023, his series
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn was released on Apple TV+. ==Filmography==