Adam Ackland

Movies

The End We Start From
Producer
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Producer
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
The Mauritanian
Producer
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
The Courier
Producer
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Child in Time
Executive Producer
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
The Current War
Executive Producer
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
American Daylight
Second Assistant Director
A young Indian woman works as an operator for a US bank that outsourced its call center to India. The bank's young local manager becomes interested in her and offers her to help him game the system and make some real money.
Morning
Producer
In the near future, society has developed a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams. The ambitious and driven Cathy was an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank, she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life. As Danny is further drawn into a subversive underworld of dreamers, Cathy must confront her nightmares and fight hard not to lose her son.
Rogue Male
Producer
A hunter's failed attempt to assassinate a dictator forces him to seek hiding back home in the rural English countryside.
The War Magician
Producer
A British stage performer uses his skills to help the Allies during World War II.
Migrations
Producer
Franny Stone's dark past of love, loss, crime and motherhood unfolds on an odyssey through stormy seas with a team of misfit fishermen.