---
name: "Chris Atkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-atkins"
fi1m_id: "chris-atkins"
imdb_id: "nm0040564"
tmdb_id: 1122434
wikidata_id: "Q15429723"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T20:01:23.468449+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chris Atkins

## Identity

Chris Atkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chris-atkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chris-atkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0040564
- **TMDB ID:** 1122434
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15429723
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Atkins_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15429723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1122434

Director. Born 1 January 1976 in London, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, London, England
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Atkins_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15429723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1122434

## Biography

Chris Atkins is a British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. He directed the feature documentary *Taking Liberties* (2007), which examined the erosion of civil liberties under the Blair government, and followed it with *Starsuckers* (2009), a critique of celebrity culture and the media. His early career included producing low-budget fiction features such as *16 Years of Alcohol* (2003) with director Richard Jobson.

Atkins has made several television documentaries for Channel 4's *Dispatches* and BBC's *Panorama*, and directed the mockumentary *UKIP: The First 100 Days* (2015) and the feature *Who Killed the KLF?* (2021). He was educated at Bromsgrove School and received a BAFTA nomination for his work on *Taking Liberties*. In 2016 he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to five years in prison; he later published the bestselling book *A Bit of a Stretch* (2020) about his experiences.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Taking Liberties* (2007), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/taking-liberties.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *James: Getting Away with It* (2026), Director, Writer
- *James Blunt: One Brit Wonder* (2023), Director
- *Who Killed the KLF?* (2023), Director
- *Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama* (2022), series, Writer
- *UKIP: The First 100 Days* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Starsuckers* (2009), Director
- *A Woman in Winter* (2007), Producer
- *Taking Liberties* (2007), Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/taking-liberties.md)
- *Nina's Heavenly Delights* (2006), Producer
- *The Purifiers* (2005), Producer
- *Dance, Peace and Harmony*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Chris Atkins publicity photo (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/4156910/gallery-d4729349e1ee.jpg) Chris Atkins publicity photo (2020) — Chris Atkins, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Chris_Atkins_publicity_photo.jpg/1280px-Chris_Atkins_publicity_photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chris Atkins](https://film.one/media/person/4156910/gallery-ded7e68177a8.jpg) Chris Atkins — HM Revenue and Customs, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Christopher_Walsh_Atkins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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