Career
Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada television He directed television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, at the time Britain"s highest-rated television programme. Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street, which followed The Army Game as Britain"s top-rated television show. After Granada television, Morgan-Witts moved to British Broadcasting Corporation television, where he was responsible for documentary programmes.
These included 14 one-hour episodes of the The British Empire, a historical documentary series.
lieutenant was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambitious documentary series the British Broadcasting Corporation had made. He was editor and executive producer of Tomorrow"s World, a live, weekly, popular science programme.
He was Director and Producer of many one-hour film documentaries made for peak time viewing on British Broadcasting Corporation One, most of which he wrote himself but for one of which he hired Gordon Thomas. This was the beginning of their writing partnership.
Morgan-Witts wrote 10 non-fiction books with Thomas, four of which were made into feature films, including Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb, which was first a four-hour National Broadcasting Company special and then re-cut as a feature.
Another was Voyage of the Damned, a highly rated feature film which is frequently repeated on television worldwide. His books are:
The Day their World Ended by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts, a factual novel about the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 and the basis for the 1980 movie When Time Ran Out starring Paul Newman)
The San Francisco Earthquake
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle
Voyage of the Damned
Guernica: The Crucible of World World War II
Ruin from the Air: The Enola Gay"s Atomic Mission to Hiroshima
The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
Anatomy of an epidemic
Pontiff
Averting Armageddon: Papal Policies in the Pursuit of Peace.
