manyriversfilms is an independent television production company, based in south London.

We have produced prime-time documentaries for Channel Four, the Discovery Channel and BBC’s Newsnight including the award winning Cult of the Suicide Bomber series, Car Bomb and the headline-grabbing Dispatches about the Northern Bank robbery, The Big Heist.

In our new compelling production Car Bomb ex-CIA agent Robert Baer traces the origins of the most deadly weapon of the twentieth century from Wall Street in the 1920s to the dangerous streets of Beirut and Baghdad. With unprecedented interviews with car bombers and shocking footage of car bomb attacks, Car Bomb is the definitive television history of the number one terrorist threat of our time.

In the Cult of the Suicide Bomber series ex-CIA agent Bob Baer traces suicide bombing from its origins on the southern battlefields of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war to the suicidal car bombers of the Lebanon, to the random terror of Jerusalem’s human bomb bus war, and on to the bloody carnage of the July 7th Underground bombings in London.

Baer, himself, lost colleagues in one of the most notorious suicide attacks of the 1980s - the April 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut.

Baer now lives in the United States and is the author of books See No Evil, Sleeping With the Devil, Blow the House Down, and The Devil We Know.

Bob Baer, drawing on his decades of service for the CIA in the Middle East, worked closely with Kevin Toolis to produce the acclaimed Cult of the Suicide Bomber series – these are some of the most insightful and illuminating films on suicide bombing ever made.

With extraordinary footage of actual suicide bomb attacks, and riveting interviews with failed suicide bombers and their families, the Cult of the Suicide Bomber series are definitive documentary films that reveal the rise of an enemy against whom there is no real defense.

manyriversfilms was founded by Kevin Toolis. He is an acknowledged terrorism expert and has studied and reported on conflicts in Africa, Ireland and the Middle East.