Bruce has been writing, producing and directing for over sixteen years on a diverse range of subjects from ancient mysteries and the paranormal to global terrorism and the British monarchy. His films have been shown in over fifty countries around the world and have generated over $10 million in sales.

Bruce, who started making The Restaurant Show for Britain's ITV back in 1992, is known for his investigative specials for SKY, ITV, TLC, Travel Channel and Discovery, which have included Dreamland, The Lost Ark, The Uninvited, The Cattle Files, Impact Earth, The Real Men in Black, Alien Encounter, The Ark of the Covenant Revealed, The Bermuda Triangle Solved, In Search of the Holy Grail, Bigfootville & Return to the Bermuda Triangle.

He is also known for his successful documentary specials on the British Royal Family, including: William: The Making of a King for ITV's Granada Television and William: A King in Waiting for E! Network ; as well as the two hour special The Royal Soap Opera for ABC ; and more recently, William & Kate: Inside The Royal Wedding for the BBC’s UKTV Channel and Discovery’s TLC.

Burgess has also made Sabina’s Story for BBC2’s Correspondent about the Bosnian War; Bombs and Basques for Channel 4 News about the ETA terrorist group in Spain ; and Broken Dagger for TLC & Discovery Networks International, about Global Terrorism.

 

In 2003, he wrote, produced and directed his own 35mm short film, a period, comedy ‘noire’ called Rosbeef.
A rough cut of the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2004. Shot by renown DP Tim Wooster
(Alexander, Cold Mountain, Harry Potter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

It was filmed entirely on location near St Tropez in the South of France, with an a French cast, lead by David Ginola, Isis Emery and Theo Triffard. Le Parisien newspaper in France praised the ‘…outstanding performances..’

Sky News in the UK called it ‘Darkly comical…’ And the London Daily Express said ‘Ginola as you’ve never seen him before…’

 

That same year he started working on a feature documentary, Bloodline, which he wrote, directed and executive produced.

 

Bloodline premiered in New York City & Los Angeles in May 2008 before opening
in cities across the USA, selling out theaters and garnering rave reviews.

“Move over Harrison Ford THIS INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE is the REAL INDIANA JONES…”
- Stacy Gualandi, Fox 5 News

"If the Catholic Church fumed over the 'The Da Vinci Code' wait until it gets a load of 'Bloodline', an AMBITIOUS, sharply INTRIGUING documentary..."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

“So people will call it CONTROVERSIAL, I call it INTRIGUING and FASCINATING…it’s the kind of picture you will be talking about long after you leave the theater.”
- Sandy Kenyon, WABC, New York

"RIVETING...the year's MUST TALK- ABOUT film !"
- Kev Lewin, WENN

"UNPARALLELED REVELATIONS deposed front and center render the picture A GEM that unpretentiously swings for the fences and lands in the alleyways the next town over.…FOUR STARS”
- Mathew Nestel, Boxoffice.com

Bloodline was released on DVD in October 2008.

In November 2008 Bruce was asked to write, direct and host a major new series for NBC Universal’s SCIFI Channel called Relicquest, shooting in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Mali, Ethiopia, China, France and Cyprus.

 

In addition, Bruce founded Educaid Africa, a national fundraising exercise for schools for Bob Geldof’s Band Aid Trust, which culminated in a gala concert at London’s Piccadilly Theater. Bruce also created the prestigious London Restaurant Awards with Carlton Television, sponsored by Moet et Chandon, as well London Restaurant Week with American Express. He was formerly chairman of Transmedia Productions, one of Britain’s largest television production company’s, a media adviser to the British Conservative Party, and a fundraising patron of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

 

In November 2009 Bruce signed a deal with London based Simply Media TV, to develop, write, produce and direct a raft of original new programming for the company. This included Return to the Bermuda Triangle, William& Kate: Inside the Royal Wedding, and Royal Baby Watch all for Discovery’s TLC Channel, as well The Demon Hunter on the prolific US exorcist, Rev Bob Larson, as a series called The UFO Files which was sold to the SYFY Channel in the UK and is being sold around the world.

 

In July 2011, Bruce was asked to write and direct a new series for Altamar Entertainment called Great British Ghosts, an eight part series hosted by Michaela Strachan which tells the ghostly tales of some of Britain’s most famous locations. The series airs on UKTV’s Yesterday channel.