I’m a video editor with over 20 years’ experience in the film and television industry. I’ve worked primarily in factual programming, contributing to documentaries broadcast internationally on BBC, BBC World, PBS and Channel 4. I was part of the team behind the Emmy Award-winning film Saddam’s Road to Hell. Alongside broadcast work, I’ve produced content for museum exhibitions, edited YouTube programming for Dan Snow’s HistoryHit, and delivered short features, music videos, commercials and corporate communications. I’m highly proficient across all major editing platforms, with experience in grading and sound workflows. I operate from my own professional studio, which is available for collaborative editing with directors and producers, as well as client viewings.

Merlin Roberts

I’m a video editor with over 20 years’ experience in the film and television industry. I’ve worked primarily in factual programming, contributing to documentaries broadcast internationally on BBC, BBC World, PBS and Channel 4. I was part of the team behind the Emmy Award-winning film Saddam’s Road to Hell. Alongside broadcast work, I’ve produced content for museum exhibitions, edited YouTube programming for Dan Snow’s HistoryHit, and delivered short features, music videos, commercials and corporate communications. I’m highly proficient across all major editing platforms, with experience in grading and sound workflows. I operate from my own professional studio, which is available for collaborative editing with directors and producers, as well as client viewings.

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I’m a video editor with over 20 years’ experience in the film and television industry. I’ve worked primarily in factual programming, contributing to documentaries broadcast internationally on BBC, BBC World, PBS and Channel 4. I was part of the team behind the Emmy Award-winning film Saddam’s Road to Hell.

Alongside broadcast work, I’ve produced content for museum exhibitions, edited YouTube programming for Dan Snow’s HistoryHit, and delivered short features, music videos, commercials and corporate communications.

I’m highly proficient across all major editing platforms, with experience in grading and sound workflows. I operate from my own professional studio, which is available for collaborative editing with directors and producers, as well as client viewings.

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Post production manager/editor at RWF World
January 1, 2008 - April 1, 2024
Part of a team producing films and content for International Museum, web and broadcast. Also creating a curated digital national media archive.
Editor at All Things Equal
March 8, 2026 - Present
Freelance video editing for business IC content.
Editor at Little dot studios/ History Hit
February 17, 2026 - Present
Creating videos for History Hit Echoes of History YouTube channel
Assistant editor at R&W Films
February 1, 2005 - February 1, 2007
Assistant editor on “Saddam’s Road To Hell” shown worldwide on Channel 4, PBS Frontline World winning Emmy award. Other roles included camera op, sound op, archive management, tape capture.
Post production manager/editor at RWF World
January 1, 2008 - April 1, 2024
Part of a team producing films and content for International Museum, web and broadcast. Also creating a curated digital national media archive. My roles were managing and designing post production workflows for teams locally and abroad, managing a large media archive, coordinating multiple simultaneous edits, archive and disaster management, editing, finishing and delivery
Editor at Gomeo
March 14, 2025 - May 1, 2025
Marketing video production for Chanced.com advertising

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Emmy
February 17, 2026 - February 17, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Gaming, Telecommunications
    paper One Yazidi Family VS ISIS


    A heart-felt documentary that tells the true story of the Chatto family, a Yazidi clan from Sinjar (Shingal), northern Iraq, who survived the brutal 2014 invasion and genocide carried out by the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS). 

    The film follows the family’s flight from persecution, enslavement and near-certain death as ISIS overran their homeland - a campaign in which thousands of Yazidis were killed, and many women and children were abducted and sold as slaves. 

    What makes this documentary especially powerful is that filming had begun with the Chattos months before their capture, and the narrative traces their separate survival journeys and desperate attempts to reunite in Europe. Through their experiences, the film offers a personal and human portrayal of the horrors faced by the Yazidi community and the courage it takes to escape, recover and rebuild after genocide and displacement. 

    It has been shown internationally, including multiple broadcasts on BBC World and BBC Arabic as well as screenings at the UN in Washington and United States Institute Of Peace helping raise global awareness of the Yazidi plight and the ongoing impact of ISIS’s crimes.

    paper Echoes of History

    The Echoes Of History YouTube channel blends gaming and real-world history, using Assassin’s Creed as a jumping-off point to educate viewers about fascinating historical narratives and contexts.

    paper Sierra Leone: End Of A Nightmare

    A documentary film broadcast on BBC Wotld, that follows the long, difficult process of Sierra Leone’s recovery from its brutal civil war. Documenting how individuals and communities worked to rebuild their lives and society in the years after the conflict. It was filmed over several years to capture both the lasting effects of the war and the efforts toward renewal.

    paper Saddams Road To Hell

    Documentary film showing how a team of investigators set off on a dangerous journey across Iraq to find out what exactly happened to 8,000 Kurdish men and boys who went missing in the early years of Saddam’s rule.

    Broadcast internationally of PBS Frontline World and Channel 4 in 2006. Winner of an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

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