Our mission is to tell compelling stories that capture the dramatic complexity of human experience.

Noble Beast is a full service non-fiction production company founded by executive producer Ted Bourne in 2021 with the aim to create television and film projects specializing in verité and archival filmmaking. Whether the subject is politics, current affairs, criminal justice, music, or sports, Noble Beast’s projects share one central mission: to tell compelling stories with drama, humor, and empathy.

We believe that the ability to hold two opposing ideas is not only the mark of a first rate intelligence, but is also the mark of great storytelling. In that spirit, Noble Beast always strives to create work that explores each story from multiple angles; that doesn’t only advocate, but illuminates.

Noble Beast recently produced the feature documentary King of the Apocalypse, which was just released on Sky in the UK and on MSNBC here in the US. We also made the political docuseries Power Trip for Hulu and are currently in production on a feature documentary about Gary, Indiana’s long and winding struggle with gun violence.

 

Principal Creative

Before launching Noble Beast, Ted Bourne was an EP at powerhouse New York production shop Left/Right, where he served as a showrunner on Showtime’s acclaimed docuseries The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, and helped helm the documentary adaptation of the award-winning podcast Slow Burn for Epix. Prior to that, he was co-EP and showrunner for several seasons on A&E’s hit nonfiction procedural, The First 48.

Bourne has assembled a team of the best editors, producers and cinematographers in the verité documentary world, and it never ceases to thrill him when he can become part of the alchemy that transforms a story into something greater than the sum of its parts.