Worldview Pictures was founded in 1989 by Stephen Trombley. He began his film and television career with Mirageland Ltd., one of the first independent production companies formed in the UK after the deregulation of the television market. During 1985-1990 he devised, wrote and produced two ITV network series for young people: “Professor Lobster”, and “Erasmus Microman”, starring Ken Campbell. His first documentary film, broadcast on the ITV network, was “The Pride Factor”, featuring HRH the Prince of Wales on the subject of community architecture. He next produced two documentaries for Channel 4, “The Battle For Stone Basset”, on a farming community’s attempt to stave off development; and “The Case of ‘F’”, about the court-ordered sterilization of a 14-year-old 
girl. He made his international directorial debut with “Caffe Lena”, for the BBC and the PBS network, 
featuring Spalding Gray, Arlo Guthrie, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and others.
In 1990 he founded Worldview Pictures in London. The company’s first theatrical release was “The Execution Protocol” (1992), produced in association with the Discovery Channel, BBC and a host of European broadcast partners. The film, along with Trombley’s book of the same name, achieved enormous international success. The New York Times compared it to Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”. It won Germany’s top award, the Adolf Grimme Prize along with many other 
honors. In 1994 Bruce Eadie joined Worldview as producer and managing director. Together with Trombley, he was responsible for over a dozen films 
and television series in the period 1994-2001. Their first collaboration was “The Lynchburg Story” (1993), on the forced sterilization of 8,000 children at a Virginia state facility. This was followed by “Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris 1941-1944”, an account of French government complicity in the deportation of 72,500 Jews to Nazi death camps. Only 2,500 survived. “Raising Hell” (1995) is an account of the life of A. J. Bannister, a Missouri death row inmate who had featured in “The Execution Protocol”. Research gathered in the making of the film led to a last-minute stay of execution. “Nuremberg” (1996), made at the suggestion of Discovery’s Dan Salerno, marked the 50th 
anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. Told exclusively from the points of view of participants in the trials, it won an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming in 1997. “Project X” (1988), produced by Kyle Hughes, looked at the dilemmas posed by the policy of castrating sex offenders. While researching archive footage in Washington D.C. for “Nuremberg”, Stephen Trombley came across Sir John Keegan’s book A History of 
Warfare. As soon as he had read it he telephoned Keegan’s agent, Anthony Shiel, and asked if his client would be interested in an 8-part series based on his life’s work. The result was “War & Civilization”, produced for The Learning Channel and La Cinquieme. It was narrated by the late Walter Cronkite. In 1997 A. J. Bannister, the Missouri death row inmate who had appeared in two previous Worldview Pictures productions, was executed. In “a death in the family”, Worldview Pictures followed his family and that of Bannister’s victim throughout the ordeal of the execution. Trombley himself witnessed the execution, and he visited both families one year after the event to learn what effect it had upon them. In 2000 Kyle Hughes and Bruce Eadie produced the film “99% Woman”, which followed the fortunes of a family in which the father surgically changed sex to become a woman. Martin Sheen narrated Worldview Pictures’ 2001 feature, “Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace”. Stephen Trombley spent two years “inside the fence” at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, and was the first filmmaker to gain access for a week inside the Russian nuclear city of Arzamas-16 (Sarov).
In 2004 Worldview Pictures moved to New York. For five years Stephen Trombley worked as a consultant to film, television and theatrical producers. In 2009 he resumed full-time film and television production with a documentary on “Eliot Spitzer”. The company is also developing series on near earth asteroids, along with ones on chocolate and tea. Documentary films in development include “Gas Rush”, on the exploitation of Marcellus Shale natural gas fields on the Pennsylvania-New York border, and “Desegregating Westchester”, on the court-ordered building of 750 low-income housing units in a predominantly white suburban county of New York.
