The BBC Persian documentary series Son of the revolution premiered in Feb 2020. The series follows Sadegh Ghotbzadeh's fascinating journey from a revolutionary in exile, to government minister and finally traitor in the eyes of the Islamic Republic. It was directed and produced by Farshad Bayan working with producer and researcher Mahmoud Azimaee. The project took over 5 years to complete. The 3 parts mini series, uses archive footage and features 30 people who knew him or had interesting encounter with him to shed light on Ghotbzadeh's character and tell fascinating stories about his activities both before and after the Iranian Revolution that led to his death sentence. The documentary was published on YouTube in Persian language.