In 1965, Huw Wheldon and the director of BBC2, David Attenborough, asked Griffith if he would like to make a film for the BBC on any subject that he chose. This resulted in a series of BBC films on subjects as diverse as the Boer War in "Soldiers of the Widow" (1967), "A Touch of Churchill", "A Touch of Hitler" (1971), the controversial story of Thomas Paine in "The Most Valuable Englishman Ever", David Ben-Gurion ("The Light"), Napoleon Bonaparte ("The Man on the Rock"), Jawaharlal Nehru, Roger Casement ("Heart of Darkness", 1992) and on one occasion a film commissioned by Thames Television on the story of the Three Wise Men of the New Testament, "A Famous Journey" (1979). Griffith was expelled from Iran by the country's Foreign Minister.