Gold has produced and directed several history series for BBC2 , including '' Watergate '' ( 1994 ) , a five-hour series about the downfall of President Nixon which won a Primetime Emmy Award , and a duPont Columbia Award . Gold co-directed '' Death of Apartheid '' ( US title : '' Mandela 's Fight For Freedom '' ) ( 1995 ) , a three-hour history of how Nelson Mandela negotiated his way out of prison and into power as the first President of an ANC government of South Africa . The series was written by the South African journalist , Allister Sparks , and it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 1996 . '' Endgame In Ireland '' ( 2001 ) , won a Peabody Award for its " enlightening exploration of the tortuous complexities of international peace negotiations in Northern Ireland " . Gold also produced and directed six episodes of the BBC2 art history series '' The Private Life of a Masterpiece '' , focusing on paintings by Velázquez , Goya , Delacroix , Degas , Dalí , and Rogier van der Weyden
duPont Columbia Award
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
Mick Gold