Known for Sound
Ben Baird is an award winning sound designer and re-recording mixer. He is known for Conclave (2024), Lady Macbeth (2016) and The Wonder (2022). Starting out in the Sound Effects Library at North London’s Sound Development Studios in 1989, Ben soon moved into the mix studio working on both scripted and non-scripted content. In 1997 Ben set up Aquarium Studios, a Sound Design and Post Production Facility based in the heart of Soho, which is still his home after 26 years. With the Aquarium Team behind him, Ben is now a highly sought after Sound Designer and re-recording Mixer, and has been rewarded with 3 BAFTA’s, 1 BIFA and in 2022 an Emmy. In 2017 Aquarium also opened a facility in Brussels, Belgium where Ben spends a lot of time mixing. Ben’s Recent Credits include Edward Berger’s Conclave, John Maclean’s Tornado, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre, Rob Morgan’s Stopmotion, Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience and The Wonder, Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, as well as The Great Escaper starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson, and James Marsh’s Samuel Beckett biopic Dance First. In documentary, credits include Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump and Sam Blair’s Ronnie O’Sullivan:The Edge of Everything. Ben has completed numerous High End TV Drama series including Prime Suspect, Merlin, Ripper Street, and more recently The Lazarus Project, War of The Worlds and Paris Has Fallen.
Filmography
68 films, 1 show


The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
2026 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
In the Scottish village of Arberloch, Kenneth, a grieving tour guide, is devoted to preserving the legacy of the town's sole historical figure—eighteenth-century inventor Sir Douglas Weatherford. But when a fantasy series chooses Arberloch as its filming location, and the town turns its back on Weatherford in favour of fan culture, Kenneth descends into madness.


Ballad of a Small Player
2025 · 1h 41m
country: Germany
Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.


Last Breath
2025 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.


Conclave
2024 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.


The Teacher
2024 · 1h 58m
country: Qatar
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.


Stopmotion
2024 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.


Scrapper
2023 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.


The Wonder
2022 · 1h 48m
country: Ireland
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.


Mr Malcolm's List
2022 · 1h 57m
country: Ireland
When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.


Misha and the Wolves
2021 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.


Creation Stories
2021 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.


Say Your Prayers
2021 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the famed atheist writer Professor John Huxley.


County Lines
2020 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen year old boy who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise, a 'County Line', which exploits vulnerable children and traffics them across Britain.


Dune Drifter
2020 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
When the trainee pilot and her mortally wounded gunner are shot down, they crash land on a nearby planet. An enemy craft offers the chance of spare parts to fix her ship, but then she spots another survivor - an enemy alien soldier with no intention of letting her escape.


Limbo
2020 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.


Summerland
2020 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.


Responsible Child
2019 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
Ray, a twelve-year-old boy, must confront the British legal system when he is accused of murder.


The Child in Time
2018 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.


Disobedience
2018 · 1h 54m
country: Ireland
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.


Aux
2018 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
When two young boys playing in the woods discover a military bunker they unintentionally release the ghost of a World War II auxiliary soldier who mistakenly believes the Nazis have landed.


The Levelling
2017 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.


Mum's List
2016 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
The story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.


Watani: My Homeland
2016 · 40m
country: United Kingdom
The story of one family's fight and struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. Having lost her husband, the mother makes the heart achingly painful decision to leave her homeland, in search of safety and a brighter future for her children. Filmed over three years, the film chronicles the family's journey from the front-line in Aleppo, to a little town in Germany. Escaping the chaos and terror of their war torn homeland becomes a catalyst for a different kind of struggle; the struggle to understand your past and accept your present, to adapt to a new life, to hold on to hope, and the idea of belonging to a homeland.


The Unfolding
2016 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
It is 2016 and a fearful world seems to be on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. A researcher in psychical events and his girlfriend travel to deepest Dartmoor to investigate a centuries-old building. What they unlock and discover is way more than they could have ever bargained for. An exciting first feature from newcomer Eugene McGing, who expertly takes familiar tropes and gives them a fresh spin in this genuinely terrifying haunted house tale.


The Fall of the Krays
2016 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
The brutal brothers from Bethnal Green are back and bloodier than ever in Fall of the Krays. Following on from the ferocious Rise Of The Krays, Fall of the Krays picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the cracks start to show in the brothers business plans and their sanity. Having secured their empire and their infamy, the brothers must now fight to keep hold of both as the obsession of one police officer becomes entwined with a burgeoning romance and a dangerous state of mind for Reggie and Ronnie respectively.


Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II
2015 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
On 6 December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. In early 1997, the perpetrator has yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is convinced that it’s only a matter of time before he’s next.


The Rise of the Krays
2015 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to become the most feared and respected villains in London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.


Captain Webb
2015 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
The story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first-ever person to successfully swim the English Channel in 1875 equipped only with his moustache, doses of Brandy and a wire wool swimsuit.


Scar Tissue
2013 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
When Luke wakes up and finds a mutilated corpse in his bathroom, his life changes for ever. Stalked by a terrifying psychopathic serial killer, he has to place his trust in the hands of a smart but volatile female cop, Sam Cross. The secret they uncover shatters Luke s life and brings Sam face to face with demons from her tragic childhood..


Deviation
2012 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when Frankie takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.


Cinderella
2000 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.


Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
1993 · 55m
country: United Kingdom
A delightful DVD of Prokofiev's universally beloved and popular "musical tale," brought to life by human actors in a fairytale world inhabited by Muppet-like characters. Pop star Sting (The Police) lends his voice to a Sting puppet for the witty, enlightening commentary that guides the viewer through this charming suite.