Sagas of the Raven Land

Tom Rowsell is an historian and an independent film maker, director and editor, known for From Runes to Ruins (2014) and Megalithic Origins (2023).

He began making films aged 15 and went on to study film and media at the University of Brighton. At University Rowsell produced a music video for a local band which was praised on BBC Radio 1 by DJ Mike Davies in 2007. Rowsell's first project after graduation was an unreleased drama entitled Fags, starring William Sellers, the grandson of Peter Sellers, however it was abandoned during post-production. Rowsell went to Venezuela in 2008 to create Boobs and Revolution (2010), a documentary about socialism and breast surgery under President Hugo Chavez.

in 2012 Rowsell received an MA in Medieval history from University College London. He subsequently wrote, directed and presented the full length documentary film, From Runes to Ruins (2014) which was about Anglo-Saxon history and its contribution to modern British identity. In 2018 Rowsell directed, edited and narrated two films for the World Health Organization's Programme for International Drug Monitoring; Making Medicines Safer (2018) and '50 years of WHO monitoring medicines' for which he interviewed Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva. The latter film was only for internal use by WHO. In the same year he travelled to India to make a film concerning his ancestors in the British Raj entitled A Passage to India: From Aryans to Empire (2018). This was a sequel to an earlier film he made in Sri Lanka; A British History of Ceylon Tea (2016).

His subsequent films have been history documentaries filmed around the world.