An Academy Award-winning cinematographer who won the New York Film Critics Award for his first debut as a director ("A World Apart" 1988), Chris Menges began his career as an assistant editor and camera operator and even worked as a sound recordist several times before working his way up to director of photography. Menges had his first real break as a documentary cameraperson and editor in the 1960s and 70s traveling wherever there was war and insurrection--Burma, Angola, Vietnam and Tibet--working with documentary filmmaker Adrian Cowell. Back in his native England, Menges early feature work