Hale and a small team of producers made a number of series including ‘Power and Piety’, five documentaries about religious conflict; ‘The Asian Century’ focusing on pivotal moments in Asian history; and ‘Inventing Southeast Asia’ made with Dr Farish Noor.
Hale was educated at the University of Sussex and Slade School of Fine Art - and began his television career as a film editor.
[2] Hale described the experience of making the film and dealing with the anger it provoked in a chapter The Atleantean Box in 'Archaeological Fantasies', edited by Garret G. Fagan for Routledge.
[5] Hale published Hitler's Foreign Executioners – an intensive analysis of SS recruitment of non German police and Waffen-SS units and their role in the Nazi genocide.
Hale's third non-fiction book was a revisionist analysis of the Malayan Emergency: Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai (2013)[6] He contributed to The Waffen SS (OUP, 2016).