[3] At age 16, while still at Winchester College (1953–57),[4] Miles became the first person to show 8mm film on television (6 April 1957),[5][6] at the invitation of the BBC’s children’s program All Your Own.

[9] After six months at Stewarts & Lloyds Steel Works in Corby, he decided to study film direction at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (1961–62) in Paris.

[14] Miles was Patron of the Christopher Marlowe Society, and helped raise money in 2002 for a window in Westminster Abbey in memory of the great Elizabethan poet and playwright.

[18][19] Due to ‘A Vol d’Oiseau’ Miles was able to persuade the Boulting Brothers to part finance his first 35mm project The Six-Sided Triangle (1963), which he wrote, directed and co-produced.

[26] In 1969 he directed The Virgin and the Gypsy based on the D. H. Lawrence novella, which was voted the best film by both the British Critics Circle and the New York Press, and was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1970.

Anglia's chairman Sir John Woolf, after the success of the film's worldwide sales, offered Miles the first of the Tales of the Unexpected, then introduced by Roald Dahl.

‘Priest of Love’ (1981)[36] was filmed in Cornwall, Nottingham, Oaxaca, Florence, and France in the houses where Lawrence actually wrote, painted and died.

While waiting for Melina Mercouri and ERT/Greek National Television to give him the go-ahead for his script on how Lord Elgin acquired the marbles from the Parthenon, he made three documentaries with Greek connections.

Finally Jules Dassin, (Melina Mercouri’s husband) cleared the way for the docu-drama of ‘Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value’ (1985) to begin shooting on the Acropolis.

[43] The 18th-century Stanway House in Gloucestershire provided the setting for Miles’ film version of the David Garrick and George Coleman's comedy of the ′Clandestine Marriage’ (2000) to a successful finale, which was completed in six weeks despite the producers' momentary lapse in funding.

[45][46][47] To celebrate the 28th Olympiad in Athens, Miles teamed up with ERT TV in Greece again, to examine the myths and truths of the modern Games in ‘Fire from Olympia’ (2004), which was re-edited and distributed as a DVD in 2012 for the London Olympics.