[2] Munden began his career as an assistant to Mike Leigh, Derek Jarman, and Terence Davies before directing documentaries for television at the BBC.

Mark Monahan of The Daily Telegraph described it as “a dark, tantalisingly mysterious overture,”[3] while Sam Wollaston of The Guardian called it “a work of brilliant imagination,” “a 21st-century nightmare” that “looks beautiful,” but also wondered about the gratuitousness of its violence.

National Treasure received critical acclaim upon release with many reviewers noting the sensitivity of Jack Thorne's screenwriting, the nuanced character portrayals and Munden's distinctive artistic style.

In 2017 Munden teamed up with writer Tony Grisoni to make Crazy Diamond as part of the Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 book, the story centers on Mary Lennox, a troubled, sickly, 10-year-old orphan who is sent to live with an uncle in England when her parents die in a cholera outbreak.

Munden is set to direct the final three episodes of the series, which stars Hoa Xuande alongside Robert Downey Jr. and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.