Born in Essex in 1958, Tomahawk Films' producer Brian Matthews has spent the last 45 years in the small village of Twyford on the beautiful River Itchen, near Winchester on the South Coast, from where he has worked as a writer, producer, broadcaster and military historian since joining the world of international television in 1982. 
A student of World War Two and a collector of German military memorabilia since opening up part of his parent's house as a small museum at the age of 13, Brian, pictured left, has come up the hard way through the ranks of film and television, working variously as a production manager and floor-manager on a number of UK television series and programmes for ITV and Channel Four including, Jack Hargreaves' Out of Town, Channel Four's 'Brookside', Ashes Test Cricket for Channel Nine Australia and numerous live outside broadcasts for Eurosport and many top rock bands, before becoming a local radio presenter and narrator of programmes for the BBC and Satellite Television and a host of WWII-interest television documentaries and videos.
However, it was his life-time interest in World War II that brought about his eventual creation of Tomahawk Films through which he wrote, funded and produced his acclaimed 50 minute television documentary'Channel Islands Occupied' before turning his attention to World War Two German Military Music and the little-known soldier-musicians who performed it, resulting in his acclaimed reference book The Military Music and Bandsmen of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich 1933-45 ipublished n 2002.
A five year parallel contract working as the Media 
Consultant to the States of Guernsey Tourist Board in the mid 1990s also saw Brian regularly writing and broadcasting on the subject of that island's war-time German occupation, in addition to working as a historical adviser to the many television & movie companies that filmed there during Brian's contract; however it is Tomahawk Films and its continued involvement in the Third Reich period military and civilian music that is Brian's great love!
Originally a television production company when first formed in 1987, Tomahawk Films is now run as a full-time professional archive specialising in Third Reich military music and many international film and TV production companies from MGM in Hollywood to the BBC in London often turn to Brian first for help and advice with their historical archival needs. In addition Tomahawk also continues to produce broadcast studio quality III Reich music CDs which are avaliable to the collector and enthusiast via the company's renowned mail-order catalogue and on-line via the Tomahawk's website and fully sanctioned eBay shop. Today 'Bruno', (as he is often known), as well as overseeing the day-to-day running of Tomahawk also continues to combine his work as a freelance presenter, voice-over narrator and military journalist with his on-going personal passion for collecting Third Reich Military Music related ephemera and memorabilia.
In particular Brian is very serious about his on-going work writing and research in the field of Third Reich military music and in maintaining ties with German veterans of World War two occasioning Willy Casselmann, Chormeister, of the Waffen-SS Veterans Soldatenchor, Minden, Germany to state in recent years that ".. in all of Germany I have never met another man, in Brian, with such love for German soldiership, military music, and the songs that soldiers sing.
Third Reich music collectors the world over now benefit from Brian's drive and passion for his work and such is his 'hands on' approach to Tomahawks' daily life that you will quite often find it is him you speak to when calling up the Winchester Production Office on the South Coast, something he very much enjoys, feeling that it is this direct personal contact with the company’s valued customers and a complete attention to the detail of their CD, DVD or Book order that all combines to help make Tomahawk Films the leader in the professional field of marketing World War Two German historical archival products!