Sean Langan -Filmography
2007 → Fighting the Taliban - Channel 4
→ Winner Rory Peck Award, Best Feature, 2007. Nominated for Bafta, 2008.
Sean Langan witnesses the bloody battle to retake the strategically critical town of Garmser in Helmand province.
Overstretched and outnumbered, are the British troops fighting an unwinnable war in Afghanistan?
2007 → Meeting the Taliban - Channel 4
→ Shortlisted for Royal Television Society Award, 2008.
Having witnessed the battle for the town of Garmser in the Helmand province of Afghanistan,
Sean Langan goes to meet the fighters British troops are facing - The Taliban. He recounts the experience.
2006 → Afghan Ladies' Driving School - BBC4
→ Winner Commonwealth Broadcasting Award, 2006.
In a country where women had no rights, now, thanks to Mamozai's Ladies and Gentlemen's Driving Course,
Kabul's women are learning to drive for the first time.
2004 → Mission Accomplished: Langan in Iraq - BBC4/BBC2
→ Shortlisted for Rory Peck Awards, (2005). Shortlisted for IDA (International Documentary Awards) 2005.
90 minute documentary about the insurgency war in Iraq.
Filmed over three months and set in the Sunni Triangle towns of Fallujha, Ramadi
and Samarra, Mission Accomplished featured the first in-depth
interviews with members of the Iraqi resitance, as well as with Iraqi civilians and U.S
soldiers while out on patrol and under atttack. The film also
includes revelations by ex-prisoners of abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib,
three months before the facts were revealed in the West. Released theatrically in America and shortlisted
by IDA International Documentary Award and Rory Peck Award. Mission Accomplished
was also voted one of the top ten Documentaries in the world in 2005 by International Documentary Award.
2003 → Travels with a Gringo: Langan in Latin America - Channel 4
Three x 60 minute series. Langan travelled from Argentina to Mexico, following
in the footsteps of Che Guevara, to look at the impact of globalisation on Latin America, and ending up on the border of
L.A. with illegal immigrants.
2002 → Langan in Zimbabwe - BBC4/BBC2
60 minute under-cover documentary about political violence in Zimbabwe.
Exclusive account of Robert Mugabe's repression of the political
opposition, independent media and innocent civilians in Zimbabwe.
2001 → Langan behind the Lines - BBC2
→ Shortlisted for Bafta, Grierson Award, and One World Award.
Five part series about the growing tensions in the Middle
East. Parts 1 & 2, Kabul Vice and Tea with the Taliban, provided the first in-depth look at
Afghanistan under the Taliban regime. Part three, Women In Black, looked at the reform movement in Iran; Part
four, The Saddam Show, looked at life in Iraq under sanctions and Saddam, and part five, Life's a Beach,
looked at life in Gaza and the increasing tensions that were soon
to explode. Shortlisted for a Bafta, Grierson and One World Awards.
1998 → Nightmare in Paradise - BBC2
Three part series on Sean Langan's search for four Western tourists kidnapped in
Kashmir. After six months on their trail, Langan managed to contact
the kidnappers, members of an Islamic militant group
later alligned to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. But as well as the
plight of four western tourists, Nightmare in Paradise also
records the plight of the Kashmiri people, and the widespread
abuse of human rights by Indian security forces in their fight against Islamic seperatists.