2010 African Railway BBC Four

In a moving and often funny documentary, award-winning filmmaker Sean Langan is off to East Africa to ride the rails of the Tazara railroad, whose passenger and goods trains travel through spectacular scenery and a game park teeming with wild animals.

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

Winner 2008 BANFF World Television Award for Investigative & Current Affairs Programs.

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 BBC Four

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 BBC Four / 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 US 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 Los Angeles with illegal immigrants.

2002 Langan in Zimbabwe BBC Four / 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 Awards.

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.

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.