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James Rogan(I)

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James Rogan
James Rogan is a multi-award winning filmmaker known for films and series such as iEmmy and Rose d'Or winning Freddie Mercury: The Final Act and Uprising, which he directed with Sir Steve McQueen. The landmark series picked up many awards including a BAFTA and a Realscreen Award in the Non-fiction Archive-based category to name just two.

James is the Creative Director of Rogan Productions a multi-award-winning production company, with recent credits including feature documentaries My Daughter's Killer for Netflix, Black Power: A British Story of Resistance for BBC and Farage for Channel 4. James has also directed 4 of the 8 episodes of the ground-breaking music series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, working with James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia (the Academy Award-winning team behind Amy and Senna).

James is probably best known for directing Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation for BBC1. The series picked up multiple awards, including a BAFTA and an RTS nomination for best director and two Grierson awards for Best Historical Documentary and Best Documentary Series.

Among his other directing credits are: Rose d'Or nominated feature documentary Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live and the RTS-nominated arts documentary One Night in 2012. He also has directed three feature documentaries for the Academy Award-winning BBC Storyville strand: Blog Wars, The Trouble with Pirates and Amnesty: When They Are All Free.

As the creative director and executive producer at Rogan Productions, James has produced many groundbreaking films including Realscreen award-winner Putin: A Russian Spy Story for Channel 4 in the UK; the double-Grierson award-winning Stabbed: Britain's Knife Crime Crisis for BBC1; Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne for BBC Storyville and ZDF/ARTE; The Confession for BBC Storyville, BFI, and Creative England.

He established Rogan Productions in 2013 to make high-quality films across a range of platforms, from cinema to online, from broadcast to brands. Since then the company has grown rapidly, making dozens of films for broadcasters, agencies, and brands.

He runs the company with his wife Soleta Rogan, the Managing Director.
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    • Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
      • 8 nominations total

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    Freddie Mercury in L'Adieu à Freddie Mercury (2021)
    L'Adieu à Freddie Mercury
    7.8
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 2021
    Uprising (2021)
    Uprising
    7.7
    TV Mini Series
    • Director
    1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)
    1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Director
    Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation (2018)
    Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation
    8.0
    TV Mini Series
    • Director

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    Director



    • ABBA, les coulisses derrière la légende (2024)
      ABBA, les coulisses derrière la légende
      7.3
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Freddie Mercury in L'Adieu à Freddie Mercury (2021)
      L'Adieu à Freddie Mercury
      7.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Uprising (2021)
      Uprising
      7.7
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)
      1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation (2018)
      Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation
      8.0
      TV Mini Series
      • series director
      • 2018
    • Panorama (1953)
      Panorama
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017
    • One Night in 2012 (2016)
      One Night in 2012
      8.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2016
    • The Power of Women (2015)
      The Power of Women
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Modern Times (1995)
      Modern Times
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (2014)
      Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2014
    • A Very British Airline (2014)
      A Very British Airline
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Malcolm Walker in Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet (2013)
      Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Changing Fortunes (2013)
      Changing Fortunes
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Dispatches (1987)
      Dispatches
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2012
    • Amnesty! When They Are All Free
      7.9
      • Director
      • 2011

    Producer



    • Grenfell Uncovered
      • executive producer
      • Completed
      • 2025
    • Untitled Cambodian Doc
      • producer
      • Completed
    • Landmines
      • producer



    • Michelle Mone in The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone (2025)
      The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone
      7.0
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2025
    • Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd (2025)
      Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
      3.5
      • executive producer
      • 2025
    • The Secret of Me (2025)
      The Secret of Me
      8.3
      • producer
      • 2025
    • The Search for Nicola Bulley
      7.3
      TV Special
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Euro 2020: Une finale au bord du chaos (2024)
      Euro 2020: Une finale au bord du chaos
      6.3
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Defiance: Fighting the Far Right (2024)
      Defiance: Fighting the Far Right
      7.7
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Original Sin: My Son the Killer (2024)
      Original Sin: My Son the Killer
      8.0
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Frida Kahlo and Nickolas Muray in Becoming Frida Kahlo (2023)
      Becoming Frida Kahlo
      7.6
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? (2023)
      Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie?
      6.1
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change (2023)
      Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change
      9.6
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • ITV Exposure (2011)
      ITV Exposure
      6.0
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Made in the 80's: The Decade That Shaped Our World (2022)
      Made in the 80's: The Decade That Shaped Our World
      6.4
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2022–2023
    • Untold (2022)
      Untold
      6.4
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • A Very British Way of Torture (2022)
      A Very British Way of Torture
      7.0
      TV Movie
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • L'assassin de ma fille (2022)
      L'assassin de ma fille
      6.9
      • executive producer
      • 2022

    Writer



    • The Power of Women (2015)
      The Power of Women
      • Writer
      • 2015
    • Janusz
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2009
    • The Open Doors (2004)
      The Open Doors
      7.3
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2004

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