Film Work
2005: An Iraqi Love Story.
Damien Lewis has been scripting a feature film about an ex-SAS soldier who falls in love with an Iraqi girl, leading to a burning romance that will eventually cost him his life.
2003-2005: War Hospital.
Damien Lewis was both director and cameraman on this 90-minute feature documentary filmed on High Definition TV (HDTV), which follows the work of ICRC doctors and nurses at the world’s biggest field hospital serving the Sudan civil war. Winner: Discovery-NHK BANFF Award / Columbus Film Festival.
2000-2001: Walking with the Gods.
Damien Lewis scripted this three part Discovery documentary series following Hindu devotees on an annual pilgrimage to the God Katrigama, through the war-torn Tamil Tiger area of North Sri Lanka.
2000: Green Hell.
Damien Lewis produced and wrote this documentary film following a team of crack British Paras on an attempt to make the first unaided crossing of the notorious Darien Gap, in Panama - renowned as one of the most dense and forbidding areas of jungle in the world.
2000: Death in the Air.
Damien Lewis reported, directed and filmed an extraordinary investigation into alleged use of chemical weapons in the Sudan civil war. The Rory Peck Awards 2000.
1999: The Oil Wars.
Damien Lewis reported, directed and filmed an exclusive Channel 4 documentary investigation ranging from the war zones of Southern Sudan to North America and Europe, revealing the true cost of oil production in Sudan.
1999: Kill or be Killed.
Damien Lewis produced a Channel 4 documentary investigating how young British Muslim men are arrested on terrorist charges in Yemen – a plot allegedly masterminded by extremist Islamist London cleric, Abu Hamza. An investigation into the truth behind this story – and the attraction that militant Islam offers disaffected British Muslims, including shocking images that presage the 9/11 terror attacks on New York.
1999: Countdown to Extinction.
Damien Lewis was Burma director and cameraman for a BBC1 special documentary report into the threatened extinction of the world’s tigers.
1999: Exporting Evil.
Damien Lewis was director and reporter for a Channel 5/ITN documentary investigation into how Saddam Hussein has tried to evade the UN weapons inspections in Iraq by hiding his weapons of mass destruction in friendly countries.
1998: Sudan – the Secret Story.
Damien Lewis was director, reporter and cameraman for a film exposing the untold cost of the famine in Sudan, and how hunger was being used as a weapon of war.
1998: Hidden cost of Heroin.
Damien Lewis was director and cameraman for a BBC film exposing how wildlife-for-heroin deals on the Burmese border are decimating elephant and tiger populations. An investigative journey exposing the secret costs of the heroin epidemic in Burma. BBC One World Awards
1998: Prawn Wars.
Damien Lewis was director and cameraman for a BBC2 film exposing the hidden cost of aquaculture in India.
1998: Rainforest Rip-offs.
Damien Lewis was director, reporter and cameraman for a film exposing how billions in European Union aid money are being put to destructive uses in the African rainforest.
1997: Conquering the Mountain of Fire.
Damien Lewis was writer for a National Geographic documentary following a 12-man British Army expedition into the vast Atacama Desert in Chile - the most arid place of earth - to climb Mount Copiapo, the World's highest active volcano.
1997: First Contact – Last Rites.
Damien Lewis was director and cameraman for a National Geographic documentary following a Brazilian Government expedition to find one of the last un-contacted Indian tribes. Filmed over 8 months in the Amazon jungles.
1997: Lost Tribes.
Damien Lewis was director and cameraman on a BBC documentary on the search for a lost tribe in the Amazon.
1997: Yemen’s Cultural Drug.
Damien Lewis was writer on an NHK/Arte film about Qat use in Yemen – filmed over six months.
1995: Air of Death.
Damien Lewis was director and cameraman on a Channel 4 documentary about the alleged use of germ warfare in Burma, filmed with the cooperation of CBDE Porton Down.
1995: Life on the Line.
Damien Lewis was director, reporter and cameraman
on a film exposing slavery in the Burmese jungles. Filmed over 8 months
spent living with the soldiers of the KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army).
BBC One World Awards
1995: The Tribe that Time Forgot.
Damien Lewis was writer of a WGBH/PBS Nova film on the Arara Indians of the Brazilian Amazon.
1993: Simukai.
Damien Lewis was recordist, producer and writer of an NFTS / EC co-production on the fates of ex-liberation soldiers in Zimbabwe – those who toppled Ian Smith’s regime. Filmed over six months.
1991: Parks or People.
Damien Lewis was writer and producer of a documentary on 16mm about the clash between conservation and tribal people in Cameroon’s rainforests. BBC-WWF Wildscreen Award.