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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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer and director
- 11 on MovieCove · 31 credits in all
Known for
What are James Rogan's films like?
Across their 11 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 8
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 5
Grounded 8 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 4 · Intense 3
Steady 7 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 4
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch James Rogan's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for James Rogan's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
31 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Free Nelson Mandela (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Bowie: The Final Act(2025)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Grenfell: Uncovered(2025)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
The Secret of Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
The Kingdom: The World’s Most Powerful Prince (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Skint: The Truth About Britain's Broken Economy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
ABBA: Against the Odds(2024)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Becoming Frida Kahlo(2023)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
My Daughter's Killer(2022)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Uprising (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Subnormal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows
Putin: A Russian Spy Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Border Country: When Ireland Was Divided (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
The Confession(2016)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
One Night In 2012 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Power of Women (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Her Story: The Female Revolution (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all filmsAmnesty! When They Are All Free (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Trouble with Pirates (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Blog Wars (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
The Open Doors (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Dead Bolt Dead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
The Gingerbread House (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Career shape
A full career of 28 titles from 1996 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Confession (2016)
Highest rated
Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (2021)
Most popular right now
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
a BAFTA Award from 4 major nominations, 2021–2026.
- BAFTA Award, won · Single Documentary
- BAFTA Award, nominated ×2 · Specialist Factual
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Specialist Factual
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do James Rogan's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 87th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 85th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 11 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the atmosphere 67/100 and the pacing 48/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does James Rogan work with?
People who share at least 2 of James Rogan's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Soleta Rogan shares the most, 5.
Actors
- Elton JohnShared titles: 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021), Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Elton John
Editors
- Simon BarkerShared titles: The Final: Attack on Wembley (2024), 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021), The Confession (2016), Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (2014)See all 4 shared titles with Simon Barker
- Esther GimenezShared titles: ABBA: Against the Odds (2024), Becoming Frida Kahlo (2023), 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Esther Gimenez
- Brett IrwinShared titles: My Daughter's Killer (2022), 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Brett Irwin
Producers
- Soleta RoganShared titles: Grenfell: Uncovered (2025), The Final: Attack on Wembley (2024), Becoming Frida Kahlo (2023), My Daughter's Killer (2022), Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (2021)See all 5 shared titles with Soleta Rogan
- Daniel HallShared titles: Bowie: The Final Act (2025), ABBA: Against the Odds (2024), Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Daniel Hall
- Mark HedgecoeShared titles: Becoming Frida Kahlo (2023), Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? (2023), Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Mark Hedgecoe
- Vivienne SteeleShared titles: Becoming Frida Kahlo (2023), Body on the Beach: What Happened to Annie? (2023), The Confession (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Vivienne Steele
Mixed roles
- Olaide SadiqShared titles: Grenfell: Uncovered (2025), The Final: Attack on Wembley (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Olaide Sadiq
- Roger GraefShared titles: The Confession (2016), Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Roger Graef
