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A field of journalism that often put him in extremely dangerous situations.

And it wasn't always while conducting interviews with armed insurgents because he's also spent a lot of time with those fighting on the other side.

In fact, at the same time that he was creating the documentary Meeting the Taliban, he was also filming one called Fighting the Taliban, where he shadowed British troops and the Afghan National Police as they fought side by side against the Taliban for control of areas within the Helmand province.

And to say things got dicey would be an understatement.

Time and time again, Sean is placing himself in the most hostile places in the world to cover the most dangerous conflicts of the time.

And he says he couldn't have been more fulfilled by what he was doing.

I've watched many, many documentaries around the war in Afghanistan and also the Iraq war and other conflicts around the world.

I've watched all of Sean's work.

And there's a common theme that you sort of hear among those who have served.

And it's about what happens when they come home.

Because the thing that soldiers almost never say out loud is sometimes they want to go back.

Not because they love the violence, not because they're adrenaline junkies, but because after months of dodging RPGs, after weeks sleeping in the dirt with a rifle across your chest, after days where every street corner could be your last, you come home and suddenly nobody understands you anymore.

Your mates back here want to talk about football, the weather, meaningless things that feel impossibly small when you've spent every waking hour hyper alert, scanning rooftops, watching for movement, living in a state of focus so intense it's almost transcendent.

And the men you served with, the ones who would have given their lives for you, who saw you at your absolute worst, well, for a lot of them, they're still over there.

And you're here, safe, comfortable, but alone.

It's a paradox that makes no sense to anyone who hasn't lived it.

How do you miss a place that tried to kill you?

How do you crave the company of war?

But many soldiers do.

Veterans have described it as the only time they ever felt truly alive.