The House Of War

An insiders' account of the Mazar-I-Sharif uprising in Afghanistan in 2002.

The battle at the fortress of Qali-i-Jangi would become a microcosm for the barbarity of war, with vicious fighting at close quarters all documented by western TV crews caught in the thick of it.

The House of War reveals just what happened in Qala-I-Jangi, from the moment the first prisoner blew himself up with a hand grenade, through the killing of US special agent Mike Spann, then seven days of ferocious fighting, to the final surrender and emergence of "The American Taliban", John Walker Lindh.

It subsequently transpired that Walker had been filmed being interrogated by Mike Spann ... this award-winning documentary features the footage of their encounter.

Spann and Walker's lives and fates had intertwined in what became the biggest story of the war.

A Film by PAUL YULE