Brent Sadler
INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST JOURNALIST

"I never imagined that I would become an international television correspondent
when I started out as a cub reporter for a local newspaper in Britain. It just happened."

GALLERY

  • Southern TV Clips
  • Westward TV Clips
  • HTV West Clips
  • ITN Sign-outs
  • CNN Sign-outs
  • A Sadler report from aboard a British warship bound for the Falkland Islands in 1981
  • An exclusive front-line report from Chad, Central Africa in 1983 after a hazardous desert journey
  • Lebanon’s Mountain War 1983. Front-line Souk El Gharb with a unit of the Lebanese army
  • Memorable 1984 flight in a WWII Spitfire in the skies over Southern England where the Battle of Britain was fought almost fifty years earlier
  • Landing an ITN crew on Rockall in 1985, a remote islet where a British adventurer was staking claim to the rock for Great Britain
  • Exclusive award-winning Sadler reports from inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut under siege in 1987
  • Sadler's live appearance on ABC of America’s ''Primetime Live'' show in 1989 with Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson
  • Eve of Gulf War One report from Baghdad, 1991
  • Start of Gulf War One as seen from the window of the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad, 1991
  • BAFTA award-winning report of Sadler witnessing a wave of cruise missiles targeting the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, 1991
  • Sadler appears on CNN’s ''International Hour'' with Ralph Begleiter discussing the horrors of war in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 1994
  • NATO’s controversial bombing of the RTS (Radio Television Serbia) studios in Belgrade, Serbia during the conflict over Kosovo in 1999. Sixteen RTS members of staff died in the attack that failed to shut down the state broadcaster for more than a few hours
  • The hunt for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, 2001
  • Having published one of the first stories in the career of superstar musician Sir Elton John, Sadler meets him in Lebanon
  • An exclusive Sadler report on US Special Forces targeting the military positions of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq, 2003
  • Brent Sadler’s exclusive report from inside Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on April 13, 2003 some 48 hours ahead of US forces. It almost cost him and his news team their lives during a controversial exchange of machine gunfire during which their bodyguard shot at pursuing Iraqis
  • A close-up report into the star-studded world of fashion designer Elie Saab and a glimpse of Brent Sadler on a catwalk!
  • An illiterate Liberian survivor of the civil war in 2004 converts a tin can, a stick of wood and a length of fishing line into a banjo to compose and sing unforgettable tunes on the streets of Monrovia
  • Brent Sadler’s last interview with five-times Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri before he was assassinated in a suicide bombing in Beirut in 2005
  • CNN report on the day five-times Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut on February 14, 2005
  • The Hariris. The tragic yet uplifting story behind the family of slain Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri
  • CNN report for ''Inside the Middle East'' by Brent Sadler in the Lebanese ski resort of Faraya Mzaar
  • CNN report by Brent Sadler for ''Inside the Middle East'' on the opening of the Formula One racetrack in Abu Dhabi
  • See what it’s like when a cruise missile strikes the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad in 1993 and the aftermath of the explosion as reported on CNN
  • Experience aerial re-fuelling by Britain’s Royal Air Force after the Falkland Islands were re-captured by Britain in 1982. A Brent Sadler report for ITN
  • ITN exclusive report from Uganda
  • ITN report from Northern Iraq in 1991 as Kurdish Peshmerga guerrillas fought with forces loyal to President Saddam Hussein
  • Report for ITN in 1991 when troops loyal to President Saddam Hussein fled bases in Northern Iraq before a violent return
  • Gaza, 2004. Another risky day for the CNN teams in Gaza as Israeli gunships target a suspected Palestinian arms factory and Palestinian gunmen hit back at an Israeli army outpost
  • When working traffic lights were first introduced into the once war-torn capital of Beirut in 2002, the result was less than satisfactory. Neither Beirut’s motorists nor police took much notice of the new rules. Brent Sadler reports for CNN
  • ''Primetime'' CNN anchor Anderson Cooper talks to Brent Sadler who looks back on his long career reporting from Lebanon in the aftermath of the bomb attack that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005