In 2012, after months of reporting from inside war-torn Syria, the photojournalist James Foley was abducted by extremist militants. He was held for two years before being taken by his captors to an anonymous stretch of desert. Millions of people around the world know what happened next because they saw the gruesome scene on videotape. Foley, clad in an orange jumpsuit and forced to recite Isis propaganda, was made to kneel beside a hooded executioner before he was beheaded.
Those last moments of Foley’s life prompted Brian Oakes to make a documentary about his childhood friend, which is being released in cinemas on Friday. Oakes made the film, he says, because he did not want this to be the last image most people have of