Delta Force continues the story of the late Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people, and picks up where The Drilling Fields left off. It starts with a look back at the previous film and updates the story to include the unlawful arrest of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the subsequent implementation of Operation Restore in Ogoni land. This is a military campaign of terror waged against the Ogoni people in an attempt to restore oil production in their area. Delta Force also examines the massive international campaign organized to pressure Nigeria`s dictatorship into releasing Saro-Wiwa, who exposed corruption and injustice with his writings and his activism. Mr. Saro-Wiwa was nevertheless executed by the Nigerian government despite massive international appeals for clemency.  Much of the footage used in Delta Force was secretly shot by the Ogoni themselves.

The film won the Geneva International Television Award in 1996.

Ken Saro-Wiwa: "I was found guilty before I was even tried. I was brutalised."

Glenn Ellis was born in Chester, England in 1962. In 1985 he took a BA (Hons) degree in photography. In 1988 he started making documentaries: Hell in the Pacific (1993) - an examination of the relationship between the mining giant RTZ and communities of Papua New Guinea with particular emphasis on Bougainville. It showed small communities fighting back against big business. Camcorder Campaigners: BBC Earth Report (1998) - the story of indigenous activists from Africa, Central America and the Pacific using camcorders to tell their own stories. In Remembrance: Ken Saro-Wiwa (1996) - a sequel to Delta Force  which examines events in Nigeria a year after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in which previously unseen fototage of the show trial was shown for the first time. The Maroons (1996) - Suriname in South America is home to the Maroons who are descendants of escaped slaves now living in unique African communities in the jungle. The film looks at their problems with logging and mining companies through Maroon presenter, Stanley Rensch.The Drilling Fields (1994) - this film concerned the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, popular leader of the Ogoni people and their international campaign to address the problems stemming from Shell´s oil productions which led to imprisonment and extrajudica executions by the Nigerian military. 

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