Patrice Taddonio is the assistant director of audience development at Frontline.
Patrice Taddonio is the assistant director of audience development at Frontline.
Since 2012, a small network of citizen activists have been risking their lives to secretly film the impact of Myanmar’s military campaign against the Rohingyas. Their harrowing footage, and the first-ever on-camera interview with a member of the network, are featured in the new FRONTLINE documentary, “Myanmar’s Killing Fields.”
Middle East peace. It used to be the golden chalice of deals. If an agreement could be struck between Israel and the Palestinians, then, hey, anything is possible. But Mideast peace now seems more distant than ever. And Tuesday’s episode of Frontline helps to explain why. It’s titled “Netanyahu At War.” The doc is as much about Netanyahu as it is about Barack Obama’s legacy on Middle East peace.
The 2012 blockbuster about the hunt for Osama bin Laden reflected the CIA’s narrative that torture, euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” was key in finding the terrorist leader. But was that version of history true? A new documentary from PBS Frontline shows it wasn’t.