Winter 2021 Newsletter
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NEW RELEASES WINTER 2021 PANDEMIC Pandemic is an epic, global documentary series that tells the biggest story of our generation through intimate and personal human stories. Filmed in more than 20 countries, the fi lm explores the universal themes of death, family, power and inequality through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of characters and their collective experience of the pandemic’s impacts. Screen programs Following the path of the virus, the fi lm is in the unique position of treating online at the world as its precinct, and the global population as its cast. 3x60 HD pbsinternational.org 20 TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOTE GENERATION 9/11 Hemingway, a six-hour documentary fi lm by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, Of the almost 3,000 people who died on 9/11, around one hundred were one of the greatest and most infl uential writers America has ever produced. fathers of babies who were not yet born. Generation 9/11 follows the lives of Interweaving his eventful biography—a life lived at the ultimately a number of these children and their families, as we track their journeys into treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity—with carefully selected adulthood. Through their eyes, this bold and innovative documentary blends excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fi ction, the series intimate, individual stories alongside a broader exploration of how the United reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind States has evolved—culturally, politically, socially—since 2001. 2x60 HD the myth, and the art he created. 6x60, 3x120 HD CURRENT AFFAIRS REUTERS/ELIZABETH FRANTZ; AP PHOTO TRUMP’S President Biden FRONTLINE tells the story of how crisis and AMERICAN CARNAGE tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become From his fi rst days as president to his last, FRONTLINE documents how Trump stoked division, America’s next president. Those who know him violence, and insurrection. This fi lm investigates Trump’s siege on his enemies, the media, and even best describe the searing moments that shaped the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come. 1x60 HD President Elect Biden and what they reveal SHAY HORSE/NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES about how he will govern. 1x60 HD COURTESY OF FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: AARON BERNSTEIN/ REUTERS; CLAIRE ANDERSON/UNSPLASH; POOL NEW/ COURTESY OF REUTERS/CALLAGHAN O’HARE FRONTLINE REUTERS Supreme Revenge: The United States Growing Up Poor Battle for the Court of Conspiracy in Trump’s America FRONTLINE investigates how a partisan war for FRONTLINE investigates how traffi cking in FRONTLINE follows the experience of child the Supreme Court culminated in Amy Coney conspiracy theories went from the fringes poverty against the backdrop of the pandemic Barrett’s controversial nomination. The fi lm of U.S. politics into the White House. The and increasing racial tensions. Set in Ohio, explores how a 30-year-old grievance sparked fi lm follows the alliance of conspiracy the fi lm follows children and their families an epic and bitter political struggle for control entrepreneur Alex Jones, Trump advisor Roger navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, of the country’s highest court. 1x53 HD Stone, and the president, and their role in the race and new challenges due to COVID-19. battle over truth and lies. 1x55 HD 1x60 HD 2 pbsinternational.org “OUTSTANDING” “THRILLING” — FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG — MÜNCHNER MERKUR © 2018 ARROW INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I, Sniper For 23 days in 2002, the mysterious Washing- ton, D.C. snipers terrorized the capital and gripped the nation, killing at random from the trunk of their blue Chevy Caprice. Told forensically over six hours by the investigators, the victims’ families and, for the fi rst time, the surviving shooter himself—I, Sniper is the defi nitive account of an unforgettable “IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE” — SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG American crime story. 6x55 HD In 2010, hundreds of thousands of electronic music lovers took pilgrimage to Duisburg to celebrate, but the day tragically ended in a fatal stampede—21 attendees died and 652 more were injured and traumatized. What went wrong? Love Parade: The Trial reveals the corporate greed and public negligence at the expense of young people from around the world gathering for a music festival. With unprecedented access, the fi lm unravels the worst disaster in counter- culture history. 1x60, 1x90 HD DOCDAYS PRODUCTIONS BERNDT WILTING COURTESY OF MIKE DE SISTI/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL/USA TODAY NETWORK VIA REUTERS Propaganda: COURTESY OF REUTERS/NICHOLAS PFOSI The Art of Selling Lies In a world where access to media is unpre- cedented, the global conversation around the propagation of information, “alternative facts” and “fake news” has never been more heated. As media outlets become increasingly polarized, and as social media rules information feeds, where does propaganda come into play? How Whose Vote Counts America’s Medical is it infl uencing changes in the world order? FRONTLINE investigates allegations of voter Supply Crisis Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies demystifi es fraud and disenfranchisement in the lead up Why was the U.S. left scrambling for critical the predominant means and methods of to the 2020 election. With Columbia Graduate medical equipment as the coronavirus swept propagandist persuasion that have been School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Jelani the country? FRONTLINE investigates the employed by those seeking power. Cobb investigates how the pandemic is being fragmented global medical supply chain and 1x57, 1x90 HD used to sway turnout. 1x60 HD its deadly consequences. 1x53 HD pbsinternational.org 3 CURRENT AFFAIRS Black Box Syria The war in Syria seems as impenetrable as a black box—the conflict began almost ten years ago and even today many people in the West have the feeling that they do not even understand who exactly is fighting against whom. Black Box Syria highlights the regional and international levels of the conflict, as well as the core problem: the totalitarian dictatorship of a family clan. 1x88, 1x53 HD HALBTOTAL FILM COURTESY OF STEPHEN LAM/REUTER ANDY A’COURT FOR WGBH/BOSTON IRYNA IMAGO/SHUTTERSTOCK IRYNA Policing the Police 2020 Policing the Police 2020 explores the issues of race, policing and the struggle to hold departments accountable. In the wake of Blood Sugar Rising Opioids, Inc. George Floyd’s killing, New Yorker writer Jelani Diabetes is a hidden epidemic that affects over Opioids, Inc. is the story of a drug company Cobb examines prospects for reform, and 100 million people in the U.S., costing close to that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and returns to the case of one troubled department $350 billion each year. Blood Sugar Rising puts committing insurance fraud. With the Financial he first visited in 2016.1x60 HD human faces to these statistics, presenting Times, FRONTLINE presents an investigation personal stories that showcase the struggles of how Insys Therapeutics profited from a of living with this illness and revealing new fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger hopes for better diabetes management and than heroin. 1x54 HD prevention. 1x116 HD COURTESY OF JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES COURTESY OF VICTOR TADASHI SUAREZ/FRONTLINE TADASHI VICTOR OF COURTESY COURTESY OF KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS Love, Life & the Virus In a two-part hour, FRONTLINE presents the intimate stories of two immigrant COVID’s Hidden Toll families whose lives have been upended The Virus: What Went Wrong? In COVID’s Hidden Toll, numerous farmworkers by the pandemic. First, Love, Life & the Virus As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle speak out about their experiences of having chronicles a 30-year-old mother named Zully’s East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so to choose between their health and their fight to survive COVID and see her newborn unprepared? Despite repeated warnings of a jobs—and what they say is a lack of protection baby, after giving birth on a ventilator and potent contagion headed our way, America’s from their companies. With Latino people spending nearly three weeks in a coma—as leaders failed to prepare and protect. Why and nationwide dying from the coronavirus at her husband, Marvin, and older son, Junior, who is accountable? FRONTLINE Correspondent a disproportionate rate, the film examines battled the virus as well. In the hour’s second Martin Smith (The Storm; The Quake) travels via outbreaks at several growers and meat packing segment, Undocumented in the Pandemic Skype to interview top officials, scientists and plants over the past several months, and tells the story of another immigrant family’s first responders in China, Iran, Italy, South Korea how new evidence indicates that agricultural struggle, with their dad detained by ICE in a and the United States. 1x90 HD workers have faced a heightened risk of facility where COVID is spreading. 1x54 HD contracting COVID-19. 1x54 HD 4 pbsinternational.org CURRENT AFFAIRS FRONTLINE 3x60 HD Natural disasters are happening with increased frequency and ferocity, as the planet warms, Return from Isis unleashing extreme weather. This three-part series reveals the mechanics of disaster relief In November, Sam Sally, also known as Sam and follows the local governments and people responding on the ground. Everyone must Elhassani, was sentenced to six-and-a-half learn on their feet as they try to bring order to chaos, hope from despair. years in prison for aiding ISIS — making her A Perfect Storm: Mozambique the fi rst American woman brought back from An extraordinary story of bravery and hope when Cyclone Idai brought devastating Syria or Iraq and convicted on ISIS-related fl ooding to Mozambique in 2019. terrorism charges.