Dan Edge
1) Prison state
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With this intimate, graphic film, award-winning director Dan Edge follows four residents of a housing project in Louisville, Ky., as they cycle in and out of the state's jails and prisons. More than two years in the making, the program uses deep access to the Louisville jail to offer raw firsthand accounts from prisoners, prison staff, and people whose lives are forever altered by this troubled system, and focuses on the efforts of Mark Bolton, the...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"On November 30, 2007, 24-year-old Kevin Shields went out drinking with three Army buddies from Fort Carson, Colo., a base on the outskirts of Colorado Springs. A few hours later, he was dead -- shot twice in the head at close range and left by the side of the road by his fellow soldiers. Shields' murder punctuated a string of violent attacks committed by the three, who are now serving time in prison for this and other crimes, and it contributed to...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the frontlines.
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Wide screen.
Language
English
Description
Two Frontline episodes on the American penal system. Solitary Nation looks at life in solitary confinement in Maine's maximum security prison. Prison State addresses the problem of mass incarceration in America, focusing on four residents of a Louisville, Kentucky housing project as they cycle in and out of the state's prison system.
10) Battle for Iraq
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On-the-ground reporting from Iraq reveals what's happening in areas where ISIS has been pushed out. With rare access, an investigation into powerful militias and growing sectarianism shaping Iraq. Also: a reporter's journey into the battle for Mosul.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st was one of the U.S. military's best kept secrets: an extraordinary campaign by elite U.S. soldiers to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by FRONTLINE has gone inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's impact--and its costs.
12) Terror in Europe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inside Europe's fight against the rise of Islamist terrorism. As Europe reels from a terror onslaught, top counter-terror officials describe their struggle to contain the unprecedented threat revealed by attacks in France and Belgium.
13) Frontline: Mosul
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Inside the brutal battle to defeat ISIS in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Filmed across the entire nine-month campaign, the documentary features extraordinary combat footage of one Iraqi Special Forces unit that bore the brunt of the fighting. Includes "Inside Yemen," a rare, up-close look at the country that's home to what the United Nations recently called the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
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