Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team had been chronicling the 2020 presidential election and its ensuing fallout for multiple FRONTLINE films, including President Biden and Trump’s American Carnage. Capitol to a second impeachment of President Donald Trump, all while the COVID-19 death toll reached new heights. The Biden administration began as America coped with a chaotic start to the new year: from an insurrection at the U.S. The first episode of Un(re)solved was released on The FRONTLINE Dispatch in June 2020 to listen to the full series, subscribe to Un(re)solved on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. “I can’t shake this thought: They were all someone to somebody,” Edwards said in the above episode. In the Un(re)solved podcast, part of FRONTLINE’s multiplatform Un(re)solved initiative, award-winning host and reporter James Edwards set out to understand how the list of victims associated with the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act came to be, what justice could look like for those more than 150 people, decades after the crimes were committed - and the impact of the killings on the victims’ families to this day. Justice went cold for many victims of racist civil rights era killings. … I really think that FRONTLINE is the only place on American television that I could have done this.” 4. ![]() “But it’s just a very challenging story to tell. “It’s a story that really needs to be told, because Americans … have the right to know what techniques have been used to keep the country safe after 9/11,” Reed told FRONTLINE’s executive producer, Raney Aronson-Rath, who hosts The FRONTLINE Dispatch. Reed joined The FRONTLINE Dispatch in September 2021 to discuss why this was a story he wanted to tell how he built trust with sources, including the accused men themselves and an FBI agent who played a key role in the sting and what the documentary reveals about the federal government’s use of informants and sting operations following the Sept. Yet the men, who came to be known as the Liberty City Seven, had no weapons and had never communicated with anyone from Al Qaeda. Their indictment marked the federal government’s first major post-9/11 counterterrorism sting within the U.S. In his August 2021 FRONTLINE documentary, In the Shadow of 9/11, filmmaker Dan Reed ( Leaving Neverland) told the story of how seven Black men from Miami were accused of planning an Al Qaeda plot to blow up American buildings. For more award-winning audio journalism, explore our other podcast series, I’m Not a Monster and Un(re)solved, and catch up on our FRONTLINE Film Audio Tracks. See what episodes made the list - and if you haven’t already, subscribe to The FRONTLINE Dispatch on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Throughout 2021, The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast probed these stories and more, through conversations that both uncovered new dimensions of 2020’s defining moments and elevated stories that otherwise might have flown under the radar.Īs 2021 draws to a close, we’ve collected the five most-downloaded new episodes from The FRONTLINE Dispatch, based on total downloads across all podcast players, excluding YouTube, as of press time. Racist killings in the civil rights era and the ongoing search for justice. Capitol and the long legacy of 9/11, 20 years later.
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