FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS investigative documentary series housed at GBH in Boston, has received four 2023 George Foster Peabody Award nominations in the News category, saluting the series’ domestic and international documentary reporting. 

“We are so pleased to see our documentary storytelling and collaborative journalism be acknowledged with George Foster Peabody Award nominations,” says FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath. “We share this great news with The Associated Press, SITU Research, our nominated filmmaking teams, GBH, PBS and CPB.”

Two of the FRONTLINE documentaries honored with Peabody nominations were produced in partnership with The Associated Press: Michael Flynn’s Holy War and Crime Scene: Bucha, which was also in collaboration with SITU Research.

FRONTLINE received two more nominations for its reporting on Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in the documentaries Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack and Putin’s War at Home.

Since 1940, the prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards have honored excellence in broadcasting. According to the official Peabody announcement, nominees in the remaining categories – including Entertainment, Arts, Children’s/Youth, Podcast/Radio, Interactive & Immersive, and Public Service – will be announced on Thursday, April 13.  The winners of the 83rd annual Peabody Awards will be announced on May 9, 2023. Read the full list of 2023 Peabody Award nominees to date here.

Learn more about and watch FRONTLINE’s nominated documentaries below:

Crime Scene: Bucha (credits)

In partnership with The Associated Press and SITU Research, this short documentary offers a visual investigation of the atrocities committed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha during Russia’s month-long occupation in early 2022. Drawing on hundreds of hours of CCTV footage, intercepted phone calls and a 3D model of Bucha, producers Jon Nealon, Erika Kinetz, Tom Jennings and Annie Wong map the scope of the carnage with forensic detail to show how Russian soldiers ran “cleansing” operations. (Aired on PBS December 2022)

 

Michael Flynn’s Holy War (credits)

In this collaboration with The Associated Press with support from WNET’s “Preserving Democracy,” director Richard Rowley, correspondent Michelle Smith and producers Paul Abowd and Jacqueline Soohen examine how retired three-star general Michael Flynn emerged as a leader in a far-right movement that seeks to put its brand of Christianity at the center of American civic life and institutions and has attracted election deniers, conspiracy theorists and extremists from around the country. (Aired on PBS October 2022)

 

Putin’s War at Home (credits)
This documentary introduced audiences to some of the defiant Russians pushing back against President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on critics of the war in Ukraine. Producers Gesbeen Mohammad and Vasiliy Kolotilov tell the inside stories of activists and journalists risking arrest and imprisonment to protest and speak out about the Kremlin’s war effort. (Aired on PBS November 2022)

 

Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack (credits)
Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack provides a dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv. Directors Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola follow displaced families trying to survive underground, civilians caught in the war and first responders risking their lives amid the shelling of Ukraine’s second largest city. (Aired on PBS August 2022)

 

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