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Putin and the Presidents

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DIRECTED BY
Michael Kirk

WRITTEN BY
Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser

PRODUCED BY
Michael Kirk
Mike Wiser
Vanessa Fica

REPORTED BY
Vanessa Fica

EDITOR
Elliott Choi

PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE
Colette Neirouz Hanna

POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Elliott Choi

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Ben McCoy

NARRATOR
Will Lyman

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Olivia DelVecchio

RESEARCHER AND REPORTER
Brooke Nelson Alexander

ASSITANT EDITOR
O. Deborah Afolayan

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Denise Emerson

ORIGINAL MUSIC
John E. Low

SOUND
Drew Levinson
Jason Pawlak

ASSISTANT CAMERA
Christopher Horne
David Randag

ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Coby Howell

ADDITIONAL SOUND
Tom Levy
Carl Franson

ONLINE EDITOR/COLORIST
Jim Ferguson

SOUND MIX
Jim Sullivan

VOICEOVER
Jeremiah Kissel

LEGAL
Ken Fishkin

PUTIN’S REVENGE
Jim Gilmore
David E. Hoffman
Steve Audette, ACE
Karinna Sjo-Gaber
Andrew Helms
Katya Korobtsova, Fixer, Russia
Vladimir Alexandrov, Logistics, Russia

TRANSLATORS
LEXIT
Tatyana Gassel
Nini Arshakuni

ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
ABC News VideoSource
Alamy
Associated Press
BR via TELEPOOL
CBC/Radio-Canada
CBS News/Veritone
CNN
Courtesy Barack Obama Presidential Library
Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Daniel Biskup/laif/Redux
Davide Monteleone
District 7 Media
Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux
Getty Images
Getty Images/BBC Motion Gallery
Getty Images/NBC News Archives
Journeyman Pictures
Mauricio Lima/The New York Times/Redux
Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Nimia
PixelWorldTV
Reuters
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Screenocean/Cover Video
Screenocean/Reuters
Sergey Kozmin/Redux
Shutterstock
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times/Redux
United States Geological Survey / NASA
Zuma Press

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ABC
Al Jazeera
Andriy Dubchak/Donbas Frontliner
AP
AZOV Regiment
BBC
Bloomberg
C-SPAN
CBS
Chicago Tribune
CNBC
CNN
DHA
Deutsche Welle
FOX
France 24
ITN
KCSM
KGO
Kremlin
KRON-TV
KTVU
Link TV
Los Angeles Times
MAXAR Technologies
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
MSNBC
NBC
News Review
NPR
NTV
PBS NewsHour
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RBC
RT
RTR/VGTRK
Ruptly
Rustavi 2
Sky News
State Emergency Services of Ukraine
The Boston Globe
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Russia
Ukrainian Defense Ministry
Voice of America

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Abrams Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler through the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.

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