Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings has made films for FRONTLINE since 2009, when he directed Law and Disorder, about police shootings in New Orleans after Katrina. Jennings then directed A Perfect Terrorist and its sequel, American Terrorist (2011, 2015), was a team producer on the landmark documentary series, Money, Power & Wall Street (2012), and wrote and directed Being Mortal (2015), with surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande.
He directed Right to Fail (2019), about people with severe mental illness living independently, Opioids, Inc (2020), and, with Jelani Cobb and June Cross at Columbia University, produced Whose Vote Counts, which won the 2021 Peabody Award and NABJ...
Stories from Tom Jennings
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram
The Discord Leaks
War Crimes Watch Ukraine: More Than 650 Documented Events
Crime Scene: Bucha
Putin’s Attack on Ukraine
Boeing’s Fatal Flaw
Whose Vote Counts
Opioids, Bribery And Wall Street: The Inside Story Of A Disgraced Drugmaker
Opioids, Inc.
Insys Executives Are Sentenced to Prison Time, Putting Opioid Makers On Notice
Right to Fail
‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill
Policies
Teacher Center
Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation
Koo and Patricia Yuen
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