Pulling from nearly 1,000 hours of stunningly visceral footage -- from that of a family living under ISIS control that finally fled to Turkey, to Kurdish fighters in Sinjar and Shia militias in Iraq and even to al-Qaida-affiliated fighters in and around Aleppo and Raqqa -- Junger and Quested cover the ISIS catastrophe from multiple angles and feature interviews with top experts from around the world. Consequently, the filmmakers, who previously collaborated on a trio of films about the war ("Restrepo," "The Last Patrol" and "Which Way is the Front Line From Here"), capture the Syrian war's harrowing carnage, political and social consequences, and, most important, its human toll, while painting an alarming picture of the west's role in the creation of ISIS.
Directed by | Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested |
Written by | Mark Monroe |
Company | PBS DistributionPBS DistributionPBS Distribution |