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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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An episode from our colleagues at The Frontline Dispatch: Documenting the Siege of Mariupol

20 Days in Mariupol is an unflinching, first-hand account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of the port city of Mariupol, which remains under Russian occupation to this day.

Ukrainian-born director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues from the Associated Press were the last international journalists to remain in Mariupol as Russian troops attacked. His new film, from FRONTLINE and the AP, draws on Chernov’s news dispatches and his reflections as he documented the devastation of his home country for the world to see.

Chernov sat down with FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath and editor and producer Michelle Mizner in February 2023, as we marked the grim anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, recorded at the Boston Public Library, Chernov recounts the decision to go to Mariupol, how he and Mizner created a documentary feature from his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, and what he hopes people will take away from the film — today, and in years to come.

“I know that we form our understanding of the current events of the world around us by watching news and consuming news,” Chernov said. “ But [we] form our understanding of our past with documentary films… Film is a medium which carries meaning across time, for generations to come.”

An earlier version of this episode was published in July.

You can watch 20 Days in Mariupol on FRONTLINE’s website, FRONTLINE’s YouTube Channel, the PBS App, and the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.

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0:18.8	Hey there, so I'm not sure how much you know about G. B. H.
0:27.2	the organization that produced this podcast, but it is the source of a lot of
0:32.3	incredible journalism.
0:34.0	And today we're sharing an episode of a podcast from our colleagues at the Frontline Dispatch.
0:40.0	The Frontline Dispatch is produced by the long running and award-winning documentary series, Frontline on PBS.
0:48.0	The host is Rainy Aronson Roth, Frontline's executive producer and editor-in-chief.
0:54.0	Earlier this year, she sat down with the filmmakers behind 20 days in Marriupel, winner of the Sundance
1:01.1	Audience Award. The documentary is a collaboration between Front Line and
1:05.8	the Associated Press, and it is an extraordinary first-hand account of the Russian siege of the Ukrainian
1:12.4	Port City of Marjupil. The recording took place at the Boston Public Library.
1:18.0	You can also watch the full documentary 20 Days in Marjupel on Frontline.org as well as YouTube
1:25.8	the PBS app and prime you don't want to miss it now here's the frontline
1:31.6	dispatch we're so pleased to be here Now here's the frontline dispatch.
1:33.0	We're so pleased to be here at the BPL to talk about our documentary 20 days in Marry U poll
1:39.0	that we produce alongside the Associated Press. We have with us AP reporter, Ms. Asherinov, who directed and filmed this documentary.
1:48.0	Or also joined by Michelle Meisner, the talented frontline editor, who helped turn this reporting into the unforgettable
1:55.2	documentary that it is.
1:57.2	Twenty days in Marryupol, it is an unflinching account of the Russian siege of the Port
2:02.0	City of Marryupolol which remains to this day under Russian occupation.
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