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An online version of 'Bush's War'

SHOWCASE | March 25, 2008

In addition to the current two-part, 4-1/2-hour documentary, Frontline has an extensive online component. Among other things, it presents 175 video clips and transcripts of more than 400 interviews.


The new Frontline documentary, “Bush’s War,” aired to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, has an extensive Internet component in addition to its four-and-a-half hour TV presentation.

The show aired on PBS on March 24th and 25th. It draws on what its producers say is “one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism – over 40 Frontline films, hundreds of interviews, as well as new reporting and insider testimony.”

The companion Web site is a digital archive of FRONTLINE reporting since 9/11. It includes the show itself and 175 video clips of key moments, with events in Iraq as the centerpiece of a video chronology of the war. It also includes a database of over 400+ interviews with the Bush administration, key military personnel, foreign policy experts, journalists, and government officials which can be sorted by various key topics.



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