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David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the episode "Inside the Meltdown", was "one of the finest hours of non-fiction TV that I have seen." [12] Vern Gay of Newsday wrote that "The Card Game" episode, "bores down to the hard, cold truth" and is "journalism at its best." [13] Tom Brinkmoeller of TV Worth Watching called it, "Indispensable."
Michael Kirk is a documentary filmmaker and partial creator [1] of the PBS show Frontline, where he worked as senior producer until 1987. [2] Kirk founded and currently owns the production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline, Massachusetts, which has produced dozens of award-winning documentaries, both for Frontline and through his company, [3] that focus on political, social and ...
Fukushima 50 is a 2020 Japanese disaster drama film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu and written by Yōichi Maekawa. Starring Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, it is about the titular group of employees tasked with handling the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site's ...
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2007–2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to ...
In “Downwind,” a documentary executive produced by Matthew Modine, directors Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller chronicle the lethal effects that nuclear testing on American soil has had on ...
John Zaritsky's documentary of a young Bosnian couple — Serb Boško Brkić and Bosniak Admira Ismić — whose deaths by sniper fire, while trying to cross a bridge into Serb-held territory, led to one of the more widely seen images from the siege of Sarajevo. (A Frontline co-production with Germany's WDR and Canada's CBC and NFB)
The same team of producers have created three follow-up episodes to "The Giant Pool of Money" as "Your Guide to the Meltdown". On October 3, 2008, This American Life broadcast "Another Frightening Show About the Economy", [ 10 ] examining what regulators could have done to prevent the economic crisis.