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Witness

TV·2012–2012·1 season, 4 episodes·HBO·Documentary·59m·Created by David Frankham

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Drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. Follow our current generation of photojournalists into these conflict zones, see what compels them and experience why, when everyone else seeks cover, the photojournalist stands and moves closer.

Episodes by season

Season014Episodes2012AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01JuarezNovember 5, 2012Pro journalist Eros Hoagland has worked in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti, but his focus, here, is Juarez, Mexico, the murder
  2. S01E02LibyaNovember 12, 2012Michael Christopher Brown has been to Libya five times during the conflicts that brought down Gaddafi's rule. Now, the revolution is over, b
  3. S01E03South SudanNovember 19, 2012In South Sudan, thousands have been killed, abducted or displaced by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. French photojournalist Veronique
  4. S01E04RioNovember 26, 2012Though Rio de Janeiro will host the Summer Olympics in 2016, the city currently remains crippled by a war raging between police and powerful

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