2023
Peabody Award
For "Voices from the Frontline" — Season 4, Episode 2.
The Long Walk Home
Six months embedded with the families crossing the eastern front on foot — narrated by the civilians who refused to leave without telling their own story.
A note from the founders
“Mainstream networks send crews to a hotel in the capital and call it coverage. We send ours to the front door — and we stay until the people living through it trust us enough to hand us the camera.”
Maren Vasquez & Idris Okonkwo
Founders, The Frontline Movie Project
Season 6 · Flagship
Eastern Europe
This week's episode
The Long Walk Home
For six months, our crew lived alongside four families from a border village that no longer exists on any official map. They refused evacuation without their neighbor's cow, their grandfather's medal, and the cassette tapes that held the only recording of their wedding. This is the walk they made — and the country they crossed to start over.
- Filmed across 11 villages in the eastern theater between March and September 2024.
- Released alongside 22 hours of uncensored source material under Creative Commons.
- Narrated in five languages, with original-language audio preserved.
Recognized by
Awards & Distribution
Independent reporting, validated by the institutions that grade it.
2024
duPont-Columbia Award
Finalist for sustained coverage of the Sahel insurgency.
Distribution
Al Jazeera English · DW · ARTE
Broadcast in 89 countries, subtitled into 14 languages.
In print
The Guardian · Foreign Policy · CJR
Cited as a model for independent conflict journalism.
From the notebook
Dispatches from the Field
Three recent reports from the correspondents carrying the camera this quarter.
Eastern Europe
The Train That Stopped at Midnight
By Anya Petrosian — Field Correspondent
A 14-hour evacuation rail ride becomes a moving referendum on who gets to leave, and who is asked to stay and document what happens next.
Read the dispatch
Sahel · Mali & Burkina Faso
Beneath the Shutdown
By Idris Okonkwo — Founding Producer
Two correspondents, one banned signal. Inside the rural communes where the insurgency is rewriting the rules of the press — and the people still talking to us anyway.
Read the dispatch
Myanmar
Listening Past the Curfew
By Nway Yamin — Field Correspondent
In a district where filming at night is punishable, three villages invite us to record only what they choose to say. We accept, and wait.
Read the dispatch