A Dangerous Assignment (2024)
Season 2024
Episode 5
About the Episode
With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happened to the journalists who helped uncover the corruption scandal.
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Extras
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"Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus" - Preview
Investigating the spyware Pegasus, sold to governments by the Israeli company NSO group.0:31 -
Crime Scene: Bucha
FRONTLINE, The Associated Press and SITU map the atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.25:13 -
After Zero Tolerance
A family’s struggle to reunite after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.28:59 -
"Crime Scene: Bucha" - Preview
FRONTLINE, The Associated Press and SITU map the atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.0:31 -
"Putin's War at Home" - Preview
Defiant Russians push back against Putin’s crackdown on critics of the war in Ukraine.0:31 -
Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes - Preview
Investigating evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine and the pursuit of justice.0:30 -
"Michael Flynn's Holy War" - Preview
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: from elite soldier overseas to waging “spiritual war” in America.0:31 -
"Lies, Politics and Democracy" - Preview
A look at political leaders and choices they made that threatened American democracy.0:31 -
"Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack" - Preview
A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv.0:31 -
"Afghanistan Undercover" - Preview
An undercover investigation into the Taliban’s crackdown on women in Afghanistan.0:31
