Witness

Overview

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

S01E01 Juarez

November 5, 2012 59 min
Pro journalist Eros Hoagland has worked in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti, but his focus, here, is Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the world. Drug violence in Juarez has left over 10,000...

S01E02 Libya

November 12, 2012 59 min
Michael Christopher Brown has been to Libya five times during the conflicts that brought down Gaddafi's rule. Now, the revolution is over, but the chaos has only begun; the current situation in Libya is even...

S01E03 South Sudan

November 19, 2012 59 min
In South Sudan, thousands have been killed, abducted or displaced by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. French photojournalist Veronique de Viguerie travels with the Arrow Boys, an unpaid militia of farmers who took up arms...

S01E04 Rio

November 26, 2012 59 min
Though Rio de Janeiro will host the Summer Olympics in 2016, the city currently remains crippled by a war raging between police and powerful drug gangs. Over 2,000 Brazilian military have taken to the streets...

You May Also Like

Robbery Homicide Division

Robbery Homicide Division

2002 8.7
Masamune-kun's Revenge

Masamune-kun's Revenge

2017 7.7
Ireland

Ireland

2004 8.9
Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

2014 6.1
VH1 Beauty Bar

VH1 Beauty Bar

2018 7.0
Love Rerun

Love Rerun

2018 5.0