A film which looks at the complexities of Syria's civil war. It is no longer the regime fighting President al-Assad, but they are also facing ISIS, who are quickly gaining ground and imposing their own barbaric rule.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/syrias-second-front/ | title=Syria's Second Front| website=[[PBS]]}}</ref>
===''On the Front Lines with the Taliban'' (2014)===
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===''Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines'' (2010)===
Broadcast in February, 2010, as an episode of [[Dispatches (TV series)|Dispatches]] on the British television network, [[Channel 4]], this film shows how fighters from the proscribed extremist Islamic group, [[Hezb-e-Islami]], are opening a new battlefront in Northern Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/02/behind-enemy-lines-tower-block-of-commons | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=Behind Enemy Lines and Tower Block of Commons | date=2010-02-02 | access-date=2010-05-05 | first=Nancy | last=Banks-Smith}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/arts/television/23behind.html?ref=television|newspaper=[[New York Times]]| title=The Afghan Side of War | first=Mike | last=Hale | date=2010-02-23 | access-date=2010-05-05}}</ref> Filmed by the [[Rory Peck Award]] winning British-Afghan journalist, [[Najibullah Quraishi]], who spent 2 weeks with these fighters, ''Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines'' includes footage of the fighters constructing, planting and detonating roadside bombs (or [[Improvised explosive device|IED]]s).<ref name="channel4.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-50/episode-1|title=Dispatches|work=Channel 4}}</ref> Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor of the Guardian newspaper, described the film as "An extraordinary and intimate documentary depicting the lives of fighters within the Taliban's insurgency in Afghanistan".<ref name="Beaumont">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/22/afghanistan-hamid-karzai-elections | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=TV team's glimpse behind enemy lines shows confident Taliban is ready to go on fighting | first=Peter | last=Beaumont | date=2009-11-01 | access-date=2010-05-05}}</ref> This film was broadcast on PBS Frontline as ''Behind Taliban Lines'' in February 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/talibanlines/|title=Behind Taliban Lines - FRONTLINE - PBS|work=pbs.org}}</ref> This film was nominated for a British Film and Television Academy Award in the Best Current Affairs programme category. In June 2010 it won the One World Media Award for best TV documentary.
