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UNSCRIPTED 2024

Ukraine : Enemy in the Woods Dead in the Water

The human face of war

The decades-long hunt for a brutal killer

From the EMMY award-winning the director of Four Hours at the Capitol and Escape from Kabul , this film follows Ukrainian fighters as they battle to push back a Russian advance on Ukraine ’ s intensely bombarded Eastern Front . This character-led documentary is a ground level view of the war through the eyes of the soldiers fighting it .
With extraordinary access to the tightly controlled frontlines Ukraine : Enemy in the Woods follows the mission of a Ukrainian assault company as they undertake a single deployment on one of Ukraine ’ s most violent battlefronts ; a snow-covered forest near
Kup ’ yans ’ k . Their mission is to defend a railway line , a key strategic asset that , if captured , will enable Russia to mount a direct attack on Ukraine ’ s second largest city ; Kharkiv .
Filmed over nine weeks , the documentary examines the lives of the 99 strong military company as they face sustained Russian assaults . Their stories are told through immersive footage filmed by troops themselves , combined with observational filming and intimate interviews to present an unflinching human portrait of Europe ’ s bloodiest war in living memory .
Duration 1 x 1 hr
HOYO Films for the BBC , UK , in association with All3Media International
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In July 1978 , the bodies of junior doctor Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton were found floating off the coast of Guatemala . They had been tortured , bound and weighed down with engine parts . In a last letter to loved ones , they wrote that they were due to sail to Honduras with an American and his two sons . Almost 40 years after the trail for their killer had gone cold , the Facebook page of an elderly man on the other side of the world provided a shocking breakthrough …
This tense and atmospheric documentary series from Raw , makers of Don ’ t F ** k with Cats and The Tinder Swindler , reveals how a British journalist , Penny Farmer , battled to identify her brother ’ s killer . Packed with cliffhangers and extraordinary twists , it charts the astonishing story of how Penny tracked down boat captain Silas Boston and his two sons Russell and Vince to finally discover the horrific truth about what happened to her brother aboard Boston ’ s boat .
Duration 3 x 1 hr
Raw for Amazon Prime Video in association with All3Media International
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