Frontline, America and the Taliban

PBS WESTERN RESERVE (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Tuesdays, April 4, 11 & 25, at 10 PM
Wednesdays, April 5, 12 & 26, at 3 AM
Fridays, April 7, 14 & 28, at 5 PM

Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):

Saturdays, April 8, 15 & 29, at 4 PM

How did the U.S. lose the war in Afghanistan? Who bears responsibility? And what has been the human cost? FRONTLINE investigates those questions in an epic, three-part documentary series, AMERICAN AND THE TALIBAN. 

Drawing on 20 years of on-the-ground reporting and revealing new interviews with both U.S. and Taliban officials, award-winning producers Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith chronicle how what began in the wake of the 9/11 attacks as an effort to eliminate Al Qaeda and oust its ruling ally, the Taliban, became America’s longest war—and how it ended in defeat in August 2021 with U.S. troops withdrawing, the Western-backed government collapsing, nearly 50,000 Afghan civilians dead, approximately 2,400 American service members killed, and the Taliban once again in control.