ProPublica | The Night Doctrine: The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids @ProPublica | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
“The Night Doctrine,” ProPublica’s first animated documentary, traces the story of Lynzy Billing, a young British journalist of Afghan-Pakistani origins, who returns to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed program killing hundreds of civilians.
The documentary, presented in partnership with The New Yorker, is a companion piece to Billing’s reporting in “The Night Raids,” a gripping and powerful investigation published in 2022. Read the original investigation: https://propub.li/40kJSwH
The film is directed by ProPublica’s Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral and animated by Rodríguez Pons. Billing is a producer of the film, which is scored by Afghan composer Milad Yousufi.
00:00-01:17 - What are night raids
01:17-03:05 - Lynzy Billing’s personal experience
03:05-03:52 - Night raid strategy origins
03:52-04:48 - Lynzy Billing discovers a larger story
04:48-05:43 - The Zero Units
05:43-7:54 - The Zero Unit soldiers
07:54-10:25 - One of the worst night raids
10:25-11:08 - Unintended consequences
11:08-12:02 - The Taliban takeover
12:02-12:46 - What night raids leave behind
12:46-13:54 - Lynzy Billing begins healing
13:54-15:25 - Where are they now
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“The Night Doctrine,” ProPublica’s first animated documentary, traces the story of Lynzy Billing, a young British journalist of Afghan-Pakistani origins, who returns to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed program killing hundreds of civilians.
The documentary, presented in partnership with The New Yorker, is a companion piece to Billing’s reporting in “The Night Raids,” a gripping and powerful investigation published in 2022. Read the original investigation: https://propub.li/40kJSwH
The film is directed by ProPublica’s Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral and animated by Rodríguez Pons. Billing is a producer of the film, which is scored by Afghan composer Milad Yousufi.
00:00-01:17 - What are night raids
01:17-03:05 - Lynzy Billing’s personal experience
03:05-03:52 - Night raid strategy origins
03:52-04:48 - Lynzy Billing discovers a larger story
04:48-05:43 - The Zero Units
05:43-7:54 - The Zero Unit soldiers
07:54-10:25 - One of the worst night raids
10:25-11:08 - Unintended consequences
11:08-12:02 - The Taliban takeover
12:02-12:46 - What night raids leave behind
12:46-13:54 - Lynzy Billing begins healing
13:54-15:25 - Where are they now
–
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