PBS' Frontline has released the first part of a new documentary film entitled "Putin's Revenge" which it describes as "the inside story of how Vladimir Putin came to see the United States as an enemy — and why he decided to target an American election."
Because producers could fit only so much content into a two-hour film, Frontline decided to publish all of its interviews online in a searchable archive with additional features like video-linked text and annotation. Frontline says this may be a first for journalism:
"The Putin Files" contain the interviews we shot over six months in Washington, Moscow, New York and California, more than 70 hours of footage. There are 33 interviews in video alongside transcripts and 23 interviews in transcript form only.
While FRONTLINE has presented interview transcripts and video before, this is the first time we’ve published the source material for our journalism on this scale. We don’t know of any other news organization that has done something as comprehensive.
Watch "Putin's Revenge."
Search "The Putin Files".