PBS’ Frontline Launches Production and Distribution Arm Frontline Features

After garnering the 2024 Oscar for the Ukraine war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” Frontline’s editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath knew that, despite streamers’ aversion to political fare, audiences around the world were hungry for investigative journalistic content. Aronson-Rath’s conviction has led to the formation of Frontline Features, a new documentary production and distribution initiative.

The first four official Frontline Features productions include two Oscar contenders — “2000 Meters to Andriivka” and “Antidote” — the short doc “Status: Venezuelan,” and an upcoming feature documentary, “One in a Million.”

The new banner will be led by Aronson-Rath, an Oscar-winning producer who has expanded the PBS Frontline series’ traditional broadcast reporting into the critically acclaimed documentary space. Under Aronson-Rath’s leadership, Frontline has earned three Academy Award nominations since 2018 for “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” “For Sama,” and “20 Days in Mariupol,” which garnered the Oscar for best documentary feature in 2024.

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