10pm Friday - FRONTLINE – Investigative Documentary Series - Inside Italy’s Covid War – An intimate and profound portrait of those at the front lines of a global pandemic.
Much of the suffering wrought by COVID-19 has played out where we cannot see: in closed hospital units. With unprecedented access, award-winning filmmaker Sasha Joelle Achilli goes inside a hospital during the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy, capturing an unforgettable look at the harrowing, heroic fight doctors and nurses are waging against the disease.
Inside Italy’s COVID War follows Mangiatordi, her staff and her patients as they battle COVID-19 in a region that’s at the epicenter of the country's outbreak — from the darkest days, to the signs of hope. Lyrical and profound, it’s directed with astonishing intimacy by award-winning FRONTLINE filmmaker Sasha Joelle Achilli, who was born and raised in northern Italy and who returned there to document the coronavirus fight.
Through her lens, we watch from the front lines as the virus threatens to overwhelm Italy’s health care system, as doctors are forced to make life-and-death decisions, and as younger and younger patients become critically ill with the virus.
