Past Events and Screenings

When the Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic was ousted from power it brought to an end a 13-year rule that had seen the country torn apart by bloody conflict, with thousands of people killed. Ten years after the October 5th revolution we will be bringing together journalists, fillmmakers and experts who were there to discuss these remarkable events and their impact.

This fascinating, often hilarious documentary follows the work of Cameroonian State Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba as they help women fight often-difficult cases of abuse, despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent.

The Hunger Season follows two years of an unfolding humanitarian crisis in one small African nation Swaziland, and uses this example to ask why, in spite of our incredible agricultural productivity, in spite of the Millennium Goals and a massive UN food aid programme, are we failing to solve the problem of hunger?

Featuring unique interviews with over twenty of the world’s greatest actors, directors and technicians, Cameraman is not only a valuable testimony to British and international cinema history; it’s an informative and sometimes humorous one too — an amazing story about an exceptional life.

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In Generation’s End: A Personal Memoir of American Power after 9/11, Scott Malcomson recalls his time as the New York Times’ op-ed editor during some of the most important events in modern American history. Malcomson, currently foreign editor of the New York Times Magazine, will be joined on stage at this exclusive event at the Frontline Club by New York Time London bureau chief, John F. Burns.

Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss.

View in iTunes This event is now sold out. Sorry for any disappointment – we will be streaming video of the event live at Frontlineclub.com.   What would you do if someone handed you 90,000 unfiltered documents and asked you to make a story out of it? Managing large amounts of data is one of […]

Join us at the Frontline Club where we will be looking ahead to the midterm elections and the next two years for President Obama’s in the White House with congressional scholar, Professor Thomas Mann, an expert on campaigns, elections and the effectiveness of Congress.

Followed by a Q&A with Director Chris Smith. A former Los Angeles police officer turned investigative journalist, Michael Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. Drawing from data and news stories he explains his unique interpretation in the face of fierce opposition.

Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.

What will be the impact of climate change on the world’s poorest people? Can climate change rights violations can be remedied in courts of law? Join us at the Frontline Club in the last of three events in association with Communications INC to discuss the relationship between human rights and climate change.

Is the conflict in Afghanistan becoming Britain’s Vietnam? Is the media reporting it properly or simply embedding the truth with the journalists? The Media Society is hosting a lively discussion chaired by Kevin Marsh of the BBC College of Journalism. With Brigadier Mark van der Lande OBE, head of Operational Communication, Ministry of Defence; Tim […]

Please join us in celebrating the official launch of the Cambodian Children’s Fund UK. The Cambodian Children’s Fund UK is dedicated to improving the lives of young people from Cambodia’s most destitute communities. With Scott Neeson, Michael Mansfield QC and Janet Templeman.

When Swedish teacher Hilde Back decides to sponsor a young, rural Kenyan student she thought little more about it. Years later, out of the blue she hears from Chris Mburu, now a Harvard Graduate and Human Rights Lawyer for the United Nations. A Small Act bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create.

A documentary that follows four ordinary, yet extraordinary, men and women
throughout the course of their working days, showing a different side of life in Afghanistan’s bustling capital.

Two members of Documentography, Guilhem Alandry and Anna KÃ¥ri, will be at the Frontline Club to discuss their collective and their techniques, including an innovative joint project about a shanty town built on a rubbish tip in Sierra Leone commissioned by Save the Children.

The West’s perception of Arab women has become increasingly associated with the victim, oppression and the veil. This simplified view angers Joumana Haddad who as a poet, writer and journalist has fought against over-simplistic stereotypes of the Arab woman. She will be at the Frontline Club in conversation with BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen to discuss this and her new book I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman.

The Trouble with Pirates is a revealing look at how a small group of men in speedboats have come to threaten world trade in the Indian Ocean and the human cost of their actions.



Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House will be in the chair as the Frontline Club’s First Wednesday discussions return after a summer break. These lively public meetings bring together experts and commentators and mix their views with contributions from our audience.

Traveling to STANTA training camp in East Anglia which is designed to exactly replicate army strongholds in Afghanistan, the VICE team show the grueling recruitment training process required before soldiers are ready for combat.