Past Events and Screenings

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is an intriguing primer on the reasons behind the economic disaster that has affected us all. With interviews with bankers, respected economists, insiders, top journalists, and even convicted white-collar criminal Sam Antar, who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices, Plunder is a definitive look at how we came to be in this mess told through the mouths of some of those who helped create it.

On 10 February 2005 BBC journalist Kate Peyton was murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia. Kate Peyton’s younger sister Rebecca Peyton will be at the Frontline Club to perform her one-woman show, which invites us into her post-Kate world: a life that is changed forever, but it goes on.

Join us at the Frontline Club to examine the situation for foreigners and Iranians that are detained and convicted in Iran. Should the international community be putting more pressure on the Iranian government to justify their actions?

Are there forces at work that are so institutionally powerful that they can shape one administration after another irrespective of whether it is Republican or Democratic?Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years uncovers the connections between the Bush family; their presidencies, the military, the oil industry, Wall Street and the CIA and the implications for the current president, Barack Obama, and his potential to implement true reform.

In association with the BBC College of Journalism, the Frontline Club is bringing top journalists who are expert in their field and craft, to talk about their stories and the journalism that has shaped their careers.
In the fifth of this series Vin Ray, former BBC executive will be in conversation with Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow.

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power’s biography Chasing the Flame, Sergio tells the story of UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed when a massive truck bomb exploded outside his office in Iraq.

They’re supposed to be opposite ends of the spectrum: journalists report the news, while public relations professionals try to influence them. But how different is PR from journalism these days? Should those who value editorial and commercial independence be concerned or is it just a sympton of a shrinking, fragmented mass media?

The Gulf of Mexico spill has put the spotlight on the oil industry and its practices to an unprecedented degree.
Join us at the Frontline Club where we will be discussing BP and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that has resulted in an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil a day spilling into the sea: what are the implications not only for BP’s future but also for the oil industry?

In 1991, it was the words “freedom” and “democracy” that excited the Russian imagination. Nineteen years later, where is Russia now?

The Frontline Club is proud to announce our second event in association with The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation.  An evening of Documentary Matchmaking to pair great new projects with the right people in the industry to help make them happen. From 7 – 8.30pm, directors and producers will be introducing their work in progress projects […]

Described as “the most important documentary HBO has ever done.” For Neda has been creating a storm as it has been screened around the world. Filmed secretly with Neda Agha-Soltan’s father, mother, sister and younger brother, is an intimate portrait of a young woman who has become a potent symbol of opposition to the Iranian regime yet about whom until now little has been known.

Part 1 Part 2 View in iTunes The appointment of Mervyn Silva, a politician with an established record of hostility towards journalists, as deputy minister of Information within the Sri Lankan government in April this year was met with calls for his removal by press freedom organisations. What can be done to protect journalists working […]

By the time of his death in 2008 at the age of 109, Boris Efimov had created political cartoons on just about every world event over the past hundred years. Working for the Soviet press Efimov created images that were equally powerful and hilarious. From World War II, in which the Nazis had given order to hang Efimov on sight, through the Cold War he created thousands of images that riled those in power and created a titanic legacy we are fortunate to see Stalin Thought of You.

An inspirational documentary following the extraordinary quest of the Afghan cricket team to qualify for the 2011 World Cup. Against a backdrop of war and poverty, Out of the Ashes, traces the remarkable journey of a team of young Afghans as they chase a seemingly impossible dream – shedding new light on a nation beyond burqas, bombs, drugs and devastation.

The Japan we know from films and TV is one of tradition, high technology and pop culture. But as with every nation, something more sinister lies beneath the bright lights of Sony and Nintendo. With an expert panel including Jake Adelstein author of Tokyo Vice, we’ll investigate the problem of organised crime in Japan and cast a light on the media’s reporting of it.

This is a story about a man whom historians consider as the most important spy of the Cold War.
A uniquely constructed portrait of the Polish Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, who provided the CIA with more than 40,000 strategic documents from the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. Was he a traitor, or the savior of Poland?

A controversial and colourful one-hour documentary, Africa Rising highlights the failure of Western policies towards Africa and asks if it’s time to reconsider the role of Western aid workers on the continent.

Filmed covertly over the course of a year by Burmese cameramen, who risked an instant 30-year jail sentence if caught, Orphans of Burma’s Cyclone exposes the official intransigence of one of the world’s most brutal and secretive regimes and, for the first time, reveals what day-to-day life is like for the ordinary people of Burma.

Join us at the Frontline Club with Paddy Ashdown (Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG, KBE, PC), High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002 -2006; Allan Little, BBC correspondent in Former Yugoslavia 1991 – 1995 and Kemal Pervanic, founder trustee of Most Mira, survivor of the Omarska concentration camp and author of The Killing Days: My Journey through the Bosnian War.

What are the new UK Government’s policies on climate change and how do they match up to the global challenges of the next five years? Join us at the Frontline Club for the second in this series of discussions in association in with Communications INC that will look at the Coalition government’s policies and the challenges that lie ahead during the new Parliament’s fixed term.