Linda Hirsch
Writing
Biography
Linda Hirsch is a producer of documentary films for Rain Media in New York City. For the last five years she has worked on many groundbreaking films for FRONTLINE, including Money, Power, Wall Street and The Untouchables on the Wall Street meltdown of 2008; United States of Secrets (Part 2) on the Snowden revelations; and, for the last two years, films on ISIS and the wars in Iraq and Syria including The Rise of ISIS, Obama at War and Inside Assad's Syria. These documentaries have earned multiple awards, including Emmy Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the George Polk Award and the Overseas Press Club Award. Before joining Rain Media, Hirsch worked for fifteen years on news documentaries with Peter Jennings at ABC’s Peter Jennings Reporting and then at Peter Jennings Productions and The Documentary Group. During those years, she produced many award-winning documentaries including The Documentary Group’s America in Primetime, a four-hour series for PBS about the history of scripted television; Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health, an investigation of the pharmaceutical industry; the Emmy Award-winning The Gun Fight, an investigation of the National Rifle Association; and the Emmy-Award winning episode of The Century series In Search of the Promised Land, about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike. She also produced the two-hour ABC News special Earth 2100 in 2010 about the possible convergence of environmental threats in the next century. Hirsch has worked with FRONTLINE correspondent and producer Martin Smith many times over her long career, first at the documentary unit CBS Reports and then at ABC’s Peter Jennings Reporting, where they collaborated on numerous documentaries including Peter Jennings Reporting: Rage & Betrayal: The Lives of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, and Pot of Gold, about the domestic marijuana business. Hirsch graduated from Wellesley College and received a master’s degree in English Literature from Columbia University. She lives in New York City.
Known For
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
Frontline
Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of interviews with political, religious and military leaders, militia commanders, diplomats, and policy experts, painting American television's most comprehensive picture of a feud that has reshaped the Middle East.
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
One year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a two-hour FRONTLINE documentary investigates the rise and rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (MBS). Correspondent Martin Smith, who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years, examines the crown prince’s vision for the future, his handling of dissent, his relationship with the United States — and his ties to Khashoggi’s killing. This Episode can be watched Online at (last Update 18th Oct 24): https://www.pbs.org/video/crown-prince-saudi-arabia-1jt2ey
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Military and diplomatic leaders examine some of the choices President Barack Obama faces regarding the Islamic State and the civil war in Syria.
Obama at War
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The Rise of ISIS
Investigating the U.S.-led efforts to degrade and destroy ISIS. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey, the film examines the successes, failures, and challenges of the fight, as ISIS loses ground in the region but strikes out abroad.