Mariupol: The People’s Story

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Modern war, from one’s comfortable armchair, is viewed through the lens of news channels: rolling thunder via rolling news coverage. Footage filmed from a hovering drone at 3,000ft has often given

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a video-game like quality, of grainy objects flaring out of existence.Was that a tank? Did someone die? Mariupol:The People’s Story brought this grim invasion closer than it’s ever been. Using phone footage from ordinary citizens in the beleaguered port city, this Panorama documentary made what has been happening so much more horribly intimate.