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Drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. WITNESS, executive-produced by writer-director Michael Mann  and acclaimed commercial and documentary director David Frankham, follows our current generation of photojournalists into these conflict zones in Mexico, Libya, Brazil and South Sudan. In the four-part series, which airs Mondays, November 5 through 26, on HBO, war photographers carry us into the heart of the human drama of the people in the action on the ground. We see what compels the photojournalist and experience why, when everyone else seeks cover, the photojournalist stands and moves closer.

In WITNESS: JUAREZ, Eros Hoagland brings us into Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the western hemisphere. In WITNESS: LIBYA, Michael Christopher Brown, wounded in a mortar assault in 2011 that killed two other war photographers, his friends Tim Hetherington (who co-directed the Academy Award^®-nominated Restrepo) and Chris Hondros, returns to Misrata in current-day Libya. In WITNESS: SOUTH SUDAN, Veronique de Viguerie--the only woman to have embedded with the Taliban--ravels into the bush with a local militia, ill-armed with bows and arrows and antique shotguns, to hunt mass murderer Joseph Kony. In WITNESS: RIO, Eros Hoagland probes Rio de Janeiro's hilltop redoubts, the City of God and Rocinha favelas controlled by the Red Command and Amigo de Amigo gangs, to investigate the pacification, the "social cleansing" in advance of the arrival of the World Cup and Summer Olympics in the city.