Show notes
Ben Anderson is a filmmaker and writer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Brazil, Congo, Cambodia and beyond, with a focus on conflict, environmental devastation and pariah regimes. His full-length documentaries include This is What What Winning Looks Like and Battle for Marjah, which later became a book, No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan. His war dispatches have been published in The Guardian Magazine and GQ UK. These days Ben travels relentlessly as a senior producer and correspondent for VICE on HBO.
“Be in the right place for long enough
to record what actually happens.
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