‘20 Days in Mariupol’: Where to Watch the Oscar-Winning Documentary

In mid-March of 2022, roughly three weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Ukrainian filmmaker and Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov escaped from the besieged city of Mariupol with his colleagues, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko, and 30 hours of footage.

Chernov and his colleagues had become the last international journalists to report from the Ukrainian city as Russia attacked, risking their lives as they captured what would become some of the war’s defining images: A bombed maternity hospital. A gravely wounded expectant mother. Dying children. Mass graves.

Roughly two years later, 20 Days in Mariupol, the FRONTLINE (PBS)/AP documentary built around Chernov’s footage and offering a visceral, first-person record of the war’s human toll, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film at the Academy Awards®.

In the words of The New York Times, the documentary is “a model of how we discover the larger truth of war in images of one hospital, one grave, one child.”

As the war continues, watch 20 Days in Mariupol above or stream it anytime at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS App, on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel and on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.

Plus: Read more about 20 Days in Mariupol’s Oscar win — the first-ever for Chernov, for AP, and for FRONTLINE, the PBS investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston with support from funders including PBS viewers and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Read a conversation with Chernov about what has happened to Mariupol. Explore where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stands, two years later. And listen to a podcast with Chernov, producer & editor Michelle Mizner, and producer Raney Aronson-Rath (FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer) about the making of the documentary.

20 Days in Mariupol is a FRONTLINE production with The Associated Press. The director, cinematographer and writer is Mstyslav Chernov. The field producer is Vasilisa Stepanenko. The still photographer is Evgeniy Maloletka. The editor is Michelle Mizner. The composer is Jordan Dykstra. The producers are Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath (FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer) and Derl McCrudden (AP’s vice president of news and head of global news production). 20 Days in Mariupol is distributed domestically by PBS Distribution and internationally by Dogwoof.