For those undecided American voters this election season, PBS’ Frontline premiere “The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump” on Tuesday evening, a two-hour election-season documentary series that presents both candidate’s lives and views through a combination of investigation and interviews. This marks the latest installment of “The Choice,” an election-year special presented on Frontline every presidential year since 1988.
The latest edition was directed by Michael Kirk (“America After 9/11”), who has chronicled Washington for Frontline for over 30 years and has made the past six installments of “The Choice.” “(This series) is all about discovering the life method of each candidate and then measuring the development of the life method and the comparison of the two,” says Kirk. “The Choice 2024” draws on dozens of interviews with Harris and Trump’s friends, advisors and critics.
Kirk also interviewed authors, journalists and political insiders to present the narrative arcs of both candidates’ lives, going back to their childhoods. The docu is a dense and succinct history of each candidate’s rise to the nomination. For undecided American voters, the doc and its interwoven investigative biographies of both major-party candidates could be game-changing.
But Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath says that the goal is to reach both undecided and decided voters with “nuanced, fact-based reporting on each candidate.” “Regardless if you made.
