Doc & Education Peabody Winners Unveiled

ATHENS: The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has revealed the nine documentary and education programs that were among this year’s victors, with multiple wins for HBO and PBS.

HBO won for Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films and Sky Atlantic); How to Dance in Ohio (HBO Documentary Films, Gidalya Pictures and Blumhouse); Night Will Fall (Spring Films, Angel TV and Ratpac Documentary Films in association with HBO Documentary Films); and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Hit the Ground Running).

The other winners were PBS’s Independent Lens: India’s Daughter (Assassin Films, BBC Storyville, UK-INDIA and Tathagat Films in association with Gamini Plyatissa Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, DR, Plus Pictures Aps, CBC News Network, SVT, IKON, RTS, SRF and RAI); PBS/WGBH’s ISIS in Afghanistan (FRONTLINE); Showtime’s Listen to Me Marlon (Showtime Documentary Films Presents, A Passions Pictures Production, Cutler Productions); PBS’s POV: Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie), co-produced by Portret Films, American Documentary | POV and Independent Television Service in association with Latino Public Broadcasting; and Netflix’s What Happened, Miss Simone? (Radical Media Production in association with Moxie Firecracker).