FRONTLINE - Escaping ISIS

Streaming video - 2015

Before ISIS overran his town in Northern Iraq, Khalil al-Dakhi was a lawyer. But now, he leads an underground railroad that rescues women and children who have been taken captive by ISIS. In Escaping ISIS, a hard-hitting documentary, FRONTLINE delivers a stunning look at the plight of women and children who are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment.. “ISIS believes Yazidi women can be enslaved, under their interpretation of Islam, ” says FRONTLINE’s Edward Watts, who spent 2 months in Iraq and Turkey filming the documentary and finding undercover footage. “We’ve spoken with some of the first Yazidi women to escape from ISIS, and uncovered accounts that ISIS fighters are rap...ing Yazidi girls as young as nine.”. The film follows the dangerous efforts by al-Dakhi and his team to get women like Aeida out of the hands of ISIS.. more