The Front Line

The Front Line is the definitive documentary on El Salvador’s civil war. The film was shot from different sides of the war by maverick producers/directors Jeff B. Harmon & Max Stahl (also known as Chris Wenner). Harmon filmed the military and Right Wing including the reputed leader of El Salvador’s death squads, Major Roberto D’Aubuisson. Max Stahl had unlimited access in filming the FMLN guerrillas waging war on the government. Both directors filmed the civilians trapped in the middle. Harmon and Stahl worked together clandestinely in El Salvador, at risk of death if their collaboration had been discovered.