Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

About The Film

Emmy award-winning PBS director Harry Hunkele uncovers the secrets of the dizzying negotiations behind the 1979 Camp David Accords in this riveting examination of diplomacy in action. Buttressed with exclusive interviews and archival footage, the unlikely path to a groundbreaking peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is dissected. It is a tale of clandestine missions, internal power struggles and brinkmanship motivated by deeply held convictions and raw ambition. President Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stuart Eizenstat, among others, provide first-person accounts of how sworn enemies maneuvered immense pressures to embrace peace. Shot in Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Austria, France and the United States, BACK DOOR CHANNELS: THE PRICE OF PEACE is the never-before-revealed account of one of the most complex historical achievements of the 20th Century.