Undercover in Isis

We hear about it daily: Western men and women lured by ISIS recruiters to go and fight in Iraq and Syria. But how does that actual clandestine recruitment process go down? Martin Himel, a filmmaker and former foreign correspondent who has been covering radical Islamic militias for nearly 30 years, wanted to find out. Like the finest spy story, Himel ’s film begins with the training of two brave young people who will work undercover and online to lure ISIS recruiters.

'A scintillating journey into a secret world that is impacting our everyday lives in ways we are only just starting to grasp' Peter Pomerantsev

Tells the story of website Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), where a group of young men band together and risk their lives to document and release videos, photos and written testimony of Islamic State atrocities in their home city of Raqqa. City of Ghosts follows the visceral and at times distressing journey of a network of brave young activists who band together to report the stories of atrocities inflicted on the Syrian citizens of Raqqa by ISIS, who invaded their city in 2014.