Frontline
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
Seasons
1. An Unauthorized History of the NFL
Air Date: 1983-01-17
In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football and the world of sports gambling and organized crime.
2. 88 Seconds in Greensboro
Air Date: 1983-01-24
On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina. Correspondent James Reston, Jr.,investigates the role of a police informant who was with the group when the attack was planned and when it was carried out.
3. In the Shadow of the Capitol
Air Date: 1983-01-31
Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry.
4. A Chinese Affair
Air Date: 1983-02-07
For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland.
5. God's Banker
Air Date: 1983-02-14
In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest bank and chief advisor to the Vatican's bank. Reporter Jeremy Paxman investigates Calvi's links with the Vatican and with P-2, a secret Italian society, and questions whether his death was really a suicide.
6. Pentagon, Inc.
Air Date: 1983-02-21
Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chasing Pentagon dollars for the jobs those dollars create in their districts; scientists and universities find themselves dependent on the military if they want to do research in many high-tech areas.
7. Gunfight USA
Air Date: 1983-02-28
Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, and the sharpest minds on both sides, Frontline explores the underlying fears that make gun control such an emotional issue.
8. Children of Pride
Air Date: 1983-03-07
Kojo Odo, a 42 year-old single black man, took in his first child a decade ago-a 7 year old boy with his arm missing. No one wanted the youngster. Each of Odo's 21 children came to him with a physical or mental handicap. Frontline looks at the daily life of this remarkable family and Odo's battle to keep the family together.
9. A Journey to Russia
Air Date: 1983-03-21
Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. They encounter young, articulate Russians whose world view is completely contradictory to their own.
10. Daisy - Story of a Facelift
Air Date: 1983-03-28
Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline follows her through all the procedures, but the heart of the story is an exploration of values, character, cosmetics, and the business of plastic surgery.
11. Space - The Race for High Ground
Air Date: 1983-04-11
Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as 'high ground,' the battle area to control.
12. Abortion Clinic
Air Date: 1983-04-18
For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most personal decisions a woman can make. By focusing not only on the clinic, but also on a right-to-life doctor who pickets the clinic every Saturday, the film becomes a revealing study of people confronting their most deeply held values.
13. Crisis in Zimbabwe
Air Date: 1983-04-25
Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the end of the guerilla war may not mean an end to fighting. Correspondent Charlie Cobb finds a rift between the nation's two black leaders that threatens to split the country along tribal lines.
14. Air Crash
Air Date: 1983-05-02
Frontline investigates the frightening aftermath of one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history-the June 9, 1982 crash of Pan Am flight 759 at the New Orleans airport. The report discovers how human greed and legal machinations over hundreds of millions of dollars bring new horror to survivors and victims' relatives alike.
15. Looking for Mao
Air Date: 1983-05-09
Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and social relaxation. Frontline explores what has been retained and what has been rejected from the days of the Cultural Revolution.
16. Israel: Between the River and the Sea
Air Date: 1983-05-16
For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli Television. This is Rafik's story-a story in which his identity and loyalty became a national controversy.
17. In Our Water
Air Date: 1983-05-23
Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathing in it. Frontline chronicles Kaler's six-year battle with local and federal officials over the chemical pollution of his drinking water.
18. Vietnam Memorial
Air Date: 1983-05-30
Frontline tells the story of five days in the fall of 1982 when more than 150,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the dedication of the Vietnam Memorial. Parents, friends, and survivors came to the emotion-filled event reflecting the pain and conflict many still feel about that war.
19. For the Good of All
Air Date: 1983-06-06
When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applauded the project. But Frontline found that park policies of condemning hundreds of businesses and homes soon generated intense local opposition as well as charges that the homes of politically influential citizens were being spared.
20. The Russians are Here
Air Date: 1983-06-13
21. Who Decides Disability?
Air Date: 1983-06-20
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship and bureaucratic indifference as they take their cases to the courts and to Congress.
22. Crossfire in El Salvador
Air Date: 1983-06-27
In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and truth remains elusive. Frontline interviews government soldiers, rebels, and noncombatants to find out why the killing continues.
23. Sanctuary
Air Date: 1983-07-04
Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight of the people who seek refuge from governments allied to the United States.
24. Moneylenders
Air Date: 1983-07-11
Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers, Brazil and Mexico,are struggling even to repay the interest. Correspondent Anthony Sampson finds that threats to repudiate the loans are causing American bankers to fear financial catastrophe.
25. Klaus Barbie: the American Connection
Air Date: 1983-07-18
Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he would reveal embarrassing evidence about French collaboration, and some Americans feared that he would talk about his postwar work for U.S. intelligence agencies.
1. Crisis at General Hospital
Air Date: 1984-01-16
Investor-owned for-profit hospital chains are aggressively marketing themselves to treat only the insured or wealthy patient. But most Americans assume government and charity programs enable everyone -- no matter how poor -- to receive treatment for serious health problems.
2. We Are Driven
Air Date: 1984-01-23
As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate environment, Frontline looks at the darker side of Japanese labor relations at the Nissan Motor Company in both Japan and Smyrna, Tennessee.
3. The Old Man and the Gun
Air Date: 1984-02-06
Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Profiles Michael Flannery, Grand Marshal of New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade, who participated in an ambush on British troops in Ireland some 50 years ago.
4. Give Me That Big Time Religion
Air Date: 1984-02-13
Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goes more to doing God's work or to keeping the preachers on TV. Should the government regulate religious fundraising?
5. The Campaign for Page One
Air Date: 1984-02-27
On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behind the scenes at the presidential candidates and the political reporters who cover them -- the story behind the story and who writes it.
6. The Mind of a Murderer (1)
Air Date: 1984-03-19
Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, almost escaped punishment for these crimes because he convinced a group of experts that he had multiple personalities and was not mentally competent to stand trial.
7. The Mind of a Murderer (2)
Air Date: 1984-03-26
Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker.
8. The Struggle for Birmingham
Air Date: 1984-04-02
A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves examines black political power today and the struggle for the heart and soul of the black voter.
9. Captive in El Salvador
Air Date: 1984-04-16
Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador -- a tiny Central America nation about which we know so much, and yet so little -- to examine the politics and the people the U.S. government supports there.
10. Chasing the Basketball Dream
Air Date: 1984-04-23
Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education in exchange for play, but 75% of players never obtain a degree. Are colleges too busy with their big-time sports programs to be concerned with educating their players?
11. The Other Side of the Track
Air Date: 1984-05-07
An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachusetts where infirm horses run for purses that can barely pay the feed bill. This is America's number one spectator sport, in which tens of millions wager tens of billions every year.
12. Return of the Great White Fleet
Air Date: 1984-05-14
Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet which critics warn may not be suited to the kind of wars the nation is most likely to fight.
13. Warning from Gangland
Air Date: 1984-05-21
Explores what Los Angeles is trying to do about its gang problem. It's the worst in the nation, killing more than 1,000 people over the past three years -- the majority of whom were not even gang members.
14. Bread, Butter and Politics
Air Date: 1984-06-04
Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which they capture the human story as well as the political environment surrounding the issue.
15. Man's Best Friends
Air Date: 1984-06-18
Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some animal rights groups break into labs to 'liberate' research animals, many scientists claim any significant restriction on animal testing would end medical progress.
16. So You Want to Be President
Air Date: 1984-10-09
Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on television -- from the early days of lonely ambition, through the months of promise, to the day of denial.
17. Welcome to America
Air Date: 1984-10-16
The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, fail, fight, love, laugh, and confront an America unlike anything they had ever imagined.
18. Not One of the Boys
Air Date: 1984-10-23
As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through the eyes of accomplished women like UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
19. Living Below the Line
Air Date: 1984-10-30
It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28 years at the same job, he was laid off-a victim of the recession. Now he's broke, afraid, and at the mercy of the welfare system. Frontline follows him into the maze of the bureaucracy.
20. The Arab and the Israeli
Air Date: 1984-11-13
Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk shows and interviews, they try to project a message: that a solution for the West Bank is possible.
21. Better Off Dead?
Air Date: 1984-11-20
Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for infants born so physically and mentally damaged that they have no hope of leading normal lives? Several intimate case histories are examined, as are the politics of recent legal decisions and government rules relating to the medical care for critically ill babies.
22. Cry, Ethiopia, Cry
Air Date: 1984-11-27
In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In desert camps described as 'the closest thing to hell on earth,' nearly 100 children, old people, and the infirm were dying every day. They were dying while the US and the Soviet Union argued over how to feed them and what to do about Ethiopia.
23. Red Star Over Khyber
Air Date: 1984-12-11
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan, examining the stalemate in the Persian Gulf and the pressure placed on Pakistan to accept over one million Afghan refugees.
24. Marshall High Fights Back
Air Date: 1984-12-18
Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperately to upgrade academic standards and to make a difference in the lives of it students. Frontline looks at the struggle to salvage Marshall High and the lessons this school has for a nation trying to improve its public schools.
1. Vietnam Under Communism
Air Date: 1985-01-15
Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their victory, the countryside remains scarred and war-torn. Frontline examines the legacies of the longest and most unpopular war in American history on the country where it was fought.
2. Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)
Air Date: 1985-01-22
Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting gang members who live across Imperial Highway. It's a war being fought on the streets and in the courtroom between gang members and the Hawkins family.
3. Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)
Air Date: 1985-01-29
The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside the housing project where they live in the Watts section of Los Angeles, gang members talk about gangs and why they form, and the threat they pose to ordinary citizens.
4. The Lifer and the Lady
Air Date: 1985-02-05
He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way through the prison system to parole from a life sentence, and Lesley Earl, the woman who wants to help him go straight.
5. The Child Savers
Air Date: 1985-02-12
Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and the figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from the Emergency Children's Service of New York into homes where they confront violent parents and battered children.
6. Down for the Count
Air Date: 1985-02-19
Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, promoters, and fans who love the sport-and critics who say it should be banned.
7. Retreat from Beirut
Air Date: 1985-02-26
They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
8. Buying the Bomb
Air Date: 1985-03-05
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakistani businessman who tried to ship electrical devices which can be used as nuclear bomb triggers out of the US to Pakistan.
9. A Class Divided
Air Date: 1985-03-26
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later.
10. Potomac Fever
Air Date: 1985-04-02
Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the nation's capital on the shores of the Potomac river. Frontline follows two newly elected representatives from their homes to Washington where they experience the rewards-and the frustrations-of making the transition from citizen to congressman.
11. Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years
Air Date: 1985-04-09
From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region.
12. Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge
Air Date: 1985-04-10
The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of the revolution, Fidel Castro's rise to power, the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas, the support for his revolution abroad, and Cuba's troubled history with the United States.
13. Crisis in Central America 3: Revolution in Nicaragua
Air Date: 1985-04-11
In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the US first tried to prevent, then tried to court, and later tried to undermine. Part 3 traces the evolution of US involvement in Nicaragua and the struggle for control of the revolution.
14. Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Salvador
Air Date: 1985-04-12
Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part 4 traces the evolution of El Salvador's civil war and the US policy toward El Salvador.
15. Men Who Molest
Air Date: 1985-04-16
Experts estimate there are at least four million child sexual abusers in the US, and they do not fit our stereotypes. Almost half of those guilty of incest also molest children outside the family. Many also commit adult rape-and they come from every social background. Should they be treated, punished, or both? Frontline examines a controversial Seattle, Washington, program aimed at treating child sexual abusers.
16. Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
Air Date: 1985-04-23
One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with the Vatican.
17. The American Way of War
Air Date: 1985-04-30
Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's role in fighting modern wars.
18. Memory of the Camps
Air Date: 1985-05-07
Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and is broadcast for the first time in its entirety on Frontline.
19. You Are in the Computer
Air Date: 1985-05-14
You go to rent an apartment and are turned down without any obvious reason. Then you find out your name is in a computer file of undesirable tenants and every other landlord in the city has access to the information. Correspondent Robert Krulwich investigates computerized information systems and the issues of privacy they raise.
20. What About Mom and Dad?
Air Date: 1985-05-21
21. Breaking the Bank
Air Date: 1985-05-28
In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest banks that failed, Penn Square in Oklahoma City, and another which nearly failed, Continental Illinois in Chicago, to examine the implications on the nation's banking system.
1. Hostage in Iran
Air Date: 1986-01-21
While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of their release, using never-before-seen footage from inside the American embassy compound in Tehran, the hostages tell the story of their long ordeal.
2. Sue the Doctor?
Air Date: 1986-01-28
For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice suit. Frontline takes an inside look at the fierce battle developing between doctors and lawyers over medical malpractice suits.
3. Growing Up Poor
Air Date: 1986-02-04
The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them live below the poverty line. Frontline follows them through the maze of social service programs available to them and discovers what it is like growing up poor.
4. Russia-Love It or Leave It
Air Date: 1986-02-11
A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russian tour. They elude their government guides and search for their fellow man on the streets of the Soviet Union.
5. Tobacco on Trial
Air Date: 1986-02-18
Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspondent Judy Woodruff takes an inside look at the preparation of these massive lawsuits, concentrating on a suit that would later reach the Supreme Court as well as presenting the emphatic denials of the tobacco industry, which says smoking is a simple question of personal choice and responsibility.
6. Divorce Wars
Air Date: 1986-02-25
Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profiles the couples, the lawyers, the judges, and most poignantly, the children caught between parents.
7. Who's Running this War?
Air Date: 1986-03-18
Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and asked questions about the role of the White House and a mysterious Marine colonel named Oliver North.
8. AIDS: a National Inquiry
Air Date: 1986-03-25
Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS. In a special broadcast, Frontline first follows Bridges' tragic journey across the US and later, a panel of national experts, led by Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, discuss how Americans should respond to this urgent public health issue.
9. Standoff in Mexico
Air Date: 1986-04-01
Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed elections, corruption, violence, and the widening gap between Mexico City and the more conservative border states.
10. Inside the Jury Room
Air Date: 1986-04-08
For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wisconsin criminal trial. The results yield a view of 12 Americans grappling with guilt, innocence, and the nature of justice as never before seen.
11. Taxes Behind Closed Doors
Air Date: 1986-04-15
For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, and politics of tax reform. Correspondent William Greider investigates how Washington really works as seen through this exclusive access to the inner circles of Congress.
12. The Disillusionment of David Stockman
Air Date: 1986-04-20
Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been called 'the greatest free lunch fiscal policy' in modern times.
13. Visions of Star Wars
Air Date: 1986-04-22
Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contains the most comprehensive information on Star Wars ever produced. Correspondent Bill Kurtis interviews Russian and American scientists, arms-control experts, and politicians to reveal the scientific and political implications of what could become the world's most sophisticated military technology.
14. Hollywood Dreams
Air Date: 1986-05-13
Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the American dream. In the real world of agents, casting directors, aspiring actors, and studio executives, how are movies made? Frontline examines the fantasy and reality of Hollywood's five billion dollar a year industry.
15. The Bloods of 'Nam
Air Date: 1986-05-20
A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the highest casualties. But these young men say they were fighting two wars-against the enemy and against discrimination. Correspondent Wallace Terry, the author of 'Bloods,' the national bestseller on which this film is based, talks with black veterans who fought discrimination in Vietnam and who later confronted disillusionment when they came home.
16. A Matter of the Mind
Air Date: 1986-05-27
Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. Paul, Minnesota, Frontline examines mental illness from the point of view of those who struggle with it as they fight their psychological demons and confront the social stigma of their disease.
17. Holy War, Holy Terror
Air Date: 1986-06-03
Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and reveals why Iran's war with Iraq is an important step in spreading their brand of Islam throughout the world.
18. Will There Always Be an England?
Air Date: 1986-06-10
England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, power, privilege prevail. Ofra Bikel explores Britain's social structure, cultural values, and attitudes toward enterprise and work.
19. Assault on Affirmative Action
Air Date: 1986-06-17
The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hiring of fellow firefighters in 1984. As a result, the Justice Department asked 50 cities to tighten their affirmative action policies. Correspondent George Curry examines the 20 year conflict over these policies and reveals the point of view of those whom it affects.
20. Comrades I: The Education of Rita
Air Date: 1986-07-01
Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League member in Moscow are depicted as she completes her education at a prestigious school and begins her first teaching job.
21. Comrades II: Hunter and Son
Air Date: 1986-07-08
For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, where they hunt on horseback for sable and other valuable fur animals. Frontline examines life in the taiga and follows the hunt of father and son.
22. Comrades III: All that Jazz
Air Date: 1986-07-15
Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is difficult to control. Made without the permission of Soviet authorities on a home video camera, Frontline takes a look at the Soviet music subculture and this one talented musician.
23. Comrades IV: The Trial of Tamara Russo
Air Date: 1986-07-22
Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old hospital orderly on trial for theft in Soviet Moldavia, and Lyubov Bubulic, the female judge presiding over Russo's case.
24. Comrades V: Master of Samarkand
Air Date: 1986-07-29
Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosques in Samarkand. Frontline examines daily life in a Muslim community and explores the uneasy relationship between Islamic faith and Soviet power.
25. Comrades VI: Pacific Outpost
Air Date: 1986-08-05
Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thousand miles and seven time zones from Moscow. Here, Frontline profiles the workaholic lifestyle of Tatyana Naumova, a communist zealot and town official in Nakhodka, and the tensions it creates with her husband, who cares for their two daughters.
26. Comrades VII: Steel Mill Soccer
Air Date: 1986-08-12
Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for the town championship.
27. Comrades VIII: Doctor in Moscow
Air Date: 1986-08-19
Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness has made him famous. He lives like a superstar with a chauffeur, a sumptuous apartment in Moscow, and a house in the country. Frontline follows Fyodorov through his day and reveals what life is really like for privileged Soviet Citizens.
28. Comrades IX: Baltic Chic
Air Date: 1986-08-26
29. Comrades X: Soldier Boy
Air Date: 1986-08-26
For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and boredom of basic training in the military and focuses on his parents, who worry that in the next two years he may be fighting in Afghanistan.
30. Comrades XI: October Harvest
Air Date: 1986-09-02
The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through their daily lives during harvest time and takes a close look at the workings of the collective farm system to find that they, like many other Russian peasants, have discovered their own version of the Communist way of life-Leninism with loopholes.
31. Comrades XII: Leningrad Movie
Air Date: 1986-09-09
Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state expects firm control over all productions. Dinara Asanova, one of the few female directors of Soviet features, knows how to bend the rules-departing from approved scripts and changing characters and locations, with controversial results.
1. The Real Stuff
Air Date: 1987-01-27
One year after the Challenger disaster, Frontline examined the all-too-human side of the space program as seen through the eyes of the astronauts and engineers responsible for making it work. Correspondent James Reston tells the inside story of a program plagued by problems and politics.
2. The Earthquake is Coming
Air Date: 1987-02-03
Frontline examines the startling implications of what will happen when the big earthquake hits California, detailing the awesome effects as systems rupture and the entire nation's economy, industries, and national security are jeopardized.
3. Stopping Drugs (1)
Air Date: 1987-02-10
A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. Part 2 journeys into America’s schools to find out if drugs are really a major problem and if anti-drug efforts are working.
4. Stopping Drugs (2)
Air Date: 1987-02-17
A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. Part 2 journeys into America’s schools to find out if drugs are really a major problem and if anti-drug efforts are working.
5. The Nazi Connection
Air Date: 1987-02-24
German scientists were responsible for putting the first American on the moon. Now, 15 years later, government investigators are asking whether some of them were also responsible for Nazi war crimes. Frontline examines their war records and the role of American officials who decided to bring them to the United States.
6. Desperately Seeking Baby
Air Date: 1987-03-03
Two million American couples desperately want babies and can’t have them. They are turning to private adoption deals brokered by lawyers and counselors. Sometimes they get a new baby and a happy home; sometimes their hearts are broken. Frontline looks at a system filled with ambiguity and heartbreak.
7. Street Cop
Air Date: 1987-03-31
Frontline takes a gritty look at street cops. In Boston’s busiest, most violent police district, they confront the never-ending calls for help and the never-ending chase after drugs.
8. The Secret File
Air Date: 1987-04-14
How could an ordinary citizen be considered a national security risk? Penn Kimball, a university professor, former New York Times editor, Rhodes scholar, and Eagle Scout, was stunned to discover that for 30 years, government files existed declaring him as a disloyal American. As he tries to clear his name, Frontline examines the government decision to gather information on American citizens.
9. War on Nicaragua
Air Date: 1987-04-21
As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement there continues. The program is a meticulous reconstruction of US policy toward Nicaragua, and an investigation into how US foreign policy is made.
10. The Bombing of West Philly
Air Date: 1987-05-05
‘I could hear the bullets all around me, hitting all around the house. I was forced back by gunfire,’ says Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor of MOVE, a small, violent, urban cult. Years of tension ended May 13, 1985, when police bombed Africa’s house. The surrounding neighborhood burned out of control, leaving 250 homeless. Frontline correspondent Leon Dash examines why the bombing really happened.
11. In Search of the Marcos Millions
Air Date: 1987-05-26
The day Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986, they left with $8.9 million in jewelry, cash, and bonds. But the Philippine government claims they took much more, plundering the wealth of the nation, stashing it in fake companies and secret bank accounts. Frontline tracked hundreds of millions of dollars of the Marcos money and asked whether the Philippine government will ever get it back.
12. Israel: the Price of Victory
Air Date: 1987-06-02
The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war’s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling with its image and its role as a democracy and reveals what has happened to the dream.
13. Death of a Porn Queen
Air Date: 1987-06-09
She was from Minnesota. Young, pretty, and fresh. She went to Hollywood in search of a dream and found herself in X-rated movies, on drugs, and estranged from her family and friends. Correspondent Al Austin retraces her story, discovering why after two years as a porn queen, she took her own life.
14. Keeping the Faith
Air Date: 1987-06-16
The black church was once the soul of its community. It was a rallying point and a force for change. Now, as the black middle class grows and the church evolves, correspondent Roger Wilkins asks whom does it serve and to what end?
15. The Politics of Greed
Air Date: 1987-06-23
As corruption scandals rock New York City, the careers of dozens of high officials are being destroyed. Frontline takes an inside look at the seamy side of urban politics and asks whether this is any way to run a government.
1. Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948
Air Date: 1987-12-14
Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before the first tiny Dutch settlement in 1652. Part 1 refutes this claim and traces the country’s colonial history, the emergence early in the 20th century of the African National Congress, the rise to power of Afrikaner nationalists, and the formal policy of apartheid.
2. Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
Air Date: 1987-12-14
Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had lived for generations, and establishing separate and unequal schooling for blacks. Frontline focuses on the increasing black resistance in the 1950s and the rise of resistance leader Nelson Mandela.
3. Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
Air Date: 1987-12-15
Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on how the white government found African leaders to collaborate with them in a plan to make foreigners of black South African citizens by deporting them to independent homelands in rural areas of the country. The program looks at the increased resistance to the homeland policy as seen through the first nationwide attack by young black South Africans in the Soweto ghetto in 1976.
4. Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
Air Date: 1987-12-15
When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must ‘adapt or die.’ Part 4 explores the reforms undertaken by Botha to maintain white supremacy, changes that have deeply divided Afrikaners and have provoked explosive reactions from many blacks.
5. Apartheid Part 5: 1987
Air Date: 1987-12-16
Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa’s future. Two years before the release of Nelson Mandela, dissident white Afrikaners met with black leaders from the outlawed African National Congress in Dakar, Senagal, to discuss strategies for change in South Africa, presaging the reforms that would come later.
6. Praise the Lord
Air Date: 1988-01-26
Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in the Bakker empire.
7. Operation Urgent Fury
Air Date: 1988-02-02
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of American students during the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Hersh’s reporting reveals an inept US military operation and questions whether the students needed rescuing at all.
8. The Man Who Shot John Lennon
Air Date: 1988-02-09
Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records paint the chilling portrait of a celebrity stalker who meticulously planned the murder, believing it would make him famous.
9. Your Flight is Cancelled
Air Date: 1988-02-16
Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This film probes the air traffic dilemma inside America's busiest airport -- in the control tower and behind the ticket counter.
10. Shakedown in Santa Fe
Air Date: 1988-02-23
Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to probe the contininuing struggle between the inmates and the guards, the wardens and the reformers, for control of one of our most dangerous prisons.
11. Let My Daughter Die
Air Date: 1988-03-01
Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before it became the US Supreme Court’s first right-to-die case, Frontline explored the complex legal and moral issues of this Missouri couple’s battle to allow their daughter to die.
12. Back in the USSR
Air Date: 1988-03-29
In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline returned with the Schecter family to the Soviet Union as they renewed old friendships and explored Russia under glasnost.
13. Poison and the Pentagon
Air Date: 1988-04-05
The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’s poor record of cleaning up its pollution that contaminates the ground water in communities across the country.
14. To a Safer Place
Air Date: 1988-04-12
When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her, reuniting with her brothers and sister who were also brutally abused, and trying to make peace with the horror story that was her childhood.
15. Murder on the Rio San Juan
Air Date: 1988-04-19
Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that night on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This report dissects the motives of possible conspirators and follows the trail of the man suspected of planting the bomb.
16. American Game, Japanese Rules
Air Date: 1988-04-26
Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a society that looks Western, but operates by a very different set of rules.
17. Racism 101
Air Date: 1988-05-10
Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at some of the country’s best universities where years after the civil rights struggle, full integration is still only a dream.
18. Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
Air Date: 1988-05-17
An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
19. The Defense of Europe
Air Date: 1988-05-24
20. The Choice
Air Date: 1988-10-24
Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis.
21. Who Pays for AIDS?
Air Date: 1988-06-07
22. Our Forgotten War
Air Date: 1988-06-14
23. Indian Country
Air Date: 1988-06-21
24. My Husband is Going to Kill Me
Air Date: 1988-06-28
1. The Politics of Prosperity
Air Date: 1988-10-10
2. The Choice
Air Date: 1988-10-24
3. The Real Life of Ronald Reagan
Air Date: 1989-01-18
4. The Spy Who Broke the Code
Air Date: 1989-01-24
5. The Battle for Eastern Airlines
Air Date: 1989-01-31
6. Running with Jesse
Air Date: 1989-02-07
7. Children of the Night
Air Date: 1989-02-14
8. Who Profits from Drugs
Air Date: 1989-02-21
9. Prescriptions for Profit
Air Date: 1989-03-28
10. The Dallas Drug War
Air Date: 1989-04-04
11. Murder in the Amazon
Air Date: 1989-04-11
12. The Shakespeare Mystery
Air Date: 1989-04-18
13. Extraordinary People
Air Date: 1989-05-02
14. Yellowstone Under Fire
Air Date: 1989-05-09
15. Remember My Lai
Air Date: 1989-05-23
16. Israel: the Covert Connection
Air Date: 1989-05-16
17. Babies at Risk
Air Date: 1989-05-30
18. Death of a Terrorist
Air Date: 1989-06-13
19. Who's Killing Calvert City?
Air Date: 1989-06-20
1. Tracking the Pan Am Bombers
Air Date: 1989-11-28
2. The Right to Die?
Air Date: 1989-12-13
3. The Bombing of Pan Am 103
Air Date: 1990-01-23
4. The Noriega Connection
Air Date: 1990-01-30
5. Miss USSR
Air Date: 1990-02-06
6. Throwaway People
Air Date: 1990-02-13
7. The Faces of Arafat
Air Date: 1990-02-27
8. Anatomy of an Oil Spill
Air Date: 1990-03-20
9. Poland - the Morning After
Air Date: 1990-03-27
10. Born in Africa
Air Date: 1990-04-03
11. New Harvest, Old Shame
Air Date: 1990-04-17
12. Hilary in Hiding
Air Date: 1990-04-24
13. Other People's Money
Air Date: 1990-05-01
14. Plunder!
Air Date: 1990-05-08
15. Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Air Date: 1990-05-15
16. Inside the Cartel
Air Date: 1990-05-22
17. Teacher, Teacher
Air Date: 1990-06-12
1. The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special
Air Date: 1990-09-11
2. Decade of Destruction (1): Ashes of Forest
Air Date: 1990-09-18
3. Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land
Air Date: 1990-09-19
4. Decade of Destruction (3): Mountains of Gold
Air Date: 1990-09-20
5. Decade of Destruction (4): Chico Mendes
Air Date: 1990-09-21
6. Global Dumping Ground
Air Date: 1990-10-02
7. When Cops Go Bad
Air Date: 1990-10-16
8. The Hunt for Howard Marks
Air Date: 1990-10-23
9. Broken Minds
Air Date: 1990-10-30
Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has shattered families and left tens of thousands on the nation’s streets.
10. Betting on the Lottery
Air Date: 1990-11-06
Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, ‘Who really wins and who loses?’
11. Springfield Goes to War
Air Date: 1990-11-20
12. High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Air Date: 1990-11-27
13. The Struggle for South Africa
Air Date: 1990-12-11
14. The Spirit of Crazy Horse
Air Date: 1990-12-18
15. To the Brink of War
Air Date: 1991-01-15
16. Cuba and Cocaine
Air Date: 1991-02-05
17. The Man Who Made the Supergun
Air Date: 1991-02-12
18. Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev
Air Date: 1991-02-19
19. The Mind of Hussein
Air Date: 1991-02-26
20. Black America's War
Air Date: 1991-04-02
21. War and Peace in Panama
Air Date: 1991-04-09
22. The Election Held Hostage
Air Date: 1991-04-16
23. Who Pays for Mom and Dad?
Air Date: 1991-04-30
24. Innocence Lost
Air Date: 1991-05-07
25. The Spy Hunter
Air Date: 1991-05-14
26. To the Last Fish
Air Date: 1991-05-21
27. The Color of Your Skin
Air Date: 1991-06-11
28. The Gates Nomination
Air Date: 1991-07-15
1. In the Shadow of Sakharov
Air Date: 1991-10-15
2. The Great American Bailout
Air Date: 1991-10-22
3. The War We Left Behind
Air Date: 1991-10-29
4. Don King, Unauthorized
Air Date: 1991-11-05
5. My Doctor, My Lover
Air Date: 1991-11-12
6. Losing the War with Japan
Air Date: 1991-11-19
7. The Secret Story of Terry Waite
Air Date: 1991-11-26
8. Who Killed Adam Mann?
Air Date: 1991-12-03
9. The Resurrection of Reverend Moon
Air Date: 1992-01-21
10. The Last Communist
Air Date: 1992-02-11
11. Coming from Japan
Air Date: 1992-02-18
12. After Gorbachev's USSR
Air Date: 1992-02-25
13. Who is David Duke?
Air Date: 1992-03-03
14. The Death of Nancy Cruzan
Air Date: 1992-03-24
15. Saddam's Killing Fields
Air Date: 1992-03-31
16. Investigating the October Surprise
Air Date: 1992-04-07
17. The Betrayal of Democracy
Air Date: 1992-04-15
18. The Bank of Crooks and Criminals
Air Date: 1992-04-21
19. Who Cares About Children?
Air Date: 1992-04-28
20. China After Tiananmen
Air Date: 1992-06-02
21. Dear Frontline
Air Date: 1992-06-02
22. A Kid Kills
Air Date: 1992-06-16
23. Your Loan is Denied
Air Date: 1992-06-23
1. Thomas and Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain
Air Date: 1992-10-13
2. The Politics of Power
Air Date: 1992-10-20
3. The Choice '92
Air Date: 1992-10-21
4. The Best Campaign Money Can Buy
Air Date: 1992-10-27
5. Monsters Among Us
Air Date: 1992-11-10
6. JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob
Air Date: 1992-11-17
7. In Search of Our Fathers
Air Date: 1992-11-24
8. Clinton Takes Over
Air Date: 1993-01-19
9. Journey to the Occupied Lands
Air Date: 1993-01-26
10. What Happened to the Drug War?
Air Date: 1993-02-02
11. The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
Air Date: 1993-02-09
12. The Arming of Saudi Arabia
Air Date: 1993-02-16
13. Apartheid's Last Stand
Air Date: 1993-03-02
14. Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special
Air Date: 1993-03-23
15. In Our Children's Food
Air Date: 1993-03-30
16. The Trouble with Baseball
Air Date: 1993-04-06
17. Iran and the Bomb
Air Date: 1993-04-13
18. LA Is Burning: 5 Reports from a Divided City
Air Date: 1993-04-27
19. Ashes of the Cold War
Air Date: 1993-05-04
20. The Health Care Gamble
Air Date: 1993-05-25
21. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
Air Date: 1993-07-20
22. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
Air Date: 1993-07-21
1. The Heartbeat of America
Air Date: 1993-10-12
2. Prisoners of Silence
Air Date: 1993-10-19
3. Secrets of a Bomb Factory
Air Date: 1993-10-26
4. Showdown in Haiti
Air Date: 1993-11-09
5. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Air Date: 1993-11-16
6. AIDS, Blood and Politics
Air Date: 1993-11-30
7. Behind the Badge
Air Date: 1993-12-14
8. A Place for Madness
Air Date: 1994-01-18
9. The Diamond Empire
Air Date: 1994-02-01
10. Tabloid Truth: the Michael Jackson Story
Air Date: 1994-02-15
11. Red Flag Over Tibet
Air Date: 1994-02-22
12. Sarajevo: the Living and the Dead
Air Date: 1994-03-01
Sarajevo: the Living and the Dead is a 1993 documentary film directed by Radovan Tadic.
13. In the Game
Air Date: 1994-03-29
14. The Kevorkian File
Air Date: 1994-04-05
15. Mandela
Air Date: 1994-04-26
16. The Struggle for Russia
Air Date: 1994-05-03
17. Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
Air Date: 1994-05-10
18. Public Lands, Private Profits
Air Date: 1994-05-24
19. Go Back to Mexico!
Air Date: 1994-06-07
20. The Trouble with Evan
Air Date: 1994-06-21
1. School Colors
Air Date: 1994-10-18
2. Is This Any Way to Run a Government?
Air Date: 1994-10-25
3. Hot Money
Air Date: 1994-11-01
4. How to Steal $500 Million
Air Date: 1994-11-08
5. Hillary's Class
Air Date: 1994-11-15
In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women. But what about her classmates who left college believing they could do anything? In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women.
6. The Nicotine War
Air Date: 1995-01-03
7. Does TV Kill?
Air Date: 1995-01-10
8. What Happened to Bill Clinton?
Air Date: 1995-01-31
9. The Godfather of Cocaine
Air Date: 1995-02-14
10. The Begging Game
Air Date: 1995-02-21
11. Rush Limbaugh's America
Air Date: 1995-02-28
12. Divided Memories (1)
Air Date: 1995-04-04
13. Divided Memories (2)
Air Date: 1995-04-11
14. The Homecoming
Air Date: 1995-04-25
15. When the Bough Breaks
Air Date: 1995-05-02
16. The Vanishing Father
Air Date: 1995-05-16
17. The Confessions of Rosa Lee
Air Date: 1995-05-23
18. Welcome to Happy Valley
Air Date: 1995-06-06
Prozac is the most prescribed antidepressant drug in America. FRONTLINE travels to the prozac capital of the world, Wenatchee, Washington, and talks to the ‘Pied Piper of Prozac,’ Dr. Jim Goodwin, a clinical psychologist who says Prozac is ‘probably less toxic than salt’ and has had it prescribed for all his seven hundred patients. Psychiatrist Peter Breggin and members of the Prozac Survivors Support Group, however, question the use of the drug.
19. Currents of Fear
Air Date: 1995-06-13
1. Waco: the Inside Story
Air Date: 1995-10-17
FRONTLINE investigates the April 1993 FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas. With access to secret government documents, audio and videotapes, correspondent Peter Boyer of "The New Yorker" probes the untold story of the fierce political infighting inside the FBI's Waco command center and in the corridors of power at the Justice Department in Washington.
2. The Search for Satan
Air Date: 1995-10-24
3. High Stakes in Cyberspace
Air Date: 1995-10-31
4. Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?
Air Date: 1995-11-07
5. Natasha and the Wolf
Air Date: 1995-11-14
FRONTLINE takes a riveting and intimate look at a notorious murder case--the story of Maduev, a cunning Russian gangster and killer known as 'The Wolf.' Maduev charmed and seduced all who crossed his path, including his state prosecutor, Natasha Voronstova, who smuggled him a gun to make his escape from prison. With exclusive access to the central characters, the trial, and to secret KGB tapes, this film reveals the heart of a killer's chilling story that has mesmerized Russia.
6. Living on the Edge
Air Date: 1995-12-12
7. The Gulf War
Air Date: 1996-01-09
8. The Long March of Newt Gingrich
Air Date: 1996-01-16
In this investigative biography of the outspoken and controversial speaker, which first aired in 1996, correspondent Peter J. Boyer takes an inside look at how Gingrich led the GOP to become the majority party and examines the childhood, people and events that shaped his personality and political career.
9. So You Want to Buy a President?
Air Date: 1996-01-30
10. Murder on 'Abortion Row'
Air Date: 1996-02-06
Clinic workers Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols are murdered by John Salvi, a radical, young, Catholic abortion opponent.
11. Breast Implants on Trial
Air Date: 1996-02-27
12. Smoke in the Eye
Air Date: 1996-04-02
13. Angel on Death Row
Air Date: 1996-04-09
14. Shtetl
Air Date: 1996-04-17
FRONTLINE producer Marian Marzynski travels to Poland to search for remnants of the lives and memories of an entire Jewish village, a shtetl lost in the Holocaust.
15. The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
Air Date: 1996-04-30
16. The Kevorkian Verdict
Air Date: 1996-05-14
17. Does America Still Work?
Air Date: 1996-05-21
18. The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Air Date: 1996-06-04
1. The Choice '96
Air Date: 1996-10-08
2. The Navy Blues
Air Date: 1996-10-15
3. Why America Hates the Press
Air Date: 1996-10-22
4. Loose Nukes
Air Date: 1996-11-19
5. Secret Daughter
Air Date: 1996-11-26
6. Betting on the Market
Air Date: 1997-01-14
7. Six O'Clock News
Air Date: 1997-01-21
8. What Jennifer Saw
Air Date: 1997-02-25
9. Valentina's Nightmare
Air Date: 1997-04-01
10. Murder, Money, and Mexico
Air Date: 1997-04-08
11. The Fixers
Air Date: 1997-04-15
12. Nuclear Reaction
Air Date: 1997-04-22
13. Little Criminals
Air Date: 1997-05-13
14. The Opium Kings
Air Date: 1997-05-20
15. Innocence Lost: the Plea
Air Date: 1997-05-27
16. Hot Guns
Air Date: 1997-06-03
17. Easy Money
Air Date: 1997-06-10
18. Nazi Gold
Air Date: 1997-06-17
1. Once Upon a Time in Arkansas
Air Date: 1997-10-07
2. The Lost American
Air Date: 1997-10-14
3. Behind the Mask: the IRA and Sinn Fein
Air Date: 1997-10-21
4. Dreams of Tibet
Air Date: 1997-10-28
5. A Whale of a Business
Air Date: 1997-11-11
6. The Princess and the Press
Air Date: 1997-11-18
7. Last Battle of the Gulf War
Air Date: 1998-01-20
8. My Retirement Dreams
Air Date: 1998-02-03
9. The Two Nations of Black America
Air Date: 1998-02-10
10. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Air Date: 1998-04-06
11. The High Price of Health
Air Date: 1998-04-14
12. Busted: America's War on Marijuana
Air Date: 1998-04-28
13. Inside the Tobacco Deal
Air Date: 1998-05-12
14. Secrets of an Independent Counsel
Air Date: 1998-05-19
15. The World's Most Wanted Man
Air Date: 1998-05-26
16. Fooling With Nature
Air Date: 1998-06-02
1. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)
Air Date: 1998-09-21
The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
2. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)
Air Date: 1998-09-22
The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
3. The Farmer's Wife, Part 3
Air Date: 1998-09-23
4. Ambush in Mogadishu
Air Date: 1998-09-29
6. Plague War
Air Date: 1998-10-13
7. The Child Terror
Air Date: 1998-10-27
8. Fat
Air Date: 1998-11-03
9. Snitch
Air Date: 1999-01-12
10. The Triumph of Evil
Air Date: 1999-01-26
11. The Execution
Air Date: 1999-02-09
12. Russian Roulette
Air Date: 1999-02-23
13. Hunting Bin Laden
Air Date: 1999-04-13
14. Spying on Saddam
Air Date: 1999-04-27
15. Give War a Chance
Air Date: 1999-05-11
16. The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
Air Date: 1999-05-25
An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.
17. Making Babies
Air Date: 1999-06-01
18. Pop
Air Date: 1999-06-22
19. The Crash
Air Date: 1999-06-29
1. John Paul II: the Millennial Pope
Air Date: 1999-09-28
2. Secrets of the SAT
Air Date: 1999-10-05
3. Mafia Power Play
Air Date: 1999-10-12
4. The Lost Children of Rockdale County
Air Date: 1999-10-19
Conyers, Georgia is a prosperous bedroom community just outside Atlanta. FRONTLINE examines the link between an outbreak of syphilis among a group of its teenagers and the well-off community in which they live. The film reveals a parent's worst nightmare--children as young as fourteen naming scores of sexual partners; others telling of binge drinking, drugs and sex parties. In a series of intertwining profiles, FRONTLINE uncovers the roots of the Conyers syphilis epidemic and reveals the turbulent psychology of America's suburban teenagers.
5. Apocalypse! (2)
Air Date: 1999-11-22
6. Justice for Sale
Air Date: 1999-11-23
7. The Case for Innocence
Air Date: 2000-01-11
8. The Killer at Thurston High
Air Date: 2000-01-18
FRONTLINE explores what led Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old Oregon boy, to kill his parents and two classmates, and shoot and injure 25 others at his high school.
9. The Survival of Saddam
Air Date: 2000-01-25
10. Assault on Gay America
Air Date: 2000-02-15
11. War in Europe
Air Date: 2000-02-22
12. Dr Solomon's Dilemma
Air Date: 2000-04-04
13. What's Up With the Weather?
Air Date: 2000-04-18
14. Jefferson's Blood
Air Date: 2000-05-02
15. Return of the Czar
Air Date: 2000-05-09
16. The Battle Over School Choice
Air Date: 2000-05-23
During the election year of 2000, George Bush and Al Gore battled over issues regarding education. This program explores the heated political debate over the reform of public education and investigates the spectrum of "school choice" options, from vouchers to charter schools to for-profit academies
1. The Choice 2000
Air Date: 2000-10-02
2. Drug Wars (1)
Air Date: 2000-10-09
3. Drug Wars (2)
Air Date: 2000-10-10
4. The Future of War
Air Date: 2000-10-24
5. Real Justice (1)
Air Date: 2000-11-11
6. Real Justice (2)
Air Date: 2000-11-18
7. The Clinton Years
Air Date: 2001-01-16
A look at Bill Clinton's life from the Arkansas governor's mansion through a hard-fought presidential campaign and his eight years in the White House.
8. Juvenile Justice
Air Date: 2001-01-30
9. Saving Elian
Air Date: 2001-02-06
10. Hackers
Air Date: 2001-02-13
11. The Merchants of Cool
Air Date: 2001-02-27
FRONTLINE explores how America's giant media corporations skillfully court the teenage consumer.
12. Organ Farm (1)
Air Date: 2001-03-27
13. Medicating Kids
Air Date: 2001-04-10
What explains the surge in behavior-modifying drugs for children? How safe – and necessary – are they?
14. Harvest of Fear
Air Date: 2001-04-24
15. LAPD Blues
Air Date: 2001-05-15
16. Blackout
Air Date: 2001-06-05
1. Hunting Bin Laden
Air Date: 2001-09-13
2. Target America
Air Date: 2001-10-04
3. Looking for Answers
Air Date: 2001-10-09
4. Dangerous Straits
Air Date: 2001-10-18
5. Trail of a Terrorist
Air Date: 2001-10-25
6. Gunning for Saddam
Air Date: 2001-11-08
7. Saudi Time Bomb?
Air Date: 2001-11-15
8. The Monster That Ate Hollywood
Air Date: 2001-11-22
9. An Ordinary Crime
Air Date: 2002-01-10
10. Inside the Terror Network
Air Date: 2002-01-17
11. Dot Con
Air Date: 2002-01-24
12. Inside the Teenage Brain
Air Date: 2002-01-31
13. American Porn
Air Date: 2002-02-07
Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry’s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?
14. Roll Over: the Hidden History of the SUV
Air Date: 2002-02-21
15. Testing Our Schools
Air Date: 2002-03-28
16. Battle for the Holy Land
Air Date: 2002-04-04
17. Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
Air Date: 2002-04-11
18. Modern Meat
Air Date: 2002-04-18
19. Did Daddy Do It?
Air Date: 2002-04-25
20. Terror and Tehran
Air Date: 2002-05-02
21. Muslims
Air Date: 2002-05-09
22. The Siege of Bethlehem
Air Date: 2002-06-13
23. Bigger Than Enron
Air Date: 2002-06-20
24. Shattered Dreams
Air Date: 2002-06-27
How the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed.
1. Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
Air Date: 2002-09-03
For many Americans, the most difficult questions about 9/11 were not about politics, military strategy or homeland security. They were questions about God, about evil and about the potential for darkness within religion itself. What was it we saw on Sept. 11? Was it the true face of evil? Was it the face of religion? And where, if one is a believer, was God on that tragic morning?
2. Campaign Against Terror
Air Date: 2002-09-08
3. The Man Who Knew
Air Date: 2002-10-03
When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill.
4. Missile Wars
Air Date: 2002-10-10
5. A Crime of Insanity
Air Date: 2002-10-17
6. Let's Get Married
Air Date: 2002-11-14
7. In Search of Al Qaeda
Air Date: 2002-11-21
In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air. In this 2002 documentary, FRONTLINE investigates what happened to the fighters who survived.
8. Much Ado About Something
Air Date: 2003-01-02
9. A Dangerous Business
Air Date: 2003-01-09
Each year, six thousand Americans lose their lives on the job. Tens of thousands more are seriously injured or exposed to deadly poisons and carcinogens in the workplace. Yet if one of those workers dies on the job due to a company's willful disregard for federal safety regulations, the maximum penalty his employer faces is just six months in prison. Are America's workplace safety laws tough enough? And are companies being held responsible for protecting the safety of their employees? FRONTLINE investigates workplace safety in one of America's most dangerous industries.
10. Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr
Air Date: 2003-01-30
11. Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files
Air Date: 2003-02-06
12. China in the Red
Air Date: 2003-02-13
13. The War Behind Closed Doors
Air Date: 2003-02-20
14. The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
Air Date: 2003-03-17
15. Blair's War
Air Date: 2003-04-03
16. Kim's Nuclear Gamble
Air Date: 2003-04-10
17. Cyber War!
Air Date: 2003-04-24
18. Burden of Innocence
Air Date: 2003-05-01
19. The Wall Street Fix
Air Date: 2003-05-08
20. The Other Drug War
Air Date: 2003-06-19
21. Public Schools, Inc.
Air Date: 2003-07-03
1. Truth, War, and Consequences
Air Date: 2003-10-09
Did America rush into a war in Iraq for which is was unprepared? Could the volatility in Iraq have been prevented? FRONTLINE takes an in-depth, behind the scenes look at what some government officials said was the underlying cause of America’s problems in Iraq: prewar political infighting that hampered efforts to plan for an orderly postwar transition.
2. Chasing the Sleeper Cell
Air Date: 2003-10-16
3. The Alternative Fix
Air Date: 2003-11-06
4. Dangerous Prescription
Air Date: 2003-11-13
5. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (Updated)
Air Date: 2003-11-20
6. From China With Love
Air Date: 2004-01-15
7. Chasing Saddam's Weapons
Air Date: 2004-01-22
8. Beyond Baghdad
Air Date: 2004-02-12
Veteran investigative team Martin Smith, Marcela Gaviria and Scott Anger continued their reporting on Iraq, setting out on a five-week journey across the country, from the Kurdish north, through the Sunni Triangle, to the Shiite south, taking a hard look at the social and political reality beyond the political corridors of Baghdad.
9. Tax Me if You Can
Air Date: 2004-02-19
In "Tax Me If You Can," FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith investigates the rampant abuse of tax shelters since the late 1990s. Through interviews with government officials, tax experts, and industry insiders, Smith uncovers an avalanche of bogus transactions -- created by some of America's biggest and most-respected accounting firms, law firms, and investment banks -- that were then aggressively marketed to big corporations and wealthy individuals.
10. The Invasion of Iraq
Air Date: 2004-02-26
11. Ghosts of Rwanda
Air Date: 2004-04-01
12. Diet Wars
Air Date: 2004-04-08
14. The Jesus Factor
Air Date: 2004-04-29
15. The Way the Music Died
Air Date: 2004-05-27
16. The Plea
Air Date: 2004-06-17
Nearly 95 percent of all cases resulting in felony convictions never reach a jury. They are settled through plea bargains in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence. But what are the implications of a system that relies on pleas to expedite justice?
1. Sacred Ground
Air Date: 2004-09-17
2. The Choice 2004
Air Date: 2004-10-12
3. Rumsfeld's War
Air Date: 2004-10-26
4. The Persuaders
Air Date: 2004-11-09
FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public.
5. Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Air Date: 2004-11-16
FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home. https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-wal-mart-good-america/
6. Secret History of the Credit Card
Air Date: 2004-11-23
The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.
7. Al Qaeda's New Front
Air Date: 2005-01-25
Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda.
8. House of Saud
Air Date: 2005-02-08
9. A Company of Soldiers
Air Date: 2005-02-22
10. The Soldier's Heart
Air Date: 2005-03-01
The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the psychological cost of those who fight it.
11. Israel's Next War?
Air Date: 2005-04-05
A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.
12. Karl Rove -- the Architect
Air Date: 2005-04-12
13. Death of a Princess (Updated)
Air Date: 2005-04-19
14. The New Asylums
Air Date: 2005-05-10
A report on the new reality for the mentally ill in America: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. How did we get here, and are we doing anything to help them?
15. A Jew Among the Germans
Air Date: 2005-05-31
16. Private Warriors
Air Date: 2005-06-21
1. The O.J. Verdict
Air Date: 2005-10-04
On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. Ten years later, veteran FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel revisits the "perfect storm" that was the O.J. Simpson trial. Through extensive interviews with the defense, prosecution and journalists, FRONTLINE explores the verdict -- which, more than any other in recent history, measured the difference between being white and black in America.
2. The Torture Question
Air Date: 2005-10-18
The 9/11 attacks lead to a “get-tough” policy for the U.S. government. FRONTLINE examines how this harsh new standard for torture worked its way around the globe and down to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib.
3. The Last Abortion Clinic
Air Date: 2005-11-08
The abortion debate rages on in the U.S. as laws regulating women’s access to abortion flip in each state. In what direction is the country headed on its abortion policies – diminishing options state by state, or access for all?
4. The Storm
Air Date: 2005-11-22
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FRONTLINE will produce a documentary special that investigates the political storm surrounding the devastation of America's Gulf Coast. Veteran FRONTLINE producer/reporter Martin Smith will lead a team to ask hard questions about the decisions leading up to the disaster and beyond.
5. Country Boys, Part 1
Air Date: 2006-01-09
6. Country Boys: Part 2
Air Date: 2006-01-10
7. Country Boys: Part 3
Air Date: 2006-01-11
8. Sex Slaves
Air Date: 2006-02-07
Hidden cameras trail "Olga" as she takes the women from the port of Odessa to Istanbul and then to a parking lot in the Aksaray district where the women are sold. An undercover journey deep into the world of sex trafficking, following one man determined to rescue his wife -- kidnapped and sold into the global sex trade.
9. The Meth Epidemic
Air Date: 2006-02-14
Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among West Coast motorcycle gangs in the 1970s has spread across the United States, and despite lawmakers' calls for action, the drug is now more potent, and more destructive, than at any time in the past decade. In The Meth Epidemic, FRONTLINE, in association with The Oregonian, investigates the meth rampage in America: the appalling impact on individuals, families and communities, and the difficulty of controlling an essential ingredient in meth—ephedrine and pseudoephedrine—sold legally in over-the-counter cold remedies.
10. The Insurgency
Air Date: 2006-02-21
11. The Tank Man
Air Date: 2006-04-11
17 years later, what does he mean for a China that today is a global economic powerhouse and now hosts the 2008 Olympics?
12. Can You Afford to Retire?
Air Date: 2006-05-16
There have always been rumors about disappearing social security, but now the U.S faces a real risk of dried up dollars. With vanishing pensions and faltering 401(k) plans, are middle class Americans facing a rough ride in their retirement years?
13. The Age of AIDS (1)
Air Date: 2006-05-30
14. The Age of AIDS (2)
Air Date: 2006-05-31
15. The Dark Side
Air Date: 2006-06-20
1. Return of the Taliban
Air Date: 2006-10-03
Nearly seven years after the Taliban were toppled, Al Qaeda and the Taliban continue to use Pakistan as a de facto base, virtually unchallenged and far out of America’s reach.
2. The Enemy Within
Air Date: 2006-10-10
3. The Lost Year in Iraq
Air Date: 2006-10-17
4. A Hidden Life
Air Date: 2006-11-14
In May 2005, Jim West, the once-popular mayor of Spokane, Wash., made headlines with rampant accusations of abuse. FRONTLINE takes a look at West’s two lives: the public and the private, the political and the deeply, disturbingly possible.
5. News War (4): Stories From A Small Planet
Air Date: 2007-03-27
The fourth hour of News War looks at media around the globe to reveal the international forces that influence journalism and politics in the United States. The lead story focuses on the new Arab media and its role in both mitigating and exacerbating the clash between the West and Islam. With a focus on Al Jazeera and how it has changed the face of a parochial and tightly controlled Arab media, this hour explores Al Jazeera's growing influence around the world -- from Muslim communities in Europe to the pending launch of a new English-language service that will be broadcast in the United States.
6. Hand of God
Air Date: 2007-01-16
7. Gangs of Iraq
Air Date: 2007-04-17
Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to "stand up" the Iraqi forces. In Gangs of Iraq, a joint production of FRONTLINE and the "America at a Crossroads" series, FRONTLINE takes a hard look at how the four-year training effort has fared and how the coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias. Now, with President Bush sending new U.S. troops to Iraq, it remains to be seen if America and its allies can build a national Iraqi army and police and restore order.
8. News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin
Air Date: 2007-02-20
9. The Mormons (1)
Air Date: 2007-04-30
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 12 million members today and over half of them live outside the United States. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in their first co-production to provide a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney ("Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero," "John Paul II: The Millennial Pope"), the film will explore the richness, the complexities, and the controversies of the Mormons' story as told through interviews with leaders and members of the church, with leading writers and historians, and with supporters and critics of the Mormon faith.
10. The Mormons (2)
Air Date: 2007-05-01
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 12 million members today and over half of them live outside the United States. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in their first co-production to provide a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney ("Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero," "John Paul II: The Millennial Pope"), the film will explore the richness, the complexities, and the controversies of the Mormons' story as told through interviews with leaders and members of the church, with leading writers and historians, and with supporters and critics of the Mormon faith.
11. Hot Politics
Air Date: 2007-04-24
12. When Kids Get Life
Air Date: 2007-05-08
It’s often said that kids have their whole lives ahead of them. What happens when, early on, that life becomes a life in prison? FRONTLINE examines the convictions of the children who committed murder, and how they’re viewed in the eyes of the law.
13. Spying on the Home Front
Air Date: 2007-05-15
14. Endgame
Air Date: 2007-06-19
15. Living Old
Air Date: 2006-11-21
With 35 million elderly people in America, “the old, old” — those over 85 — are now considered the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. While medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans to live longer and healthier lives, this new longevity has also had unintended consequences. For millions of Americans, living longer also means serious chronic illness and a protracted physical decline that can require an immense amount of care, often for years and sometimes even decades. Yet just as the need for care is rising, the number of available caregivers is dwindling. With families more dispersed than ever and an overburdened healthcare system, many experts fear that we are on the threshold of a major crisis in care.
1. Cheney's Law
Air Date: 2007-10-16
For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.
2. Showdown With Iran
Air Date: 2007-10-23
As the U.S. and Iran compete for influence across the Middle East, FRONTLINE examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have served to strengthen Iran’s position as an emerging global power.
3. A Dangerous Business Revisited
Air Date: 2008-02-05
Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the iron pipe foundry business. One company stood out, the McWane Corporation. It had more health and safety violations than all of its competitors combined, and there were a number of environmental violations as well. In the five years since our original broadcast, federal prosecutors obtained indictments against and juries convicted the company in five cases in four states. Today McWane says it has made a dramatic turnaround and that worker safety and environmental protection are now high priorities. FRONTLINE revisits its original broadcast with correspondent Lowell Bergman who then reports on what has changed at McWane and whether the company has become a less dangerous business.
4. On Our Watch
Air Date: 2007-11-20
The world vowed “never again” after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and its members once again failed to stop the slaughter.
5. The Medicated Child
Air Date: 2008-01-08
Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?
6. Growing Up Online
Air Date: 2008-01-22
What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Program.
7. Rules of Engagement
Air Date: 2008-02-19
What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting. This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form.
8. Bush's War, Part 1
Air Date: 2008-03-24
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast.
9. Bush's War, Part 2
Air Date: 2008-03-25
The inside story of the war that will define a presidency -- a war that no one expected, and no one planned for.
10. Bad Voodoo's War
Air Date: 2008-04-01
FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a "virtual embed" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq.
11. The Choice 2008
Air Date: 2008-10-14
This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their very different candidacies say about America.
12. Heat
Air Date: 2008-10-21
For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental policy and stifled the debate over climate change in America and around the globe. Now, facing rising pressure from governments, green groups and investors alike, big business is reshaping its approach to the environment. With the election looming, FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith investigates what some businesses are doing to fend off new regulations and how others are repositioning themselves to prosper in a radically changed world.
13. The War Briefing
Air Date: 2008-10-28
The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on two fronts. FRONTLINE gives viewers a hard, inside look at the real policy choices the next president will face. The report features strategists and diplomats giving their best advice about how to correct past failures and how to shape a realistic foreign policy approach in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
14. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Air Date: 2008-11-11
In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed "the most evil man in America," but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare.
15. The Hugo Chavez Show
Air Date: 2008-11-25
FRONTLINE looks at Venezuela's controversial and outspoken president Hugo Chavez and the revolution he claims is turning his country into an anti-capitalist beacon for Latin America and the world. Through the lens of his unique weekly program "Al Presidente" and the eyes of the Venezuelans who know him well, FRONTLINE digs below the surface of his presidency and his personality to try to understand the mercurial leader.
16. Sick Around the World
Air Date: 2008-04-15
In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies?
17. Young & Restless in China
Air Date: 2008-06-17
A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history.
18. Storm Over Everest
Air Date: 2008-05-13
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now returns to Everest to tell the fuller story of what really happened on that legendary climb. Through remarkably intimate interviews with the climbers and Sherpas many who have never spoken before on American television Breashears sheds new light on the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest s history.
1. The Old Man and the Storm
Air Date: 2009-01-02
The compelling saga of one family's efforts to rebuild their homes, and their lives, in post-Katrina New Orleans.
2. Dreams of Obama
Air Date: 2009-01-09
A rich personal and political biography of America's 44th president and what has brought him to this historic moment...
3. My Father, My Brother, and Me
Air Date: 2009-02-03
Correspondent Dave Iverson's personal journey to understand Parkinson's, the disease which has taken such a toll on his family.
4. Inside the Meltdown
Air Date: 2009-02-17
How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Paulson and Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix.
5. Ten Trillion and Counting
Air Date: 2009-03-24
How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Paulson and Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix.
6. Sick Around America
Air Date: 2009-03-31
FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and exploring the need for a fundamental overhaul.
7. Black Money
Air Date: 2009-04-07
FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery.
8. Poisoned Waters
Air Date: 2009-04-21
Investigating the dangerous new wave of pollutants entering our waterways and drinking water - and who's responsible.
9. The Released
Air Date: 2009-04-28
What happens to the mentally ill when they leave America's prisons? Why do they return at such alarming rates ?
10. The Madoff Affair
Air Date: 2009-05-12
Inside the world's first global Ponzi scheme - and how he got away with it for so long...
11. Inside the Teenage Brain
Air Date: 2002-01-31
Teenagers are often described as erratic, unthoughtful, and rapidly changing human beings. But is there a universal explanation for the stereotype? FRONTLINE reveals new scientific studies that dig deep into the workings of the teenage mind.
12. Breaking the Bank
Air Date: 2009-06-16
The inside story of one of the most controversial moments in America's financial crisis - and its ongoing drama.
13. Obama's War
Air Date: 2009-10-13
Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires?"
14. The Warning
Air Date: 2009-10-20
Long before the economic meltdown, one woman tried to warn about the threat to the financial system...
15. Close to Home
Air Date: 2009-10-27
Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession's impact on one unlikely neighborhood--New York's Upper East Side..
16. A Death in Tehran
Air Date: 2009-11-17
The life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the Iranian reform movement alive.
17. The Card Game
Air Date: 2009-11-24
Investigating the massive consumer loan industry and what's ahead for banks and consumers...
1. Digital Nation
Air Date: 2010-02-02
Frontline explores how the Internet and digital media have completely transformed contemporary life.
2. Flying Cheap
Air Date: 2010-02-09
One year after the deadly airline crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, FRONTLINE investigates the accident and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation's daily departures. The rise of the regionals and arrival of low-cost carriers have been a huge boon to consumers, and the industry insists that the skies remain safe. But many insiders are worried that now, 30 years after airline deregulation, the aviation system is being stretched beyond its capacity to deliver service that is both cheap and safe.
3. Behind Taliban Lines
Air Date: 2010-02-23
This past fall, an Afghan video journalist negotiated extraordinary access to a part of the country that has quietly reverted back to Taliban control. For close to two weeks, the journalist traveled a region that he found was now largely under control of the Taliban "shadow" government. He also tracked members of an insurgent cell working with members of Al Qaeda on a mission to sabotage a major U.S./NATO supply route. As the new U.S. strategy focuses on the south and eastern parts of the country, this film opens up a window onto a potential new front in the north, and sheds an important light on who's fighting the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and why. Also in this hour: A report from Pakistan on the country's troubled public school system which is among the worst in the world, despite years of U.S. aid.
4. The Suicide Tourist
Air Date: 2010-03-02
Do we have the right to end our lives if life itself becomes unbearable, or when we enter the late-stages of painful, terminal illness? The questions, debated for centuries, have only grown more pressing in recent years as medical technology has allowed us to live longer lives, and several U.S. states have legalized physician-assisted suicide. With unique access to Dignitas, the Swiss non-profit that has helped over one thousand people die since 1998, Academy award- winning filmmaker John Zaritsky offers a revealing look at a couple facing the most difficult decision of their lives--and lets us see for ourselves as one Chicago native makes the trip to Switzerland for what will become the last day of his life.
5. The Quake
Air Date: 2010-03-30
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was leveled by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian state and the United Nations, were crippled by the magnitude of the disaster and struggled to respond. In the confused aftermath, survivors were left without food, water or shelter. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith and team arrived in Port-au-Prince within days, and in this powerful report, bears witness to the disaster and the ill-coordinated relief efforts in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Drawing on interviews with key officials and humanitarian experts from Port-au-Prince to New York, The Quake asks, can the world do better? And how?
6. Obama's Deal
Air Date: 2010-04-13
Health care reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the young president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. In a new investigation FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors at the White House, in Congress and the boardrooms of the giant health-care lobby to examine the political battles and costly compromises that defined Barack Obama's endeavor. From early positive efforts, through the bitter battles with the Tea Party, the elation of apparent success at Christmas, to the crushing failure in the Massachusetts Senatorial election, FRONTLINE follows the story and reveals the first in-depth look at how the Obama administration operates. In Obama's Deal, FRONTLINE veteran producer Michael Kirk (Bush's War, Dreams of Obama, Inside the Meltdown, The Warning) provides a sobering expose' of the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups, and the role of money in policy making.
7. The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Air Date: 2010-04-20
In Afghanistan today, in the midst of war and endemic poverty, an ancient tradition ? banned when the Taliban were in power ? has re-emerged across the country. It?s called Bacha Bazi, translated literally as ?boy play.? Hundreds of boys, some as young as 11, street orphans or boys bought from poor families by former warlords and powerful businessmen, are dressed in women?s clothes, taught to sing and dance for the entertainment of male audiences and then sold to the highest bidder or traded among the men for sex. With remarkable access inside a Bacha Bazi ring operating in northern Afghanistan, Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi investigates this practice, still illegal under Afghan law, talking with the boys, their families and their masters, exposing the sexual abuse and even murders of the boys, and documenting how Afghan authorities responsible for stopping these crimes are sometimes themselves complicit in the practice.
8. The Vaccine War
Air Date: 2010-04-27
Frontline examines both sides of the debate over vaccines. On one side, the public health community wholeheartedly endorses them. One the other, parents and politicians accuse them of causing disorders like autism.
9. College, Inc.
Air Date: 2010-05-04
The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist they're innovators, widening access to education. FRONTLINE follows the money to uncover how Wall Street and a new breed of for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America.
10. The Wounded Platoon
Air Date: 2010-05-18
Since the Iraq War began, soldier arrests in the city of Colorado Springs have tripled. At least thirty-six servicemen based at the nearby Army post of Fort Carson have committed suicide. And fourteen Fort Carson soldiers have been charged or convicted in at least eleven killings. Many of the most violent crimes involved men who had served in the same battalion in Iraq. Three of them came from a single platoon of infantrymen. FRONTLINE tells the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st battalion of the 506th infantry; and how the war followed them home. It is a story of heroism, grief, vicious combat, depression, drugs, alcohol and brutal murder; an investigation into the Army's mental health services; and a powerful portrait of what multiple tours and post-traumatic stress are doing to a generation of young American soldiers.
11. Law & Disorder
Air Date: 2010-08-25
Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. Law & Disorder a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, investigates charges that NOPD officers inappropriately used lethal force against New Orleans citizens and then tried to cover up their actions. Airing days before the fifth anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history and drawing from reports published in a real-time online investigation, FRONTLINE takes a fresh look at how the NOPD performed when the rules of civilized society collapsed.
12. Death by Fire
Air Date: 2010-10-19
Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it’s the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham — convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children — that’s now at the center of the national debate. With unique access to those closest to the case, FRONTLINE examines the Willingham conviction in light of new science that raises doubts about whether the fire at the center of the case was really arson at all. [Explore more stories on the original website for Death by Fire.]
13. The Spill
Air Date: 2010-10-26
Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a "serial environmental criminal" that left behind a long trail of problems -- deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations -- which many now believe should have triggered action by federal regulators. Could the spill have been prevented? Through interviews with current and former employees and executives, government regulators, and safety experts, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith joins with the investigative non-profit ProPublica to examine the trail that led to the disaster in the Gulf. From BP's vast oil fields in Alaska to its refineries in Texas and its trading rooms in New York and London, the film raises new questions about whether BP's corporate culture will finally be forced to change.
14. The Confessions
Air Date: 2010-11-09
Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman in 1997.
15. Facing Death
Air Date: 2010-11-23
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own?
1. Death by Fire
Air Date: 2010-10-19
At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty?
2. The Spill
Air Date: 2010-10-26
Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
3. The Confessions
Air Date: 2010-11-09
Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions.
4. Facing Death
Air Date: 2010-11-23
The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families
5. Battle for Haiti
Air Date: 2011-01-11
In the chaos of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, thousands of the country's worst criminals seized the opportunity to stage a mass escape from the National Penitentiary. One year later, the gang leaders are re-asserting control in the capital, threatening the country's stability.
6. Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper
Air Date: 2011-01-18
Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Flying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop.
7. Post Mortem
Air Date: 2011-02-01
A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.
9. Revolution in Cairo
Air Date: 2011-02-22
A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
10. Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning
Air Date: 2011-03-29
Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China. The Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth
11. Football High
Air Date: 2011-04-12
High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?
12. The Silence
Air Date: 2011-04-19
Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska.
13. Fighting for Bin Laden
Air Date: 2011-05-03
The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
14. Kill/Capture
Air Date: 2011-05-10
Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.
15. WikiSecrets
Air Date: 2011-05-24
The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.
16. The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke
Air Date: 2011-06-28
The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases. Educating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep.
17. The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists
Air Date: 2011-07-26
The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market. Doctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called “hotspotting,” in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. The Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI’s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life.
18. Top Secret America
Air Date: 2011-09-06
A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending
19. An Optimist in Haiti
Air Date: 2011-09-27
The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.
20. The Man Behind the Mosque
Air Date: 2011-09-27
The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
1. The Anthrax Files
Air Date: 2011-10-11
Frontline, with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism.
2. Lost in Detention
Air Date: 2011-10-18
Frontline investigates President Obama's enforcement strategies and immigrant detention - who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees.
3. Syria Undercover
Air Date: 2011-11-08
Reporter Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. Plus a profile of the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab unrest—President Bashar al-Assad.
4. A Perfect Terrorist
Air Date: 2011-11-22
Life of a Pakistani-American David Headley.
5. Opium Brides
Air Date: 2012-01-03
Frontline reports on the unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan.
6. Nuclear Aftershocks
Air Date: 2012-01-17
It’s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country’s once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: The controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan?
7. The Interrupters
Air Date: 2012-02-14
The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these “Violence Interrupters,” who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city’s most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a murdered father, and a man haunted by a killing he committed as a teenager. As they intervene in disputes to prevent violence, they reveal their own inspired journeys of struggle and redemption.
8. Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
Air Date: 2012-02-28
An unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
9. Murdoch's Scandal
Air Date: 2012-03-27
Accounts of bribery, blackmail, and privacy invasions has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.
10. The Real CSI
Air Date: 2012-04-17
How reliable is the science behind forensics? A Frontline investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science.
11. Money, Power and Wall Street Parts I-IV
Air Date: 2012-04-24
Frontline tells the inside story of the global financial crisis. (four one-hour episodes, May 4 premier concluded).
12. Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet
Air Date: 2012-05-22
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases. Six Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 and lost a massive bet on European debt, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing. FRONTLINE investigates how Corzine’s traders went around MF Global’s risk officers and how he swayed regulators in Washington to allow risky practices to continue.
13. Al Qaeda in Yemen
Air Date: 2012-05-29
Frontline travels into the heart of Yemen's radical heartland, and shows how Al Queda is taking control of towns and cities in an attempt to establish its own state.
14. Dollars and Dentists
Air Date: 2012-06-26
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by Frontline and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broken safety net.
15. Endgame: Aids in Black America
Air Date: 2012-07-10
Nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. Trace the history of the AIDS epidemic through the experiences of individuals who tell their stories.
16. Fast Times at West Philly High / Middle School Moment
Air Date: 2012-07-07
Fast Times at West Philly High: Students and teachers from West Philadelphia High School, a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia, defy expectations as they design and build two super-hybrid cars for international competition and compete for the chance to be part of a technological revolution. Middle School Moment: New evidence that suggests the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school. The film explores how one Bronx school is using a novel form of data collection and analysis to predict and prevent dropouts before they happen.
17. The Battle for Syria
Air Date: 2012-09-18
Frontline takes you inside the heart of the insurgency, where rebel groups are waging a full-scale assault on the forces of President Bashar al Assad.
18. Alaska Gold
Air Date: 2012-07-24
Frontline probes the fault lines of a growing battle in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, home to the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery-and enormous mineral deposits.[24]
20. Dropout Nation
Air Date: 2012-09-25
What does it take to save a student?
21. The Choice 2012
Air Date: 2012-10-09
A journey into the places, people, and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reveal new details and fresh insights about the two candidates — and our choice this November.
22. Climate of Doubt
Air Date: 2012-10-23
Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What’s behind this massive reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate.
23. Big Sky, Big Money
Air Date: 2012-10-29
FRONTLINE travels to the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision changed campaigns in America? Ask Montana, which has tried to challenge the ruling in court, is investigating alleged campaign abuses and is playing host to a bitter race that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.
24. The Suicide Plan
Air Date: 2012-11-13
FRONTLINE explores the underground world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time – told not only by the people choosing to die, but also by their "assisters," individuals and right-to-die organizations that put themselves in legal jeopardy by helping others to die.
26. Poor Kids
Air Date: 2012-11-20
Through the stories of three families told over the course of half a decade, FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children in America.
1. The Education of Michelle Rhee
Air Date: 2013-01-08
Examine the legacy of controversial former chancellor of Washington, DC, public schools, Michelle Rhee.
2. Inside Obama's Presidency
Air Date: 2013-01-15
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president’s key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.
3. The Untouchables
Air Date: 2013-01-22
FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
4. Cliffhanger
Air Date: 2013-02-12
FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, the film shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration.
5. Newtown Divided / Raising Adam Lanza
Air Date: 2013-02-19
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where FRONTLINE and The Hartford Courant find a town divided and explore how those closest to the tragedy are now wrestling with our nation’s gun culture and laws. In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. He left no known friends, no diary. He destroyed his computer and any evidence it might have provided. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. In collaboration with The Hartford Courant, FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central–and so far elusive–question: who was Adam Lanza?
6. Kind Hearted Woman
Air Date: 2013-04-01
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Kind Hearted Woman is a special co-presentation of FRONTLINE and Independent Lens.
7. Syria Behind the Lines
Air Date: 2013-04-09
In Syria’s rural heartland, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. The once-peaceful Orontes River valley is now a perilous sectarian front line where neighbor is fighting neighbor. Olly Lambert spent five weeks living on both sides, and his unprecedented film documents the everyday lives of rebels, government soldiers and the civilians who support them.
8. The Retirement Gamble
Air Date: 2013-04-23
The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America’s financial institutions protect our retirement savings.
9. Never Forget to Lie
Air Date: 2013-05-14
In the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores, for the first time, his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors, teasing out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive “never forget to lie.”
10. Outlawed in Pakistan
Air Date: 2013-05-28
In Pakistan, women and girls who allege rape are often more strongly condemned than their alleged rapists. Some are even killed by their own families. For this unforgettable documentary, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent years tracing one alleged rape victim’s odyssey through Pakistan’s flawed justice system—as well as her alleged rapists’ quest to clear their names.
11. Rape in the Fields
Air Date: 2013-06-25
FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
12. Two American Families
Air Date: 2013-07-09
Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee — one black, one white — as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty. A remarkable portrait of perseverance, Two American Families raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the U.S. economy and the fate of a declining middle class.
13. Life and Death in Assisted Living
Air Date: 2013-07-30
More and more elderly Americans are choosing to spend their later years in assisted living facilities, which have sprung up as an alternative to nursing homes. But is this loosely regulated, multi-billion dollar industry putting seniors at risk? In a major investigation with ProPublica, FRONTLINE examines the operations of the nation’s largest assisted living company, raising questions about the drive for profits and fatal lapses in care.
14. Egypt in Crisis
Air Date: 2013-09-17
FRONTLINE and GlobalPost’s Charles M. Sennott go inside the Egyptian revolution, tracing how what began as a youth movement to topple a dictator evolved into an opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to seemingly find the political foothold it had sought for decades — and then why it all fell apart. Were the Brothers ever really in charge? Or was the Egyptian “deep state” in control all along?
15. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis
Air Date: 2013-10-08
An investigation of the health crisis threatening NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football.
16. Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
Air Date: 2013-10-22
Has the age of antibiotics come to an end? From a young girl thrust onto life support in Arizona to an uncontrollable outbreak at one of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals, FRONTLINE investigates the alarming rise of a deadly type of bacteria that our modern antibiotics can’t stop.
17. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Air Date: 2013-11-19
FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination with an encore broadcast of Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? — an investigative biography of the man at the center of the political crime of the century. The three-hour documentary special traces Oswald’s life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions: Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed “lone gunman”? Was he one of two gunmen that day in Dallas? Or was he an unwitting scapegoat for the real assassins?
18. A Death in St. Augustine
Air Date: 2013-11-26
A report on domestic violence allegations within police departments focuses on the death of a young Florida woman whose boyfriend was a deputy sheriff.
19. Kind Hearted Woman (2)
Air Date: 2013-04-02
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Kind Hearted Woman is a special co-presentation of FRONTLINE and Independent Lens.
1. To Catch a Trader
Air Date: 2014-01-07
FRONTLINE tracks an ongoing seven-year investigation into the largest insider trading scandal in U.S. history.
2. Secret State of North Korea
Air Date: 2014-01-14
FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, revealing how ordinary citizens are resisting one of the world’s most oppressive regimes.
3. Syria's Second Front / Children of Aleppo
Air Date: 2014-02-11
Three years in to Syria’s civil war, rebel forces aren’t just fighting the Assad regime. They’re also vying for control against a group known as ISIS. FRONTLINE correspondent Muhammad Ali — a Syrian native himself, and one of only a few reporters to make it safely into, and then out of, Syria’s northern front in recent months — delivers a gripping report from inside a country in turmoil. A startling portrait of everyday life in a war zone, through the eyes of children.
4. Generation Like
Air Date: 2014-02-18
Thanks to social media, today’s teens are able to directly interact with their culture — artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another — in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand? In Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders) explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media — and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Do kids think they’re being used? Do they care? Or does the perceived chance to be the next big star make it all worth it?
5. Secrets of the Vatican
Air Date: 2014-02-25
Secrets of the Vatican tells the epic, inside story of the collapse of the Benedict papacy — and illuminates the extraordinary challenges facing Pope Francis as he tries to reform the powerful Vatican bureaucracy, root out corruption, and chart a new course for the troubled Catholic Church and its 1.2 billion followers.
6. TB Silent Killer
Air Date: 2014-03-25
Tuberculosis was once thought to be a disease of the past. But with virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, TB — passed simply by a cough or a sneeze — is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease on the planet. In TB Silent Killer, FRONTLINE presents an unforgettable portrait of the lives at the pandemic’s epicenter.
7. Solitary Nation
Air Date: 2014-04-22
With extraordinary access, award-winning producer and director Dan Edge (Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown, Kill/Capture, The Wounded Platoon) takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. Solitary Nation brings you an up-close, graphic look at a solitary confinement unit in Maine’s maximum security prison.
8. Prison State
Air Date: 2014-04-29
There are roughly 2.3 million people behind bars in the U.S., with a disproportionate number coming from a few city neighborhoods. More than two years in the making, Prison State takes an intimate look at the cycle of incarceration in America, and one state’s effort to reverse the trend.
9. United States of Secrets (1)
Air Date: 2014-05-13
The history of the National Security Agency's unprecedented surveillance program is investigated.
10. United States of Secrets (2)
Air Date: 2014-05-20
The role of Silicon Valley in the National Security Agency's surveillance program is explored.
11. The Battle for Ukraine / Syria: Arming the Rebels
Air Date: 2014-05-27
FRONTLINE draws on personal and dramatic footage to reveal the deep-seated hatreds between right-wing Ukrainian nationalists with historic ties to the Nazis and violent pro-Russian separatists vying for control of the country. FRONTLINE finds Syrian rebel fighters who say they’re being secretly armed and trained by the United States.
12. Omarina's Story / Separate and Unequal
Air Date: 2014-07-15
When FRONTLINE first met Omarina Cabrera back in 2012 for the documentary Middle School Moment, she was a struggling student at Middle School 244 in the Bronx. Today, she’s excelling at an elite prep school in New England. In part two of our July 15 hour on education, class and race in America, FRONTLINE revisits Omarina as part of our continued examination of a groundbreaking program to stem the dropout crisis in America’s high-poverty schools. Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What’s behind the growing racial divide in American schools — and what’s the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?
13. Losing Iraq
Air Date: 2014-07-29
In a special developing report, FRONTLINE examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the investigative team behind The Lost Year in Iraq, The Torture Question, Endgame and Bush’s War traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence — exploring how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong and what happens next.
14. Hunting Boko Haram / Ebola Outbreak
Air Date: 2014-09-09
When the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, it sparked international outrage and worldwide pressure to #BringBackOurGirls. But now, FRONTLINE investigates evidence that in the fight against Boko Haram, members of the Nigerian military and state-sponsored militias have been committing atrocities against suspects, many of them innocent civilians. FRONTLINE travels to the epicenter of the Ebola crisis to find out how and why the outbreak has spiraled out of control — and to track the fight to contain the virus’s deadly spread. With special access to teams fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone, FRONTLINE, in collaboration with the Channel 4 foreign affairs series Unreported World, brings you an up-close, on-the-ground look at how and why the outbreak is endangering civilians and health-care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse.
15. The Trouble with Antibiotics
Air Date: 2014-10-14
FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.
16. The Rise of ISIS
Air Date: 2014-10-28
FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. As part of a special FRONTLINE series, correspondent Martin Smith reports from Iraq on how the country began coming undone after the American withdrawal and what it means for the U.S. to be fighting there again.
17. Firestone and the Warlord
Air Date: 2014-11-18
What are the costs of doing business in a war zone? On Nov.18, 2014, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the relationship between Firestone and the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Based on the inside accounts of Americans who ran the company’s Liberia rubber plantation, and diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation reveals how Firestone conducted business during the brutal Liberian civil war.
18. Stickup Kid
Air Date: 2014-12-17
What happens when we lock up juvenile offenders in adult prisons? “Stickup Kid,” a FRONTLINE digital exclusive, tells the story of Alonza Thomas — sent to adult prison in California at age 16 — and how spending over a decade behind bars impacted him.
1. Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
Air Date: 2015-01-06
FRONTLINE investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America. With first-hand accounts of school killings in Newtown and Columbine, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, "Gunned Down" examines why, despite the national trauma over gun violence, Washington hasn't acted.
2. Putin's Way
Air Date: 2015-01-13
FRONTLINE investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, "Putin's Way" reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War.
3. Being Mortal
Air Date: 2015-02-10
FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
4. The Fight for Yemen
Air Date: 2015-04-07
As recently as September, President Obama was pointing to Yemen as a model for the U.S.’s counter-terrorism strategy. But now, the country is being torn apart in a violent conflict led by an anti-American rebel movement known as the Houthis. With the Yemeni president ousted from the capital, and Saudi Arabia leading a coalition of regional forces against the Houthis, FRONTLINE in conjunction with BBC Arabic brings this special report from inside the war zone, exposing the violent feuds tearing the country apart, the rival anti-American and Al Qaeda-aligned forces fighting for control and the dangerous consequences for the region and the world.
5. American Terrorist
Air Date: 2015-04-21
FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film — an updated and expanded version of A Perfect Terrorist — reveals how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper.
6. Outbreak
Air Date: 2015-05-05
FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn’t stopped before it was too late. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak’s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping firsthand accounts of victims from the jungles of Guinea to the slums of Monrovia, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
7. The Trouble with Chicken
Air Date: 2015-05-12
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our meat -- particularly poultry -- and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the film shows how contaminants are evading regulators and causing more severe illnesses at a time when Americans are consuming more chicken than ever.
8. Secrets, Politics and Torture
Air Date: 2015-05-19
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush’s War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA’s controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did — and whether it worked.
9. Obama at War
Air Date: 2015-05-26
Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith goes inside the Obama administration’s struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria. With interviews from key military and diplomatic leaders, the documentary examines the hard choices facing the president as he tries to defeat the Islamic State without dragging America into a prolonged regional conflict.
10. Rape on the Night Shift
Air Date: 2015-06-23
A joint investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women who clean the malls where you shop, the banks where you do business and the offices where you work.
11. Growing Up Trans
Air Date: 2015-06-30
Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. In Growing Up Trans, FRONTLINE takes viewers on an intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families.
12. Escaping ISIS
Air Date: 2015-07-14
Using undercover footage, FRONTLINE presents the gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS — and follows an underground network that’s helping them escape.
13. Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty
Air Date: 2015-07-21
A feature documentary about two filmmakers who set out to interview El Chapo Guzmán, leader of one of the biggest drug cartels in history. Before his capture in 2014, El Chapo had been on the run from the US and Mexican governments for over a decade — and after his July 2015 escape from prison, he’s now on the lam once again.
14. My Brother's Bomber (1)
Air Date: 2015-09-29
When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9/11? In My Brother’s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers.
15. My Brother's Bomber (2)
Air Date: 2015-10-06
When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9/11? In My Brother’s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers.
16. My Brother's Bomber (3)
Air Date: 2015-10-13
When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9/11? In My Brother’s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers.
17. Immigration Battle
Air Date: 2015-10-20
Why has it been so hard for Washington to fix our country’s broken immigration system? In “Immigration Battle,” a special two-hour feature film presentation from FRONTLINE and INDEPENDENT LENS, acclaimed independent filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini take viewers behind closed doors in Washington’s corridors of power to explore the political realities surrounding one of the country’s most pressing and divisive issues.
18. Inside Assad's Syria
Air Date: 2015-10-27
The world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe. But what is life like for those left behind? Correspondent Martin Smith goes Inside Assad’s Syria to report from government-controlled areas as war rages, with on-the-ground reporting and firsthand accounts from Syrians caught in the crisis.
19. Terror in Little Saigon
Air Date: 2015-11-03
FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up to investigate a wave of terror that targeted Vietnamese-American journalists. Uncovering a trail that leads from American cities to jungles in Southeast Asia, FRONTLINE and ProPublica shine new light on a series of unsolved murders and attacks.
20. Taliban Hunters / ISIS in Afghanistan
Air Date: 2015-11-17
Inside a counter-terrorism unit in Karachi, Pakistan that’s dedicated to tracking down Taliban suspects. ISIS is on the rise in Afghanistan — and they say they’re getting young kids to join the jihad. In a special report, FRONTLINE correspondent Najibullah Quraishi reveals on film the degree to which ISIS is gaining a foothold in the country, and how they’re focusing their efforts on training a new generation of jihadists.
1. Netanyahu at War
Air Date: 2016-01-05
The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces Netanyahu's rise to power and his high-stakes fight with the president over Iran's nuclear program.
2. Supplements and Safety
Air Date: 2016-01-19
An investigation into the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, a multibillion-dollar industry with limited FDA oversight. FRONTLINE, The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation examine the marketing and regulation of supplements, and cases of contamination and serious health problems.
3. The Fantasy Sports Gamble
Air Date: 2016-02-09
An investigation with The New York Times into fantasy sports and online sports betting. With law enforcement cracking down, the film traces the growth of these booming businesses and goes inside their operations at home and abroad.
4. Chasing Heroin
Air Date: 2016-02-23
FRONTLINE looks at America's heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.
5. Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Air Date: 2016-03-29
With undercover footage and on-the-ground reporting, FRONTLINE reveals a side of Saudi Arabia that's rarely seen, and traces the efforts of men and women who are working to bring about change.
6. Children of Syria
Air Date: 2016-04-19
The story of one Syrian family struggling amid war, from the siege of their city, to the kidnapping of their father, to the shock of becoming refugees.
7. Benghazi in Crisis / Yemen Under Siege
Air Date: 2016-05-03
In a special two-part hour, journalist Feras Kilani reports from inside the war-torn city of Benghazi -- the birthplace of Libya’s uprising, now besieged by ISIS and warring militias. Then, journalist Safa Al Ahmad makes a dangerous trip to report on the fighting in Yemen.
8. The Secret History of ISIS
Air Date: 2016-05-17
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team comes the inside story of the creation of ISIS, and how the United States missed the many warning signs. The film uncovers the terror group’s earliest plans, the Islamic radicals who became its leaders, and the American failures to stop ISIS’s brutal rise.
9. Business of Disaster
Air Date: 2016-05-24
When disaster strikes, who profits? FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the Business of Disaster, focusing on the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: the thousands still not home, the agencies that were supposed to help and the companies that made millions.
10. Policing the Police
Air Date: 2016-06-28
How do you change a troubled police department? FRONTLINE goes inside the Newark Police Department — one of many forces in America ordered to reform. As the country’s debate over race, policing and civil rights continues to unfold, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb examines allegations of police abuses in Newark, N.J. and the challenge of fixing a broken relationship with the community.
11. A Subprime Education / The Education of Omarina
Air Date: 2016-09-13
FRONTLINE examines allegations of fraud and predatory behavior in the for-profit college industry. The Education of Omarina continues a story FRONTLINE has been following since 2012 — showing how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl’s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college.
1. The Choice 2016
Air Date: 2016-09-26
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two of the most polarizing presidential candidates in modern history. Veteran Frontline filmmaker Michael Kirk goes beyond the headlines to investigate what has shaped these two candidates, where they came from, how they lead and why they want one of the most difficult jobs imaginable.
2. Confronting ISIS
Air Date: 2016-10-10
Reporting from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, Frontline correspondent Martin Smith examines the successes, failures and challenges of the fight against ISIS, as the terror group loses ground in the region but strikes out abroad.
3. Terror in Europe
Air Date: 2016-10-18
As Europe reels from a terror onslaught, top security officials describe their struggle to contain the unprecedented threat revealed by attacks in France and Belgium.
4. Exodus
Air Date: 2016-12-27
The first-person stories of refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and hardship — drawing on footage filmed by the families themselves as they leave their homes on dangerous journeys in search of safety and refuge in Europe.
5. President Trump
Air Date: 2017-01-03
Frontline examines the key moments that shaped President-elect Donald Trump. Interviews drawn from The Choice 2016 with advisors, business associates and biographers reveal how Trump transformed himself from real estate developer to reality TV star to president.
6. Divided States of America (1)
Air Date: 2017-01-17
Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, "Divided States of America" looks back at events during President Barack Obama's years in office that revealed deep divisions in our country. The documentary offers an in-depth view of the partisan gridlock in Washington, the rise of populist anger on both sides of the aisle, and the racial tensions that erupted throughout the country.
7. Divided States of America (2)
Air Date: 2017-01-18
Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, "Divided States of America" looks back at events during President Barack Obama's years in office that revealed deep divisions in our country. The documentary offers an in-depth view of the partisan gridlock in Washington, the rise of populist anger on both sides of the aisle, and the racial tensions that erupted throughout the country.
8. Trump's Road to the White House
Air Date: 2017-01-24
An investigation of how Donald Trump defied expectations to win the presidency -- and what it suggests about how he will govern.
9. Battle for Iraq / Hunting ISIS
Air Date: 2017-01-31
Battle for Iraq: Reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes inside the battle against ISIS for control of the city of Mosul. Hunting ISIS: a dramatic report on an Iraqi unit at the center of the fight.
10. Out of Gitmo / Forever Prison
Air Date: 2017-02-21
Out of Gitmo: The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after more than a decade. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international terrorists. Forever Prison: a collaboration with Retro Report exploring the untold history of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
11. Iraq Uncovered
Air Date: 2017-03-21
FRONTLINE investigates allegations of abuse of Sunni Muslim civilians by powerful Shia militias.
12. Last Days of Solitary
Air Date: 2017-04-18
Inside one state’s ambitious attempt to decrease its use of solitary — and what happens when prisoners who have spent considerable time in isolation try to integrate back into society.
13. The Fish on My Plate
Air Date: 2017-04-25
Best-selling author and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg spends a year eating fish at breakfast, lunch and dinner to help answer the question: “What fish should I eat that’s good for me and good for the planet?”
14. Second Chance Kids
Air Date: 2017-05-02
Frontline investigates the fight over the fate of juveniles serving life in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The film examines the impact of the order to re-evaluate thousands of juvenile murder cases and follows two of the first convicts to be released.
15. Poverty, Politics and Profit
Air Date: 2017-05-09
An investigation with NPR into the billions spent on housing low-income people, and why so few get the help they need. The film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis.
16. American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government
Air Date: 2017-05-16
Frontline investigates how the Bundy family's fight against the government invigorated armed militias and "patriot" groups. The film goes inside the family's standoffs over public land in the West, and examines how groups aligned with them have grown to levels not seen in decades.
17. Bannon's War
Air Date: 2017-05-23
The team behind "The Choice 2016" and "Divided States of America" tells the inside story of Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and his war with Washington, with White House rivals and with Islam. Frontline explores Bannon's personal crusade to dramatically transform America, and his role in the power struggles and policy clashes within the Trump administration.
18. Life on Parole
Air Date: 2017-07-18
With unique access, Frontline and The New York Times go inside an effort to change the way parole works in Connecticut and reduce the number of people returning to prison. The film follows four former inmates as they try to find work, stay sober and keep out of trouble while navigating their first year on parole.
19. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Air Date: 2017-09-12
From acclaimed director Steve James, the little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis. An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 2018.
20. North Korea's Deadly Dictator
Air Date: 2017-10-04
Who killed Kim Jong-un’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam? What does the murder reveal about the North Korean leader and his regime? As nuclear tensions grow, Frontline examines claims that Kim Jong-un ordered the assassination of his half brother, and sheds light on his broader intentions.
21. War on the EPA
Air Date: 2017-10-11
How did Scott Pruitt go from fighting the EPA to running it and rolling back years of environmental protections? With access to key players behind his rise, and former EPA officials, Frontline provides an inside look at the ascent of the anti-regulatory movement in America.
1. Mosul/Inside Yemen
Air Date: 2017-10-18
The battle to drive ISIS out of Iraq’s second-largest city was brutal and grueling. Shot over the course of the nine-month battle, “Mosul” follows one Iraqi special forces unit as they lead the fight. Also in this two-part hour: “Inside Yemen” offers a rare, up-close look at the country that’s home to what the United Nations recently called the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
2. Putin's Revenge (1)
Air Date: 2017-10-25
Reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes inside the battle against ISIS for control of the city of Mosul. Also in this two-part hour: "Hunting ISIS," a dramatic report on an Iraqi unit at the center of the fight.
3. Putin's Revenge (2)
Air Date: 2017-11-01
The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after more than a decade. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international terrorists. Also in this two-part hour: “Forever Prison,” a collaboration with Retro Report exploring the untold history of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
4. Poor Kids
Air Date: 2017-11-22
In 2012, FRONTLINE spent months following four young children as their families struggled with financial ruin. This documentary revisits the families to see what their lives are like now, offering a powerful, firsthand look at what poverty means to children.
5. Exodus: The Journey Continues
Air Date: 2018-01-23
The intimate stories of refugees and migrants, caught in Europe’s tightened borders. Amid the ongoing migration crisis, the film — a sequel to the award-winning 2016 documentary, Exodus — follows personal journeys over two years, as countries become less welcoming to those seeking refuge.
6. The Gang Crackdown
Air Date: 2018-02-13
Some 25 dead bodies have been found on Long Island since 2016, all linked to the violent gang MS-13. Numerous immigrant teens are missing. As law enforcement tries to stop the gang, FRONTLINE goes inside the crackdown — investigating how the slew of gruesome killings led to many immigrant teens being accused of gang affiliation and unlawfully detained.
7. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (1)
Air Date: 2018-02-20
FRONTLINE investigates how a dangerous political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war.
8. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (2)
Air Date: 2018-02-27
FRONTLINE investigates how a dangerous political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war.
9. Weinstein
Air Date: 2018-03-02
FRONTLINE investigates how Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein’s early years, the film examines the elaborate ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers.
10. Trump's Takeover
Air Date: 2018-04-10
FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s high-stakes battle for control of the GOP, examining how he attacked fellow Republicans and used inflammatory rhetoric that rallied his base and further divided the country in his first year as president.
11. McCain
Air Date: 2018-04-17
Inside John McCain’s complicated relationship with President Donald Trump and his own Republican Party.
12. Trafficked in America
Air Date: 2018-04-24
FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley tell the inside story of Guatemalan teens who were forced to work against their will on an Ohio egg farm in 2014.
13. Blackout in Puerto Rico
Air Date: 2018-05-01
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
14. Myanmar's Killing Fields
Air Date: 2018-05-08
Secret footage and eyewitness accounts shine new light on a brutal campaign by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims — an effort that has been described by both the United Nations and the United States as “ethnic cleansing.”
15. UN Sex Abuse Scandal
Air Date: 2018-07-24
An investigation into sex abuse by United Nations peacekeepers in the world’s conflict zones. Award-winning correspondent Ramita Navai (Iraq Uncovered) traces allegations from Congo to the Central African Republic, with firsthand accounts from survivors, witnesses and officials.
1. Separated: Children at the Border
Air Date: 2018-07-31
The inside story of what happened to immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. The film explores the impact of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, and how both Trump and Obama dealt with minors at the border.
2. Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
Air Date: 2018-08-07
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. This is the first in a series of two Documenting Hate films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica, with the second coming later in 2018.
3. Our Man in Tehran (1)
Air Date: 2018-08-13
Thomas Erdbrink shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at odds with its conservative clerics and leaders. The series offers surprising encounters inside the closed society of Iran, as Erdbrink gets Iranians to reveal the intricacies of their private worlds and the challenges of living under theocratic leaders.
4. Our Man in Tehran (2)
Air Date: 2018-08-14
Thomas Erdbrink shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at odds with its conservative clerics and leaders. The series offers surprising encounters inside the closed society of Iran, as Erdbrink gets Iranians to reveal the intricacies of their private worlds and the challenges of living under theocratic leaders.
5. Left Behind America
Air Date: 2018-09-11
Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city’s struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. FRONTLINE and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent of people now live in poverty.
6. Trump's Showdown
Air Date: 2018-10-02
FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice. With the threat of impeachment growing, this two-hour documentary from filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces Trump’s unprecedented war against the special counsel, the FBI, and even his own attorney general.
7. The Pension Gamble
Air Date: 2018-10-23
FRONTLINE investigates the role of state governments and Wall Street in driving America’s public pensions into a multi-trillion-dollar hole. Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith, and Nick Verbitsky go inside the volatile fight over pensions playing out in Kentucky, and examine the broader consequences for teachers, police, firefighters and other public employees everywhere.
8. The Facebook Dilemma (1)
Air Date: 2018-10-29
Facebook’s promise was to create a more open and connected world. Frontline finds that multiple warnings about the platform’s negative impact on privacy and democracy were eclipsed by Facebook’s relentless pursuit of growth.
9. The Facebook Dilemma (2)
Air Date: 2018-10-30
A series of mounting crises at Facebook, from the company’s failure to protect users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, have raised the question: How has Facebook’s historic success brought about real-world harm? Frontline traces a series of warnings to the company as it grew into a global empire.
10. Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
Air Date: 2018-11-20
An investigation of a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military examining the group’s terrorist objectives.
11. Coal's Deadly Dust / Targeting Yemen
Air Date: 2019-01-22
Frontline and NPR investigate the rise of severe black lung disease among coal miners, and the failure to respond. This joint investigation reveals the biggest disease clusters ever documented, and how the industry and the government failed to protect miners. Also in this two-part hour, Frontline presents a report from Yemen.
12. Predator on the Reservation
Air Date: 2019-02-12
FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigate the decades-long failure to stop a government doctor accused of sexually abusing Native American boys for years, and examine how he moved from reservation to reservation despite warnings.
13. Right to Fail
Air Date: 2019-02-26
Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
14. The Trial of Ratko Mladić
Air Date: 2019-03-19
Victims call him the Butcher of Bosnia. Defenders say he protected the Serbs. With exclusive access to the prosecution and defense teams, the film chronicles the trial of Ratko Mladić accused of genocide and war crimes. FRONTLINE offers an epic story of justice, accountability and a country at odds over its bloody past.
15. The Mueller Investigation
Air Date: 2019-03-25
For two years, special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election has dominated headlines. Drawing from interviews with U.S. officials, Trump advisers, legal experts and journalists, FRONTLINE offers an inside look into the investigation that President Donald Trump has continually deemed a “witch hunt.” Update aired 5/14/2019.
16. Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Air Date: 2019-04-15
Elizabeth Perez, a decorated U.S. Marine veteran, fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported. Meanwhile, Marcos is alone in Mexico, working as a soccer referee, struggling with depression and fighting the urge to cross the border illegally to see his family.
17. The Abortion Divide
Air Date: 2019-04-23
FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict.
18. The Last Survivors
Air Date: 2019-04-30
As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. More than seventy years after World War II, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma. FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have affected the daily lives and relationships of some of the Holocaust’s youngest victims – from survivor’s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.
19. Trump's Trade War
Air Date: 2019-05-07
The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. Reporting from the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate what led the world’s two largest economies to the brink, and the billions at stake.
20. Supreme Revenge
Air Date: 2019-05-21
Inside the no-holds-barred war for control of the Supreme Court. From Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Bork, an investigation of how a 30-year-old grievance transformed the court and turned confirmations into bitter, partisan conflicts.
21. Sex Trafficking in America
Air Date: 2019-05-28
Sex Trafficking in America tells the unimaginable stories of young women coerced into prostitution – and follows one police unit that’s committed to rooting out sexual exploitation.
22. Flint's Deadly Water
Air Date: 2019-09-10
Five years after the start of Flint’s water crisis, FRONTLINE exposes its hidden toll. Our two-year investigation traces how a public health disaster that’s become known for the lead poisoning of thousands of children also spawned one of the largest outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in U.S. history.
1. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Air Date: 2019-10-01
A year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, FRONTLINE investigates the rise of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. In a two-hour documentary, Martin Smith — who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years — examines the crown prince's vision for the future of Saudi Arabia, his handling of dissent and his ties to Khashoggi's killing.
2. On The President's Orders
Air Date: 2019-10-08
A searing, on-the-ground look at President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly campaign against suspected drug dealers and users in the Philippines, "On the President's Orders" is told with unprecedented access to the police themselves. It offers a gripping, visually stunning window into the war on drugs — those carrying it out, and those most impacted by it.
3. Zero Tolerance
Air Date: 2019-10-22
How Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division. Inside the effort by three insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the GOP, and crack down on immigration.
4. Fire in Paradise
Air Date: 2019-10-29
A year after the devastating Camp Fire, FRONTLINE examines who’s to blame and why it was so catastrophic. With accounts from survivors and first responders, the documentary tells the inside story of the most destructive fire in California's history, its causes and the impact of climate change.
5. In the Age of AI
Air Date: 2019-11-05
From fears about work and privacy to a rivalry between the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
6. Kids Caught in the Crackdown/ Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
Air Date: 2019-11-12
In an investigation with The Associated Press, FRONTLINE examines the widespread consequences — and business — of the mass confinement of migrant children. The documentary details the traumatic stories of migrant children detained under President Trump’s immigration policies. Also in this two-part hour, a report on the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Iraq.
7. For Sama
Air Date: 2019-11-19
In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. The award-winning documentary unfolds as a love letter from filmmaker and young mother Waad al-Kateab to her daughter — Sama.
8. Targeting El Paso
Air Date: 2020-01-07
FRONTLINE investigates how El Paso, Texas became the Trump administration’s immigration testing ground, and then the target of a white supremacist. Interviews with current and former officials, Border Patrol agents, advocates and migrants tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis.
9. America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (Part One)
Air Date: 2020-01-13
A two-part investigation into America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Part One of the documentary traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump.
10. America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (Part Two)
Air Date: 2020-01-13
A two-part investigation into America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Part Two of the documentary examines how Donald Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions and how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide.
11. Taliban Country/The Luanda Leaks
Air Date: 2020-01-21
FRONTLINE reporter Najibullah Quraishi goes on a dangerous journey into both Taliban- and ISIS-held territory amid efforts to end nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan. Also in this two-part hour, an investigation with the ICIJ into how Isabel dos Santos became Africa’s richest woman.
12. Battle for Hong Kong
Air Date: 2020-02-11
FRONTLINE goes inside the battle for Hong Kong, following protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against what they say is growing influence from the communist government of mainland China.
13. Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
Air Date: 2020-02-18
FRONTLINE examines Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company’s rapid growth, and the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world.
14. NRA Under Fire
Air Date: 2020-03-24
Once an unrivaled political power, the NRA is facing challenges from all sides. FRONTLINE examines how the NRA aligned with President Trump and his base, and finds itself under attack ahead of the 2020 election.
15. Plastic Wars
Air Date: 2020-03-31
With the plastic industry expanding like never before, and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics.
16. China Undercover
Air Date: 2020-04-07
With undercover footage and firsthand accounts from survivors of China's detention camps, FRONTLINE investigates the Communist regime’s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use of sophisticated surveillance technology against the Uyghur community.
17. Coronavirus Pandemic
Air Date: 2020-04-21
How did the U.S. become the country with the worst known coronavirus outbreak in the world? FRONTLINE investigates the American response to COVID-19 — from Washington State to Washington, D.C. — and examines what happens when politics and science collide.
18. Inside Italy's COVID War
Air Date: 2020-05-19
FRONTLINE goes inside a hospital battling the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy, as doctors are forced to make life and death decisions. An intimate, exclusive story that follows one besieged ER doctor, her staff and the patients suffering from COVID-19, from the darkest days to the signs of hope.
19. The Virus: What Went Wrong?
Air Date: 2020-06-16
As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so unprepared? Despite repeated warnings of a potent contagion headed our way, America’s leaders failed to prepare and protect us. Why and who is accountable?
20. Opioids, Inc.
Air Date: 2020-06-23
The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.
21. Once Upon A Time In Iraq
Air Date: 2020-07-14
This is the story of the Iraq war, told by Iraqis who lived through it. They share their personal accounts and lasting memories of life under Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion of their country and the 17 years of chaos that followed — from the sectarian violence to the rise and brutal reign of ISIS.
1. COVID's Hidden Toll
Air Date: 2020-07-21
An examination on how the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers. The documentary follows the coronavirus pandemic’s invisible victims, including crucial farm and meat-packing workers who lack protections and have been getting sick.
2. United States of Conspiracy
Air Date: 2020-07-28
How trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. Frontline examines the alliance of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Trump advisor Roger Stone, and the president, and their role in the battle over truth and lies.
3. Love, Life & the Virus / Undocumented in the Pandemic
Air Date: 2020-08-11
Two intimate stories of immigrant families whose lives were upended by the coronavirus. "Love, Life and the Virus" follows Zully, a 30-year-old mother, who is diagnosed with COVID-19 — and gives birth while on a ventilator. “Undocumented in the Pandemic” tells the story of an family’s struggle to stay together, as a father is detained by ICE in a facility where COVID-19 is spreading.
4. Growing Up Poor in America
Air Date: 2020-09-08
The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.
5. Policing the Police 2020
Air Date: 2020-09-15
George Floyd's killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.
6. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Air Date: 2020-09-22
In this 2-hour special from veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, hear from friends, family, colleagues and adversaries about the challenges that shaped Trump and Biden’s lives and could inform how they confront the crises facing the nation at this pivotal juncture.
7. America's Medical Supply Crisis
Air Date: 2020-10-06
Why was the United States left scrambling for critical medical equipment as the coronavirus swept the country? With the Associated Press and Global Reporting Centre, FRONTLINE investigates the fragmented global medical supply chain and its deadly consequences.
8. Whose Vote Counts
Air Date: 2020-10-20
As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, Frontline investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not. New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots, and how the pandemic could impact turnout.
9. American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil
Air Date: 2020-11-17
A FRONTLINE post-election special on the lives, fears and hopes of Americans, from the pandemic to the polls. This documentary was filmed around the U.S. for much of the year, following Americans as they dealt with COVID-19 in their communities this spring, responded to George Floyd’s killing this summer, and then experienced this divisive election and its aftermath this fall.
10. Return From ISIS
Air Date: 2020-12-15
The story of an American mother who takes her son to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. A special report three years in the making investigating how the family ended up in Syria and what happened when they came home to the United States.
1. A Thousand Cuts
Air Date: 2021-01-08
With press freedom under threat in the Philippines, we go inside the escalating war between the press and the government. The documentary follows Maria Ressa, a renowned journalist who has become a top target of President Duterte's crackdown on the news media.
2. President Biden
Air Date: 2021-01-19
The story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America’s next president. Those who know him best describe the searing moments that shaped President-elect Biden and what those challenges reveal about how he will govern.
3. Trump's American Carnage
Air Date: 2021-01-26
From his first days as president to his last, how Trump stoked division, violence, and insurrection. FRONTLINE investigates Trump’s siege on his enemies, the media, and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come.
4. China's COVID Secrets
Air Date: 2021-02-02
The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak, and lessons for the world.
5. Iraq's Assassins/ COVID in Yemen
Air Date: 2021-02-09
How Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing Iraq. FRONTLINE investigates allegations that militias are threatening and killing critics with impunity and targeting U.S. interests. Also in this hour, how COVID is worsening Yemen's humanitarian crisis.
6. Death Is Our Business/ Love, Life & the Virus
Air Date: 2021-03-23
At Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans, COVID-19 reshapes the grieving process. How the pandemic has transformed mourning in a city known for its jazz-filled funerals. Also in this hour, follow a mother’s fight to survive COVID-19 and see her newborn baby. FRONTLINE filmmaker Oscar Guerra documents how the coronavirus hit one immigrant family, their struggle to be reunited, and the community that rallied around them.
7. American Insurrection
Air Date: 2021-04-13
Over the last three years, FRONTLINE has collaborated with ProPublica to investigate the rise of extremism in America. In the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up again to examine how far-right groups were emboldened and encouraged by former President Trump and how individuals were radicalized and brought into the political landscape.
8. The Virus That Shook the World (1)
Air Date: 2021-04-26
The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.
9. The Virus That Shook the World (2)
Air Date: 2021-04-27
The epic story of people around the world living through the year of the pandemic continues in a second part. With extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE shows the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.
10. Escaping Eritrea
Air Date: 2021-05-04
An unprecedented undercover investigation into one of the world’s most repressive regimes — Eritrea. Exclusive secret footage and testimony shed new light on shocking allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and indefinite forced conscription.
11. The Healthcare Divide
Air Date: 2021-05-18
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The documentary examines how pressure to increase profits and uneven government support is widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals, endangering care for the most needy.
12. The Jihadist
Air Date: 2021-06-01
A powerful Syrian militant called a terrorist by the U.S. seeks a new relationship with the West. In his first interview with a Western journalist, former Al Qaeda commander Abu Mohammad al-Jolani says his fight is with Syrian President Assad, not the U.S.
13. Germany's Neo-Nazis & the Far Right
Air Date: 2021-06-29
FRONTLINE investigates the rise of far-right extremism and violence in Germany. The documentary traces how extremists have carried out terror plots and attacks on Jews and migrants, infiltrated the security services, and what authorities are doing to confront the growing problem.
14. The Power of the Fed
Air Date: 2021-07-13
When COVID struck, the Federal Reserve stepped in to try to avert economic crisis. As the country’s central bank continues to pump billions of dollars into the financial system daily, who is benefitting and at what cost?
15. Leaving Afghanistan/India's Rape Scandal
Air Date: 2021-07-20
FRONTLINE investigates the consequences of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. With exclusive access to a militant wing of the Taliban, correspondent Najibullah Quraishi tells the story of Iran’s growing influence across Afghanistan. Also this hour, a report on politics and rape in India.
16. In the Shadow of 9/11
Air Date: 2021-08-10
How seven men in Miami were indicted for the biggest alleged Al Qaeda plot since 9/11. From the director of "Leaving Neverland," the bizarre story of an FBI sting that led to a terror prosecution, though the men had no weapons or connection to Al Qaeda.
17. America After 9/11
Air Date: 2021-09-07
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team, this documentary traces the U.S. response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across three presidencies. This two-hour special offers an epic re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America.
18. Boeing's Fatal Flaw
Air Date: 2021-09-14
In an investigation with The New York Times, FRONTLINE examines the commercial pressures, flawed design and failed oversight behind Boeing’s 737 Max jet and the crashes that killed 346 people.
19. Taliban Takeover
Air Date: 2021-10-12
The Taliban take over Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies. On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi investigates uncertainty and fear among the Afghan people and revisits the lead-up to the U.S. defeat and the Taliban’s return.
20. Pandora Papers/ Massacre in El Salvador
Air Date: 2021-11-09
A leak reveals hidden assets and deals of the wealthy and powerful; the legacy of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador.
21. Shots Fired
Air Date: 2021-11-23
Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state. With local journalism partner The Salt Lake Tribune, FRONTLINE examines police training, tactics and accountability, as well as racial disparities in the way force is used.
1. American Reckoning
Air Date: 2022-02-15
FRONTLINE and Retro Report tell the story of the 1967 killing of Wharlest Jackson Sr., a local NAACP leader in Natchez, Mississippi. The documentary follows Jackson’s family as they search for the truth about what happened and examines the history of white supremacy in Natchez. It is part of FRONTLINE's multiplatform Un(re)solved initiative.
2. Putin's Road to War
Air Date: 2022-03-15
FRONTLINE tells the story of what led to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, examining the events that shaped the Russian leader, the grievances that drive him and how a growing conflict with the West exploded into war in Europe.
3. Pelosi's Power
Air Date: 2022-03-22
An examination of the powerful and polarizing Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. The documentary traces Pelosi's life and legacy, how she has gained and wielded power across three decades, and how she has faced grave challenges to her leadership and to American democracy from Trump and his allies.
4. Plot to Overturn the Election
Air Date: 2022-03-29
Frontline and ProPublica examine how lies about election fraud in 2020 have made their way to the center of American politics and how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on the current crisis of democratic legitimacy in the United States.
5. The Power of Big Oil: Denial (1)
Air Date: 2022-04-19
Frontline examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. Part One of this three-part series charts the fossil fuel industry's early research on climate change and investigates industry efforts to sow seeds of doubt about the science.
6. The Power of Big Oil: Doubt (2)
Air Date: 2022-04-26
Frontline examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. Part Two of this three-part series explores the industry’s efforts to stall climate policy, even as evidence about climate change grew more certain in the new millennium.
7. The Power of Big Oil: Delay (3)
Air Date: 2022-05-03
Frontline examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. As leading climate scientists issue new warnings about climate change, Part Three examines how the fossil fuel industry worked to delay the transition to renewable energy sources — including by promoting natural gas as a cleaner alternative.
8. Police on Trial
Air Date: 2022-05-31
With Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from the Star Tribune, the documentary "Police on Trial" investigates the Minneapolis police, from the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests, to the trial of Derek Chauvin, to the struggle for accountability.
9. Facing Eviction
Air Date: 2022-07-26
Why have American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? With Retro Report, Frontline offers an intimate look at the United States’ affordable housing crisis through the eyes of tenants, landlords, judges and law enforcement.
10. Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
Air Date: 2022-08-02
A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv. Frontline follows displaced families trying to survive underground, civilians caught in the fight and first responders risking their lives amid the shelling of Ukraine’s second largest city.
11. Afghanistan Undercover
Air Date: 2022-08-09
An undercover investigation into the Taliban’s crackdown on women in Afghanistan. Frontline correspondent Ramita Navai finds women who are being punished by the regime and confronts Taliban officials.
12. Lies, Politics and Democracy
Air Date: 2022-09-06
Frontline’s season premiere investigates American political leaders and choices they’ve made that have undermined and threatened democracy in the U.S. In a two-hour documentary special premiering ahead of the 2022 midterms, Frontline examines how officials fed the public lies about the 2020 presidential election and embraced rhetoric that led to political violence.
13. Michael Flynn's Holy War
Air Date: 2022-10-18
How did Michael Flynn go from being an elite soldier overseas to waging a “spiritual war” in America? In collaboration with the Associated Press, Frontline examines how the retired three-star general has emerged as a leader in a far-right movement that puts its brand of Christianity at the center of American civic life & institutions and is attracting election deniers, conspiracists & extremists.
14. Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes
Air Date: 2022-10-25
Frontline and the Associated Press trace Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pattern of atrocities in Ukraine and across other conflicts, exposing the challenges of trying to hold Russia to account. The documentary offers a window into the lives of Ukrainians living under siege, capturing the devastation of the war and the ongoing pursuit for accountability.
15. Putin's War at Home
Air Date: 2022-11-01
Meet some of the defiant Russians pushing back against President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on critics of the war in Ukraine. FRONTLINE tells the inside stories of activists and journalists risking arrest and imprisonment to protest and speak out about the Kremlin’s war effort.
16. Crime Scene: Bucha/After Zero Tolerance
Air Date: 2022-12-06
Part 1: Crime Scene: Bucha - FRONTLINE, The Associated Press and SITU Research team up to present an exclusive visual investigation of the atrocities committed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha during Russia’s month-long occupation earlier this year. Drawing on hundreds of hours of CCTV footage, intercepted phone calls and a 3D model of Bucha, the collaborative investigation maps the scope of the carnage — more than 450 deaths in all — and with forensic detail charts how Russian soldiers ran “cleansing” operations. Part 2: After Zero Tolerance - The story of a family’s struggle to reunite after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
1. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (1)
Air Date: 2023-01-03
Investigating the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group. This two-part series from FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films examines how the hacking tool was used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
2. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (2)
Air Date: 2023-01-10
FRONTLINE and Forbidden Stories investigate the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group. Part two of a joint investigation into the hacking tool used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
3. Putin and the Presidents
Air Date: 2023-01-31
Vladimir Putin’s clashes with American presidents as he’s tried to rebuild the Russian empire. FRONTLINE traces the miscalculations and missteps of American presidents over five administrations, culminating in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
4. Age of Easy Money
Air Date: 2023-03-14
The role of the Federal Reserve’s “easy money” policies in the current economic uncertainty. From the Great Recession to the rise in inflation, FRONTLINE examines the ongoing fragility of the financial system and the widening gap between Wall St. and Main St.
5. America and the Taliban (1)
Air Date: 2023-04-04
How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part one of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences.
6. America and the Taliban (2)
Air Date: 2023-04-11
How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part two of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences.
7. America and the Taliban (3)
Air Date: 2023-04-25
How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part three of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences.
8. Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
Air Date: 2023-05-09
As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of their path to power. This investigation from veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces how race, power and controversy collide in the rise of the Supreme Court justice and his wife and how the couple has reshaped American law and politics.
9. Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah
Air Date: 2023-05-23
The enduring story of the battle of Fallujah, told by the people who lived through it. Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, soldiers, journalists and ordinary Iraqis recount one of the defining episodes of the war.
10. After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
Air Date: 2023-05-30
A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates, and The Texas Tribune document the community's trauma, efforts to heal, and the fight over assault rifles.
11. America's Dangerous Trucks
Air Date: 2023-06-13
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate deadly truck accidents and the fight over measures that could save thousands of lives. As deaths rise, the documentary examines decades of legal maneuvering, political influence, lax regulation and industry opposition.
12. Inside the Iranian Uprising
Air Date: 2023-06-29
With a trove of gripping footage filmed by protestors, this documentary goes inside the uprising that rocked Iran after the death of a young woman in police custody — and sheds new light on a regime under unprecedented pressure. Last fall, anti-government protests swept across Iran after the death in police custody of a young woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, who was accused of not adhering to the Islamic regime’s strict dress code. In the crackdown on protests that followed, human rights groups estimate that more than 500 Iranians have been killed, including 72 children. In a country where journalists are tightly controlled, young Iranians have been filming the uprising themselves and posting the videos online. For more than six months, FRONTLINE has been gathering and reviewing over 100 hours of this footage, cross-checking it with testimony from eyewitnesses and protestors, and following activists and exiles who have been gathering evidence of human rights violations.
13. Putin's Crisis
Air Date: 2023-07-11
With Vladimir Putin facing down a mutiny, how the Russian leader reached this moment of crisis. The story of Putin’s rise, his clashes at home and abroad, and how his troubled Ukraine war led to the greatest threat yet to his grip on power.
14. Two Strikes/ Tutwiler
Air Date: 2023-09-05
In this two-part special, FRONTLINE looks at a little known "two strikes" law and pregnancy in prison. In collaboration with The Marshall Project, the first half examines how a former West Point cadet got life in prison under a "two strikes" law. The second half documents what happens to pregnant women in prison and their newborns.
15. Putin vs. the Press
Air Date: 2023-09-26
The story of one journalist's battle to defend free speech in Putin's Russia. With unique access, the film follows Nobel prize-winner Dmitry Muratov as he fights to keep his newspaper alive and his reporters safe amid a government crackdown.
16. The Astros Edge
Air Date: 2023-10-03
FRONTLINE examines the Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the documentary traces the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern Major League Baseball history, the limited accountability and how the Astros’ approach to baseball changed the sport.
17. Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover
Air Date: 2023-10-10
Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter. FRONTLINE traces Musk’s journey from one of the platform’s most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech issues and the company’s uncertain future.
18. McConnell, the GOP & the Court
Air Date: 2023-10-31
How Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court and a power struggle in the GOP, FRONTLINE examines McConnell's rise and role in pushing the judiciary to the right and America's polarized democracy.
19. 20 Days in Mariupol
Air Date: 2023-11-21
The AP's Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues document atrocities and their own escape from the Russian siege of Mariupol.
20. Inside the Uvalde Response
Air Date: 2023-12-05
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps. The documentary delves into the lessons learned and the lingering trauma of that day.
21. The Discord Leaks
Air Date: 2023-12-12
How a young Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked classified documents onto the Discord chat platform. With The Washington Post, FRONTLINE examines Jack Teixeira’s alleged leak of national security secrets, why he wasn’t stopped, and the role of platforms like Discord.
22. Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza/ Failure at the Fence
Air Date: 2023-12-19
Part 1: As the war in Gaza continues with devastating consequences, a major 90-minute documentary offers a sweeping examination of the critical moments and missteps that led to this crisis over the course of the past three decades, and the pivotal role of a central player: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Part 2: How Hamas was able to breach Israel’s vaunted security barrier on Oct. 7, 2023. This special collaboration stems from a Washington Post reconstruction, now deepened with additional on-the-ground reporting and riveting interviews that present a remarkable picture of how, as The Post reporters show, Hamas was planning the attack in plain sight, and Israel was blinded to its own vulnerabilities.
1. Israel's Second Front
Air Date: 2024-01-23
Beyond Gaza, the power of Hamas, Hezbollah and other forces in the region. Correspondent Ramita Navai investigates militants in the West Bank and Lebanon, their ties to Iran and their role in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
2. Democracy on Trial
Air Date: 2024-01-30
The roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss. Amid the presidential race, examining the House Jan. 6 committee’s evidence, the threat to democracy and the historic charges against Trump.
3. Children of Ukraine
Air Date: 2024-04-16
FRONTLINE examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The documentary follows Ukrainian families searching for their missing children, organizations investigating the alleged abductions and Ukrainian teenagers who escaped and say they were subjected to Russian propaganda.
4. Documenting Police Use of Force
Air Date: 2024-04-30
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less-lethal force.” The documentary and accompanying reporting draw on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, and the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.
5. A Dangerous Assignment
Air Date: 2024-05-14
With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happened to the journalists who helped uncover the corruption scandal.
6. Crisis on Campus
Air Date: 2024-06-11
FRONTLINE and Retro Report tell the inside story of the protests dividing college campuses over Israel and the war in Gaza. The documentary investigates the polarizing debate over free speech, antisemitism, Israel and the Palestinians, and the political forces behind the crisis.
7. Two American Families: 1991-2024
Air Date: 2024-07-23
Filmed over 34 years, two families struggle to survive in a changing American economy. Through hard times, falling wages, and loss of manufacturing jobs, the continuation of Bill Moyers’ chronicle of perseverance as the American dream slips away.
8. Germany's Enemy Within
Air Date: 2024-07-30
Since the Holocaust, Germany has worked to overcome its Nazi history. But over the past decade, Germany has faced a rising wave of far-right violence and plots against Jews, Muslims, immigrants and politicians. Amid accusations that the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) has provoked violence, which it denies, FRONTLINE investigates the rise of far-right extremism in Germany today.
9. Biden's Decision
Air Date: 2024-08-06
A look at President Joe Biden's rise to the presidency, the personal and political forces that shaped him and his historic decision to step out of the 2024 presidential race.
10. South Korea's Adoption Reckoning
Air Date: 2024-09-20
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea's historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over decades.
11. The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
Air Date: 2024-09-24
Investigating the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those who know the candidates best reveal key moments that shape how they would lead America.
12. The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz
Air Date: 2024-10-08
Investigating the lives and views of J.D. Vance and Tim Walz as they run for vice president; those who know the candidates reveal the influences and ideas they'd bring to the White House.
13. A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians
Air Date: 2024-10-15
The horrifying accounts of living through the Hamas attack and the war in Gaza; stories from the people directly impacted on both sides of the conflict.
14. American Voices 2024
Air Date: 2024-10-29
Following the changing views and experiences of Americans from the 2020 election to today; revisiting voters filmed four years ago, to see how their hopes and fears have changed amid another polarizing election season.
15. China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping
Air Date: 2024-11-26
FRONTLINE examines the rise of Xi Jinping, his vision for China and the global implications.
16. Breakdown in Maine
Air Date: 2024-12-10
Examining the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history and the breakdowns with police, military and mental health care prior to the Lewiston shooting.
1. Maui's Deadly Firestorm
Air Date: 2025-01-07
An investigation into the causes of the deadliest American wildfire in a century, the chaotic response and how changes to the climate and landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable to fires.
2. Trump's Comeback
Air Date: 2025-01-21
Tracing defining moments in Donald Trump's life and career, felony convictions, and how he overcame obstacles and opposition to return to the presidency.
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