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Author and educator Rachel Simmons examines the challenges facing young women as they surf the waves of 21st-century adolescence. Will these girls stride confidently through newly opened doors or are they destined to be st... SEE MORE >>
It has been called the most spectacular terror attack since 9/11. On the night of November 26, 2008, 10 men armed with guns and grenades launched an assault on Mumbai with a military precision that left 166 dead. India qui... SEE MORE >>
Israel and Palestine are an arena for one of the most notorious conflicts in the world, where violent outbursts are routine and life is destroyed and rebuilt time and again. After the Ceasefires raises the question: why do... SEE MORE >>
Despite recent progress in containing the AIDS pandemic, HIV is still a killer of epic proportion. Understanding the origins of the virus could provide crucial clues to help in the battle against it. In The Bloody Truth th... SEE MORE >>
After Newtown: Guns in America is an unprecedented
exploration of America's
enduring relationship with firearms. From the first European settlements in the
New World to frontier justice, from 19th-century immigrant riot... SEE MORE >>
The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It's also home to enormous mineral deposits -- copper, gold, molybdenum -- estimated to be worth some $300 bil... SEE MORE >>
In the fall of 2001, envelopes carrying deadly Anthrax were delivered to U.S. Senate offices, network news divisions, and a tabloid newspaper. Five people were killed, many more infected, and the nation was terrorized. Sev... SEE MORE >>
In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves "The Bad Voodoo Platoon" was deployed to Iraq. To capture a vivid, first-person account of the new re... SEE MORE >>
In Iran, according to Islamic law, homosexuality is punishable by death. Ironically, sex-change operations are not only legal; they are embraced by a society that accepts male or female but nothing in between. Iran's gende... SEE MORE >>
The latest public opinion polls show that a vast majority of Americans believe the world is facing a global climate crisis. They are willing to pay more for "cleaner energy", and they want our government to take appropria... SEE MORE >>
In
a special investigation in collaboration with Marketplace, 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 ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman takes on the subject of international bribery. Over the last decade there has been a growing worldwide crackdown on corruption in commerce led by a handful of prosecutor... SEE MORE >>
The bets were huge and risky -- billions of dollars on the housing market. The upside was undeniable -- superbanks reaped billions of dollars, dominated the landscape, and gobbled up competitors. Then the bottom dropped ... SEE MORE >>
Drawing on the richest archive in broadcast journalism (FRONTLINE'S 40+ films), veteran producer Michael Kirk (Cheney's Law; Endgame; The Lost Year in Iraq; The Dark Side; The Torture Question; Rumsfeld's War) delivers new... SEE MORE >>
As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington, and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan... SEE MORE >>
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 priv... SEE MORE >>
This documentary offers a unique and absorbing view of the world as the new China sees it. From China itself, and across three continents, the film explores how China is learning to use its newfound wealth, power and influ... SEE MORE >>
Since 1988, when FRONTLINE first presented a dual biography of presidential candidates Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush, The Choice has earned a reputation as one of the pinnacles of political broadcast journalism. N... SEE MORE >>
Since 1988, when FRONTLINE first presented a dual biography of presidential candidates Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush, The Choice has earned a reputation as one of the pinnacles of political broadcast journalism. Now... SEE MORE >>
As the United States faces yet another round of fiscal
crises, Cliffhanger investigates the
inside history of how Washington
has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on
interviews with ... SEE MORE >>
Four years ago, American public opinion and politics was on the verge of a strong consensus supporting action on climate change. Today, it is one of the most bitterly polarizing issues in the country—and action seems rem... SEE MORE >>
Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the s... SEE MORE >>
In order to get America back to the top of world college graduation rankings by 2020, President Obama is pledging billions of dollars for higher education. Traditional universities and community colleges are vying for a sh... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE reports from inside the US Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an American military unit in Iraq. Shot in the weeks following the 2004 US presiden... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE and ESPN's Outside the Lines are launching a joint project to investigate the ongoing story of concussions in the National Football League. Based on reporting by ESPN's Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada, the ye... SEE MORE >>
In August 2009, Virginia governor Tom Kaine granted conditional pardons to four Navy men who had served 12 years in prison for a Norfolk rape and murder. The evidence and DNA all pointed to a single assailant, Omar Ballard... SEE MORE >>
A filmmaker's moving portrait of the trials and triumphs of two boys coming of age in the Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky. Filmed over three years (1999-2002), "Country Boys" tracks the dramatic stories of Chris and ... SEE MORE >>
This is a film about the struggle for control of MCM, the only media company in Burma with any foreign investment. Australian publisher Ross Dunkley started and owns 49% of Burma's leading newspaper, The Myanmar Times, whi... SEE MORE >>
Each year, 6,000 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 compa... SEE MORE >>
On September 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering US fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter... SEE MORE >>
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 dea... SEE MORE >>
Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to do one thing: help us lose weight. From Atkins to Ornish and Weight Watchers to the Zone, today's dieters have a dizzying array of weight loss... SEE MORE >>
Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and interact in ways that we are only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer... SEE MORE >>
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can’t afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broke... SEE MORE >>
On the night of Barack Obama's historic inauguration, FRONTLINE examines the rich personal and political biography of the 44th president of the United States. Through interviews with insiders and observers who've tracked O... SEE MORE >>
What does it take to save a student? Every year, hundreds of
thousands of teenagers in the United
States quit high school without diplomas—an
epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. What is cl... SEE MORE >>
Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C.,
public schools, is one of the most admired and reviled school reformers in
America. FRONTLINE was granted unprecedented access to Rhee during her
tumultuous thre... SEE MORE >>
The endgame: the strategy to give Iraq back to the Iraqis began in earnest when the votes were counted after the midterm elections. The Democrats were demanding the Bush administration come up with a plan to bring the tro... SEE MORE >>
Five years after the attacks on 9/11 and the massive, multi-billion dollar reorganization of government agencies which followed, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lowell Bergman investigates the domestic counterterrorism eff... SEE MORE >>
In addition to its award-winning hour-long reports, FRONTLINE will produce seven to eight multi-story magazine-format programs each season. The magazine programs includes in-depth coverage of domestic and international sto... SEE MORE >>
In addition to its award-winning hour-long reports, FRONTLINE will produce seven to eight multi-story magazine-format programs each season. The magazine programs includes in-depth coverage of domestic and international sto... SEE MORE >>
In addition to its award-winning hour-long reports, FRONTLINE will produce seven to eight multi-story magazine-format programs each season. The magazine programs includes in-depth coverage of domestic and international sto... SEE MORE >>
In the latest edition of the international newsmagazine FRONTLINE/World, reporter Sharmeen Obaid journeys across her native Pakistan to see how the people feel about the president's bold political moves, as well as his cra... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World returns with more "stories from a small planet".
Lebanon and Syria: FRONTLINE/World reporter Kate Seelye was working at her office in downtown Beirut when she heard the colossal Valentine's Day bomb explosio... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World returns with three new "stories from a small planet".
Ukraine: FRONTLINE/World reporter Brian Knappenberger travels to Ukraine on the anniversary of the nonviolent Orange Revolution that toppled President L... SEE MORE >>
Who should control what may become the richest diamond mine in the world? Join FRONTLINE/World reporter Mariana van Zeller as she journeys deep into the Amazon rain forest where an indigenous tribe, the Cinta Larga, and wi... SEE MORE >>
On the eve of March 28 elections to determine Israel's next prime minister -- and with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon still in a deep coma -- veteran producer Ofra Bikel travels to her native country to profile the fro... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World investigates new Palestinian leadership and gauges prospects for peace with Israel. Correspondent Kate Seelye travels to the West Bank and Gaza to see how Hamas is coping with its new role, and to find out ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World goes undercover in Zimbabwe to reveal what has happened to a country once regarded as a beacon of democracy and prosperity in Africa. Posing as tourists, reporter Alexis Bloom and producer Cassandra Herrman... SEE MORE >>
As international pressure mounts on one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world, FRONTLINE/World reporter Evan Williams travels undercover to Burma to expose the unprecedented violence and repression being c... SEE MORE >>
In AFGHANISTAN: THE OTHER WAR, FRONTLINE/World correspondent Sam Kiley goes deep inside the Western campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, village by village, as a resurgent Taliban threatens to retake ... SEE MORE >>
On December 26, 2004, the Indonesian province of Aceh was hit by the massive tsunami that killed 170,000 people and devastated villages and towns. In the wake of the catastrophe, the Indonesian army and local separatist re... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
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FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World is a series that turns its lens on the global community. Each episode features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists, taking viewers on adventurous journeys... SEE MORE >>
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of "pulling the plug," do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal "... SEE MORE >>
Filmmaker David Sutherland's epic story of an American farm family in crisis. THE FARMER'S WIFE follows the struggles of Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, and their three children as they wrestle a living from their Nebrask... SEE MORE >>
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 inter... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates the crash of Continental 3407, one of the deadliest U.S. domestic airline accidents in recent years, and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where small regional carriers now account f... SEE MORE >>
Corporate sponsorships, nationally televised games, minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites--high school football has never had a higher profile. In northwest Arkansas, FRONTLINE finds an ambitious high school team wo... SEE MORE >>
She is strong, smart and smiling. Jenan al-Ubaedy, is an elected member of the new Iraqi national and a devout Shia Muslim fully covered in black. Her main priority: implementing Islamic law, including polygamy and wife be... SEE MORE >>
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. FRONTLINE and the America at a Crossroads initiative take a hard look at ho... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE chronicles one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. This two-hour report offers groundbreaking, eyewitness accounts of the Rwandan genocide from those who experienced it firsthand -- Tutsi survivors who r... SEE MORE >>
While Evangelical Christians now have unprecedented access to the corridors of power, they have a problem: they can't run the federal government themselves. They need allies, and allies sometimes disappoint. Thanks to the ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE looks at the impact of the Internet on adolescence through the eyes of teens and their parents. The film takes viewers into the private worlds kids are creating online -- from kids who are harassed and bullied, ... SEE MORE >>
Designed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas, the Internet has become home to confidential -- even classified -- information from virtually every nation in the world. But how safe is that information? Through intervi... SEE MORE >>
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. ... SEE MORE >>
On May 6, 2005, the residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to one of the strangest headlines in the town's history: "West Tied to Sex Abuse in '70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men". The popular, socially conservative Rep... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting go behind the scenes to explore how bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the US government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems f... SEE MORE >>
He's been portrayed as a savior and an autocrat; a hero to his nation's poor, and a bombastic, would-be dictator eager to launch himself onto the world stage. But who is the real Hugo Chavez? In THE HUGO CHAVEZ SHOW, FRO... SEE MORE >>
Since the recent discovery of yet another attempt by Al Qaeda to place a bomb aboard an airliner headed to the United States, Yemen's status as a centre for terrorism has grabbed world headlines. During a turbulent year wh... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE continues its investigation of nuclear safety with an unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. W... SEE MORE >>
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 ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of in... SEE MORE >>
Kidnappings. Suicide bombers. Beheadings. Roadside bombs. The Iraqi insurgency continues to challenge the most highly trained and best-equipped military in the world. FRONTLINE peels back the layers and gets beyond the pro... SEE MORE >>
In a rare interview with Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who
was at the center of the 9/11 investigations, FRONTLINE correspondent
Martin Smith uncovers an insider’s view of the “war on terror.” One of
only eight Ara... SEE MORE >>
Ding Yu, a young, smart, and attractive journalist from China's Henan Province, is the host of a most unique interview series. In her weekly primetime TV show called Interviews Before Execution, she goes into prison cells ... SEE MORE >>
WIDE ANGLE reports on the staggering refugee crisis that is unfolding in the Middle East as Iraqis flee their war-torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 people per month. Since the war began in 2003, more than four milli... SEE MORE >>
For retailers everywhere, China has quickly become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world. For Wal-Mart, America's largest retailer, China is the source of $15 billion in annual exports that help it d... SEE MORE >>
With exclusive access to Japan's "West Point" - the National Defense Academy - WIDE ANGLE and WNET capture a remarkable window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society. Ever since World War II, J... SEE MORE >>
As a young boy, Marian Marzynski survived the Holocaust in Poland. But his father and most of his relatives did not. In this film, Marzynski sets out on a personal quest to find out how Germans are going to design a memori... SEE MORE >>
THE JEWISH AMERICANS, an extraordinary three-part documentary series written and directed by the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker David Grubin, examines the struggle of a tiny minority to make its way into the American mainstr... SEE MORE >>
Should children who commit serious crimes be tried as juveniles or adults? What happens to young offenders who reach the "end of the line" in the juvenile court system: how do you rehabilitate such children to prevent futu... SEE MORE >>
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden last week was one of the U.S. military's best-kept secrets: a covert campaign that officials have credited with taking out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-mon... SEE MORE >>
Kip Kinkel, a fifteen-year-old from a solid middle-class family, made headlines in 1998 when he was accused of murdering his mother and father and then opening fire on his fellow students at his Eugene, Oregon high school, k... SEE MORE >>
In a special 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 S... SEE MORE >>
Today the headlines are filled with speculation about changes in the US Supreme Court and what those changes might mean for abortion: an issue that has divided the country for over 30 years. Heated rhetoric from both sides... SEE MORE >>
Polio has plagued humanity for thousands of years and continues to cripple and kill. Can the war against this disease end in this decade? In remote villages and urban slums, The Last Child tells the story of the global cam... SEE MORE >>
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, ... SEE MORE >>
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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 industr... SEE MORE >>
With 35 million elderly people in America, "the old, old" -- those over 85 -- are now considered the fastest growing segment of the US population. While medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans to... SEE MORE >>
This two-hour FRONTLINE special brings Nelson Mandela's biography up to date. The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela tells the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership and life's method through in... SEE MORE >>
In the spring of 1996, as Atlanta prepared to host the Summer Olympic Games, an outbreak of syphilis struck a group of teenagers in the prosperous bedroom community of Conyers, Georgia. When epidemiologists interviewed the... SEE MORE >>
In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off to Baghdad to build a new nation and establish democracy in the Arab Middle East. One year later, with Breme... SEE MORE >>
Get-tough immigration enforcement strategies initiated by Bush and continued by Obama have, in the last five years, doubled the number of immigrant detentions and deportations to nearly 400,000 per year. The Obama administ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates a global fraud, following Bernard L. Madoff from the early 1960s to his last ditch efforts to raise $5 billion dollars in those waning days before the story broke on December 11, 2008. This investiga... SEE MORE >>
With over six million children now on behavior modifying medications -- some starting as young as two years old -- FRONTLINE continues its investigation, which began with the program MEDICATING KIDS, into the controversia... SEE MORE >>
Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modifying drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft. But are these medications really necessary -- and safe -- for young children, or merely... SEE MORE >>
Sixty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. FRONTLINE presents a 1945 film made by British and American film crews... SEE MORE >>
They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the "next big thing" that will snar... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE updates the original film with new policy changes in the U.S.
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 acro... SEE MORE >>
A growing body of evidence suggests that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually be in middle school. And yet middle schools, with their vulnerable population, have long been overlooked. Now a group ... SEE MORE >>
Since 2008, WallStreet and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special 4-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of... SEE MORE >>
Mormons have always had a strange hold on the American imagination as polygamists and pioneer heroes, subversives and super patriots, hard workers and possessors of dark secrets. Yet though Mormons have been persecuted mor... SEE MORE >>
Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat--not from outside competition, but from shocking account... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE and ITVS explore the scientific, ethical and political debate that surrounds Parkinson's disease: a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects about one million Americans. Beginning with the story ... SEE MORE >>
In his
latest film, Marian Marzynski (Return to
Poland, A Jew Among the Germans, Shtetl) returns to the Warsaw ghetto of his childhood. In Never
Forget to Lie, Marzynski tells the extraordinary story of how he as a
Jew... SEE MORE >>
There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, and economic forces challenging the news media today. Through interviews with key figures in the print and electronic media over the past four decades -- with unequaled, behind ... SEE MORE >>
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 46-foot tsunami wave crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan. The waves flooded the plant's basement, destroying the back-up diesel generators and electrica... SEE MORE >>
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 ... SEE MORE >>
Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander, and armed with a counter-insurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can US forces succeed in a land long ... SEE MORE >>
Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, FRONTLINE producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated when the lev... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE examines the war being waged between major pharmaceutical companies and American consumers fed up with paying the highest drug prices in the world. Focusing on the efforts to control drug costs in the face of int... SEE MORE >>
The persuasion industries-marketing and public relations-spend billions of dollars each year trying to convince Americans what to buy, whom to trust, and what to think. FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff explores how... SEE MORE >>
Just how many citizens are aware that nearly 95 percent of all criminal cases never reach a jury, but instead are settled through plea bargains? To overworked and understaffed defense lawyers, prosecutors and jurists, plea... SEE MORE >>
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America's waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic waterways -- the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay... SEE MORE >>
Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on CSI. But the reality is very di... SEE MORE >>
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 th... SEE MORE >>
In the
wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,
Raising Adam Lanza investigates a
young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of
death and destru... SEE MORE >>
For
the women who pick and process the food we eat every day, getting sexually
assaulted, and even raped, is sometimes part of the job. FRONTLINE and
Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant
... SEE MORE >>
From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis are routinely called on to solve the most difficult cr... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE examines the way Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his
allies have managed to hold on to power despite years of unrest and in
the face of a bloody civil war. SEE MORE >>
New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and other experts tell the story of President Bashar al-Assad and how the Syrian dictator has managed to hold onto power in the months since the Arab Spring. ... SEE MORE >>
Between 2008 and 2009, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses were released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation's history. Typically, mentally ill offenders leave pr... SEE MORE >>
The 2008 American presidential election is a defining moment for the Religious Right. In 2004, they swept George W. Bush to a decisive re-election. In 2008, however, they have no presidential contender from either party ... SEE MORE >>
** Winner, Political Documentaries, 2011 Banff Non-Fiction Rockies **
The current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are the world's first Robotic War, with over 7,000 robots in the air and 12,000 on the ground. Warfare has ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia, which uses it as a launching pad for att... SEE MORE >>
ROSEVELT'S AMERICA is a cinema verite profile of the struggles of a Liberian refugee to build a new life in America. After being tortured and narrowly escaping execution during Liberia's civil war, Rosevelt Henderson mak... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal the untold story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq: where twenty-four of the town's residents were killed by US forces in what many in the media branded "Iraq's My Lai". Wit... SEE MORE >>
From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge tells the compelling stories of global health challenges a... SEE MORE >>
*Highest Rated Documentary on ARTE for 2013 to Date*
Sand Wars is a surprising
investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet.
Due to the high demand for sand, the planet’s reserves are bei... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE crosses the border into Pakistan, where correspondents Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside "The Secret War" against the militants. They uncover new details of a CIA "private army" of militiamen launching kill... SEE MORE >>
As Iraq descends into chaos and civil war, FRONTLINE examines the rise of its neighbor -- Iran -- as one of America's greatest threats and most puzzling foreign policy challenges. Through interviews with key players on bo... SEE MORE >>
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses -- potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance -- FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health c... SEE MORE >>
Four in five Americans say the US health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the US learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different fro... SEE MORE >>
Producer Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The isolation of the villag... SEE MORE >>
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 problem... SEE MORE >>
In this production based on the newly released book by Jim Bamford, NOVA brings to light the modern technology underlying the National Security Agency's ongoing hunt for information in the war on terror. In the aftermath ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE addresses an issue of major consequence for all Americans: Is the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith examines the growing legal controversy o... SEE MORE >>
No decision is more personal than the choice to end one’s life. For those with fatal and incurable diseases, seeking help to hasten death means navigating ethical questions as well as legal risks for those left behind, i... SEE MORE >>
In the rural heartland of Syria’s countryside,
the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying
turn. In this highly charged documentary, award-winning filmmaker
Olly Lambert lives on both ... SEE MORE >>
On June 5, 1989, one day after the conflict in Tiananmen Square, a lone protester stood his ground before a line of tanks and became a symbol of the fight for freedom. FRONTLINE investigates his identity, his fate and his ... SEE MORE >>
WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, 2007 ACADEMY AWARDS
By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interro... SEE MORE >>
All of the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this... SEE MORE >>
Ten trillion dollars in Americans’ retirement savings are invested in
large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds, and
insurance companies. But whether your retirement plan will assure a safe
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In TIME FOR SCHOOL, WIDE ANGLE continues its 12-year commitment to document the global education crisis through profiles of seven children in seven countries. All of the children are struggling to overcome daunting obstac... SEE MORE >>
In the years after September 11th, FRONTLINE produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America's response to them. Now on the tenth anniversary, FRONTLINE teams up with Pulitzer Pr... SEE MORE >>
In
the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Americans are asking why the
country's intelligence agencies failed to prevent the devastating attack. Now,
reports indicate that even though the CIA and FBI had been warned ... SEE MORE >>
In the uncertain weeks following September 11, an internal power struggle was underway inside the Bush administration. FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors to investigate the struggle over how and when to use what was called... SEE MORE >>
This is the untold story of the Aceh province in the wake of the tsunami disaster. Through the compelling personal stories of remnants of families, a guerrilla commander, and a militant Muslim volunteer, this film gives an... SEE MORE >>
Since
1992, FRONTLINE has been following the story of two ordinary,
hard-working families in Milwaukee – one black, one white – as they spent two
decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty.... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE profiles Thomas Lynch, a poet and undertaker whose family has cared for the dead in a small town in central Michigan for three generations. In The Undertaking, a critically acclaimed book, Lynch offered unique a... SEE MORE >>
Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? Though fraudulent
practices at banks contributed to America’s financial meltdown, to date no Wall
Street titan has been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis. FRONTLIN... SEE MORE >>
Public health scientists and clinicians tout vaccines as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. But for many, vaccines have become controversial. Young parents in America are concerned at the sheer number of ... SEE MORE >>
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,... SEE MORE >>
In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE sifts the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently. Looking back into the 1990s, produce... SEE MORE >>
The US is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under eighteen to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to life without parole. Between 1993 and 2006, 45 juveniles between fifteen and eighteen we... SEE MORE >>
It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history--the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website in the spring of 2010. Behind it all, stand two very different men: Julian Assange... SEE MORE >>
At the height of the Iraq war, Charlie Company's Third Platoon was at the tip of the spear: one of the more exceptional and cohesive fighting units operating in an often chaotic campaign. Now, as the soldiers return home ... SEE MORE >>
The 21st Century has been called "The China Century". China's blazing development continues to amaze Western observers, and many predict it's only a matter of time before the nation attains superpower status. China's Gen... SEE MORE >>
