Features programs that examine topical questions or concerns, usually employing a journalistic approach, which delve into the issues that shape and define our societies and cultures.
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 >>
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 >>
The Amish first migrated to the United States more than 200 years ago and created a community built on the belief that worldliness not only prevents closeness to God, but also introduces influences that are destructive to ... 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 >>
Directed by Sundance Audience Award winning filmmaker Heather Lyn MacDonald, this film follows the most unlikely troupe of tap dancers. They are the "Silver Belles," five women aged 84 to 96. In their heyday they worked at... SEE MORE >>
On September 12, 2002 twenty "at risk" 12-year old boys from the tough streets of inner-city Baltimore left home to attend the 7th and 8th grade at Baraka, an experimental boarding school in Kenya. Here, faced with a stric... SEE MORE >>
This is the dramatic story of life and death that spans three generations in a poor Sicilian family. At the heart of the film is Angela, a gutsy survivor who struggles against an abusive husband and a life of poverty and c... 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 >>
A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are reunited after 22 years. Heidi Bub (aka Mai Thi Hiep), a young Vietnamese American woman from Tennessee, always dreamed of a joyful reunion, but unlike the cliche happy en... 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 >>
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 >>
Shot over three years with unique behind-the-scenes access from The Port Authority of New York, this fi lm follows the reconstruction of the Freedom Tower, the September 11th Memorial and the Santiago Calatrava designed tr... 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 >>
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 >>
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. How can a seemingly healthy 44-year-old suddenly drop dead from a massive heart attack? His case is not unusual, as this documentary explains. More than half of all peop... 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 >>
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard University's history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard's historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Michael Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and... 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 >>
This film opens the door on Jehovah's Witnesses. They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics, but their many human rights court victories benefit all who live under democracy. They refuse blood transfusions on re... SEE MORE >>
What is a chemical weapon? And who should be held accountable in the wake of what is arguably the largest chemical warfare operation in American history? A former US ambassador to Vietnam referred to Agent Orange as "the l... SEE MORE >>
Sudan has been ravaged by civil war 47 years. Two million people were killed and more than 4 million displaced, so a group of 20,000 young boys fled into the bush, wandering the desert seeking safe harbor, ultimately findi... 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 >>
After hearing God say unto them the word "PORN," two young Christian pastors realize their mission: use humor to fight the "porno plague," get teenagers away from porn, and help porn addicts have normal relationships again... SEE MORE >>
NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE is a dual biography of the two women who almost single-handedly created and spear-headed the women's rights movement in America from 1848 until 1906. Through their lives and work, the film details t... 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memp... 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 >>
Super-model Irina Pantaeva grew up in a remote Siberian village in a family of shamans and artists during the final years of Soviet rule. At age 14, she started working with a local clothing designer as a model. Fashion wa... 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 >>
This feature-length documentary explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part - from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor... SEE MORE >>
This investigation of the secondhand clothes business begins on the street in a Western city, where clothes are dropped off in charity bins, moves to a distributor who ships the clothes by the ton, and continues to Zambia ... SEE MORE >>
Filmed over the course of twelve months, The Amish: Shunned (wt) follows six former members of the Amish community as they reflect and struggle with their decisions to leave one of the most closed and tightly-knit communit... SEE MORE >>
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 >>
This new documentary from veteran filmmaker Jed Riffe (ISHI, THE LAST YAHI), explores the battle between patients, doctors, activists and government officials over the legalization of medical marijuana, featuring the stori... SEE MORE >>
A WALK TO BEAUTIFUL tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and make the spiritual journey to reclaim their lost dignity. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their... 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 >>
WORSE THAN WAR, based on Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book of the same title, is the first documentary to step back and focus on the general phenomenon of genocide: offering viewers profound insights about its dimensions--its ... SEE MORE >>
