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.
Frontline (Season 0)
God in America: A New Adam (1) (Episode 1)
Air date: 2010-10-11
Overview: The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic faith of Franciscan missionaries, ending in a bloody revolt. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop faced off against religious dissenters from within his own ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers like George Whitefield swept through the American colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converged with the political upheaval of the American Revolution.
God in America: A New Eden (2) (Episode 2)
Air date: 2010-10-11
Overview: Hour two considers the origins of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals swept thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspired a new gospel of social reform. In a fierce political struggle, Catholic immigrants challenged Protestant domination of public schools and protested the daily classroom practice of reading from the King James Bible.
God in America: A Nation Reborn (3) (Episode 3)
Air date: 2010-10-12
Overview: Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son. The president, who previously had put his faith in reason over revelation, embarked on a spiritual journey that transformed his ideas about God and the ultimate meaning of the war.
God in America: A New Light (4) (Episode 4)
Air date: 2010-10-12
Overview: During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Bohemian immigrant Isaac Mayer Wise embraced change and established Reform Judaism in America while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. In New York, Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, leading to his trial for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes evolution trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faced off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.
God in America: Soul of a Nation (5) (Episode 5)
Air date: 2010-10-13
Overview: Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism." As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.
God in America: Of God and Caesar (6) (Episode 6)
Air date: 2010-10-13
Overview: The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. Across America, the religious marketplace expanded as new waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America made the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth. In the 2008 presidential election, the re-emergence of a religious voice in the Democratic Party brought the country to a new plateau in its struggle to reconcile faith with politics. God in America closes with reflections on the role of faith in the public life of the country, from the ongoing quest for religious liberty to the enduring idea of America as the "city on a hill" envisioned by the Puritans nearly 400 years ago.
Kind Hearted Woman: Part One (Episode 7)
Air date: 2013-04-01
Overview: In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin 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: Part Two (Episode 8)
Air date: 2013-04-02
Overview: In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin 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.
Stickup Kid (Episode 9)
Air date: 2014-12-17
Overview: A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.
Mosquito Hunter (Episode 10)
Air date: 2016-08-02
Overview: A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.
Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs (Episode 11)
Air date: 2017-02-15
Overview: A trio of reports from FRONTLINE, Marketplace and PBS NewsHour on what Donald Trump's promises mean to voters in California's Central Valley (farming and water), West Virginia (coal industry), and Erie, Pennsylvania (jobs)
Big Sky, Big Money (Episode 12)
Air date: 2012-10-30
Runtime: 53 min
Overview: In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed the landscape of campaign finance in America. The decision held that political spending is a form of protected speech and let corporations and unions spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. But to avoid corruption, the court said the money can’t go directly to candidates; it has to go to independent outside groups. What did that mean in reality? The 2012 documentary Big Sky, Big Money, from FRONTLINE and APM’s Marketplace, offered an on-the-ground look. With that year’s election cycle underway, correspondent Kai Ryssdal traveled to Montana, a battleground over campaign finance at the time, and uncovered startling new evidence of outside interest groups’ influence on local campaigns.
Harvest of Fear (Episode 13)
Air date: 2001-04-24
The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report (Episode 14)
Air date: 2003-03-17
Bush's War: Part 1 (Episode 15)
Air date: 2008-03-24
Kind Hearted Woman: Part One (Episode 16)
Air date: 2013-04-01
Kind Hearted Woman Part 2 (Episode 17)
Air date: 2013-04-02
Bigger Than Vegas (Episode 18)
Air date: 2014-09-30
A Daughter's Death (Episode 19)
Air date: 2011-02-15
When Children Testify (Episode 20)
Air date: 1991-05-07
Waiting for Tearah (Episode 21)
Air date: 2019-10-07
Ebola in Congo (Episode 22)
Air date: 2019-12-23
Tutwiler (Episode 23)
Air date: 2020-05-06
Betting on Trump: Coal (Episode 24)
Air date: 2017-02-15
Children of ISIS (Episode 25)
Betting on Trump: Jobs (Episode 26)
Air date: 2017-02-15
Inside Yemen (Episode 27)
Air date: 2017-07-19
Stickup Kid (Episode 28)
Air date: 2014-12-17
Betting on Trump: Water (Episode 29)
Air date: 2017-02-15
Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020) (Episode 30)
Air date: 2020-11-24
The Mind of a Murderer (Episode 31)
Air date: 1984-03-19
The Mind of a Murderer (Episode 32)
Air date: 1984-03-26
Shootout on Imperial Highway (Episode 33)
Air date: 1985-01-22
Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2 (Episode 34)
Air date: 1985-01-29
Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years (Episode 35)
Air date: 1985-04-09
Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge (Episode 36)
Air date: 1985-04-10
Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua. (Episode 37)
Air date: 1985-04-11
Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal. (Episode 38)
Air date: 1985-04-12
Comrades (Episode 39)
Air date: 1986-07-01
Comrades (Episode 40)
Air date: 1986-07-08
Comrades (Episode 41)
Air date: 1986-07-15
Comrades (Episode 42)
Air date: 1986-07-22
Comrades (Episode 43)
Air date: 1986-07-29
Comrades (Episode 44)
Air date: 1986-08-05
Comrades (Episode 45)
Air date: 1986-08-12
Comrades (Episode 46)
Air date: 1986-08-19
Comrades (Episode 47)
Air date: 1986-08-26
Comrades (Episode 48)
Air date: 1986-09-02
Comrades (Episode 49)
Air date: 1986-09-09
Stopping Drugs (1) (Episode 50)
Air date: 1987-02-10
Stopping Drugs (2) (Episode 51)
Air date: 1987-02-17
Apartheid Parts 1-2 (Episode 52)
Air date: 1987-12-14
Apartheid Parts 3-4 (Episode 53)
Air date: 1987-12-15
Apartheid Part 5 (Episode 54)
Air date: 1987-12-16
Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest (Episode 55)
Air date: 1990-09-18
Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land (Episode 56)
Air date: 1990-09-19
Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold (Episode 57)
Air date: 1990-09-20
Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes (Episode 58)
Air date: 1990-09-21
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II (Episode 59)
Air date: 1993-07-20
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV (Episode 60)
Air date: 1993-07-21
Divided Memories Part 1 (Episode 61)
Air date: 1995-04-04
Divided Memories Part 2 (Episode 62)
Air date: 1995-04-11
The Gulf War (1) (Episode 63)
Air date: 1996-01-09
The Gulf War (1) (Episode 64)
Air date: 1996-01-09
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1) (Episode 65)
Air date: 1998-04-06
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2) (Episode 66)
Air date: 1998-04-06
The Farmer's Wife (Episode 67)
Air date: 1998-09-21
The Farmer's Wife (Episode 68)
Air date: 1998-09-22
The Farmer's Wife (Episode 69)
Air date: 1998-09-23
Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2 (Episode 70)
Air date: 1999-11-22
War in Europe (1) (Episode 71)
Air date: 2000-02-22
War in Europe (2) (Episode 72)
Air date: 2000-02-29
Drug Wars (1) (Episode 73)
Air date: 2000-10-09
Drug Wars (2) (Episode 74)
Air date: 2000-10-24
Real Justice (1) (Episode 75)
Air date: 2000-11-11
Real Justice (2) (Episode 76)
Air date: 2000-11-18
Organ Farm (1) (Episode 77)
Air date: 2001-04-03
Organ Farm (2) (Episode 78)
Air date: 2001-04-10
Country Boys: Part 1 (Episode 79)
Air date: 2006-01-09
Country Boys: Part 2 (Episode 80)
Air date: 2006-01-10
Country Boys: Part 3 (Episode 81)
Air date: 2006-01-11
The Age of AIDS: Part 1 (Episode 82)
Air date: 2006-05-30
The Age of AIDS: Part 2 (Episode 83)
Air date: 2006-05-31
News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin (Episode 84)
Air date: 2007-02-13
News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin (Episode 85)
Air date: 2007-02-20
News War (3): What's Happening To The News (Episode 86)
Air date: 2007-02-21
The Mormons (1) (Episode 87)
Air date: 2007-04-30
The Mormons (2) (Episode 88)
Air date: 2007-05-01
Bush's War, Part 1 (Episode 89)
Air date: 2008-03-23
Bush's War, Part 2 (Episode 90)
Air date: 2008-03-24
2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited (Episode 91)
Air date: 2008-02-05
Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2 (Episode 92)
Air date: 2012-04-24
Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4 (Episode 93)
Air date: 2012-04-25
2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings" (Episode 94)
Air date: 2013-04-30
United States of Secrets (Part One) (Episode 95)
Air date: 2014-05-13
United States of Secrets (Part Two) (Episode 96)
Air date: 2014-05-20
My Brother's Bomber (1) (Episode 97)
Air date: 2015-09-29
My Brother's Bomber (2) (Episode 98)
Air date: 2015-10-06
My Brother's Bomber (3) (Episode 99)
Air date: 2015-10-13
3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R) (Episode 100)
Air date: 2016-03-01
Yemen Under Siege (Episode 101)
Air date: 2016-05-03
The Education of Omarina (Episode 102)
Air date: 2016-09-13
Divided States of America (Episode 103)
Air date: 2017-01-17
Divided States of America (Episode 104)
Air date: 2017-01-18
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (Episode 105)
Air date: 2018-02-20
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (Episode 106)
Air date: 2018-02-27
Our Man in Tehran (Episode 107)
Air date: 2018-08-13
2017-11-22 "Poor Kids" (Episode 108)
Air date: 2017-11-22
Putin's Revenge (Episode 109)
Air date: 2017-10-25
Putin's Revenge (Episode 110)
Air date: 2017-11-01
The Facebook Dilemma (1) (Episode 111)
Air date: 2018-10-29
The Facebook Dilemma (2) (Episode 112)
Air date: 2018-10-30
Targeting Yemen (Episode 113)
Air date: 2019-01-22
Iraq's Secret Sex Trade (Episode 114)
Air date: 2019-11-12
America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1) (Episode 115)
Air date: 2020-01-13
America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2) (Episode 116)
Air date: 2020-01-14
The Luanda Leaks (Episode 117)
Air date: 2020-01-21
Undocumented in the Pandemic (Episode 118)
Air date: 2020-08-11
COVID in Yemen (Episode 119)
Air date: 2021-02-09
The Virus That Shook the World (Episode 120)
Air date: 2021-04-26
The Virus That Shook the World (Episode 121)
Air date: 2021-04-27
India's Rape Scandal (Episode 122)
Air date: 2021-07-20
Massacre in El Salvador (Episode 123)
Air date: 2021-11-09
The Power of Big Oil - Denial (Episode 124)
Air date: 2022-04-19
The Power of Big Oil - Doubt (Episode 125)
Air date: 2022-04-26
The Power of Big Oil - Delay (Episode 126)
Air date: 2022-05-03
After Zero Tolerance (Episode 127)
Air date: 2022-12-06
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (Episode 128)
Air date: 2023-01-03
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (Episode 129)
Air date: 2023-01-10
America and the Taliban (Episode 130)
Air date: 2023-04-04
America and the Taliban (Episode 131)
Air date: 2023-04-11
America and the Taliban (Episode 132)
Air date: 2023-04-25
Tutwiler (Episode 133)
Air date: 2023-09-05
Failure at the Fence (Episode 134)
Air date: 2023-12-19

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