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17 this season · 1634 totals2022e01 American Reckoning 2022-02-16 03:00
American Reckoning
Who killed Wharlest Jackson Sr.? In investigating the unsolved 1967 murder of a local NAACP leader, American Reckoning reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance.With support from Chasing the Dream, the feature-length documentary from FRONTLINE and Retro Report draws on rarely seen footage filmed by Ed Pincus and David Neuman more than 50 years ago in Natchez, Mississippi and made available through the Amistad Research Center. In following the Jackson family's search for answers, American Reckoning also taps into the groundbreaking reporting of journalist Stanley Nelson. He investigated allegations of the involvement of a Ku Klux Klan offshoot, known as the Silver Dollar Group.From acclaimed directors, producers, and journalists Brad Lichtenstein (When Claude Got Shot, As Goes Janesville) and Yoruba Richen (The Killing of Breonna Taylor, The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show), American Reckoning is the latest component of FRONTLINE's multiplatform initiative Un(re)solved, telling the stories of more than 150 victims of civil rights era killings for whom there has been no justice.
s2022e02 Putin's Road to War 2022-03-16 01:00
Putin's Road to War
FRONTLINE tells the story of what led to Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine. Veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team examine 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.
s2022e03 Pelosi's Power 2022-03-23 01:00
Pelosi's Power
Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team examine the powerful and polarizing Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi's Power traces Pelosi's life and legacy, how she has gained and wielded power across three decades and faced grave challenges to her leadership and American democracy from Trump and his allies.
s2022e04 Plot to Overturn the Election 2022-03-30 02:00
Plot to Overturn the Election
A year after President Joe Biden's inauguration, more than two-thirds of Republican voters believe his election was illegitimate. The idea that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is now a defining issue of the Republican Party. Yet the story of how lies about election fraud made their way to the center of American politics has not been entirely told. In a new investigative collaboration, FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the hidden sources of disinformation about the 2020 election, demonstrating how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on the current U.S. crisis of democratic legitimacy.
s2022e05 The Power of Big Oil, Part One: Denial 2022-04-20 02:00
The Power of Big Oil, Part One: Denial
FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. This three-part series traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account. Part One: Denial charts the fossil fuel industry's early research on climate change and investigates industry efforts to sow seeds of doubt about the science.
s2022e06 The Power of Big Oil, Part Two: Doubt 2022-04-27 02:00
The Power of Big Oil, Part Two: Doubt
FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. This three-part series traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account. Part Two: Doubt explores the industry's efforts to stall climate policy, even as evidence about climate change grew more certain in the new millennium.
s2022e07 The Power of Big Oil, Part Three: Delay 2022-05-04 02:00
The Power of Big Oil, Part Three: Delay
FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. This three-part series traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account. And as leading climate scientists issue new warnings about climate change, Part Three: Delay examines how the fossil fuel industry worked to delay the transition to renewable energy sources — including promoting natural gas as a cleaner alternative.
s2022e08 Police on Trial 2022-06-01 02:00
Police on Trial
FRONTLINE and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from local journalism partner Star Tribune examine one of the most pivotal events in the history of race and policing in America. The documentary Police on Trial draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming, from the earliest days after George Floyd's death, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis.
s2022e09 Facing Eviction 2022-07-27 02:00
Facing Eviction
Why have some American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? With Retro Report, the documentary Facing Eviction offers an intimate look at the United States' affordable housing crisis through the eyes of tenants, landlords, judges and law enforcement.
s2022e10 Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack 2022-08-03 02:00
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv. FRONTLINE follows displaced families trying to survive underground, civilians caught in the war and first responders risking their lives amid the shelling of Ukraine's second largest city.
s2022e11 Afghanistan Undercover 2022-08-10 02:00
Afghanistan Undercover
An undercover investigation into the Taliban's crackdown on women in Afghanistan. FRONTLINE correspondent Ramita Navai (Iraq Uncovered, Syria Undercover) finds women who are being punished by the regime and confronts Taliban officials. Navai reveals the harsh realities of life for women under the Taliban's rule — meeting a group of female lawyers forbidden from working, riding along with an underground network of female activists who go on dangerous rescue missions and secretly filming in a jail where women are being held by the Taliban without trial or charge.
s2022e12 Lies, Politics and Democracy 2022-09-07 01:00
Lies, Politics and Democracy
FRONTLINE 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.
s2022e13 Michael Flynn's Holy War 2022-10-19 02:00
Michael Flynn's Holy War
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 and institutions and is attracting election deniers, conspiracists and extremists from around the country.
s2022e14 Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes 2022-10-26 02:00
Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press go inside Russia's war on Ukraine, tracing a pattern of atrocities committed by Russian troops focusing on the Kyiv suburbs, such as Bucha, where some of the most shocking carnage was found.From award-winning director Tom Jennings, producer Annie Wong, AP global investigative reporter Erika Kinetz and her AP colleagues, the joint documentary draws on exclusive original footage, as well as interviews with Ukrainian citizens and prosecutors, top government officials, and international war crimes experts.FRONTLINE and the AP uncover exclusive and harrowing evidence that links possible war crimes in Bucha through the chain of command to one of Russia's top generals — evidence that prosecutors hope might help build a case against Russian President Vladimir Putin in court. But the joint investigation also explores the challenges of holding Putin and other Russian leaders accountable.
s2022e15 Putin's War at Home 2022-11-02 02:00
Putin's War at Home
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.
s2022e16 Crime Scene: Bucha 2022-12-07 03:00
Crime Scene: Bucha
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.