Obama at War
Inside the Obama administration's struggle to deal with ISIS and the civil war in Syria. (Original Upload Date: 06/02/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•57 min
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Secrets, Politics, and Torture
The secret history of the CIA's controversial "enhanced interrogation" methods. (Original Upload Date: 05/22/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•57 min
The Trouble With Chicken
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in meat – particularly poultry. (Original Upload Date: 05/13/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•57 min
American Terrorist
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley. (Original Upload Date: 04/27/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•1 hr 27 min
Vaccine War
FRONTLINE investigates the science and the politics of vaccine safety. (Original Upload Date: 03/30/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•56 min
Being Mortal
FRONTLINE explores the intersection of life, death, medicine and what matters in the end. (Original Upload Date: 02/11/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•52 min
Putin's Way
FRONTLINE investigates the accusations surrounding Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. (Original Upload Date: 01/28/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•56 min
Gunned Down
FRONTLINE goes inside the politics of America's gun debate. (Original Upload Date: 01/15/2015)
Jun 08, 2015•56 min
Firestone and the Warlord
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the secret history of Firestone in Liberia. (Original Upload Date: 11/18/2014)
Jun 08, 2015•1 hr 27 min
The Rise of ISIS
FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. (Original Upload Date: 11/18/2014)
Jun 08, 2015•56 min
Outbreak at NIH
FRONTLINE's exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a superbug outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health. (Original Upload Date: 11/18/2014)
Jun 08, 2015•19 min
The Trouble with Antibiotics
FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. (Original Upload Date: 11/18/2014)
Jun 08, 2015•40 min
Inside "Being Mortal" with Atul Gawande and Tom Jennings
FRONTLINE filmmaker Tom Jennings and author and surgeon Atul Gawande discuss the making of their documentary, Being Mortal, about why so many doctors struggle to discuss death openly and honestly with their patients. (Original Upload Date: 04/02/2015)
Mar 02, 2015•37 min
Frontline Roundtable: Corporate Social Responsibility
How responsible should companies be about their impact on the world? Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, and Arvind Ganesan, director of the business and human rights division at Human Rights Watch, discuss corporate social responsibility. Hosted by Sarah Childress.
Nov 19, 2014•25 min
Understanding the Rise of ISIS
What do we know about ISIS? Who are they, and how do they make money and recruit fighters — and wives? On Nov. 6, WGBH hosted a public panel discussion, led by PRI The World’s Aaron Schachter, to answer some of those questions. Participants included FRONTLINE's Martin Smith, who discussed his recent film “The Rise of ISIS,” Professor Mia Bloom of the UMASS Lowell Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, and Charles Sennott, a veteran foreign reporter who founded the GroundTruth Project to trai...
Nov 12, 2014•42 min
Frontline Roundtable: Solitary Confinement
Special Podcast: FRONTLINE asks how corrections officials are changing the use of solitary confinement in the U.S.
Apr 22, 2014•34 min
Secrets of the Vatican
“Secrets of the Vatican,” a special, 90-minute FRONTLINE presentation premiering Feb. 25, 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.
Feb 26, 2014•1 hr 26 min
Generation Like
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...
Feb 26, 2014•56 min
League of Denial
The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America's indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under assault as thousands of former players claim the league has covered up football's connection to long-term brain injuries. In a special two-hour investigation, FRONTLINE and prize-winning journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN reveal the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries, drawn from their forthcoming book League of Denial:...
Oct 12, 2013•1 hr 57 min
Life and Death in Assisted Living
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Life and Death in Assisted Living" airing July 30, 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It's one of the most important and difficult decisions anyone can make: Whom should you trust with the care of your aging parents?FRONTLINE's Life and Death in Assisted Living, a major, yearlong investigation in collaboration with ProPublica, explores the multi-billion dollar assisted living industry, and asks whether the business prac...
Oct 02, 2013•56 min
The Retirement Gamble
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Retirement Gamble" airing April 23, 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. 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 IRA or 401K will assure a safe retirement is largely a gamble. Building off reporting from the groundbreaking special Money, Power and Wall Street, FRONTLINE raises tr...
Apr 29, 2013•56 min
Raising Adam Lanza
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Raising Adam Lanza" airing February 19 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. 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...
Mar 07, 2013•56 min
Cliffhanger
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Cliffhanger" airing February 12 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. 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, FRONTLINE 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 ov...
Mar 07, 2013•56 min
The Untouchables
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Untouchables" airing January 22 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to act on credible evidence that Wall Street knowingly packaged and sold toxic mortgage loans to investors, loans that brought the U.S. and world economies to the brink of collapse. Through interviews with prosecutors, government officia...
Feb 11, 2013•56 min
The Education of Michelle Rhee
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Education of Michelle Rhee" airing January 8th on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE was granted unprecedented access to Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools as she attempted to fix a broken school system.
Feb 11, 2013•56 min
Poor Kids
These are hard times in the Quad Cities, a great American crossroads along the border of Iowa and Illinois, where the Mississippi River intersects Interstate 80. It's home to John Deere manufacturing and the nation's breadbasket. But it's also an area deeply scarred by the Recession. FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families' struggles against financial ruin. The result is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it's rarel...
Feb 11, 2013•56 min
The Suicide Plan
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Suicide Plan" airing November 13 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In this groundbreaking 90-minute film 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 ...
Feb 11, 2013•1 hr 27 min
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