Category: Static News
How Schoolgirls in Iran Helped Fuel a Protest Movement | Inside the Iranian Uprising | FRONTLINE
After the deaths of Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh, two teen girls who’d attended anti-government protests in Iran following Mahsa Zhina Amini’s death in police…
What the Wagner Group Mutiny Reveals About Putin’s Grip on Power | FRONTLINE
“It reveals that the emperor has no clothes,” journalist Peter Baker says of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed mutiny in Russia on June 23 in this excerpt…
How Yevgeny Prigozhin posed a serious threat to Putin’s authority (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
It’s been described as the most serious threat to Vladimir Putin’s leadership in years: the armed rebellion on June 23, led by the Russian mercenary…
Inside Obama’s Presidency (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
As Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE took a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. (Aired 2013)…
How a Group of Texas Artists Came Together to Honor Uvalde’s Lost Kids | FRONTLINE
After the tragic Uvalde school shooting in 2022, Abel Ortiz, an art professor at Southwest Texas Junior College, asked artists from across the state to…
Released From Guantanamo (Out of Gitmo) (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE and NPR followed the trail of one of the final detainees released by the Obama administration from the prison at Guantanamo Bay. (Aired 2017)…
Flying Cheaper (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
In 2011, FRONTLINE investigated a growing trend of airlines outsourcing their heavy aircraft maintenance from in-house to independent repair facilities. (Aired 2011) This journalism is…
Aging in the U.S. (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
A powerful and intimate look at the realities of aging in America and the burgeoning population of people who are 85+ years old. (Aired 2006)…
The Credit Card Game (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
As credit card companies faced rising public anger and new regulations from Washington in 2009, FRONTLINE examined the industry’s impact on a fragile national economy….
The Medicated Child (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE investigated how a growing number of young children were being prescribed powerful antipsychotic medications that had serious side effects and unknown long-term impacts at…
Exodus: The Journey Continues – Inside the Global Refugee Crisis (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
A sequel to the award-winning 2016 documentary “Exodus,” this film tells the intimate stories of refugees and migrants fleeing poverty and violence and facing heightened…
A ‘Two-Strikes’ Law Put Him in Prison for Life. Even His Victim Said It Was Too Harsh | FRONTLINE
Mark Jones’ story in Florida illustrates how sentencing laws can put people who didn’t physically hurt anyone in prison for life. Watch an excerpt from…
Two Strikes & Tutwiler: Inside the U.S. Criminal Justice System (full documentaries) | FRONTLINE
In collaboration with The Marshall Project, a two-part documentary special explores a “two-strikes” law in Florida, and the experience of being pregnant in prison in…
Two Strikes (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
The theatrical version of “Two Strikes,” a film produced as part of FRONTLINE’s fellowship with Firelight Media, tells the story of how Mark Jones, a…
Putin vs. The Press (trailer) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE tells the story of journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov and his battle to defend press freedom in Putin’s Russia. This journalism…
How Dmitry Muratov Faced Off With Vladimir Putin in the Past | Putin vs. the Press | FRONTLINE
In September, the Russian government labeled Nobel prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov a “foreign agent.” As this excerpt from the documentary “Putin vs. the Press”…
