In the summer of 1955, American Alfred Hobbs and his new Danish wife Jakobine were living in Casablanca, Morocco, where they discovered a vintage London taxi. Over the next four years the couple would drive the old car acr... SEE MORE >>
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exploration of America's
enduring relationship with firearms. From the first European settlements in the
New World to frontier justice, from 19th-century immigrant riot... SEE MORE >>
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In this first story, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Against a backdrop of recent mail bomb threats from Al Qaeda ... SEE MORE >>
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Autism is the fastest rising developmental disorder in the industrialized world. With an astounding 600% increase in diagnoses in the last 20 years, scientists are still grappling with its cause. Research has been frustrat... SEE MORE >>
This epic, visually sweeping series will document the world that we have
created and explore what humankind’s building legacy reveals about our
ever-evolving priorities, aspirations, most basic needs, and deep-seated... SEE MORE >>
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Seen through the work of eight leading artists, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the beauty and mystery of the Middle East which is often ignored, especially today where anger and violence demand ce... SEE MORE >>
“Frantic, sentimental, surreal and very funny.” —Wired
For over 30 years, Wayne White has made an indelible mark on the creative world. As a designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor, and musician, White created images a... SEE MORE >>
NOVA presents a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special: investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human. The first program explores fresh clues about our earliest ance... SEE MORE >>
The Beatles endure as the greatest popular music band of all times as
the band’s music and lyrics have transcended the decades—and John, Paul,
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In
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campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has
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FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman takes on the subject of international bribery. Over the last decade there has been a growing worldwide crackdown on corruption in commerce led by a handful of prosecutor... SEE MORE >>
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FRONTLINE/World journeys to the remote rain forests of Brazil, where
several American companies have been on the hunt for an increasingly
valuable new commodity -- carbon. But investing in big tracts of forest
in ord... SEE MORE >>
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FRONTLINE takes a hard look at Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood--the most well-organized and powerful of the country's opposition groups--as a new fight for power in Egypt begins to takes shape. SEE MORE >>
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Around
3,600 years ago, reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depict pharaohs and
warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some historians
claim that the chariot launched a technological and strategi... SEE MORE >>
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The demand for better and faster cell phone service comes with a hidden cost. This investigation has found that the independent contractors who are building and servicing America's cellular infrastructure are 10 times more... SEE MORE >>
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2012 New York Film Critics Circle Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary) Official Selection: Telluride Film Festival 2012 Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Speci... SEE MORE >>
For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive priv... SEE MORE >>
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Communists for Jesus? In the once atheist country of China, there are now thought to be as many Christians as communist party members. It's difficult to calculate the exact number of believers -- many fear a government cra... SEE MORE >>
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As the United States faces yet another round of fiscal
crises, Cliffhanger investigates the
inside history of how Washington
has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on
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On November 22, 1963 the most powerful man in the world was gunned down in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses, police, and photographers. It was the crime of the century—and it was never solved. In anticipat... SEE MORE >>
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personality: the side seen on newsreels and by tourists, and the reality
lived by its vibrant and astoundingly diverse people. Knowing t... SEE MORE >>
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On June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory, Gen. George Armstrong Custer ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians. The battle pitted two larger-th... SEE MORE >>
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In the spring of 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing hundreds. Why has there been such an extreme outbreak? How do such weather patterns form? With modern warnin... SEE MORE >>
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Alaska's Mount McKinley, commonly referred to as Denali, is the highest and coldest peak in North America, and one of the deadliest mountains on earth. Each year more than 1,000 people attempt to summit it, many never to r... SEE MORE >>
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Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it's the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham--convicted for the arson dea... SEE MORE >>
Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans—people physically identical to us today—left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they a... SEE MORE >>
Mont Blanc is one of the most magnetic mountain vistas in the world: no other mountain range has such a long record of mountaineering and glaciology. But the two hundred years of winter sports, science, and tourism, have d... SEE MORE >>
A 10-part series of TV shows and video blogs that build on the success of the award-winning PBS reality competition series DESIGN SQUAD to get kids excited about engineering. DESIGN SQUAD NATION is high-energy, high-drama ... 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 >>
In 1870, America's untamed West was dry, sparsely vegetated, and constantly eroding. But beneath the surface lay a treasure unlike any in the world: the bones of countless prehistoric creatures. For the emerging field of A... SEE MORE >>
There are many dinosaur bones on Alaska's North Slope, but they're trapped in an impenetrable wall of permafrost. Dr. Tom Rich is the tenacious fossil hunter: a paleontologist who has made his name digging in extreme place... SEE MORE >>
New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, New Jersey, who actually seeks out the community's sickest--and most expensive--patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pione... SEE MORE >>
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans can’t afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broke... 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 >>
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadba... SEE MORE >>
Earth Days is a feature-length documentary about the origins of the modern environmental movement, told through the eyes of nine Americans who were inspired to act on what they believed was the most important challenge fac... SEE MORE >>
Correspondent Martin Smith (College Inc.) continues to investigate for-profit colleges, this time focusing on their aggressive recruitment of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Are the for-profits making promises that the... SEE MORE >>
Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C.,
public schools, is one of the most admired and reviled school reformers in
America. FRONTLINE was granted unprecedented access to Rhee during her
tumultuous thre... SEE MORE >>
It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It used the ideas of the French Revolutionary to create the world's first Black republic. It elevated a Black general, Toussaint Louverture, to such international ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE's international news magazine returns with an investigation into the CIA's controversial practice of kidnapping terror suspects for interrogation, often in countries where torture is common. As members of a CIA ... SEE MORE >>
The Arab world is getting younger -- some 70 percent of the population is under 30 -- but most are unemployed or underemployed. It's a "demographic time bomb" that many believe threatens the future and security of the enti... SEE MORE >>
Everyone's heard of it, but what does the world's most famous equation, E=mc2, really mean? NOVA dramatizes the human stories of the men and women whose innovative thinking across four centuries led finally to Einstein's b... 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 >>
Brian Greene is going to let you in on a secret: We've all been deceived. Our perceptions of time and space have led us astray. Much of what we thought we knew about our universe--that the past has already happened and the... SEE MORE >>
Turning to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unravels the American tapestry by exploring the family histories of 12 renowned Americans. He follows the threads of his guests'... SEE MORE >>
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of "pulling the plug," do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal "... SEE MORE >>
Students and teachers from West Philadelphia High School, a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia, defy expectations as they design and build two super-hybrid cars for inter... SEE MORE >>
Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling CGI, Finding Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sound... SEE MORE >>
This 10-part series, with renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., journeys deep into the ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals and provides new understanding of personal identity and Am... SEE MORE >>
Flowers hold a special place in the plant world as well as in the human heart. There are somewhere between 220,000 to over 400,000 different flowering species on earth. They dominate our gardens and landscapes, and provi... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates the crash of Continental 3407, one of the deadliest U.S. domestic airline accidents in recent years, and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where small regional carriers now account f... SEE MORE >>
In a follow-up to FLYING CHEAP, the hard-hitting investigation of how major airlines outsource flights to regional airlines, FRONTLINE examines another growing trend: the outsourcing of major airline repair work to lower-c... SEE MORE >>
FLYING THE SECRET SKY: THE STORY OF RAF FERRY COMMAND tells a story of passionate risk-taking, of young men braving dangerous flights in primitive aircraft. These "cowboys of the air" are forgotten heroes of the war, who ... SEE MORE >>
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What if you could probe a 3D image of a murder victim's corpse months or years after an autopsy, peeling apart layers of digital flesh with the flick of a finger? Could detectives solve cold cases by "visiting" a virtual c... SEE MORE >>
Imagine a moment from the age of dinosaurs frozen in time: primitive birds, bees, insects, early mammals, the first known flowering plants, and of course, dinosaurs, all exquisitely preserved in fine-grained fossils from C... SEE MORE >>
This special explores the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evid... SEE MORE >>
The latest in a series of award-winning and critically-acclaimed presidential portraits, this two-part AMERICAN EXPERIENCE biography examines the life and career of our often overlooked 41st president, from his service in ... SEE MORE >>
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Frontline followed 24-year-old Gigi Ibrahim, one of the young Egyptians who led the protests that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak, as the movement accelerated and she struggled to explain her involvement in the pro... SEE MORE >>
Anchors aweigh for this splash hit musical! Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore is setting sail for the splash hit event of the summer! Gilbert and Sullivan's first blockbuster is among the most crowd-pleasing comic musicals in hi... SEE MORE >>
In the history of America, religion has always mattered, and America's story cannot be fully understood without understanding its religious history. For the first time on television, this six-hour PBS documentary series w... SEE MORE >>
When the Grand Coulee Dam was being built during the depths of the Great Depression, everything about it--the generators, the powerhouses, the pumps, the turbines, the conveyor belts, the cofferdams, not to mention the con... SEE MORE >>
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief campaign that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. By summer 1922, American k... SEE MORE >>
In 1881, twenty-five men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from
the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady
Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth
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FRONTLINE/World travels to Guatemala to see how an unlikely partnership between human rights investigators and a Silicon Valley nonprofit is saving a lost chapter of the country's history. SEE MORE >>
On the two-year anniversary of the immigration raid at a kosher
meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa -- one of the largest workplace
raids in history, FRONTLINE/World takes an affecting look at the human cost of the crac... SEE MORE >>
Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money team looks at a new idea in post-disaster relief being tried out in Haiti -- an attempt by the U.N.'s World Food Program and the U.S. military, among others, to keep the Haitian rice mar... SEE MORE >>
Happy Everyday: Park Life in China presents a version of retirement unlike anything seen in the West—elderly ravers dancing to techno music, playing in mass maraca troupes, and taking over children’s playgrounds for th... SEE MORE >>
For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental policy and stifled the debate over climate change in America and around the globe. ... SEE MORE >>
His car transformed the lives of millions, and re-drew the grid of the United States and much of the world. His assembly line transformed the character of modern industry, and his Five Dollar Day laid the foundation for Am... SEE MORE >>
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He's been portrayed as a savior and an autocrat; a hero to his nation's poor, and a bombastic, would-be dictator eager to launch himself onto the world stage. But who is the real Hugo Chavez? In THE HUGO CHAVEZ SHOW, FRO... SEE MORE >>
On May 3, 1999, one of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded carved a path of complete destruction near Oklahoma City. To scientists, the supertwister held sobering lessons about the future of rapidly expanding cities ... SEE MORE >>
This two-hour special marks the 400th anniversary of the telescope, examining how this simple instrument has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. What began as a curiosity -- two spectacle ... SEE MORE >>
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Oil and Sand was an extravagant film made by members of the Egyptian royal family and a few friends and relatives in 1952 about a coup d'état, shot just weeks before the royals were overthrown in a real coup. The complete... SEE MORE >>
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FRONTLINE continues its investigation of nuclear safety with an unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. W... SEE MORE >>
As Barack Obama is
sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four
years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his
Republican opponents over health care and the ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of in... SEE MORE >>
In a rare interview with Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who
was at the center of the 9/11 investigations, FRONTLINE correspondent
Martin Smith uncovers an insider’s view of the “war on terror.” One of
only eight Ara... SEE MORE >>
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NOVA viewers last glimpsed the rovers one year into their pioneering exploration. At the end of NOVA's award-winning Welcome to Mars, Spirit was poised to begin the first, daunting ascent of a Martian mountain in the Colum... SEE MORE >>
The Italian Americans examines the distinctive qualities of one immigrant group's experience, and how over time these qualities have shaped and challenged America. Moving chronologically through history from the mid 19th c... SEE MORE >>
Italy’s Mystery Mountains explores the fascinating geologic story of Italy, the land known for its fabulous art, fantastic food, opera, the dolce vita, and so much more. What’s less known about Italy is the diversity a... SEE MORE >>
When 22-year-old Jesse Owens captured four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he became one of the world's most celebrated athletes. An African-American, he was a living repudiation of Hitler's credo of Aryan... SEE MORE >>
Scheduled for broadcast on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death, this probing biography provides a fresh look at an enigmatic man, who remains one of the nation’s most beloved and mourned leaders. ... SEE MORE >>
Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete is a biography of the Native American athlete who became a sports icon in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with Thorpe’s boyhood in Indian Territory it chronicles h... SEE MORE >>
On September 26, 2005, a group of citizens, scientists and lawyers gathered in the tiny town of Dover, Pennsylvania, for a landmark trial. At the heart of the case was a simple question: did the D... 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 >>
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden last week was one of the U.S. military's best-kept secrets: a covert campaign that officials have credited with taking out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-mon... SEE MORE >>
NOVA dives beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II--the sinking of the USS Arizona. More than 1,000 crew members perished in the greatest single lo... 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 >>
Notoriously
press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this
unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His far-reaching
influence—as agent and manager, record industry mogul, H... SEE MORE >>
Lafayette: The Lost Hero tells the story of the Marquis De Lafayette and his quest to bring democracy to America and France, through the eyes of Sabine Renault Sabloniere, a 21st century descendant. The film traces the lif... SEE MORE >>
In May 2008, a scientific team made worldwide headlines by announcing headlines of a previously unsuspected impact from space that had devastated prehistoric North America at the end of the last Ice Age. According to this... SEE MORE >>
From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop and Reggaeton, LATIN MUSIC USA tells the story of the rise of new music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Lat... SEE MORE >>
Latino Americans, a landmark three-part, six-hour
documentary series,
is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and
varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape the... SEE MORE >>
Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. LAW & DISORDER, ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World and Public Radio International reporter Marco Werman travels to the Libyan desert to cover a rare total eclipse of the sun that attracts visitors from all over the world. "It's an astronomical event but it'... SEE MORE >>
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who became an international sensation in the world of modern art and radical politics during the early 20th century. Her life was a drama of personal extremes lived against a backdrop of p... SEE MORE >>
From the director/producer of the acclaimed Seven Wonders of the Muslim World, The Life Of Muhammad charts the extraordinary story of a man who, in little more than 20 years, changed the world forever. In a journey that is... SEE MORE >>
Lifecasters unites fiction and
documentary filmmakers to tell stories of three people who use their strength,
creativity, and determination to reach their goals—a bit later in life. Each of this innovative documentary... SEE MORE >>
Our planet is lit up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We’re addicted to light of all kinds, and like anything else that’s addictive, is too much a bad thing? Lights Out! joins leading scientists in the lab and in the fie... SEE MORE >>
This two-hour FRONTLINE special brings Nelson Mandela's biography up to date. The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela tells the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership and life's method through in... SEE MORE >>
Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective of the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man. While studying ants,... SEE MORE >>
Get-tough immigration enforcement strategies initiated by Bush and continued by Obama have, in the last five years, doubled the number of immigrant detentions and deportations to nearly 400,000 per year. The Obama administ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE investigates a global fraud, following Bernard L. Madoff from the early 1960s to his last ditch efforts to raise $5 billion dollars in those waning days before the story broke on December 11, 2008. This investiga... SEE MORE >>
Christopher Columbus changed the world. Though his acts were deliberate, the outcome was unintended. His goal was to grow rich and find a new way to the Far East by sailing West, though he ended up achieving much more. ... SEE MORE >>
Review the story of how women have helped shape America over the last 50
years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in our
country’s history, in pursuit of their rights to a full and fair share
of po... SEE MORE >>
Drawing on the huge success of Making Stuff, NOVA takes viewers on a new ride through the cutting-edge science that is powering the next wave of technological innovation.
Making Stuff Wilder What happens when engineers open... SEE MORE >>
From carbon nanotubes to artificial skin, the world is poised at the frontier of a revolution in materials science as far-reaching as the biotech breakthroughs of the last two decades. MAKING STUFF is the first series to l... SEE MORE >>
At 2:50 p.m. on April 15, two bomb blasts turned the Boston Marathon
finish line from a scene of triumph to tragedy—leaving three dead,
hundreds injured, and a city gripped by heartbreak and terror. Less
than five... SEE MORE >>
What does it take for any reasonably fit person to compete in one of the world's toughest road races? NOVA finds out in Marathon, a one-hour special that's both reality-TV and an intriguing scientific exploration of the wa... SEE MORE >>
In Market Warriors, expert antiques "pickers" embark on a nationwide treasure hunt, scouring fl ea markets for vintage valuables and selling their finds at auction with an eye toward maximizing profit. These pickers aren't... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE updates the original film with new policy changes in the U.S.
Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among West Coast motorcycle gangs in the 1970s has spread acro... SEE MORE >>
In a joint project with The New York Times, FRONTLINE/World correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the business of human smuggling across the busy ports of entry between Mexico and the United States. In Tijuana, masses... SEE MORE >>
A growing body of evidence suggests that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually be in middle school. And yet middle schools, with their vulnerable population, have long been overlooked. Now a group ... SEE MORE >>
What
makes a person walk into a theater or a church or a classroom full of students
and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to
commit the most inhuman of crimes? Can science in any way hel... SEE MORE >>
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents Mind Over Money--an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why... SEE MORE >>
Since 2008, WallStreet and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special 4-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of... SEE MORE >>
Mountaineers and scientists battle the snowy precipices of Antarctica's highest peak, the Vinson Massif. The film, shot in high-definition, is told through the voice of Jon Krakauer, mountaineer and best-selling author of ... SEE MORE >>
Afropop musician Feliciano dos Santos and others members of his band run a nonprofit health group in Mozambique that helps bring a sustainable sanitation system to a region that never had one. SEE MORE >>
It is a tantalizing idea: a shriveled mummy that has lain neglected on a dusty museum shelf at Niagara Falls could be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh. While a trail of clues hints at how the looted mummy made i... SEE MORE >>
Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat--not from outside competition, but from shocking account... SEE MORE >>
The power of music and its effect on the human mind is a fascinating topic for neuroscientists exploring the gateway to the mysteries of the brain. This documentary illuminates how the brain uses music to shape the human e... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE and ITVS explore the scientific, ethical and political debate that surrounds Parkinson's disease: a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects about one million Americans. Beginning with the story ... SEE MORE >>
Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, THE EMMY AWARD
The words "My Lai" are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War, but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968. Now,... SEE MORE >>
In his
latest film, Marian Marzynski (Return to
Poland, A Jew Among the Germans, Shtetl) returns to the Warsaw ghetto of his childhood. In Never
Forget to Lie, Marzynski tells the extraordinary story of how he as a
Jew... SEE MORE >>
DIAMOND FACTORY A blindfolded Tyson is led to a top-secret "diamond farm" to investigate breakthroughs in the engineering of artificial diamonds. Indistinguishable from the real thing, these glittering creations may one day... SEE MORE >>
HUNT FOR ALIEN EARTHS NOVA scienceNOW visits astronomers on the brink of finding "another Earth" in our galaxy with a new planet-hunting machine that will soon be operational: the Kepler telescope. This and other ingenious ... SEE MORE >>
MARATHON MOUSE After studying mice his team managed to genetically alter for heightened endurance, Ron Evans has found two drugs that have the same effect as gene modification. Now that both drugs have been approved by the ... SEE MORE >>
THE SCIENCE OF PICKY EATERS Neil deGrasse Tyson sets out to find out more about the science behind our sense of taste: and discovers out that you can't understand taste without also getting into smell. Just when he thinks h... SEE MORE >>
MOON SMASHER Tag along with a team of scientists at NASA who will smash two SUV-sized rockets onto the lunar surface and unleash a debris cloud to study with LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite). The data... SEE MORE >>
PUBLIC GENOMES To test or not to test? NOVA scienceNOW revisits the question Neil deGrasse Tyson asked himself last season, as he pondered whether to get a personal genetic profile that would predict his chances of contract... SEE MORE >>
SAVING HUBBLE UPDATE The Hubble Space Telescope -- an orbiting eye on the universe that has greatly advanced our knowledge of the cosmos -- is in need of repairs never intended to be performed in orbit. Neil de Grasse Tyson... SEE MORE >>
EARTHQUAKES IN THE MIDWEST Some of the most dramatic earthquakes to strike North America haven't been in California or Alaska -- they've hit in the heart of the country. In 1811 and 1812, a powerful string of quakes struck ... SEE MORE >>
Can humans survive a trip to Mars and back that could take two to three years? NOVA scienceNOW examines all of the perils and dilemmas of this journey—as well as the ingenuity being used to design innovative new material... SEE MORE >>
This provocative episode explores themes of life span and whether we can slow down the aging process, looks at the latest on human hibernation, and checks in with those inventing ways to keep us “going forever.”
NOVA scienceNOW delves into some pretty heady stuff to examine magic and the brain, artificial intelligence, mind control, and the nature of reality in an astonishing episode on how the brain works.
Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may want to think twice after watching this intriguing new NOVA scienceNOW. While we may not be ready for barnyard Barnards or sending pets t... SEE MORE >>
Where did the very first living thing on Earth come from? Can a simple injection erase a painful memory? From a single human cell to the entire universe, NOVA scienceNOW asks where did we come from.
Thrilling innovations and new discoveries are being made all the time in science, and there are a few things on the horizon in the fields of medicine and technology and energy that are really poised to change the way we li... SEE MORE >>
Scientists have struggled for centuries to pinpoint the qualities that distinguish humans from the millions of other animal species we share the vast majority of our DNA with. NOVA scienceNow explores those traits once tho... SEE MORE >>
Can science create a world without crime or help catch crooks before they can act again? NOVA scienceNow peers inside the criminal mind and discovers cutting-edge forensic techniques that are helping investigators stop cri... SEE MORE >>
How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in the genes? Or does it come with hard work? Is it possible that everyone’s brain has untapped genius just waiting for the right circumstances to be unleashed?
What are the scientific secrets behind your favorite foods? NOVA scienceNow ventures into labs and kitchens where everything from junk food to holiday turkey is diced, sliced, dissected and put under the microscope to unc... SEE MORE >>
Have you ever wondered what is going on inside your pet’s mind? Dogs, pigeons, and bees interpret the world using senses and abilities that are sometimes truly amazing. NOVA scienceNow explores how a beehive resembles a ... SEE MORE >>
The technologies that will transform our lives decades from now are already taking shape in laboratories around the world. Innovative engineers and computer scientists working to create thought-controlled video games, robo... SEE MORE >>
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 46-foot tsunami wave crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan. The waves flooded the plant's basement, destroying the back-up diesel generators and electrica... SEE MORE >>
Health care reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the young president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. In a new investigation FRONTLINE ... SEE MORE >>
Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander, and armed with a counter-insurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can US forces succeed in a land long ... SEE MORE >>
Go inside a very special emergency room and witness the efforts of a renown team of wildlife veterinarians to save sick and injured ocean animals, like an adorable but weak Harbor Seal pup or the full grown, feisty Califo... SEE MORE >>
Commissioned for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., OCEAN ODYSSEY takes viewers to some of the world's most remote and magical ocean places. See tiny damselfish in their splendid cora... SEE MORE >>
On
a quest to impact the lives of others and find a meaning for his own, Joe Sciacca—a blue-collar roofer and
Vietnam War veteran from New York—returns annually to Vietnam, seeking out the
poor, diseased, and disabl... SEE MORE >>
Reporter David Montero investigates the mysterious murder of Musa Khan Khel, a Pakistani journalist who covered the army's failed campaign against the Taliban in the Swat Valley and was killed not long after a peace deal w... SEE MORE >>
As the war plays out in the valleys of Swat and Buner, Obaid-Chinoy reflects on the Taliban's growing influence on her own hometown, Karachi, the biggest city in Pakistan. "In the past, you found only the very poorest Paki... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE correspondent Sharmeen Obaid investigates the increasing power and influence of a new branch of the Taliban that is helping make the country one of the Obama administration's top foreign policy concerns. SEE MORE >>
In an exclusive joint project with the Christian Science Monitor, FRONTLINE/World correspondent David Montero ventures into the mountainous Swat Valley where the Pakistani army is fighting Taliban insurgents. It is a place... SEE MORE >>
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, in one of the most challenging environments on earth, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and So... SEE MORE >>
A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theater, and beyond. The epicenter... SEE MORE >>
Since the
Columbine school shooting in 1999, school and law enforcement officials have
developed multiple strategies to prevent attacks. Remarkably, more than 120
school assaults have been thwarted in the past ten years... SEE MORE >>
Away from professional stadiums, bright lights, and manicured fields, there's another side of soccer. Tucked away on alleys, side streets, and concrete courts, people play in improvised games. Every country has a different... SEE MORE >>
The
almost unbelievable story of George Plimpton, the famed writer, editor, amateur
sportsman, and friend to many, is told through a posthumous narration by
Plimpton himself—along with thoughts and stories from friend... SEE MORE >>
Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has held a warm place in the public imagination. So, when the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found hi... SEE MORE >>
On May 13, 1607, three English sailing vessels dropped anchor beside a small island fringed by swamps in the James River, Virginia. On board were 104 colonists who established the first successful English settlement in the... SEE MORE >>
More than three decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America's waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic waterways -- the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay... 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 bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market... SEE MORE >>
Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our leaders try to save our crumbling economy and our poisoned planet in one bold, green... SEE MORE >>
As the fall-out from WikiLeaks continues, an exclusive interview with Private Bradley Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth, Manning's time in the Army, and why h... SEE MORE >>
Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Prohibition tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.
The culmination of nearly a century of a... SEE MORE >>
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was leveled by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian state and the United Nations, were crippled by th... SEE MORE >>
In the
wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,
Raising Adam Lanza investigates a
young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of
death and destru... SEE MORE >>
This powerful documentary tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. For twelve long years, the N... SEE MORE >>
From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis are routinely called on to solve the most difficult cr... SEE MORE >>
New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and other experts tell the story of President Bashar al-Assad and how the Syrian dictator has managed to hold onto power in the months since the Arab Spring. ... SEE MORE >>
Between 2008 and 2009, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses were released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation's history. Typically, mentally ill offenders leave pr... SEE MORE >>
** Winner, Political Documentaries, 2011 Banff Non-Fiction Rockies **
The current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are the world's first Robotic War, with over 7,000 robots in the air and 12,000 on the ground. Warfare has ... SEE MORE >>
Photographed in Yosemite National Park, featuring world-class rock climber, Ron Kauk, this high definition film carries a strong but subtle environmental message. Through imagery and occasional narration, he relates his in... SEE MORE >>
For 45 centuries, the Great Sphinx has cast its enigmatic gaze over Egypt's Giza plateau. The biggest and oldest statue in a land of colossal ancient monuments, its scale is staggering: the mighty head towers as tall as th... SEE MORE >>
A revolution is transforming the armed forces of every nation. In Rise of the Drones, NOVA launches a provocative investigation of the explosive growth of airborne UAVs, or pilotless drones. During the invasion of Iraq in ... 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 >>
He is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the American South, and by no less than five postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in... SEE MORE >>
The Roosevelts will present Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as they have never been portrayed on-screen before, as the most prominent members of the most important family in our history. For nineteen of the first ... SEE MORE >>
Thirteen innovative episodes follow fine furniture maker Tommy MacDonald as he travels to historical New England landmarks to gain design inspiration, then returns to his workshop to demonstrate the steps and techniques it... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal the untold story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq: where twenty-four of the town's residents were killed by US forces in what many in the media branded "Iraq's My Lai". Wit... SEE MORE >>
NOVA presents the first attempt on television to explore the riddle of quintessence--a mysterious repulsive force that some scientists believe counteracts gravity. The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astr... SEE MORE >>
Traveling to Moscow, filmmaker Victoria Gamburg goes behind the scenes of a TV show modeled after the hit comedy "Sex and the City," where she talks to the actresses and reveals glimpses of what makes the show so popular. ... SEE MORE >>
On the eve of the March 2 presidential election, FRONTLINE looks at the prospects for democracy in Russia. As Putin names his successor, silences opposition media, and maneuvers to maintain influence, correspondent Victori... 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 >>
Hosted by renowned writer and television personality Bruce Feiler (author of four New York Times best-selling books about religion, and host of Walking the Bible), Sacred Journeys is a six-part series about pilgrimage arou... SEE MORE >>
Sand Wars is a surprising
investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet.
Due to the high demand for sand, the planet’s reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters
of the world’s beach... SEE MORE >>
In the face of steeply rising oil prices and political turmoil in the Middle East, there's new urgency about finding a solution to our uncertain energy future. Could it be time to take solar energy seriously again? Breakth... SEE MORE >>
The Search
for the Origin of Life follows four groups of researchers from NASA’s elite Astrobiology
Institute as they attempt to answer one of humanity’s oldest questions: how did life begin? As they travel to
the p... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE crosses the border into Pakistan, where correspondents Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside "The Secret War" against the militants. They uncover new details of a CIA "private army" of militiamen launching kill... SEE MORE >>
In 2002, an immense ice shelf 200 meters thick and the size of Manhattan abruptly collapsed into the ocean off western Antarctica. This event shocked scientists already concerned by the unprecedented rate of melting in som... SEE MORE >>
Nestled
on over 14,000 acres of English countryside is Althorp House, the childhood
home and final resting place of Diana, Princess of Wales. 19 generations of
Spencers, one of Britain’s
most eminent aristocratic... SEE MORE >>
On an estate the size of Washington,
DC sits Chatsworth, home to the Dukes of
Devonshire, one of the grandest aristocratic dynasties in England. The tales of intrigue,
tragedy, and scandal of this great family are i... SEE MORE >>
Hampton
Court is the ultimate royal pleasure palace,
embodying an indulgent and grandiose lifestyle built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
and furthered by King Henry VIII. Its many rooms chart Henry VIII's decline
from... SEE MORE >>
It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton® Abbey, but England’s Highclere Castle has its own stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardi... SEE MORE >>
Every year a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain, in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. During the 20th cen... SEE MORE >>
A hundred years ago, the world of the British manor house was at its height. It was a world of luxury and privilege that has provided a majestic backdrop to a range of movies and costume dramas to this day. But what was re... SEE MORE >>
The enormous popularity of period costume dramas
set in the English countryside has led to huge interest in the real-life
stories of the amazing homes that dot the landscape and often serve as the
settings for these lus... SEE MORE >>
Erected by the ancient Greeks as a temple to Athena, the Parthenon has served as a church, a fortress, an ammunition dump, and the model for countless banks, courthouses and museums across the world. It has been shot at, e... SEE MORE >>
Buddhism, one of the most ancient belief systems in the world, is practiced by nearly 350 million people today. Presented by Bettany Hughes, this program visits seven of the most famous ancient and modern Buddhist location... SEE MORE >>
As Iraq descends into chaos and civil war, FRONTLINE examines the rise of its neighbor -- Iran -- as one of America's greatest threats and most puzzling foreign policy challenges. Through interviews with key players on bo... SEE MORE >>
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses -- potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance -- FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health c... SEE MORE >>
Four in five Americans say the US health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the US learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different fro... 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 >>
In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor company,... SEE MORE >>
Nearly four years after the financial crisis, yet another scandal rocks Wall Street. Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 with oversize ambition an... SEE MORE >>
Can we make a robot that really thinks, learns, and acts like us? Replicating the human brain is a lot tougher than it looks; the promise of walking, talking "androids" is still just a fantasy. But scientists are edging cl... SEE MORE >>
A luscious exploration of the natural world, Smarty Plants effortlessly integrates hard core science with a lighthearted look at how plants behave, revealing a world where plants are as busy, responsive, and complex as we ... SEE MORE >>
The story about social entrepreneur Trevor Field and his PlayPump water project first aired in South Africa on FRONTLINE/World in May 2006. This broadcast continues the story of how he is advancing his work to bring clean ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World correspondent Douglas Rushkoff -- one of America's leading writers and thinkers about the new wired world -- travels to South Korea to take the measure of the country's digital revolution and to understand ... SEE MORE >>
FRONTLINE/World investigates one of its own stories, "The Play Pump," which promised to use a merry-go-round and the power of children to help meet the dire need for fresh water in southern Africa. After FRONTLINE/World fi... SEE MORE >>
Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a "serial environmental criminal" that left behind a long trail of problem... SEE MORE >>
In this production based on the newly released book by Jim Bamford, NOVA brings to light the modern technology underlying the National Security Agency's ongoing hunt for information in the war on terror. In the aftermath ... SEE MORE >>
This gripping new series takes viewers inside the secret world of spy-craft. Each episode focuses on the extraordinary characters and amazing technology at the center of an incredible mission. From spy satellites and micro... 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 >>
No decision is more personal than the choice to end one’s life. For those with fatal and incurable diseases, seeking help to hasten death means navigating ethical questions as well as legal risks for those left behind, i... SEE MORE >>
“The film is built from an
unusual mix of history, science and traditional Navajo culture, and its
emotional climax pulls no punches.”—The New York Times
“Not since Kent Mackenzie's
1961 drama The Exiles has ... SEE MORE >>
In the rural heartland of Syria’s countryside,
the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying
turn. In this highly charged documentary, award-winning filmmaker
Olly Lambert lives on both ... SEE MORE >>
All of the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this... SEE MORE >>
Ken Burns's four-hour special program to bring the landmark nine-part documentary film series, BASEBALL, up to date. The Tenth Inning showcases the unforgettable heroics and achievements on the field over the past fifteen ... SEE MORE >>
Muslim belief and tradition specifies that there should be no depictions of God or the Prophet Mohammad. In religious contexts, this constraint on what artists can depict extends to human figures and other living creatur
