Frontline — Specials
136 episodesFirst aired 11 October 2010
E1God in America: A New Adam (1)
Oct 2010
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.
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God in America: A New Eden (2)
Oct 2010
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.
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God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)
Oct 2010
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.
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God in America: A New Light (4)
Oct 2010
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.
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God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)
Oct 2010
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.
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God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)
Oct 2010
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.
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Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
Apr 2013
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.
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Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two
Apr 2013
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.
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Stickup Kid
Dec 2014
A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.
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Mosquito Hunter
Aug 2016
A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.
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Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs
Feb 2017
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)
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Big Sky, Big Money
Oct 201253m
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.
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Harvest of Fear
Apr 2001
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The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
Mar 2003
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Bush's War: Part 1
Mar 2008
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Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
Apr 2013
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Kind Hearted Woman Part 2
Apr 2013
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Bigger Than Vegas
Sept 2014
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A Daughter's Death
Feb 2011
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When Children Testify
May 1991
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Waiting for Tearah
Oct 2019
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Ebola in Congo
Dec 2019
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Tutwiler
May 2020
- E693
Betting on Trump: Coal
Feb 2017
- E694
Children of ISIS
Not yet aired
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Betting on Trump: Jobs
Feb 2017
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Inside Yemen
Jul 2017
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Stickup Kid
Dec 2014
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Betting on Trump: Water
Feb 2017
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Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)
Nov 2020
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The Mind of a Murderer
Mar 1984
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The Mind of a Murderer
Mar 1984
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Shootout on Imperial Highway
Jan 1985
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Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2
Jan 1985
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Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years
Apr 1985
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Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge
Apr 1985
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Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.
Apr 1985
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Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.
Apr 1985
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Comrades
Jul 1986
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Comrades
Jul 1986
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Comrades
Jul 1986
- E711
Comrades
Jul 1986
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Comrades
Jul 1986
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Comrades
Aug 1986
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Comrades
Aug 1986
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Comrades
Aug 1986
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Comrades
Aug 1986
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Comrades
Sept 1986
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Comrades
Sept 1986
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Stopping Drugs (1)
Feb 1987
- E720
Stopping Drugs (2)
Feb 1987
- E721
Apartheid Parts 1-2
Dec 1987
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Apartheid Parts 3-4
Dec 1987
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Apartheid Part 5
Dec 1987
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Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
Sept 1990
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Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
Sept 1990
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Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
Sept 1990
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Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
Sept 1990
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Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
Jul 1993
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Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
Jul 1993
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Divided Memories Part 1
Apr 1995
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Divided Memories Part 2
Apr 1995
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The Gulf War (1)
Jan 1996
- E733
The Gulf War (1)
Jan 1996
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From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)
Apr 1998
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From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)
Apr 1998
- E736
The Farmer's Wife
Sept 1998
- E737
The Farmer's Wife
Sept 1998
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The Farmer's Wife
Sept 1998
- E739
Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2
Nov 1999
- E740
War in Europe (1)
Feb 2000
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War in Europe (2)
Feb 2000
- E742
Drug Wars (1)
Oct 2000
- E743
Drug Wars (2)
Oct 2000
- E744
Real Justice (1)
Nov 2000
- E745
Real Justice (2)
Nov 2000
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Organ Farm (1)
Apr 2001
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Organ Farm (2)
Apr 2001
- E748
Country Boys: Part 1
Jan 2006
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Country Boys: Part 2
Jan 2006
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Country Boys: Part 3
Jan 2006
- E751
The Age of AIDS: Part 1
May 2006
- E752
The Age of AIDS: Part 2
May 2006
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News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin
Feb 2007
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News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin
Feb 2007
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News War (3): What's Happening To The News
Feb 2007
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The Mormons (1)
Apr 2007
- E757
The Mormons (2)
May 2007
- E758
Bush's War, Part 1
Mar 2008
- E759
Bush's War, Part 2
Mar 2008
- E760
2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited
Feb 2008
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Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2
Apr 2012
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Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4
Apr 2012
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2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"
Apr 2013
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United States of Secrets (Part One)
May 2014
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United States of Secrets (Part Two)
May 2014
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My Brother's Bomber (1)
Sept 2015
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My Brother's Bomber (2)
Oct 2015
- E768
My Brother's Bomber (3)
Oct 2015
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3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)
Mar 2016
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Yemen Under Siege
May 2016
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The Education of Omarina
Sept 2016
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Divided States of America
Jan 2017
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Divided States of America
Jan 2017
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Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Feb 2018
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Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Feb 2018
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Our Man in Tehran
Aug 2018
- E777
2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"
Nov 2017
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Putin's Revenge
Oct 2017
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Putin's Revenge
Nov 2017
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The Facebook Dilemma (1)
Oct 2018
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The Facebook Dilemma (2)
Oct 2018
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Targeting Yemen
Jan 2019
- E783
Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
Nov 2019
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America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)
Jan 2020
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America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)
Jan 2020
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The Luanda Leaks
Jan 2020
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Undocumented in the Pandemic
Aug 2020
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COVID in Yemen
Feb 2021
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The Virus That Shook the World
Apr 2021
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The Virus That Shook the World
Apr 2021
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India's Rape Scandal
Jul 2021
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Massacre in El Salvador
Nov 2021
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The Power of Big Oil - Denial
Apr 2022
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The Power of Big Oil - Doubt
Apr 2022
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The Power of Big Oil - Delay
May 2022
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After Zero Tolerance
Dec 2022
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Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
Jan 2023
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Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
Jan 2023
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America and the Taliban
Apr 2023
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America and the Taliban
Apr 2023
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America and the Taliban
Apr 2023
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Tutwiler
Sept 2023
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Failure at the Fence
Dec 2023
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Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Iran (2026 Version)
Mar 2026
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Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (2026 Version)
Mar 2026
In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat.But months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes in June 2025, the message coming from Washington, D.C., was that Iran's key nuclear facilities had been "obliterated."Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, FRONTLINE, The Washington Post, Evident Media and Bellingcat investigate the status of Iran's nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year.This updated version of the documentary previously aired on December 16, 2025.
