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Documenting the Siege of Mariupol (re-release) from 2023-11-30T11:00:28
The Big Dig, Part 1: We Were Wrong (GBH News) from 2023-11-23T11:00
The FRONTLINE Dispatch presents The Big Dig, Part 1: “We Were Wrong.”
The Big Dig is a new 9-part podcast series from GBH News, hosted by Ian Coss.
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Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road From Oslo (Full-length Film Audio Track) from 2023-11-09T11:00:40
FRONTLINE Film Audio Tracks are FRONTLINE documentaries, in audio form. Stream or download full-length recordings of film audio tracks on Apple Podcasts or Listen
Looking Back at the Houston Astros Cheating Scandal from 2023-10-27T10:00
The Houston Astros didn’t make the World Series this year. But they’re still widely considered one of the best teams of the past decade. FRONTLINE’s documentary The Astros Edge: Triumph and ...
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From Russian Newspaper Editor to ‘Foreign Agent’ from 2023-10-05T10:00
When filmmaker Patrick Forbes decided to make a documentary about Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, Muratov had just won a Nobel Prize. Over the course of the next year, Russia would inva...
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Locked Up for Life After ‘Two Strikes’ from 2023-09-14T10:00:05
Two Strikes, a documentary from FRONTLINE, The Marshall Project, and Firelight Media, tells the story of Mark Jones, a former West Point cadet serving a life sentence in Florid...
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Struggling for Breath in Coal Country (re-release) from 2023-08-17T10:00
A new rule proposed by the Labor Department could help limit coal miners' exposure to a toxic dust called silica.
“The purpose of this proposed rule is simple: prevent more miners from ...
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Documenting the Siege of Mariupol from 2023-07-21T19:21:09
Now playing in select theaters and coming to PBS this fall, 20 Days in Mariupol is an unflinching, first-hand account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of the port city of Mariupol...
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‘Dangerous Trucks’ on America’s Roads from 2023-07-07T10:00:05
Correspondent A.C. Thompson joins the FRONTLINE Dispatch to discuss America’s Dangerous Trucks, an investigation in partnership with ProPublica.
The film examines a particularly...
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Texas After Uvalde from 2023-06-16T09:00
In the year following the shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two adults, how has the community in Uvalde, Texas grieved — and what do they want to see happen?
Age of Easy Money (Full-length Film Audio Track) from 2023-05-20T10:00
FRONTLINE Film Audio Tracks are FRONTLINE documentaries, in audio form. Stream or download full-length recordings of film audio tracks on Apple Podcasts or Listen
For Women, ‘A Very Different Afghanistan’ from 2023-05-03T08:00
In the third and final installment of the documentary series America and the Taliban, FRONTLINE looks at the months leading up to the Taliban takeover and the consequences of the group’...
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Documenting America’s 20 Years in Afghanistan from 2023-04-20T09:00
Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan, the new three-part series Listen
Behind the Bank Failures from 2023-03-31T08:00
In the aftermath of the second and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history, correspondent James Jacoby joins the FRONTLINE Dispatch to talk about Age of Easy Money, a documentary ex...
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A Year of War in Kharkiv, Ukraine from 2023-02-23T09:00
During the early months of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, filmmakers Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola documented the lives of civilians and first responders trying to survive in Kharkiv, a Ukrai...
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A.C. Thompson on Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremism from 2023-02-03T10:00:10
As FRONTLINE celebrates 40 years on the air, editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath is hosting conversations with the journalists and filmmakers behind some of FRONTLINE’s mos...
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Behind the Explosive Investigation into Pegasus Spyware from 2023-01-19T11:00:05
When a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers came to the attention of Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud of the journalism non-profit Forbidden Stories, along with Amnesty International...
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Putin’s Crackdown on Dissent Inside Russia from 2022-12-01T11:00:05
In the new documentary Putin’s War at Home, FRONTLINE tells the stories o...
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Uncovering a Pattern of ‘Strategic Violence’ by Russia in Ukraine from 2022-11-10T13:39:24
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, FRONTLINE and the Associated Press have been investigating mounting evidence of war crimes. The two organizations’ recent documentary, Listen
Evictions and the Pandemic from 2022-10-07T08:00:12
As COVID-19 swept the country in 2020, millions of people in the U.S. were out of work and at risk of being evicted. An unprecedented federal ban on evictions and billions of dollars in rental a...
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How American Democracy Reached a Moment of ‘Existential Crisis’ from 2022-09-23T08:00
As the midterms draw near amid continuing false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, FRONTLINE examines how American democracy reached this point. Veteran filmmaker Michael Kir...
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The Disconnect: Season 2, Episode 1: The Toll from 2022-09-08T10:01:01
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Disconnect, a podcast all about the Texas blackout of February 2021 from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative partner, the Texas Newsroom, and Austin p...
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Investigating the Texas Blackout from 2022-09-08T10:00:01
In February 2021, a powerful winter storm led to power outages — and an official tally of more than 200 deaths — across Texas. The Disconnect, a podcast from FRONTLINE’s Listen
Searching for Afghanistan’s Missing Women from 2022-08-11T10:00:01
After U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan last year and the Taliban swept into power, FRONTLINE correspondent Ramita Navai and colleagues traveled the country, investigating the Taliban regime...
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J. Michael Luttig and Adam Kinzinger on Democracy and January 6 from 2022-07-29T16:20:20
Congressional hearings into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have concluded for the summer after weeks of testimony. Among the key witnesses to appear before the committee was J. Michael...
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Coming soon: The Disconnect, Season 2 from 2022-07-18T12:26:33
Coming August 4, 2022 from FRONTLINE's partners in the Local Journalism Initiative, KUT/KUTX Studios, season two of The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout. In February 2021, days...
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Maria Ressa on Journalism and Democracy in the Philippines (re-release) from 2022-06-29T20:50
On June 30, 2022, the Philippines inaugurates a new president: — Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. who ruled for a time under martial law and was overthrown ...
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A 1967 Murder and a ‘Reckoning’ with the Truth from 2022-06-16T11:00:05
American Reckoning, a feature-length documentary from FRONTLINE and Retro Report, traces the life and death of Wharlest Jackson Sr., a 'foot soldier' of the civil rights movement in the...
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Covering Minneapolis in the Wake of George Floyd from 2022-06-03T10:30
Since the murder of George Floyd two years ago, FRONTLINE's local journalism partner the Star Tribune has chronicled the aftermath of that pivotal event — from the protests that spread globally,...
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Pulitzer Winner Corey G. Johnson on Tampa’s Lead Problem (re-release) from 2022-05-19T11:05
For years, hundreds of workers at the Gopher Resource lead smelting plant in Florida were exposed to dangerous levels of lead in the air. Listen
Inside Big Oil’s Push Against Climate Change Action from 2022-05-04T10:36:45
The fossil fuel industry cast doubt on climate change for decades, even as the scientific evidence grew stronger and the warnings more dire.
In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, i...
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The Making of an Election Myth from 2022-04-15T10:00
More than a year after President Joe Biden's inauguration, around two-thirds of Republican voters believe his election was illegitimate. How did a stolen election myth make its way to the center...
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Julia Ioffe on Putin's Road to War from 2022-03-11T15:14
Journalist Julia Ioffe recently sat down with producer Mike Wiser for the March 2022 FRONTLINE documentary “Putin’s Road to War.” In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, we hear an excerpt of...
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A Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa from 2021-12-09T08:00
Journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the subject of the documentary A...
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What the Pandora Papers Reveal from 2021-12-02T08:00
In October 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists — with 150 partner news organizations around the world, including FRONTLINE — began publishing the results of an invest...
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The Federal Reserve’s Big Experiment from 2021-11-11T08:00
As the U.S. Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, confront concerns over inflation and the impact of the Fed’s pandemic-era policies, we take a deep dive into the country’s central bank,...
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How Boeing's Flawed 737 Max Made It Into the Air from 2021-10-28T07:00
What did Boeing know about the potential for disaster with its 737 Max passenger jet, and when did the company know it? Tom Jennings, director of the FRONTLINE/New York Times documentary “ Listen
The Case of the Liberty City Seven from 2021-09-16T07:00
Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) discusses his new FRONTLINE documentary, “In the Sh...
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Sept. 11 to Jan. 6 from 2021-09-10T07:00
As the nation marks the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, the legacy of the terror attacks and their aftermath continues to unfold, from insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to the resurgence of the Tal...
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Introducing: Un(re)solved from 2021-06-18T09:00
Un(re)solved is an investigative podcast series and part of a multiplatform project from FRONTLINE. What prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate over 150 unsolved civil r...
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Policing the Police in Minnesota from 2021-04-19T09:00
As Derek Chauvin’s murder trial nears its end and Minnesota roils over the killing of Daunte Wright, calls for police accountability continue. Brooklyn Center Police officer Kim Potter shot and ...
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Poisoned: Tampa's Lead Problem from 2021-03-25T09:00
For years, hundreds of workers at the Gopher Resource lead smelting plant in Florida were exposed to dangerous levels of lead in the air. "Poisoned," a new investigative series from the Listen
An Impeachment and An Inauguration from 2021-01-19T10:00
The Biden administration is set to begin as America copes with a chaotic start to the new year: from an insurrection to a second impeachment of President Trump, all while the COVID-19 death toll...
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Chaos at the Capitol from 2021-01-09T10:00
A violent mob of President Donald Trump's supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, as Congress met to certify Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. The rioters Listen
I'm Not A Monster: Episode 3 from 2020-12-14T10:00
I’m Not A Monster is a new multi-part investigative series from FRONTLINE, BBC Sounds, and BBC Panorama.
FRONTLINE is featuring the first few episodes of the series here for listeners of...
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I'm Not A Monster: Episode 2 from 2020-12-10T10:00
I’m Not A Monster is a new multi-part investigative series from FRONTLINE, BBC Sounds, and BBC Panorama.
FRONTLINE is featuring the first few episodes of the series here for listeners of...
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I'm Not A Monster: Episode 1 from 2020-12-07T10:00
I’m Not A Monster is a new multi-part investigative series from FRONTLINE, BBC Sounds, and BBC Panorama.
FRONTLINE is featuring the first few episodes of the series here for listeners o...
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Capturing ‘American Voices’ in a Year of Turmoil from 2020-11-21T10:00
When the pandemic hit, Dr. Blair Woodbury picked up the phone. He called his old friend, filmmaker Mike Shum, and urged him to get out and start recording the first draft of history.
Th...
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COVID-19&the Medical Supply Crisis from 2020-10-08T09:00
As COVID swept the U.S., why did hospitals face deadly shortages of PPE and other medical supplies? How did America’s medical supply chain fail so catastrophically? FRONTLINE, in collaboration w...
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Introducing: NOVA Now from 2020-09-30T09:00
From the PBS science series NOVA, a biweekly podcast digging into the science behind the headlines. Many agree that we need a fast, accurate, and easy COVID-19 test—yet none of the commonly used...
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The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden from 2020-09-23T09:00
In this special audio presentation, FRONTLINE shares a podcast version of The...
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Making "The Choice" from 2020-09-22T09:00
Before America votes, what can Biden and Trump’s responses to past crises — both personal and political — tell us about how they might lead the United States through a time of national turbulenc...
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The Transparency Project: John Bolton from 2020-09-21T09:00
As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for Listen
The Transparency Project: Yusef Salaam from 2020-09-18T09:00
As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for Listen
The Transparency Project: Rudy Giuliani from 2020-09-17T09:00
As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for Listen
The Transparency Project: Valerie Biden Owens from 2020-09-16T09:00
As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for Listen
The Transparency Project: Carol Moseley Braun from 2020-09-15T09:00
As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for Listen
The Transparency Project: Mary Trump from 2020-09-14T09:00
As part of Frontline’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for The Choice 2020, a two-hour documentary special...
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A Mother&Her Newborn Separated by COVID-19 from 2020-08-11T09:00:48
How the coronavirus separated a mother from her newborn baby, and the schoolteacher who stepped in to help the family in their time of need. Filmmaker Oscar Guerra discusses the story at the hea...
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Essential and Unprotected from 2020-07-21T09:00
They’ve been keeping America fed throughout the pandemic — and they say they’ve had to choose between their health and their jobs. For the essential agriculture workers who pick and process the ...
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Bribing Doctors, Making Millions from 2020-06-23T04:10:31
How a drug company made millions pushing an opioid painkiller up to 100x stronger than morphine, as many on Wall Street looked the other way. FRONTLINE filmmaker Tom Jennings and Listen
Maria Ressa, Duterte&the Fight for the Free Press from 2020-06-12T04:55:21
Days before an expected verdict in her trial, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa speaks out about reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war — and then becoming a high-profile targe...
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Race, Police&The Pandemic from 2020-06-02T06:00
As streets across America erupt into clashes over racism during the coronavirus pandemic, Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker examines a connection between George Floyd's death and the dispro...
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United States of Conspiracy from 2020-05-28T09:00
As COVID-19 has spread, so, too, have misinformation and conspiracy theories about the virus — amplified by figures like Alex Jones, and proliferating on social media and even at the highest lev...
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Life&Death in the Bronx from 2020-05-16T09:00
In the Bronx, as the coronavirus is disproportionately killing black and Latino people, COVID-19 is swelling the ranks of the dead — and also upending how loved ones grieve. Reporter Anjali Tsui...
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A Midnight Rescue from 2020-05-02T04:49:18
As COVID-19 ran rampant through the adult care facility, family members struggled to learn the truth of how the coronavirus outbreak was hitting their loved ones. Reporter Joaquin Sapien takes u...
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Covering Coronavirus: Indian Country from 2020-04-24T12:51:31
Native American communities were already dealing with underfunded health services. Then the coronavirus outbreak began. Journalist Antonia Gonzales, herself a member of the Native community, rep...
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A Tale of Two Washingtons from 2020-04-17T09:00
What the feud between President Trump and Washington Gov. Inslee reveals about federal-state tensions in the coronavirus fight. In his conversation with Gov. Inslee, FRONTLINE correspondent Mile...
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Warnings to the White House from 2020-04-09T09:00
Inside the Trump administration’s coronavirus response — and missed opportunities to contain COVID-19 before it was too late. Correspondent Martin Smith speaks with global health experts about w...
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Covering Coronavirus: Athens, Ohio from 2020-04-02T08:50
As schools close to help stem the spread of COVID-19, what happens to kids who rely on school meals to eat? FRONTLINE producer Jezza Neumann reports from Athens, Ohio — where school buses are no...
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Covering Coronavirus: Cincinnati, Ohio from 2020-03-27T21:06:36
To combat COVID-19, Ohio has a “stay at home” order — but what does that mean for families without homes? Filmmaker Ben C. Solomon reports from inside an emergency shelter for people experiencin...
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Covering Coronavirus: Cremona, Italy from 2020-03-23T21:14:20
A reporter’s emotional journey back to her homeland in Italy, now the global epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. “I never thought that I would be making a film like this in Italy,” says FRONTLIN...
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Covering Coronavirus: Seattle, Washington from 2020-03-21T14:43:41
Lessons learned from Seattle — an epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Veteran science reporter and FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien takes us inside the state where coronavirus was first bel...
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Blood and Power in the Philippines from 2019-03-21T07:00
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte makes his own rules. His war on drugs has led to the deaths of thousands of alleged drug users and dealers. His violent rhetoric and rape jokes have shocked ...
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Never Sentenced, Never Released from 2019-03-07T08:00
Terry Allen was 23 when he was arrested for an alleged sexual assault. Although he was never convicted of the crime, Allen was sent to an Illinois prison, where he has remained for nearly four d...
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The Housing Fix (Rebroadcast) from 2019-02-21T08:00
Millions of Americans can’t afford rent and only a quarter of those who need government help get it. What happens to everyone else? For many, it means they live in squalor. But figuring out who’...
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The Boy in the Caravan from 2019-02-07T08:00
In a collaboration between PRI’s The World and The FRONTLINE Dispatch, we follow a 15-year-old boy from El Salvador who joined the large migrant caravan last fall and is determined to enter the ...
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Struggling for Breath in Coal Country from 2019-01-24T08:02:46
In Appalachia, more than 2,000 coal miners are suffering from advanced black lung disease, caused by toxic dust in the mines and part of an epidemic federal regulators failed to prevent. Reporte...
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Update: Living With Murder from 2019-01-10T08:30:51
Part Three of the Living With Murder Series.
In December 2017, after serving 30 years of his life sentence, Kempis Songster left Graterford Prison on lifetime parole.
A lot has h...
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Living With Murder: Part 1 (Rebroadcast) from 2019-01-10T08:00
At 15, after committing a brutal murder, Kempis Songster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But now he has a chance to be free, thanks to a series of recent Supre...
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Living With Murder: Part 2 (Rebroadcast) from 2019-01-10T08:00
At 15, after committing a brutal murder, Kempis Songster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But now he has a chance to be free, thanks to a series of recent Supre...
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KIDS' SPECIAL: Muzamil's Day from 2018-12-27T08:00
In this special episode for kids, FRONTLINE follows a day in the life of Muzamil, a 12-year-old Somali boy growing up Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp. Producer Bianca Giaever and Reporter Roopa Gogi...
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The Weight of Dust from 2018-12-13T08:00
Scott Gaines was a first responder on 9/11. When he retired a couple months later, he thought he’d escaped the aftermath unscathed. This time on The FRONTLINE Dispatch, a story about the lasting...
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I Don't Want To Shoot You, Brother from 2018-11-29T08:00
A young black man was dead. A young white cop was quickly fired. If that sounds surprising, you don’t know the half of it. This is a shocking story about police and the use of lethal force. Just...
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Coming November 29th from 2018-11-14T21:15:03
The second season of The FRONTLINE Dispatch launches on November 29th.
The FRONTLINE Dispatch comes to you from the producers and reporters of the PBS investigative documentary series F...
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Living With Murder: Part Two from 2017-11-22T08:00
At 15, after committing a brutal murder, Kempis Songster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But now he has a chance to be free, thanks to a series of recent Supre...
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Living With Murder: Part One from 2017-11-16T08:00
At 15, after committing a brutal murder, Kempis Songster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But now he has a chance to be free, thanks to a series of recent Supre...
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A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice And My Mother from 2017-11-09T08:00
There are more than 2,000 people in prisons around the country who were convicted of murder as juveniles and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. But recent Supreme Court decisio...
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Notes from an Invisible War from 2017-10-26T07:00
Children describing the sounds that bombs make as they fall. Streets covered with rotting garbage. Doctors and nurses who have gone months without pay, at hospitals struggling to care for an inf...
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The Housing Fix from 2017-10-12T07:00
Millions of Americans can’t afford rent and only a quarter of those who need government help get it. What happens to everyone else? For many, it means they live in squalor. But figuring out who’...
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Child Marriage in America from 2017-09-14T07:00
In the summer after 9th grade, 14-year-old Heather discovered she was pregnant. Her boyfriend Aaron was 24. At the time, marriage seemed like it could be a solution to their problems — and maybe...
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Coming September 14th from 2017-09-05T04:30
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