Frontline

- Season 38

(2019)

FRONTLINE's two-year investigation traces how a public health disaster that's become known for the lead poisoning of thousands of children also spawned one of the largest outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in U.S. history.

On October 2, 2018, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. He never walked out. Within days t was revealed that he had been murdered and dismembered by a 15-person Saudi hit squad.

Military police and an ordinary family from the slums provide views of President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines.

Frontline investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence.

Survivors and first responders provide insight into the 2018 Camp Fire in California , the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.

FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

An investigation into the widespread consequences and business of the mass confinement of migrant children detained under President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

A young mother, Waad al-Kateab in Aleppo, Syria, kept her camera rolling - while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. A love letter from a filmmaker to her daughter - Sama.

FRONTLINE investigates how El Paso, Texas became the Trump administration's immigration testing ground, and the target of a white supremacist. Interviews tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis.

Barack Obama's promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump.

Part Two examines how Trump's campaign exploited the country's divisions, how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide, and what America's polarization could mean for the country's future.

FRONTLINE reporter Najibullah Quraishi goes on a dangerous journey inside both Taliban- and ISIS-held territory as President Trump says he wants to end the war.

With unique access inside the battle for Hong Kong, FRONTLINE follows five protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against growing influence from the communist government of China.

An examination of Jeff Bezos, his extraordinarily successful online business, Amazon.com, and its increasingly questionable business practices.

As the 2020 election approaches, the once-unrivaled National Rifle Association is facing both internal strife and a rising external threat: a movement led by student survivors of the Parkland mass shooting. FRONTLINE investigates the status of America's gun debate - and why the organization that has dominated it for so long is now under attack on all sides.

Plastic Wars With the plastic industry expanding like never before, and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics.

An investigation from China's Xinjiang region on the Communist regime's mass imprisonment of Muslims and its testing of surveillance technology against the population.

An investigation into the government response to the coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19, and how the outbreak impacts poor children in the Midwest.

Doctors in Northern Italy are forced to make life and death decisions regarding patients infected with COVID-19; how the coronavirus outbreak impacts families in the U.S. who are already facing poverty.

A look at why the U.S. was caught unprepared by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and who is accountable for the lack of preparation and protection.

The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors & committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, an investigation of how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.

Civilians, journalists and soldiers from both sides of the conflict explain their experience during the Iraq War, from the 2003 invasion through the 17 years that followed.

The impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers, including farm and meat packing workers, who have become sick due to lack of protections.

The trip down the conspiracies that made Donald Trump president of the USA.

A mother's fight to survive COVID-19 and see her newborn baby; how the novel corona-virus hit one immigrant family, their struggle to be reunited and the community that rallied around them.