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Six years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. FRONTLINE and our partners covered the crisis from the beginning, examining the individual and public health effects, and other societal and economic impacts of the pandemic across the world. https://bit.ly/3NncKCq
Drawing on new reporting, tonight's updated presentation of "Remaking the Middle East" probes the road to war with Iran, the U.S. and Israeli roles, and the stakes. Watch the premiere tonight at 10/9c on PBS stations, our website, YouTube and in the PBS App.
“What would I do or you do if you were Delcy Rodríguez?” Following the U.S.' dramatic capture of Nicolás Maduro, a new documentary from FRONTLINE and The Associated Press explores what comes next for Venezuela and its new leader.
Watch “Crisis in Venezuela” now: https://bit.ly/46TTgfw
What are the roots of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, and what happens next? On this new episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, filmmakers James Jacoby and Sebastian Walker, who are updating their recent documentaries on Iran, discuss the dramatic escalation of the conflict and its implications.
The U.S. and Israeli bombardment of Iran that began on Feb. 28 has sparked widening conflict across the Middle East as Iran and its proxies retaliate. These five documentaries (and one podcast episode) help explain the backstory.
“America has this vast potential to be better,” Jackson, who died on Feb. 17, said in the interview, as he reflected on the civil rights movement and the road to Barack Obama’s candidacy.
When FRONTLINE was producing the 2008 installment of “The Choice,” its election-year series profiling the two major-party presidential candidates, one of the interviewees was the Rev. Jesse Jackson. That extended video interview is now available for the first time.
Amid discussion of possible U.S. strikes on Iran, revisit a 2025 investigation on the impact of last year's U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear program. Watch the documentary "Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question" here:
South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission investigating past human rights violations related to the nation's historic foreign adoption program. In 2024, FRONTLINE & @apnews.com examined allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea's foreign adoption boom. Read the latest:
In one corner: consumers fed up with high drug prices. In the other: pharmaceutical companies arguing that price controls stifle innovation. Go inside the history of "The Other Drug War."
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year. Last year was the deadliest year of the war for Ukrainian civilians, with more than 2,500 killed and 12,000 injured. Revisit FRONTLINE documentaries examining the war's evolution, human toll and Vladimir Putin's grievances with the West.
How did PFAS chemicals contaminate the water and environment in parts of Georgia and Alabama? The reporters and filmmakers behind a collaborative project investigating the issue discussed what it was like to bring it to life in "Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy."
“Climate of Doubt” (2012) goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate conversation.
“War on the EPA” (2017) traces the ascent of the anti-regulatory movement and the changes at the EPA during President Trump’s first term.
“The Power of Big Oil” (2022), a 3-part series, investigates the decades-long battle over the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry.
These three FRONTLINE documentaries go inside the long campaign against government regulations around climate change, and are all streaming now on YouTube, at pbs.org/frontline and in the PBS App.
President Trump announced last week that the EPA is rescinding that finding, a deregulatory move that restricts the agency’s authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Since 2009, the EPA has regulated greenhouse gas emissions based on a finding that the gases' warming effect on the planet endangers people’s health.
Before Nicolás Maduro, there was Hugo Chávez. Our 2008 documentary examining the Venezuelan president who preceded Maduro is now available on YouTube for the first time.
"2000 Meters to Andriivka," FRONTLINE and @apnews.com's 2025 acclaimed documentary feature on the war in Ukraine, has been honored with a George Polk Award. Recognized in the Foreign Television Reporting category, the documentary offers a stunning portrayal of the war from the trenches. Learn more:
New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson, who was diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome and advocated for other players to join a lawsuit against the NFL over brain injuries, discussed why he regretted ever playing football in this 2013 interview with FRONTLINE, now available on YouTube.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, @apnews.com reporter Regina García Cano was woken up by an explosion in Venezuela’s capital. She and her colleagues soon learned what was happening: the culmination of President Donald Trump’s long campaign to topple Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close political ally of Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, has been placed under house arrest two days after he was released from prison.
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez’s government announced Jan. 8 it would free a significant number of prisoners, but families and rights watchdogs have criticized authorities for the slow pace of the releases.
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What led to the "Blackout in Puerto Rico" after Hurricane Maria? Revisit FRONTLINE and @npr.org's 2018 documentary investigating the impact of the storm, the federal response, and the role of Wall Street and years of neglect in the island's economic and humanitarian crisis.
What’s next for Venezuela after the dramatic fall of Nicolás Maduro? FRONTLINE and @apnews.com investigate the legacy of corruption in Venezuela, the challenges to democracy, the conflict with the U.S., and the fight over who will control the oil-rich country. Premieres Feb. 10 on PBS and online.
How did one of the South's most important industries — the carpet industry — weave itself into one of the world’s most pervasive pollution crises?
Here's what an investigation by The Post and Courier, @ajc.com, FRONTLINE, AL.com and @apnews.com found:
Dolly Baker learned from a 2025 study that her blood had PFAS levels hundreds of times above the U.S. average.
The @ajc.com, @apnews.com, FRONTLINE, The Post and Courier and @al.com examined the role of Georgia's carpet industry in the area's contamination with PFAS or forever chemicals:
