Frontline: Specials (2010)
- Episodes: 136
- Premiered October 11, 2010
Episodes
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Episode 1 ·
God in America: A New Adam (1)
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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Episode 6 ·
God in America: A New Eden (2)
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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Episode 7 ·
God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)
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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Episode 8 ·
God in America: A New Light (4)
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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Episode 9 ·
God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)
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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Episode 10 ·
God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)
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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Episode 11 ·
Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
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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Episode 12 ·
Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two
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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Episode 637 ·
Stickup Kid
A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.
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Episode 669 ·
Mosquito Hunter
A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.
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Episode 680 ·
Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs
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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Episode 681 · · 53m
Big Sky, Big Money
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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Episode 682 ·
Harvest of Fear
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Episode 683 ·
The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
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Episode 684 ·
Bush's War: Part 1
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Episode 685 ·
Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
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Episode 686 ·
Kind Hearted Woman Part 2
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Episode 687 ·
Bigger Than Vegas
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Episode 688 ·
A Daughter's Death
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Episode 689 ·
When Children Testify
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Episode 690 ·
Waiting for Tearah
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Episode 691 ·
Ebola in Congo
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Episode 692 ·
Tutwiler
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Episode 693 ·
Betting on Trump: Coal
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Episode 694
Children of ISIS
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Episode 695 ·
Betting on Trump: Jobs
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Episode 696 ·
Inside Yemen
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Episode 697 ·
Stickup Kid
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Episode 698 ·
Betting on Trump: Water
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Episode 699 ·
Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)
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Episode 700 ·
The Mind of a Murderer
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Episode 701 ·
The Mind of a Murderer
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Episode 702 ·
Shootout on Imperial Highway
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Episode 703 ·
Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2
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Episode 704 ·
Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years
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Episode 705 ·
Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge
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Episode 706 ·
Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.
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Episode 707 ·
Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.
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Episode 708 ·
Comrades
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Episode 709 ·
Comrades
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Episode 710 ·
Comrades
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Episode 711 ·
Comrades
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Episode 712 ·
Comrades
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Episode 713 ·
Comrades
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Episode 714 ·
Comrades
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Episode 715 ·
Comrades
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Episode 716 ·
Comrades
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Episode 717 ·
Comrades
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Episode 718 ·
Comrades
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Episode 719 ·
Stopping Drugs (1)
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Episode 720 ·
Stopping Drugs (2)
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Episode 721 ·
Apartheid Parts 1-2
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Episode 722 ·
Apartheid Parts 3-4
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Episode 723 ·
Apartheid Part 5
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Episode 724 ·
Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
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Episode 725 ·
Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
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Episode 726 ·
Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
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Episode 727 ·
Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
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Episode 728 ·
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
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Episode 729 ·
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
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Episode 730 ·
Divided Memories Part 1
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Episode 731 ·
Divided Memories Part 2
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Episode 732 ·
The Gulf War (1)
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Episode 733 ·
The Gulf War (1)
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Episode 734 ·
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)
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Episode 735 ·
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)
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Episode 736 ·
The Farmer's Wife
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Episode 737 ·
The Farmer's Wife
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Episode 738 ·
The Farmer's Wife
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Episode 739 ·
Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2
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Episode 740 ·
War in Europe (1)
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Episode 741 ·
War in Europe (2)
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Episode 742 ·
Drug Wars (1)
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Episode 743 ·
Drug Wars (2)
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Episode 744 ·
Real Justice (1)
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Episode 745 ·
Real Justice (2)
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Episode 746 ·
Organ Farm (1)
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Episode 747 ·
Organ Farm (2)
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Episode 748 ·
Country Boys: Part 1
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Episode 749 ·
Country Boys: Part 2
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Episode 750 ·
Country Boys: Part 3
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Episode 751 ·
The Age of AIDS: Part 1
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Episode 752 ·
The Age of AIDS: Part 2
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Episode 753 ·
News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin
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Episode 754 ·
News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin
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Episode 755 ·
News War (3): What's Happening To The News
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Episode 756 ·
The Mormons (1)
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Episode 757 ·
The Mormons (2)
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Episode 758 ·
Bush's War, Part 1
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Episode 759 ·
Bush's War, Part 2
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Episode 760 ·
2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited
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Episode 761 ·
Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2
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Episode 762 ·
Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4
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Episode 763 ·
2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"
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Episode 764 ·
United States of Secrets (Part One)
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Episode 765 ·
United States of Secrets (Part Two)
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Episode 766 ·
My Brother's Bomber (1)
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Episode 767 ·
My Brother's Bomber (2)
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Episode 768 ·
My Brother's Bomber (3)
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Episode 769 ·
3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)
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Episode 770 ·
Yemen Under Siege
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Episode 771 ·
The Education of Omarina
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Episode 772 ·
Divided States of America
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Episode 773 ·
Divided States of America
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Episode 774 ·
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
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Episode 775 ·
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
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Episode 776 ·
Our Man in Tehran
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Episode 777 ·
2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"
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Episode 778 ·
Putin's Revenge
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Episode 779 ·
Putin's Revenge
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Episode 780 ·
The Facebook Dilemma (1)
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Episode 781 ·
The Facebook Dilemma (2)
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Episode 782 ·
Targeting Yemen
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Episode 783 ·
Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
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Episode 784 ·
America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)
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Episode 785 ·
America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)
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Episode 786 ·
The Luanda Leaks
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Episode 787 ·
Undocumented in the Pandemic
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Episode 788 ·
COVID in Yemen
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Episode 789 ·
The Virus That Shook the World
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Episode 790 ·
The Virus That Shook the World
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Episode 791 ·
India's Rape Scandal
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Episode 792 ·
Massacre in El Salvador
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Episode 793 ·
The Power of Big Oil - Denial
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Episode 794 ·
The Power of Big Oil - Doubt
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Episode 795 ·
The Power of Big Oil - Delay
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Episode 796 ·
After Zero Tolerance
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Episode 797 ·
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
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Episode 798 ·
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
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Episode 799 ·
America and the Taliban
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Episode 800 ·
America and the Taliban
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Episode 801 ·
America and the Taliban
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Episode 802 ·
Tutwiler
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Episode 803 ·
Failure at the Fence
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Episode 804 ·
Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Iran (2026 Version)
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Episode 805 ·
Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (2026 Version)
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.