reports Foreign Affairs / Defense / Military

Return of the Taliban
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent ... (more)

The Dark Side
(90 minutes) On September 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner ... (more)

The Age of AIDS
(240 minutes) On the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS, FRONTLINE examines one of the worst pandemics the world has ever known ... (more)

The Tank Man
(90 minutes) On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground ... (more)

The Insurgency
(60 minutes) Kidnappings. Suicide bombers. Beheadings. Roadside bombs. The Iraqi insurgency continues to challenge the most highly trained and best-equipped military in the world. FRONTLINE peels back ... (more)

Sex Slaves
(60 minutes) An estimated half-million women are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery. The women are kidnapped -- or lured by traffickers who prey ... (more)

The Torture Question
(90 minutes) In the uncertain weeks following September 11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest ... (more)

Private Warriors
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE returns to Iraq, this time to embed with Halliburton/KBR, and to take a hard look at private contractors like Blackwater, Aegis and Erinys, who ... (more)

A Jew Among the Germans
(60 minutes) As a young boy Marian Marzynski survived the Holocaust in Poland. But his father and most of his relatives did not. In "A Jew Among ... (more)

Death of a Princess
(120 minutes) Twenty-five years after the initial broadcast of perhaps the most controversial program in the history of public television FRONTLINE re-issues "Death of a Princess." The ... (more)

Israel's Next War?
(60 minutes) As a new Palestinian leader signs a truce with the Israelis there is hope that after four years of bloody fighting Middle East peace talks ... (more)

The Soldier's Heart
(60 minutes) As the War in Iraq continues the first measures of its psychological toll are coming in. A medical study estimates that more than one ... (more)

A Company of Soldiers
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE reports from inside the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close intimate look at the dangers facing an American military ... (more)

House of Saud
(120 minutes) The House of Saud has controlled every aspect of Saudi life and politics since the kingdom was established in 1932. But outside the Desert Kingdom ... (more)

Al Qaeda's New Front
(60 minutes) Mosques burn and a filmmaker is murdered in a culture clash between Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands. A series of bombs tear apart four ... (more)

Rumsfeld's War
(90 minutes) With the United States Army deployed in a dozen hot spots around the world, on constant alert in Afghanistan, and taking casualties every day in ... (more)

Son of Al Qaeda
(60 minutes) Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. How Khadr was raised to be ... (more)

Ghosts of Rwanda
(120 minutes) FRONTLINE marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to ... (more)

The Invasion of Iraq
(120 minutes) FRONTLINE marks the first anniversary of the Iraqi War with a two-hour documentary investigation that recounts the key strategies, battles, and turning points of the ... (more)

Beyond Baghdad
(60 minutes) As Washington continues to celebrate the capture of Saddam Hussein, FRONTLINE takes viewers on a journey across Iraq to reveal just what it will take ... (more)