FRONTLINE Presents ‘American Voices 2024’

American Voices 2024

October 29, 2024 7/6c: pbs.org/frontline, PBS App 10/9c: PBS stations (check local listings), YouTube & the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel www.facebook.com/frontline | X: @frontlinepbs Instagram: @frontlinepbs | YouTube: youtube.com/frontline

In 2020, FRONTLINE followed more than a dozen Americans in eight states across the country as they navigated a year of extraordinary tumult, from the pandemic to protests to the polls. Their diverse views and experiences — from a doctor to a pastor to a barber to a construction company owner to a retiree — were chronicled in the documentary American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil.

Four years later, amid another polarizing election season, a new FRONTLINE documentary updates the stories of those same Americans, exploring how their hopes and fears have changed since 2020 in a nation that remains deeply divided.

American Voices 2024, a 90-minute special, premieres one week before the U.S. presidential election — Tues., Oct. 29 — on PBS and online. It joins The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump and The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz in FRONTLINE’s lineup of thoughtful and in-depth 2024 election-related programming.

From a team led by filmmaker Mike Shum (American Voices, Police on Trial, Predator on the Reservation), American Voices 2024  begins by following ordinary Americans with different viewpoints as they dealt with COVID-19 in their communities in spring of 2020, responded to George Floyd’s murder that summer, and then participated in the election and its aftermath that fall. Then, the film follows those same Americans from a mix of urban, rural and suburban areas as they reflect on the past four tumultuous years, navigate health and economic challenges, and share their perspectives on politics today.

Filmed everywhere from Austin, Texas, to Hayward, California; from Beaverdam, Virginia, to Minneapolis, Minnesota; and from Sioux City, Iowa, to Portland, Oregon, American Voices 2024 is a journey across geography, race and politics that sheds light on where our country has been — and where it is headed.

American Voices 2024 will be available to watch in full at pbs.org/frontline and in the PBS App starting October 29, 2024, at 7/6c. It will premiere on PBS stations (check local listings) and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel that night at 10/9c and will also be available on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel. Subscribe to FRONTLINE’s newsletter to get updates on events, podcast episodes and more related to American Voices 2024. 

Credits American Voices 2024 is a FRONTLINE Production with Five O’Clock Films in association with DEC8 Productions and Mike Shum Productions. The producers are Qinling Li and Arthur Nazaryan. The director is Mike Shum. The senior producers are Callie T. Wiser and Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

About FRONTLINE FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won an Academy Award® as well as every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 108 Emmy Awards and 34 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Facebook to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Koo and Patricia Yuen. 

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