Watch FRONTLINE’s 5 Most-Streamed Documentaries of 2023 (So Far)
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Looking for documentaries to watch as summer winds down?
We’ve got you covered.
In the countdown below, we’ve collected the five new-in-2023 FRONTLINE documentaries that, as of publication time, had earned the most streams this year on PBS platforms (browser video players and the PBS App) and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel combined.
We’ve also included some additional recommended viewing. Each of these FRONTLINE documentaries — and hundreds more — are available to stream on our website, in the PBS App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
Read on to see what made the list.
5. Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah
The enduring story of the battle of Fallujah, told by the people who lived through it.
4. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (Part 1)
An investigation of the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group — and used on journalists, activists, the wife and fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
3. Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
How race, power and controversy collided in the rise of the Supreme Court justice and his wife, and how the couple has reshaped American law and politics.
2. Putin and the Presidents
Inside Russian President Vladimir Putin’s clashes with multiple American presidents as he’s tried to rebuild the Russian empire.
1. Age of Easy Money
How the Federal Reserve’s epic “easy money” experiment, which started with the Great Financial Crisis, has changed the American economy — and what it means that the era may be over.
Bonus Viewing: Alaska Gold, our most-streamed archival re-release of 2023 on YouTube
Released for the first time on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel this year, this 2012 documentary explored the battle between those in Alaska who depend on Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery for a living and supporters of a proposed mine at the bay’s headwaters to extract mineral wealth.
Stream hundreds of other FRONTLINE documentaries on our website, in the PBS App and on our YouTube channel.
