American Voices
October 8, 2026
Over the past six years, a team of filmmakers has been following more than a dozen Americans in eight states across the U.S., charting their views about changes in the country and in their own lives.
How are these Americans — from a doctor to a pastor to a barber to a construction company owner to a retiree — feeling about the direction of the country as the midterms approach?
From a team led by award-winning filmmaker Mike Shum, American Voices 2026 is the latest installment of a unique filmmaking effort begun in 2020. That’s when Shum and FRONTLINE started documenting the lives of voters with differing viewpoints as they navigated a year of extraordinary tumult, from the pandemic to protests to the polls, in the documentary American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil.
American Voices 2024 chronicled how their hopes and fears had changed since 2000, amid another polarizing election season.
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