reports Foreign Affairs / Defense / Military

Showdown With Iran
(60 minutes) As Iraq descends into chaos and civil war, FRONTLINE examines the rise of its neighbor -- Iran -- as one of America's greatest threats and ... (more)

Endgame
(60 minutes) As the United States begins one final effort to secure victory through a "surge" of troops, FRONTLINE investigates how strategic and tactical mistakes brought Iraq ... (more)

Gangs of Iraq
(60 minutes) Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to "stand up" the Iraqi ... (more)

The Lost Year in Iraq
(60 minutes) In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off to Baghdad to ... (more)

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)