reports Social Issues / Race / Religion

The Man Behind the Mosque
(60 minutes) It became the most controversial building in America, a mostly derelict property in lower Manhattan made infamous overnight as the Ground Zero Mosque. Going ... (more)

The Pot Republic
(30 minutes) The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than ... (more)

Educating Sergeant Pantzke
(20 minutes) As troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. government spending on veterans' education will more than double to $9.5 billion this year, and a growing ... (more)

The Silence
(20 minutes) Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests ... (more)

God in America
(360 minutes) How has religious belief shaped American history? What role have religious ideas and spiritual experience played in shaping the social, political and cultural life of ... (more)

College, Inc.
(60 minutes) The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the ... (more)

Digital Nation
(90 minutes) Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect ... (more)

Close to Home
(60 minutes) Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at ... (more)

The Released
(60 minutes) This year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses will be released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation's history. ... (more)

The Old Man and the Storm
(60 minutes) Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower ... (more)

Growing Up Online
(60 minutes) MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Friendster. Nearly every teen in America is on the Internet every day, socializing with friends and strangers alike, "trying on" identities, and ... (more)

On Our Watch
(60 minutes) The world invoked its vow "Never Again!" after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years at ... (more)

The Undertaking
(60 minutes) In this moving and powerful film, FRONTLINE enters the world of Thomas Lynch, a poet and undertaker whose family for three generations has cared ... (more)

The Mormons
(240 minutes) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has ... (more)

News War
(240 minutes) In a four-hour special, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has ... (more)

Hand of God
(90 minutes) In recent decades, more than 10,000 children reportedly were sexually abused by Catholic priests in the United States. From behind the headlines, filmmaker Joe Cultrera ... (more)

Living Old
(60 minutes) With 35 million elderly people in America, "the old, old" -- those over 85 -- are now considered the fastest growing segment of the U.S. ... (more)

A Hidden Life
(60 minutes) On May 5, 2005, the residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to one of the strangest headlines in the town's history: "West Tied to Sex Abuse ... (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)

Can You Afford to Retire?
(60 minutes) The baby boomer generation is headed for a shock as it hits retirement: boomers will be long on life expectancy but short on income. In ... (more)