Groundbreakers
%%excerpt%% "Groundbreakers" celebrates 50 years of female excellence in sports through the eyes of athletes who changed the system, and is hosted by sports icon and champion of equality Billie Jean King.
Films
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools
The Harvest follows a coalition of Black and white citizens working to create racially integrated public schools in Mississippi.
The Busing Battleground
On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students were bused for the first time.
Age of Easy Money | A FRONTLINE Film
Age of Easy Money investigates how the Fed’s experiment has changed the American economy and what it means that the era may be over.
Learning to Live: The Resilient Path After Prison
This short film focuses on the story of one man’s experience with incarceration, suicidal ideation and mental health.
The Price of Silence
This film seeks to fill a gap in Garden State history by sharing the little-known legacy of slavery across New Jersey.
Facing Eviction | A Frontline Film
Why have American families struggled to keep their homes during the COVID pandemic, despite a federal ban on evictions? With Retro Report, FRONTLINE offers an intimate look at the United States’ affordable housing crisis through the eyes of tenants, landlords,…
Duty Free | A Film on Ageism and Financial Insecurity in America
Duty Free examines ageism, the care crisis, and economic insecurity in America. Follow 75-year-old Rebecca and son Sian-Pierre on the trip of a lifetime, one bucket list adventure at a time.
The Power of the Fed | A Frontline Film
When COVID struck, the Federal Reserve stepped in to try to avert economic crisis. As the country’s central bank continues to pump billions of dollars into the financial system daily, who is benefitting and at what cost?
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its past, present, and future.
Policing the Police 2020 | A FRONTLINE Film
George Floyd's killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited…
Growing Up Poor in America | A Frontline Film
The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.
COVID’s Hidden Toll | A FRONTLINE Film
FRONTLINE examines how the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers. The documentary follows the coronavirus pandemic’s invisible victims, including crucial farm and meat-packing workers who lack protections and have been getting sick.
Broken Places | A Film by Roger Weisberg
Why are some children severely damaged by early trauma while others are able to thrive? BROKEN PLACES follows the stories of traumatize children across decades to learn how they cope.
FRONTLINE’s Left Behind America
Left Behind America What does it mean for you to chase the American dream in today’s economy? In conjunction with the stories of working-class Americans from the FRONTLINE special "Left Behind America," we asked people across the country to tell…
First Degree
The expression, “sent up the river,” was coined by convicts who were sent up the Hudson River to do their time at the infamous Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. FIRST DEGREE finds hope in this seemingly hopeless place by…
The One That Got Away
The One That Got Away follows middle school teacher, Dan Gill, as he reconnects with his once promising student, Tourrie Moses, who is now serving 15 years for murder in a New Jersey state prison. Filmed over the course of…
Against All Odds
Acclaimed journalist Bob Herbert explores the often heroic efforts of Black families to pursue the American dream in the face of unrelenting barriers. AGAINST ALL ODDS: The Fight for a Black Middle Class premieres Monday, March 6 at 10PM on…
Work & Happiness
With the continuing debate over budget priorities and social programs, Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare takes what some might feel is a controversial position: that it is the welfare system itself that keeps some people in a…
Dream On
In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the nearly two-hundred-year-old journey of Alexis de Tocqueville. Along the way he explores whether the optimistic spirit of the American Dream that Tocqueville popularized is alive and well in the…
Stargate Theatre: A Defining Act
Founded by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Stargate Theatre Company immerses court-involved youth in the theater arts as a mechanism for coping with and overcoming negative factors in their lives. In this film, witness the company members as they compose,…