Frontline — Specials

1. God in America: A New Adam (1)

The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic faith of Franciscan missionaries, ending in a bloody revolt. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop faced off against religious dissenters from within his own ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers like George Whitefield swept through the American colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converged with the political upheaval of the American Revolution.

6. God in America: A New Eden (2)

Hour two considers the origins of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals swept thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspired a new gospel of social reform. In a fierce political struggle, Catholic immigrants challenged Protestant domination of public schools and protested the daily classroom practice of reading from the King James Bible.

7. God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)

Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son. The president, who previously had put his faith in reason over revelation, embarked on a spiritual journey that transformed his ideas about God and the ultimate meaning of the war.

8. God in America: A New Light (4)

During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Bohemian immigrant Isaac Mayer Wise embraced change and established Reform Judaism in America while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. In New York, Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, leading to his trial for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes evolution trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faced off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.

9. God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)

Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism." As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.

10. God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)

The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. Across America, the religious marketplace expanded as new waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America made the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth. In the 2008 presidential election, the re-emergence of a religious voice in the Democratic Party brought the country to a new plateau in its struggle to reconcile faith with politics. God in America closes with reflections on the role of faith in the public life of the country, from the ongoing quest for religious liberty to the enduring idea of America as the "city on a hill" envisioned by the Puritans nearly 400 years ago.

11. Kind Hearted Woman: Part One

In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

12. Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two

In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

637. Stickup Kid

A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.

669. Mosquito Hunter

A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.

680. Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs

A trio of reports from FRONTLINE, Marketplace and PBS NewsHour on what Donald Trump's promises mean to voters in California's Central Valley (farming and water), West Virginia (coal industry), and Erie, Pennsylvania (jobs)

681. Big Sky, Big Money

In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed the landscape of campaign finance in America. The decision held that political spending is a form of protected speech and let corporations and unions spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. But to avoid corruption, the court said the money can’t go directly to candidates; it has to go to independent outside groups. What did that mean in reality? The 2012 documentary Big Sky, Big Money, from FRONTLINE and APM’s Marketplace, offered an on-the-ground look. With that year’s election cycle underway, correspondent Kai Ryssdal traveled to Montana, a battleground over campaign finance at the time, and uncovered startling new evidence of outside interest groups’ influence on local campaigns.

682. Harvest of Fear

683. The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report

684. Bush's War: Part 1

685. Kind Hearted Woman: Part One

686. Kind Hearted Woman Part 2

687. Bigger Than Vegas

688. A Daughter's Death

689. When Children Testify

690. Waiting for Tearah

691. Ebola in Congo

692. Tutwiler

693. Betting on Trump: Coal

695. Betting on Trump: Jobs

696. Inside Yemen

697. Stickup Kid

698. Betting on Trump: Water

699. Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)

700. The Mind of a Murderer

701. The Mind of a Murderer

702. Shootout on Imperial Highway

703. Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2

704. Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years

705. Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge

706. Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.

707. Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.

708. Comrades

709. Comrades

710. Comrades

711. Comrades

712. Comrades

713. Comrades

714. Comrades

715. Comrades

716. Comrades

717. Comrades

718. Comrades

719. Stopping Drugs (1)

720. Stopping Drugs (2)

721. Apartheid Parts 1-2

722. Apartheid Parts 3-4

723. Apartheid Part 5

724. Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest

725. Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land

726. Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold

727. Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes

728. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II

729. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV

730. Divided Memories Part 1

731. Divided Memories Part 2

732. The Gulf War (1)

733. The Gulf War (1)

734. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)

735. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)

736. The Farmer's Wife

737. The Farmer's Wife

738. The Farmer's Wife

739. Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2

740. War in Europe (1)

741. War in Europe (2)

742. Drug Wars (1)

743. Drug Wars (2)

744. Real Justice (1)

745. Real Justice (2)

746. Organ Farm (1)

747. Organ Farm (2)

748. Country Boys: Part 1

749. Country Boys: Part 2

750. Country Boys: Part 3

751. The Age of AIDS: Part 1

752. The Age of AIDS: Part 2

753. News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin

754. News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin

755. News War (3): What's Happening To The News

756. The Mormons (1)

757. The Mormons (2)

758. Bush's War, Part 1

759. Bush's War, Part 2

760. 2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited

761. Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2

762. Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4

763. 2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"

764. United States of Secrets (Part One)

765. United States of Secrets (Part Two)

766. My Brother's Bomber (1)

767. My Brother's Bomber (2)

768. My Brother's Bomber (3)

769. 3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)

770. Yemen Under Siege

771. The Education of Omarina

772. Divided States of America

773. Divided States of America

774. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

775. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

776. Our Man in Tehran

777. 2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"

778. Putin's Revenge

779. Putin's Revenge

780. The Facebook Dilemma (1)

781. The Facebook Dilemma (2)

782. Targeting Yemen

783. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade

784. America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)

785. America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)

786. The Luanda Leaks

787. Undocumented in the Pandemic

788. COVID in Yemen

789. The Virus That Shook the World

790. The Virus That Shook the World

791. India's Rape Scandal

792. Massacre in El Salvador

793. The Power of Big Oil - Denial

794. The Power of Big Oil - Doubt

795. The Power of Big Oil - Delay

796. After Zero Tolerance

797. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus

798. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus

799. America and the Taliban

800. America and the Taliban

801. America and the Taliban

802. Tutwiler

803. Failure at the Fence

804. Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Iran (2026 Version)

805. Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (2026 Version)

In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat.But months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes in June 2025, the message coming from Washington, D.C., was that Iran's key nuclear facilities had been "obliterated."Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, FRONTLINE, The Washington Post, Evident Media and Bellingcat investigate the status of Iran's nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year.This updated version of the documentary previously aired on December 16, 2025.