Frontline Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in GazaThe struggle between the Israeli leader and multiple U.S. presidents over Middle East peace. Leading up to the Gaza war, Netanyahu’s relations with the U.S. and Palestinians. Also, with The Washington Post, how Israel’s security barrier was breached.
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Episode 1 - Death Is Our Business/Love, Life & the VirusAt Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans, COVID-19 reshapes the grieving process. Examine how the pandemic has transformed mourning in a city known for its jazz-filled funerals. Also, explore the story of a mom’s fight to survive the virus and see her newborn.
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Episode 1 - Part 1Part 1 -- For everyone who remembers what it was like to be young, when the whole world seemed to stretch out before you while you were stuck in your own backyard, this special FRONTLINE series tells the story of Chris and Cody: two boys growing up in a hard land, determined to beat the odds against them, and struggling with who they are -- and who they can become.
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Episode 1 - Part 1Follow a brother's gripping search for the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Filmmaker Ken Dornstein sets off to war-torn Libya in search of the men who killed 189 Americans, including his brother, in 1988.
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Episode 1 - Putin vs. The PressThe story of one journalist’s battle to defend free speech in Putin’s Russia. With unique access, the film follows Nobel prize-winner Dmitry Muratov as he fights to keep his newspaper alive and his reporters safe amid a government crackdown.
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Episode 1 - Democracy on TrialThe roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss. Amid the presidential race, examining the House Jan. 6 committee’s evidence, the threat to democracy and the historic charges against Trump.
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Episode 1 - Episode 1Living the year of the pandemic, filmed around the world, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Using extensive personal video and local footage, how people and countries responded to the virus, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.
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Episode 1 - The VP Choice: Vance vs. WalzInvestigating the lives and views of JD Vance and Tim Walz as they run for vice president. In an historic election, those who know the candidates best reveal the influences and ideas they’d bring to the White House.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2Part Two of the epic story of people around the world living in the year of the pandemic. With extensive personal video and local footage, examine the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.
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Episode 2 - Part 2Track Ken Dornstein’s continued search for the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. In this second episode, the filmmaker follows the evidence to Zurich and Malta in search of the truth.
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Episode 2 - The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League BaseballThe Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern MLB history, the limited accountability and how it changed the sport.
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Episode 2 - Breakdown in MaineInvestigating the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history and missed opportunities to prevent it. With the Portland Press Herald and Maine Public, examining breakdowns with police, military and mental health care before the Lewiston shooting. From FRONTLINE.
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Episode 2 - Part 2Part 2 -- For everyone who remembers what it was like to be young, when the whole world seemed to stretch out before you while you were stuck in your own backyard, this special FRONTLINE series tells the story of Chris and Cody: two boys growing up in a hard land, determined to beat the odds against them, and struggling with who they are -- and who they can become.
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Episode 3 - McConnell, The Gop & the CourtHow Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court, and a power struggle in the GOP, McConnell's rise and role pushing the judiciary to the right, and America's polarized democracy.
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Episode 3 - Maui's Deadly FirestormThe deadliest American wildfire in a century, and the missed warnings that made it so unstoppable. An investigation of its causes, the chaotic response, and how changes to the climate and landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable to fires. From FRONTLINE.
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Episode 3 - Part 3Follow Dornstein’s continued search for his brother’s killers, the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. The filmmaker uncovers new information about a suspected Lockerbie bomb-maker and attempts to make contact.
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Episode 3 - Part 3Part 3 -- For everyone who remembers what it was like to be young, when the whole world seemed to stretch out before you while you were stuck in your own backyard, this special FRONTLINE series tells the story of Chris and Cody: two boys growing up in a hard land, determined to beat the odds against them, and struggling with who they are -- and who they can become.
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Episode 4 - Trump's ComebackDonald Trump’s return to the presidency, overcoming unprecedented obstacles and opposition. With insider interviews, tracing defining moments over Trump’s life and career, his 2020 election loss, felony convictions and historic comeback. From FRONTLINE.
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Episode 4 - Inside the Uvalde ResponseThe real-time accounts of the response, missteps and trauma in the Uvalde school shooting. Using official body cam and audio, with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, a reconstruction of the chaotic response at Robb Elementary and the lessons learned.
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Episode 5 - The Discord LeaksHow a young National Guardsman leaked classified documents onto the Discord chat platform. With The Washington Post, Jack Teixeira's alleged leak of national secrets, why he wasn't stopped, and the role of platforms like Discord.
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Episode 5 - Battle for TibetInvestigating China's rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, how the Communist regime controls Tibet's Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
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Episode 6 - Israel's Second FrontAmid a widening conflict, the rising support for Hamas and other forces beyond Gaza. Correspondent Ramita Navai investigates militants in the West Bank, Israel’s military campaign against them, and the implications for the ongoing conflict.
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Episode 7 - Children of UkraineHow thousands of Ukrainian children were taken and held in Russia. The story of families searching for their missing children, authorities investigating alleged abductions, and teenagers who escaped and say they were subjected to Russian propaganda.
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Episode 8 - Documenting Police Use of ForceInvestigating deaths after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less lethal” force. With The Associated Press, drawing on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.
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Episode 9 - Crisis on CampusThe inside story of the protests dividing college campuses over Israel and the war in Gaza. With Retro Report, investigating the polarizing debate over free speech, antisemitism, Israel and the Palestinians, and the political forces behind the crisis.
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Episode 10 - Germany's Enemy WithinInside the rise of far-right extremism in Germany. Tracing the increasing threat to democracy from the far right, its connections to extremist ideas and plots, with accounts from intelligence officials, politicians and the far right itself.
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