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Watch 2024’s 10 Most-Streamed New FRONTLINE Documentaries
These are the 10 most-streamed new FRONTLINE documentaries of 2024 — and they're all available to watch anytime online, in the PBS App and on YouTube.
December 23, 2024
Episode 4: 'They Controlled It All'
Examining the history and politics of guns and hunting in Maine, the state’s unique “yellow flag” gun laws and its powerful gun lobby.
December 20, 2024
Accident or Homicide? Medical Rulings in Arrest-Related Deaths Can Dictate What Happens to Police
Police in the United States rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after the use of force such as physical blows, restraints or Tasers.
December 18, 2024
Responses From Maui Authorities Regarding the Devastating August 2023 Wildfire
In August 2023, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century reduced much of the Hawaiian town of Lahaina to ashes, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands. The FRONTLINE documentary Maui’s Deadly Firestorm investigates critical missteps in the response that day — and in the years prior, as the county and state […]
December 17, 2024
Maui Wildfires: Kuhua Camp Residents Describe Desperate Escape as Authorities Struggled to Respond
In a new FRONTLINE documentary, residents of a neighborhood in Lahaina recall having no warning when the Maui wildfires reached them on Aug. 8, 2023, and navigating narrow roads, downed power lines and backed up traffic as the fires surrounded them.
December 17, 2024
Who Is the Rebel Leader Who Ousted Assad?
Correspondent Martin Smith on the fall of Assad, what we know about Syrian rebel leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, and what’s next for Syria.
December 13, 2024
There Were Warnings. Why Wasn’t the Shooter in Lewiston, Maine Stopped?
Less than four months before an Army reservist would carry out the deadliest shooting in Maine's history, he was hospitalized for psychosis and clinicians learned he had a "hit list." It was one in a series of warnings laid out in ‘Breakdown in Maine,’ a new documentary from FRONTLINE, Maine Public and the Portland Press Herald.
December 10, 2024
Assad Has Fallen. Who Is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the Syrian Militant Who Led The Rebel Offensive That Toppled Him?
In 2021, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith became the first Western journalist to interview Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. The documentary that followed, “The Jihadist,” investigated Jolani’s origins and his Islamist militant group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
December 8, 2024
As Syrian Rebels Re-Ignite Conflict And Take Aleppo, Revisit FRONTLINE’s Reporting
FRONTLINE has been covering the war since it began in 2011, tracing its origins and evolution, its impact on the country’s people, and how the U.S. has responded.
December 3, 2024
What Trump Has Promised on China in a Second Term
With President-elect Donald Trump promising to take a tougher stance on China in his second term, we take a look at what he has said about his approach.
November 27, 2024
As Trump Vows Larger China Tariffs, How Did His Trade War Play Out the First Time Around?
As President Trump enacts larger tariffs on imported Chinese goods, how did his trade war with China play out the first time? Watch a video drawn from the FRONTLINE documentary "China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping.”
November 26, 2024