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Watch 2023’s 10 Most-Streamed New FRONTLINE Documentaries
These are the 10 most-streamed new FRONTLINE documentaries of 2023 — and they're all available to watch anytime online, in the PBS App and on YouTube.
December 21, 2023
‘Inside the Uvalde Response’ Director and Reporter Talk About Helping People Understand ‘How This Went Wrong’
A conversation with two of the makers of FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s documentary “Inside the Uvalde Response” about how they analyzed a trove of investigative material to reconstruct the chaotic response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.
December 8, 2023
Uvalde Students Followed Active Shooter Training & Stayed Quiet. Some Responding Officers Didn’t Realize Kids Were in Classrooms.
Accounts from law enforcement officers in a new FRONTLINE/The Texas Tribune/ProPublica documentary show that Robb Elementary students stayed quiet and hidden on May 24, 2022 as they were trained to do – and, because of that, 'officers thought they weren't there' and took longer to help, reporter Lomi Kriel says in an excerpt from 'Inside the Uvalde Response.'
December 5, 2023
“Someone Tell Me What to Do”
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
December 5, 2023
Why We’re Publishing Never-Reported Details of the Uvalde School Shooting Before State Investigators
Over a year after the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the community still doesn’t know what went wrong. It’s a key reason we’re publishing findings based on a trove of raw materials investigators have yet to release.
December 5, 2023
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Inside the Uvalde Response
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps.
December 5, 2023
The Henry Glover Killing & the New Orleans Police Department’s Efforts to End Federal Oversight
As the documentary “Law & Disorder” becomes newly available on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel, we examine recent developments surrounding Henry Glover’s case and the federal oversight of the NOPD.
October 24, 2023
Former Twitter Insider Describes Elon Musk’s Mixed Signals on Free Speech
Firsthand accounts in the documentary ‘Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover’ shed new light on the influential role Musk has played in shaping an ongoing national debate about the limits of free speech online since buying X, formerly Twitter.
October 10, 2023
How One Alabama County Declared War on Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs
Our partner The Marshall Project examines how some women were prosecuted for
smoking marijuana before they even knew they were expecting.
July 26, 2023
‘Don’t Be Afraid’: How Schoolgirls in Iran Helped Fuel a Protest Movement
After the deaths of two teen girls who’d attended anti-government protests in Iran, schoolgirls across the country began to hold protests of their own. Watch an excerpt from the new documentary ‘Inside the Iranian Uprising.’
June 29, 2023
Texas After Uvalde
Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA and founder of Futuro Media, talks about examining the aftermath of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
June 16, 2023
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community’s trauma and the fight over assault rifles. Listen to the audiocast of the FRONTLINE documentary "After Uvalde."
June 14, 2023