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Forced to Flee: 6 Documentaries to Watch to Understand the Global Refugee Crisis

Helen (left) and Sara (right), two of the “Children of Syria” in FRONTLINE’s documentary chronicling a family’s escape from Syria to a new life as refugees in Germany. The number of people around the ...
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Sofia Nelson

Sofia Nelson is a Detroit-based public defender. They attended Yale Law School with JD Vance. The following interview was conducted by Gabrielle Schonder for FRONTLINE on August 7, 2024. It has been ...
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Craig Haney: Solitary Confinement is a “Tried-and-True” Torture Device

Solitary confinement is the confinement of prisoners in a cell, usually for 22 to 23, in some instances 24, hours a day, where they’re prevented from having access to any common activities which ...
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With Renewed Attention on the Border, These 8 Documentaries Illuminate U.S. Immigration Policies Involving Kids

A U.S. Border Patrol agent questions an unaccompanied minor after a group of asylum seekers crossed the Rio Grande into Texas on March 25, 2021. April 8, 2021, update: U.S. authorities took almost ...
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The Rise of Germany’s New Right

Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.
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Michelle Alexander: “A System of Racial and Social Control”

Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestseller The New Jim Crow, and a civil-rights advocate, lawyer, legal scholar and professor. She spoke with FRONTLINE about how the war on drugs spawned a ...
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The U.S.-led Invasion of Iraq, 20 Years Later

Twenty years ago, the George W. Bush administration expanded its “war on terror,” launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to Iraq. In his March 19, 2003, address announcing the ...
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In Their Own Words: Sunnis on Their Treatment in Maliki’s Iraq

Much of the world was shocked when militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, in June. One of the many factors that allowed the group of Sunni ...
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Paula White

Pastor Paula White is a Christian televangelist. She served as an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and later as a special adviser to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative in the ...
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Filmmakers Sought to Unearth the “Real” RFK Jr.

The Rise of RFK Jr.’ filmmakers explain how chronicling his life story through his own words and the accounts of those who know him well helped unpack Kennedy’s trajectory and growing influence.
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How the ‘Unthinkable’ Alliance Between RFK Jr. and Donald Trump Came to Be

Watch a scene from ‘The Rise of RFK Jr.,’ a FRONTLINE documentary on how a scion of the Kennedy dynasty ended up a powerful player in President Trump’s administration and is now reshaping public ...