FRONTLINE

News and Public Affairs Series / 31 Seasons

FRONTLINE explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.

Watch: S2024 E16

54m 23s

Hunting the Gangsters

4m 33s

In the chaos of last year's earthquake, 4,500 of Haiti's most violent criminals escaped from the National Penitentiary. In this clip from "Battle for Haiti," coming Jan. 11, FRONTLINE gains unique access to the police units trying to hunt down the escaped prisoners and follows as police and U.N. forces hunt down a gang that has been terrorizing the slum neighborhood of La Saline.

A Pentagram or a Star-Shaped Pattern | "Death by Fire"

52s

Jailhouse informant Johnny Webb speaks in this excerpt from "Death by Fire" (2010), FRONTLINE’s investigation of the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham – convicted and executed for the arson deaths of his three young children. Watch the full documentary at pbs.org/frontline.

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