MBS Speaks About His Role in the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
“It happened under my watch,” Mohammed bin Salman told FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith. Still, he maintained that he had no knowledge of any plan.
Jamal Khashoggi on “MBS’s War” in Yemen
In never-before-seen interview footage from years before his murder, Jamal Khashoggi praised the military campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen, launched by then-defense minister Mohammed bin Salman, while talking with FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith. “Look, for Saudi Arabia it is a 1939 moment,” Khashoggi said, comparing Iran to Nazi Germany.
"The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia" - Preview
A year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, FRONTLINE investigates the rise of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. In a two-hour documentary, Martin Smith — who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years — examines the crown prince's vision for the future of Saudi Arabia, his handling of dissent and his ties to Khashoggi's killing.
FRONTLINE's New Season: Sneak Peek
This season, FRONTLINE brings you gripping documentaries that investigate power and the powerful — from the rise of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to leaders of industry, and key decision-makers inside the beltway.
Before Flint's Water Crisis, One Man Tried To Sound An Alarm
Before Michigan switched Flint’s water supply in April 2014, a man who worked at the water treatment plant tried to sound the alarm. His sister reveals he said, “It’s not safe. We’re not ready... People are gonna die.”
"They'll Have to Die of Something"
Following a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that coincided with the Flint water crisis, a team of scientists urged the state's top health official, Nick Lyon, to step up surveillance for the disease or else more people could die. In FRONTLINE’s documentary “Flint’s Deadly Water,” they say his response was, “They’ll have to die of something.”
"Flint's Deadly Water" - Preview
A two-year FRONTLINE investigation uncovers the roots and extent of a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis — and how officials failed to stop it.
In Private Conversation, Trump Calls El Paso Mayor a RINO
FRONTLINE interviewed El Paso Mayor Dee Margo about his meeting with President Trump, just days after a shooting left 22 dead in his city.
"Supreme Revenge [2019]" - Preview
Inside the no-holds-barred war for control of the Supreme Court. From Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Bork, an investigation of how a 30-year-old grievance transformed the Court and turned confirmations into bitter, partisan conflicts.
Supreme Revenge [2019]
From Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Bork, FRONTLINE investigates how a 30-year-old grievance transformed the United States' highest court and turned confirmations into bitter, partisan conflicts.
"Trump's Trade War" - Preview
The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. Reporting from the US and China, NPR and FRONTLINE investigate what led the world’s two largest economies to the brink, and the billions at stake.
"The Last Survivors" - Preview
As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. Now, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma. FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have impacted their daily lives and relationships – from survivor’s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.
"The Abortion Divide" - Preview
FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict.
Marcos Ya No Vive Aquí
En "Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” el director David Sutherland cuenta la historia de Elizabeth Pérez, veterana condecorada de los Marines, que lucha por reunificar a su familia después de que su esposo indocumentado, Marcos, fuera deportado. El documental revela el complicado sistema de inmigración de los EUA y el alto costo humano de la deportación.
"Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore" - Preview
Elizabeth Perez, a decorated U.S. Marine veteran living in Cleveland, fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported. Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland examines the U.S. immigration system through the lives of two unforgettable protagonists whose lives reveal the human cost of deportation.
“If They Are Stubborn, Then We Will Kill Them”
In a new FRONTLINE documentary that goes inside Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drug suspects in the Philippines, police officers speak openly about the killings of suspected drug users and dealers. “If they are stubborn, then we will kill them,” a police chief in the Caloocan district of Manila says in this excerpt from “On the President’s Orders.”
"On The President's Orders" - Trailer
A searing, on-the-ground look at President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly campaign against drug dealers and suspected drug users in the Philippines, told with unprecedented access to police officials implicated in the killings, families of users, and others from both sides of the nation’s war on drugs.
"The Trial of Ratko Mladić" - Preview
Go inside the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladić, one of the most infamous figures of the Balkan wars in the 1990s. Offering exclusive access to the prosecution and defense teams, the film chronicles the trial of a man accused of genocide and war crimes. It also gives firsthand accounts from survivors of atrocities Mladić is accused of masterminding.
"Right to Fail" - Preview
Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
"Predator on the Reservation" - Prologue
The Wall Street Journal and FRONTLINE uncover the decades-long failure to stop a government doctor who sexually abused Native American boys.
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