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136 episodes · 2010

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    God in America: A New Adam (1)

    Oct 11, 2010

    The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic faith of Franciscan missionaries, ending in a bloody revolt. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop faced off against religious dissenters from within his own ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers like George Whitefield swept through the American colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converged with the political upheaval of the American Revolution.

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    God in America: A New Eden (2)

    Oct 11, 2010

    Hour two considers the origins of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals swept thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspired a new gospel of social reform. In a fierce political struggle, Catholic immigrants challenged Protestant domination of public schools and protested the daily classroom practice of reading from the King James Bible.

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    God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)

    Oct 12, 2010

    Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son. The president, who previously had put his faith in reason over revelation, embarked on a spiritual journey that transformed his ideas about God and the ultimate meaning of the war.

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    God in America: A New Light (4)

    Oct 12, 2010

    During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Bohemian immigrant Isaac Mayer Wise embraced change and established Reform Judaism in America while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. In New York, Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, leading to his trial for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes evolution trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faced off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.

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    God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)

    Oct 13, 2010

    Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism." As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.

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    God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)

    Oct 13, 2010

    The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. Across America, the religious marketplace expanded as new waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America made the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth. In the 2008 presidential election, the re-emergence of a religious voice in the Democratic Party brought the country to a new plateau in its struggle to reconcile faith with politics. God in America closes with reflections on the role of faith in the public life of the country, from the ongoing quest for religious liberty to the enduring idea of America as the "city on a hill" envisioned by the Puritans nearly 400 years ago.

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    Kind Hearted Woman: Part One

    Apr 1, 2013

    In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

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    Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two

    Apr 2, 2013

    In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

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    Stickup Kid

    Dec 17, 2014

    A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.

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    Mosquito Hunter

    Aug 2, 2016

    A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.

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    Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs

    Feb 15, 2017

    A trio of reports from FRONTLINE, Marketplace and PBS NewsHour on what Donald Trump's promises mean to voters in California's Central Valley (farming and water), West Virginia (coal industry), and Erie, Pennsylvania (jobs)

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    Big Sky, Big Money

    Oct 30, 201253 min

    In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed the landscape of campaign finance in America. The decision held that political spending is a form of protected speech and let corporations and unions spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. But to avoid corruption, the court said the money can’t go directly to candidates; it has to go to independent outside groups. What did that mean in reality? The 2012 documentary Big Sky, Big Money, from FRONTLINE and APM’s Marketplace, offered an on-the-ground look. With that year’s election cycle underway, correspondent Kai Ryssdal traveled to Montana, a battleground over campaign finance at the time, and uncovered startling new evidence of outside interest groups’ influence on local campaigns.

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    Harvest of Fear

    Apr 24, 2001

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    The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report

    Mar 17, 2003

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    Bush's War: Part 1

    Mar 24, 2008

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    Kind Hearted Woman: Part One

    Apr 1, 2013

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    Kind Hearted Woman Part 2

    Apr 2, 2013

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    Bigger Than Vegas

    Sep 30, 2014

  19. 688

    A Daughter's Death

    Feb 15, 2011

  20. 689

    When Children Testify

    May 7, 1991

  21. 690

    Waiting for Tearah

    Oct 7, 2019

  22. 691

    Ebola in Congo

    Dec 23, 2019

  23. 692

    Tutwiler

    May 6, 2020

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    Betting on Trump: Coal

    Feb 15, 2017

  25. 694

    Children of ISIS

  26. 695

    Betting on Trump: Jobs

    Feb 15, 2017

  27. 696

    Inside Yemen

    Jul 19, 2017

  28. 697

    Stickup Kid

    Dec 17, 2014

  29. 698

    Betting on Trump: Water

    Feb 15, 2017

  30. 699

    Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)

    Nov 24, 2020

  31. 700

    The Mind of a Murderer

    Mar 19, 1984

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    The Mind of a Murderer

    Mar 26, 1984

  33. 702

    Shootout on Imperial Highway

    Jan 22, 1985

  34. 703

    Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2

    Jan 29, 1985

  35. 704

    Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years

    Apr 9, 1985

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    Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge

    Apr 10, 1985

  37. 706

    Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.

    Apr 11, 1985

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    Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.

    Apr 12, 1985

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    Comrades

    Jul 1, 1986

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    Comrades

    Jul 8, 1986

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    Comrades

    Jul 15, 1986

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    Comrades

    Jul 22, 1986

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    Comrades

    Jul 29, 1986

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    Comrades

    Aug 5, 1986

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    Comrades

    Aug 12, 1986

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    Comrades

    Aug 19, 1986

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    Comrades

    Aug 26, 1986

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    Comrades

    Sep 2, 1986

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    Comrades

    Sep 9, 1986

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    Stopping Drugs (1)

    Feb 10, 1987

  51. 720

    Stopping Drugs (2)

    Feb 17, 1987

  52. 721

    Apartheid Parts 1-2

    Dec 14, 1987

  53. 722

    Apartheid Parts 3-4

    Dec 15, 1987

  54. 723

    Apartheid Part 5

    Dec 16, 1987

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    Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest

    Sep 18, 1990

  56. 725

    Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land

    Sep 19, 1990

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    Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold

    Sep 20, 1990

  58. 727

    Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes

    Sep 21, 1990

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    Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II

    Jul 20, 1993

  60. 729

    Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV

    Jul 21, 1993

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    Divided Memories Part 1

    Apr 4, 1995

  62. 731

    Divided Memories Part 2

    Apr 11, 1995

  63. 732

    The Gulf War (1)

    Jan 9, 1996

  64. 733

    The Gulf War (1)

    Jan 9, 1996

  65. 734

    From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)

    Apr 6, 1998

  66. 735

    From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)

    Apr 6, 1998

  67. 736

    The Farmer's Wife

    Sep 21, 1998

  68. 737

    The Farmer's Wife

    Sep 22, 1998

  69. 738

    The Farmer's Wife

    Sep 23, 1998

  70. 739

    Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2

    Nov 22, 1999

  71. 740

    War in Europe (1)

    Feb 22, 2000

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    War in Europe (2)

    Feb 29, 2000

  73. 742

    Drug Wars (1)

    Oct 9, 2000

  74. 743

    Drug Wars (2)

    Oct 24, 2000

  75. 744

    Real Justice (1)

    Nov 11, 2000

  76. 745

    Real Justice (2)

    Nov 18, 2000

  77. 746

    Organ Farm (1)

    Apr 3, 2001

  78. 747

    Organ Farm (2)

    Apr 10, 2001

  79. 748

    Country Boys: Part 1

    Jan 9, 2006

  80. 749

    Country Boys: Part 2

    Jan 10, 2006

  81. 750

    Country Boys: Part 3

    Jan 11, 2006

  82. 751

    The Age of AIDS: Part 1

    May 30, 2006

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    The Age of AIDS: Part 2

    May 31, 2006

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    News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin

    Feb 13, 2007

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    News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin

    Feb 20, 2007

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    News War (3): What's Happening To The News

    Feb 21, 2007

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    The Mormons (1)

    Apr 30, 2007

  88. 757

    The Mormons (2)

    May 1, 2007

  89. 758

    Bush's War, Part 1

    Mar 23, 2008

  90. 759

    Bush's War, Part 2

    Mar 24, 2008

  91. 760

    2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited

    Feb 5, 2008

  92. 761

    Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2

    Apr 24, 2012

  93. 762

    Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4

    Apr 25, 2012

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    2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"

    Apr 30, 2013

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    United States of Secrets (Part One)

    May 13, 2014

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    United States of Secrets (Part Two)

    May 20, 2014

  97. 766

    My Brother's Bomber (1)

    Sep 29, 2015

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    My Brother's Bomber (2)

    Oct 6, 2015

  99. 768

    My Brother's Bomber (3)

    Oct 13, 2015

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    3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)

    Mar 1, 2016

  101. 770

    Yemen Under Siege

    May 3, 2016

  102. 771

    The Education of Omarina

    Sep 13, 2016

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    Divided States of America

    Jan 17, 2017

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    Divided States of America

    Jan 18, 2017

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    Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Feb 20, 2018

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    Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Feb 27, 2018

  107. 776

    Our Man in Tehran

    Aug 13, 2018

  108. 777

    2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"

    Nov 22, 2017

  109. 778

    Putin's Revenge

    Oct 25, 2017

  110. 779

    Putin's Revenge

    Nov 1, 2017

  111. 780

    The Facebook Dilemma (1)

    Oct 29, 2018

  112. 781

    The Facebook Dilemma (2)

    Oct 30, 2018

  113. 782

    Targeting Yemen

    Jan 22, 2019

  114. 783

    Iraq's Secret Sex Trade

    Nov 12, 2019

  115. 784

    America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)

    Jan 13, 2020

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    America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)

    Jan 14, 2020

  117. 786

    The Luanda Leaks

    Jan 21, 2020

  118. 787

    Undocumented in the Pandemic

    Aug 11, 2020

  119. 788

    COVID in Yemen

    Feb 9, 2021

  120. 789

    The Virus That Shook the World

    Apr 26, 2021

  121. 790

    The Virus That Shook the World

    Apr 27, 2021

  122. 791

    India's Rape Scandal

    Jul 20, 2021

  123. 792

    Massacre in El Salvador

    Nov 9, 2021

  124. 793

    The Power of Big Oil - Denial

    Apr 19, 2022

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    The Power of Big Oil - Doubt

    Apr 26, 2022

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    The Power of Big Oil - Delay

    May 3, 2022

  127. 796

    After Zero Tolerance

    Dec 6, 2022

  128. 797

    Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus

    Jan 3, 2023

  129. 798

    Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus

    Jan 10, 2023

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    America and the Taliban

    Apr 4, 2023

  131. 800

    America and the Taliban

    Apr 11, 2023

  132. 801

    America and the Taliban

    Apr 25, 2023

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    Tutwiler

    Sep 5, 2023

  134. 803

    Failure at the Fence

    Dec 19, 2023

  135. 804

    Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Iran (2026 Version)

    Mar 10, 2026

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    Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (2026 Version)

    Mar 31, 2026

    In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat.But months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes in June 2025, the message coming from Washington, D.C., was that Iran's key nuclear facilities had been "obliterated."Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, FRONTLINE, The Washington Post, Evident Media and Bellingcat investigate the status of Iran's nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year.This updated version of the documentary previously aired on December 16, 2025.