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 ...

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 ...

Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

FRONTLINE examines Syria’s uncertain future under jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, correspondent Martin Smith travels the country tracing al-Sharaa’s rise ...

Volunteers fill boxes at the Food Bank for the Heartland distribution warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, on Dec. 8, 2021. FRONTLINE has tracked how poverty affects American families with children across ...

Since the Holocaust, Germany has worked to overcome its Nazi history. But over the past decade, Germany has faced a rising wave of far-right violence and plots against Jews, Muslims, immigrants and ...

Germany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history and the Holocaust. But in recent years, far-right extremism and violent plots, especially against Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been on ...