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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, Frontline goes behind the scenes to show how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation's economy to the edge of the "fiscal cliff," and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. The film explores the deep...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE investigates Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein’s early years, the film examines the elaborate ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers. *"WEINSTEIN is both a helpful primer and necessary addition to the #MeToo movement; one more brick in a large and unavoidable." - Maureen Ryan, **Variety***
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Frontline follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, FRONTLINE presents a new investigation into white supremacist groups in America – in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. This investigation shows the group’s terrorist objectives and how it gained strength after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The larger-than-life Russian leader has held power — with one title or another — for 15 years, and is set to reign for at least a decade more. Yet Putin remains inscrutable. With only a smattering of biographical details released to the public and his sometimes puzzling public appearances, scholars — and even many world leaders — still struggle to understand the man at the helm of the Kremlin. To glean a clearer picture, FRONTLINE took a closer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE follows health officials tracking the deadly disease and trying to stop its rampant spread. The film shows how the outbreak is endangering health- care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse. Also, FRONTLINE investigates accounts that members of the Nigerian military have been committing atrocities in the fight against Boko Haram - the Islamist militants who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April. Two timely and late-breaking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, Frontline takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, Frontline examines the president's key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Frontline investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. He left no known friends, no diary. He destroyed his computer and any evidence it might have provided. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. In collaboration with The Hartford Courant, Frontline looks for answers to the central,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What's behind the growing racial divide in American schools - and what's the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education? In part two, Omarina's Story, FRONTLINE revisits a student who made the most of her middle school moment.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai.. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film -- an updated and expanded version of A Perfect Terrorist -- reveals how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Before ISIS overran his town in Northern Iraq, Khalil al-Dakhi was a lawyer. But now, he leads an underground railroad that rescues women and children who have been taken captive by ISIS. In Escaping ISIS, a hard-hitting documentary, FRONTLINE delivers a stunning look at the plight of women and children who are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment.. “ISIS believes Yazidi women can be enslaved,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a special developing report, FRONTLINE examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict.. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the investigative team behind The Lost Year in Iraq, The Torture Question, Endgame and Bush's War traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence -- exploring how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong and what...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You have an incurable illness, you want to die, and you want help dying - what can you do? People who are terminally ill and live in Oregon or Washington can openly ask a doctor for help, but in the rest of country, where physician-assisted suicide is illegal, people who are suffering turn in secret to friends, family members, and even activist organizations. In this groundbreaking film, Frontline explores the shadow world of assisted suicide, where...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An alleged rape victim's odyssey through a broken justice system. In Pakistan, women and girls who allege rape are often more strongly condemned than their alleged rapists. Deemed impure and shameful, some are even killed by their own families. For this unforgettable documentary, an earlier version of which premiered at Sundance, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent years tracing alleged rape victim Kainat Soomro's odyssey through...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Thanks to social media, today's teens are able to directly interact with their culture--artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another--in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand? In Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders) explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since 1992, Bill Moyers and Frontline have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, Two American Families chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime..
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