Donate to FRONTLINE
Syria's New Leader
What U.S. Diplomats Thought After Meeting Syria’s Jihadist-Turned-Statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa
July 1, 2025
In Remembrance
Recent Documentaries
54m
1h 24m
54m
1h 24m
28m
1h 24m
54m
1h 24m
54m
53m
The Human Toll of Syria's War
Devastating Floods
Recovery Failure: Why We Struggle To Rebuild for the Next Storm
NPR and FRONTLINE investigated how communities are building back from disasters.
June 8, 2025
After Hurricane Helene, Are We Ready for the Next Big Storm?
NPR correspondent Laura Sullivan and director Jonathan Schienberg on what they learned investigating ‘Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning.’
June 6, 2025
Her Husband Died in Hurricane Helene’s Floodwaters. She Can’t Stop Thinking About ‘the Fear He Must Have Had.’
When Hurricane Helene struck, Zubila Shafiq’s husband, Omar Khan, was one of more than 100 people who died in North Carolina amid catastrophic flooding. Shafiq pieces together what happened to Khan in a video drawn from ‘Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning,’ a FRONTLINE/NPR documentary investigating storm preparedness across the U.S. and the impact and recovery from disasters like Helene.
May 20, 2025
10 Documentaries on the Science, Politics and Impact of Our Changing Climate
From the rise of the antiregulatory movement to the choices people face when their homes are threatened by rising seas, these documentaries explore the science, politics and impact of climate change.
May 22, 2025
The Latest
Remembering William Cran, Prolific and Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker
Cran, who died in June at age 79, produced the first two films to air on FRONTLINE in 1983. He went on to produce more than 20 documentaries for the series, including ‘From Jesus to Christ,’ ‘The Age of AIDS’ and ‘Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?’
July 2, 2025
What U.S. Diplomats Thought After Meeting Syria’s Jihadist-Turned-Statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa
Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in Damascus to meet the onetime Al Qaeda commander. This video drawn from the documentary ‘Syria After Assad’ shows what they thought of Syria’s new leader; why his comments about Israel were striking; and why one diplomat says he 'walked away impressed.'
July 1, 2025
A Month of New Documentaries Starts Tonight.
Introducing our hard-hitting July lineup — from war and shifting geopolitics in the Middle East, to the Trump administration’s showdown with the courts over presidential power.
July 1, 2025
Legendary Journalist Bill Moyers, Correspondent on FRONTLINE Documentaries Including ‘Two American Families,’ Dies at 91
A pivotal figure in U.S. public broadcasting, Moyers worked with FRONTLINE on the acclaimed, decades-spanning ‘Two American Families’ documentary series, which won an Emmy Award the same day his death was reported.
June 26, 2025
‘A Heart So Vast It Could Hold a City’: Jackie Stanley of ‘Two American Families’ Dies at 70
Jackie Stanley, whose tenacity and devotion to her family inspired public media audiences for decades in FRONTLINE’s 'Two American Families' documentary series, died on June 3, 2025, at the age of 70.
June 17, 2025
'What They Left Behind': A Look at the Human Toll of the Syrian War
After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians reckon with the devastating human toll of the war from hundreds of thousands killed to thousands still missing. A look at the figures that underscore the losses Syrians have endured.
June 10, 2025
'I’d Scream Louder': After Assad’s Fall, Brothers Return to Saydnaya Prison Where They Were Tortured
Bashar al-Assad’s regime detained more than a million people during the Syrian war. Saydnaya was the regime’s most notorious prison. In a video drawn from the documentary ‘Syria’s Detainee Files,’ brothers who were held at Saydnaya describe their experience – and so does a former guard who admits to torturing people there.
June 10, 2025