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‘All About the Fight’: How Donald Trump Developed His Political Playbook
As Donald Trump, his father and their company faced a race discrimination suit in the early 1970s, McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn taught Trump what would become an enduring lesson. Watch an excerpt from ‘The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump.’
September 24, 2024
How a ‘Life-Changing Moment’ as San Francisco DA Shaped Kamala Harris’ Approach to Politics
After the murder of a police officer in 2004, DA Kamala Harris faced blowback for maintaining opposition to the death penalty. The experience had a lasting impact on her approach to prosecution — and politics. Watch an excerpt from ‘The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump.’
September 24, 2024
Policing Group Says Officers Must Change How and When They Use Physical Force on U.S. Streets
An influential group of law enforcement leaders is pushing police departments across the U.S. to change how officers use force when they subdue people and to improve training so they avoid “consistent blind spots” that have contributed to civilian deaths.
September 24, 2024
'South Korea's Adoption Reckoning' Reporters & Director Spotlight How Western Demand Played a Role in the Korean Adoption Boom
The filmmaker and reporters of the documentary "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" talk about how their investigative revelations challenge some Korean and Western assumptions about international adoption, and how the practice is now facing a reckoning.
September 20, 2024
‘Is This Really All for the Children?’: Former Korean Adoption Worker Speaks Out
An AP/FRONTLINE documentary, ‘South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning,’ examines cases of false identities and fabricated backstories during a historic adoption boom of Korean children. In this excerpt, a former adoption agency worker describes pressure to adopt out large volumes of children — and ‘zero effort’ being put into verifying that children being adopted out had actually been abandoned.
September 20, 2024
Western Nations Were Desperate for Korean Babies. Now Many Adoptees Believe They Were Stolen
Hundreds of thousands of South Korean children were adopted by families in the United States, Europe and Australia. Now adults, many have since discovered that their adoption paperwork was untrue, and their quest for accountability has spread far beyond South Korea’s borders to the Western countries that claimed them.
September 20, 2024
Interactive: 'Who Am I, Then?' Stories from South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning.
Explore this interactive that tells the stories of over a dozen Korean adoptees as they search for the truth about their origins.
September 19, 2024
Rampant Adoption Fraud Separated Generations of South Korean Children From Their Families, AP Finds
The stories of South Korean adoptees — who searched for their roots and realized they are not who they were told — have sparked a reckoning that is rocking the international adoption industry.
September 19, 2024
Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to New Sex Crime Charge in New York Before Rape Retrial
In the runup to Harvey Weinstein’s retrial in New York on rape and sexual assault charges, the disgraced producer was indicted on a new sex crime charge.
September 18, 2024
9/11, More Than 20 Years Later: 20 Essential Documentaries to Watch
These films, selected from more than two decades of extensive FRONTLINE reporting, probe that fateful day and its lasting impacts on America and the world.
September 10, 2024
The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
From attempting to incite racially motivated violence to encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure, the alleged crimes planned and advertised by extremists on Telegram go far beyond the charges facing CEO Pavel Durov.
September 3, 2024
Remembering Ofra Bikel
Ofra Bikel was one of the most prolific and consequential producers in FRONTLINE’s history.
August 29, 2024