Year: 2014

Frontline: The Rise of ISIS

Frontline investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. Correspondent Martin Smith reports from Iraq on how the country began coming undone after the American withdrawal and what it means for the U.S. to be fighting there again.

Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia

In modern day Russia, a recent anti-gay amendment to a “propaganda” law has triggered a large amount of assaults.

Mr. Civil Rights

This film documents civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the groundwork to end legal segregation.

Selma

A chronicle of Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

The organizing strategies, movement-building and backlash against the U.S. women’s movement from 1966 to 1971 and today.

The Good Lie

A group of Sudanese refugees given the chance to resettle in America arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes their lives.