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.
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.