U.S. Border Security

Travels to the fields and farm communities of California's San Joaquin Valley to see how the economic downturn and a three-year drought are stirring the immigration debate.

Investigates smugglers along the Mexican border who bribe U.S. border officials in order to guarantee that migrants get across the U.S.-Mexico border on their first try.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11, and explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies, and data collecting into the lives of ordinary Americans.

In a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop, correspondent Maria Hinojosa investigates Obama’s enforcement strategies and journeys into the secretive world of immigrant detention, with a penetrating look at who is being detained and what is happening to them.

In the domestic war against terrorism, the combination of new security threats, advances in communications technologies, and radical interpretations of presidential authority may be threatening the privacy of Americans.

Takes a hard look at the FBI’s investigation of the country’s most notorious act of bioterrorism.

FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman in 1997, highlighting some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques, including the threat of the death penalty, sleep deprivation, and intimidation, that led each of the “Norfolk Four” to confess, despite the lack of any evidence linking them to the crime.

FRONTLINE investigates America’s addiction to meth and exposes the inherent conflict between the illegal drug trade and the legitimate three-billion-dollar cold remedy business.

FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate the country’s oldest, largest, and most wide-open marijuana market - California.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest traces the journey from 9/11 to the Marathon bombings and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism.

2005 Canadian documentary directed by Arturo Pérez Torres that follows several undocumented immigrants from Central America and Mexico on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey to North America.