Watch FRONTLINE’s 5 Most-Streamed Documentaries of 2024 (So Far)
A still from FRONTLINE and The New York Times' documentary "Boeing's Fatal Flaw." The updated version of the documentary that aired in March is one of FRONTLINE's most-streamed new documentaries of the year so far.
Looking for some documentaries to watch as summer enters full swing? We’ve got you covered.
In the countdown below, we’ve collected the five new-in-2024 FRONTLINE documentaries that, as of publication time, had earned the most streams so far this year on PBS platforms (browser video players and the PBS App) and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel combined. We’ve also included some additional recommended viewing.
Each of these FRONTLINE documentaries — and hundreds more — are available to stream anytime on our website, in the PBS App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
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5. Crisis on Campus
Inside the firestorm on many American college campuses that was ignited by the devastating October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the catastrophic war in Gaza. With Retro Report.
4. Israel’s Second Front
Amid the war in Gaza and concerns of a widening conflict in the Middle East, a report from the West Bank about growing tensions on the ground.
3. A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela
The story of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S., and what has happened to a journalist who helped uncover it. With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info.
2. Boeing’s Fatal Flaw (2024 Update)
As new questions arose about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet following January’s Alaska Airlines incident, FRONTLINE and The New York Times updated an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.
1. Democracy on Trial
A 2.5-hour documentary special tracing the roots of the federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss.
Bonus Viewing: The New Asylums, our most-streamed archival release of 2024 on YouTube
Released for the first time on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel this year, this 2005 documentary asked whether jail and prisons were becoming the new mental hospitals, and examined mental health in the American prison system.
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