Criminal Justice
Related Stories
‘A Different Kind of Story’: Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen on Making ‘American Reckoning’
The filmmakers discuss the roots and making of their multilayered documentary about Black opposition to racist violence during the civil rights era.
February 16, 2022
A New Job. A Racial Barrier Broken. Then, a Bombing.
The unsolved civil-rights-era murder of Wharlest Jackson Sr. in Natchez, Mississippi, is at the center of the new documentary ‘American Reckoning.’
February 15, 2022
1h 23m
American Reckoning
Who killed Wharlest Jackson Sr.? In investigating the unsolved 1967 murder of a local NAACP leader, "American Reckoning" reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance.
February 15, 2022
Listen to the Top 5 ‘FRONTLINE Dispatch’ Podcast Episodes of 2021
Catch the 5 most-downloaded episodes from ‘The FRONTLINE Dispatch’ in 2021.
December 21, 2021
‘The Only Way We Get Out of There Is in a Pine Box’
Our partner The Marshall Project takes a look at how elderly, ailing and expensive, lifetime prisoners cost Louisiana taxpayers millions a year.
December 17, 2021
Her Baby Died After Hurricane Katrina. Was It a Crime?
Our partner The Marshall Project investigates how an expansive definition of murder in Louisiana leaves many behind bars forever.
December 16, 2021
Isabel dos Santos, Subject of Luanda Leaks, Barred from U.S. for ‘Significant Corruption’
In the 2020 documentary ‘The Luanda Leaks,’ part of a global investigation with ICIJ, FRONTLINE explored how dos Santos amassed her fortune.
December 10, 2021
A Rare Look Inside Police Training in Utah
How might police training impact whom, when and why officers shoot? Watch an excerpt from the new FRONTLINE/Salt Lake Tribune documentary “Shots Fired.”
November 23, 2021
He Got a Life Sentence When He Was 22 — For Robbery
Our partner The Marshall Project reports on how Black men are most affected by Florida’s two-strikes law.
November 11, 2021
Two Strikes and You’re in Prison Forever
Our partner The Marshall Project examines why Florida leads the nation in people serving life without chance of parole.
November 11, 2021
Former Boeing 737 Max Pilot Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Grand Jury Indictment
Mark Forkner’s role at Boeing leading up to the crashes that killed 346 people was detailed by The New York Times and FRONTLINE in ‘Boeing’s Fatal Flaw.’
October 15, 2021
Indian Health Service Managers Protected a Pedophile in Their Midst. Now the U.S. Agency Is Protecting Them.
The IHS has attempted to hide the identities of some senior officials who failed to act on warnings that Stanley Patrick Weber, the subject of the 2019 documentary "Predator on the Reservation," was preying on Native American boys, according to an internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
October 11, 2021