When Vladimir Putin first took control of Russia, Bill Clinton was the US president. Frontline filmmaker Mike Kirk tells how Putin came to consider the United States an existential threat, how he consolidated his power to confront the US, and why launching a campaign to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election would not have been out of character.
It is less than a week until President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, and already a political fight is shaping up that could potentially define the President’s second term. At a press conference yesterday, President Obama demanded that Congress increase the current authorized borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion, in order for the government to avoid defaulting […]
In just four weeks, voters will decide between two very different presidential candidates. An exhaustive new FRONTLINE documentary, produced by our partner WGBH in Boston, profiles the personal and political lives of the two men vying for the presidency: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The Choice 2012 airs on PBS on Tuesday October 9 and […]
Three years after America’s largest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the country is still recovering. Some banks have received huge bailouts, but countless Americans are still struggling to get back on their feet. A new four-hour documentary, “Money, Power and Wall Street” investigates what has been done (and not done) to secure America’s financial […]
Dr. Claire Fraser-Ligget, whose lab did work for the FBI in this investigation, and Michael Kirk, producer of the new PBS Frontline documentary “The Anthrax Files,” re-examine this closed case to see whether FBI indicted the right suspect.