Watch Frontline World Online - Full Episodes

This award-winning US series began airing in 2002 as a companion to the documentary series Frontline. The spin-off extends the original series' US-centered programming to cover a variety of topics from around the globe. The focus on socio-political as well as criminal justice subject matter remains as the focus tilts to global events and organizations. Frontline/World is aired sporadically four or fives times a year. The episodes are in magazine format with separate segments within the hour airtime that cover a variety of different topics.

Previous themes this series has covered include the women and men at the forefront of events that shook humanity. In-depth reporting on their motives and the environment enveloping their decisions is intended to, as in the original, further spurn debate and insight. Previous topics include Saddam Hussein's tumultuous reign and the people of Libya and the civil unrest that ended 30 years of tyranny. The reporting they broadcast on human trafficking in Eastern Europe earned the series the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, among others.

The depth does not end at the television screen. The series makes use of web tools to provide access to primary and secondary source documents, in-full, as well as any interviews, poems, essays, in or any text they determine relevant to their reporting. For years, they have included this as a means of expanding the understanding of the events they felt compelled to document. The producers do not limit their content pool to their own in-house research. Certain episodes are created by independent filmmakers and included as part of the series to expand the breadth of reporting and topics. The series is produced by WGBH Educational Foundation, the parent company of WGBH-TV in Boston and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.