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NEW REALEASES SUMMER 2020 THE CHOICE 2020 TRUMP VS. BIDEN In the midst of a historic pandemic, surging unemployment and growing uncertainty, American voters will head to the polls this fall to decide whether President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will lead the country for the next four years. And as it has for every election since 1988, FRONTLINE’s acclaimed series The Choice will investigate the life stories the two candidates: the Screen programs roots of their drive to be president, the moments that shaped them, and the life method that has brought them to this point. As the online at coronavirus pandemic enfl ames bitter partisan divisions and fuels misinformation and distrust, The Choice 2020 offers trustworthy pbsinternational.org journalism that tells the story of the two candidates through revealing interviews with those who know them best. 1x114, 2x60 HD UNITED STATES OF THE VIRUS WHAT WENT WRONG? As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe, why was CONSPIRACY the U.S. caught so unprepared? Despite repeated warnings of a potent FRONTLINE investigates how traffi cking in conspiracy theories went contagion headed our way, America’s leaders failed to prepare and from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. The fi lm follows protect. Why and who is accountable? FRONTLINE Correspondent Martin the alliance of conspiracy entrepreneur Alex Jones, Trump advisor Smith (The Storm; The Quake) travels via Skype to interview top offi cials, Roger Stone, and the president, and their role in the battle over truth scientists and fi rst responders in China, Iran, Italy, South Korea and the and lies. 1x60 HD United States. 1x90 HD CURRENT AFFAIRS © 2018 ARROW INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ELECTION 2020 PBS International has many election programs in production for late summer/early fall 2020. We will be in touch with more information soon! 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Told offers trustworthy journalism that tells the story of the two candidates through revealing forensically over six hours by the investigators, interviews with those who know them best. 1x114, 2x60 HD the victims’ families and, for the fi rst time, NRA Under Fire the surviving shooter himself—I, Sniper is the Once an unrivaled political power, the NRA is facing challenges from all sides. FRONTLINE defi nitive account of an iconic American crime investigates how the NRA aligned with President Trump and his base, but is under attack story. 6x55 HD ahead of the 2020 election. 1x54 HD America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump An investigation into America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Episode One traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. Episode Two examines how Donald Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions and how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide. 4x60, 2x114 HD Zero Tolerance Donald Trump has made opposition to immigration the signature policy of his presidency, and used anti-immigration fervor to animate his supporters and fuel a political movement. KAREPASTOCK/SHUTTERSTOCK Drawing on nearly 40 lengthy, on-camera interviews, this documentary describes how Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions saw in the Trump candidacy a chance to roll back immigration—and how they have waged a war inside the White House to keep an unpredictable president on course. It’s a must-watch look at how America’s immigration policies—and the rhetoric and images surrounding them—reached this moment. 1x54 HD Trump’s Trade War Plastic Wars FRONTLINE investigates what has really been President Donald Trump’s decision to put tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese imports in happening with our ever-growing mountains 2018 shocked the world—and launched a perilous confrontation between the world’s two of plastic waste, what industry insider knew largest economic superpowers. From FRONTLINE producer Rick Young and his team and NPR about the environmental and public health correspondent Laura Sullivan, Trump’s Trade War takes viewers on the ground in both the U.S. problems of plastic, and when they knew it. and China, drawing on business and government insider accounts to offer an eye-opening look This documentary examines the industry’s role at the increasingly competitive rivalry between the two countries—a rivalry that extends well in shaping a system that has never worked as beyond just trade and tariffs. 1x54 HD advertised, and the decades-long effort to keep ALSO AVAILABLE: The Mueller Investigation 1x51 HD, President Trump 1x54 HD, a highly profi table secret alive: recycling hasn’t Trump’s Takeover 1x54 HD, Trump’s Road to the White House 1x54 HD kept plastic out of the environment or the PIOTR KRZESLAK/SHUTTERSTOCK oceans. It has just sold more plastic. 1x54 HD 2 pbsinternational.org CURRENT AFFAIRS CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE Coronavirus Pandemic Decoding COVID-19 The Virus: Veteran science reporter and FRONTLINE The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has upended What Went Wrong? correspondent Miles O’Brien tells the inside life as we know it in a matter of mere As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle story of Seattle, Washington’s fi ght to months. But at the same time, an East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so identify and contain the novel coronavirus, unprecedented global effort to understand unprepared? Despite repeated warnings traveling through the locked-down city— and contain the virus—and fi nd a treatment of a potent contagion headed our way, from the hospital where patient one for the disease it causes—is underway. America’s leaders failed to prepare and was treated to the nursing home where NOVA joins doctors on the front lines of protect. Why and who is accountable? the outbreak exploded. In almost real the fi ght against COVID-19 as they FRONTLINE Correspondent Martin Smith time, doctors, patients and public health strategize to stop the spread, and meet the (The Storm; The Quake) travels via Skype to offi cials recount the dramatic story of researchers racing to develop treatments interview top offi cials, scientists and fi rst how the unusually well-prepared city hoped and vaccines. Along the way, discover how responders in China, Iran, Italy, South Korea that it had averted a crisis, then confronted this devastating disease emerged, what and the United States. 1x90 HD the grim reality of the fast-spreading it does to the human body, and why it virus. The fi lm shows how the federal exploded into a pandemic. 1x54 HD In This Together: A PBS government’s missteps early on impacted cities, and highlights the contrast between Inside Italy’s COVID War American Portrait Story In This Together is a half-hour special that the Trump administration’s messaging in Emmy and BAFTA-winning Italian producer will capture our changed reality due to Washington, D.C., and the increasingly dire Sasha Achilli arrived in Northern Italy just the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout situation on the ground in Washington as the government put the country under the fi lm people from all across the United State. 1x54 HD lockdown and has been documenting the States will use self-shot video, photos and unfolding catastrophe ever since. With text to share how the COVID-19 outbreak intimate and exclusive access to the COVID’s Hidden Toll is impacting their lives. All types of people FRONTLINE investigates how the COVID Maggiore di Cremona Hospital, the fi lm around the country, across age, race, gender crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and tells the stories of doctors battling the identity, income, ability and geography, will undocumented workers. The fi lm features outbreak. They tell Sasha the agonizing take us into their homes and communities stories from the pandemic’s invisible victims, choices they face are like those of war- to reveal what’s changed—and what hasn’t including crucial farm and meat-packing time triage medics—deciding who lives, as we navigate how these extraordinary workers who lack protections and have who dies, and who gets access to a times have affected all of us. 1x27 HD been getting sick. 1x60 HD limited number of intensive unit beds. From this dramatic vantage, FRONTLINE examines how and why it got so bad in Italy, why the death rate is so high and what is says for the rest of the world. 1x54 HD creativeneko/shutterstock pbsinternational.org 3 CURRENT AFFAIRS IRYNA IMAGO/SHUTTERSTOCK IRYNA Opioids Inc. Opioids, Inc. is the story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE presents an investigation of how Insys Therapeutics profi ted from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin. 1x60 HD The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism.