One in six American children under 5 lives in poverty — a crisis that shapes health, education and opportunity. PBS’s "Born ...

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ More than a decade ago, in the Emmy-nominated documentary "Poor Kids," the acclaimed PBS series FRONTLINE explored poverty in ...

The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and ...

What happens when you grow up poor in America—and stay in touch with the same filmmaker for more than a decade? In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, host Raney Aronson-Rath speaks with ...

Imagine a society in which almost 1 in 4 African-Americans are in poverty; for white people, the number is less than 1 in 10 (Proctor et al., 12). Imagine that society in which not only black children ...

A documentary that follows years of immersive reporting on the serial predaor Sean Williams is currently in production at HBO.