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How an aging tanker caused one of Spain’s worst environmental disasters — and what it revealed about maritime regulations. (Aired January 2004) In November 2002, the oil tanker “Prestige” sank off the coast of Galicia in northwestern Spain after encountering a winter storm, causing one of the worst oil spills in the country’s history. The tanker had a murky and complicated backstory — making it difficult to track culpability. At 26 years old, the rusting, single-hulled tanker was well past the age of retirement. But that didn’t deter the owners from loading the aging ship with crude oil number 4, one of the most toxic fuel oils known. After the spill, Spain imposed a six-month ban on fishing in the region, leading to great economic hardship. “Spain: The Lawless Sea” investigated what went wrong with the tanker and uncovered a largely unregulated maritime system that offered few safeguards against environmental disasters. “This is an act of terror, a criminal act,” said Rafael Mouzo, a fisherman and then-mayor of the coastal town of Concurbion. “We need an international tribunal to judge

Decades after the Vietnam War shattered his childhood, journalist Nguyen Qui Duc traveled to his homeland and documented the changes he witnessed in the country. (Aired 2003) Decades ago, the Vietnam War shattered Nguyen Qui Duc’s childhood. Over the years, Nguyen, who came to the U.S. as a refugee, returned to his homeland as a journalist, reporting on the country’s culture and establishing connections with writers and artists living there. In 2003, he documented a journey through Vietnam for FRONTLINE/World, looking, he said, “for home, for a bit of myself, for a country that always exists in my memory.” As Nguyen traveled to different parts of the country in “Vietnam: Looking for Home,” he shared his reflections about the nation: “It’s easy to remember Vietnam has a habit of adopting and resisting changes. The culture, the people, will survive.” Several years after “Vietnam: Looking for Home” aired, Nguyen returned to Vietnam, this time for good. He filed occasional dispatches with FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World, and opened an influential arts and culture salon that pushed the boundaries of Vietnam’s communist government. Nguyen

A 2004 examination of India’s AIDS crisis through the eyes of girls and young women sold into sex work, originally aired as part of the FRONTLINE/World series. (Aired 2004) Starting with “India: The Sex Workers,” we are making episodes from FRONTLINE/World’s archive newly available here on the original video platform and on pbs.org as part of an effort to make our past reporting widely accessible. Originally developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/World launched in 2002 as a national public TV series that turned its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television. The series completed its final broadcast season in 2010. At the time this FRONTLINE/World documentary was filmed, more than two million women and girls were working in India’s sex trade, and being forced to navigate their country’s AIDS crisis. With more than 4.5 million HIV infections across India at the time, often, the women and girls’ only defense against HIV was convincing men to wear condoms. But frequently, the documentary revealed

Kenneth Rogoff is an economics professor and chair of international economics at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2003, he was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is the co-author of “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” a history of financial crises, and the graduate text “Foundations of International Macroeconomics.” In 2025, he published “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead.” Rogoff spoke to FRONTLINE’s James Jacoby on March 25, 2026 for our documentary "The President vs. the Fed." Watch excerpts from that interview above. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and

Neel Kashkari has been the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis since 2016. He previously held positions in the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009, including assistant secretary. During the financial crisis, Kashkari oversaw the federal government’s Troubled Assets Relief Program program, also known as TARP, a multi-billion dollar fund intended to stabilize the U.S. financial system. Neel Kashkari spoke to FRONTLINE’s James Jacoby on March 20, 2026 for our documentary, "The President vs. the Fed." Following are excerpts from that interview. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the

With @AssociatedPress, an Emmy Award-winning examination into conditions inside federally-funded shelter programs for detained migrant children and the lasting impact on kids who were held in U.S. government custody. (Aired 2019) Detention of migrant children climbed to historic levels during President Donald Trump’s first term. Drawing on confidential government data obtained by @AssociatedPress, "Caught in the Crackdown” revealed how many migrant kids were being held — and where — at any given time. With unique access — including inside a “tender age” shelter that held some of the youngest children in government custody — the film illuminated what happened when a child apprehended by Customs and Border Protection was handed over to the Department of Health and Human Services, known as HHS. The documentary examined how changes in policies for how sponsors were vetted meant kids were held in government custody for longer and longer periods, and in larger and larger numbers. In 2020, the documentary was honored with a News Emmy in the “Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine” category. “Kids Caught in the Crackdown”