Video Archive
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Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis
More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable. “Before a Breath” sheds light on three mothers fighting to change those statistics.
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Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo
Yoiker Sequera was among nearly 200 immigrants the Trump administration has flown to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sequera’s mother, Angela, reflects on finding out her son had been sent to the infamous prison.
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“Del Rio, Texas”: How a Race for Sheriff Became a Referendum on Immigration
Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.
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“Cookie & Zo’e”: A Georgia Family Wrestles With School Choice 60 Years After Desegregation
In 1964, Samaria “Cookie” Mitcham Bailey was among the first Black students to desegregate Macon’s public schools. Now, her great-granddaughter, Zo’e Johnson, attends a majority-white private school founded as white families fled desegregation.
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“The Right Way”: The Long Journey to Asylum for One Venezuelan Family
The Pabóns are among the nearly 8 million people who have fled Venezuela in one of the world’s largest displacements. “The Right Way” follows them as they attempt to seek asylum in the U.S. under a buckling immigration system.
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“With Every Breath”: The Human Toll of Philips’ Massive CPAP Recall
This film offers an intimate glimpse into what happens when people learn that Philips Respironics’ CPAP machine may be causing harm. It humanizes a public health crisis that has affected millions, whose scope may not be known for years, if ever.
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“Uprooted”: What a Black Community Lost When a Virginia University Grew
This short documentary reveals a Black community’s decadeslong battle to hold onto its land as officials in Newport News, Virginia, used eminent domain to establish and expand Christopher Newport University.
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“The Night Doctrine”: The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids
In this triple-Emmy-winning short, British journalist Lynzy Billing returns to her native Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to uncover a secretive U.S.-backed program that left hundreds of civilians dead.
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ProPublica Interviews President Biden
In a wide-ranging interview with John Harwood, President Joe Biden addressed broad threats to democracy, ethical concerns about the Supreme Court and more.
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This Scientist Tracked Bats for Decades and Solved a Mystery About a Deadly Disease
Ecologist Peggy Eby’s discovery after decades of studying bats in Australia underscores the time and shoe-leather research needed to prevent future pandemics.
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“Salmon People”: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life
This short documentary features the plight of the salmon of the Columbia River and the Native people whose lives revolve around them.
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The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy
Honorary consuls are meant to foster ties between countries. But criminals and others accused of exploiting the position have infiltrated their ranks.
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Meet the Woman Fighting for the Rights of Voters Who Can’t Read
Olivia Coley-Pearson offered help to voters who struggle to read. For taking on one of America’s oldest forms of voter suppression, she got threats, a trip to jail and a reminder of the nation’s long legacy of weaponizing literacy.
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Unlivable Oasis
A family’s housing struggle on the front lines of the climate crisis
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How a Billionaire Team Owner Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than LeBron James — and the Stadium Workers, Too
Pro sports teams pretty much always increase in value. But our tax laws allow the owners to claim that their teams’ assets lose value, lowering their tax bills through amortization. The government misses out on billions in revenue. Here’s how.
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How the .001% Use Retirement Accounts as Tax-Free Piggy Banks
A retirement account designed for the middle class is being exploited as a giant tax shelter — legally — by some of the wealthiest Americans. Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel, a Paypal co-founder, has grown his Roth IRA to more than $5 billion.
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Buy, Borrow, Die: How America’s Ultrawealthy Stay That Way
Some of the wealthiest Americans use a strategy called Buy, Borrow, Die to dramatically reduce their tax bills while their fortunes continue to grow. This video is part of ProPublica’s series, “The Secret IRS Files” which reveals, using a trove of never-before-seen records, how the wealthiest avoid income tax.
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Sound of Judgement
A frustrated Black Lives Matter activist. A die-hard Confederate loyalist. A sheriff who won’t back down. In a small Town, a battle for racial justice confronts a bloody past and an uncertain future. In a place where protests are restricted and violence feels imminent, many cry: “We don’t want to die no more.” This documentary is a The News & Observer/ProPublica production. The News & Observer is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
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Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Explains Why.
The unrelenting stress of fighting systemic racism can alter a body’s normal functioning until it starts to wear down. The theory, known as John Henryism, helps explain racial health disparities.
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How the Climate Crisis Will Force A Massive American Migration
The climate crisis will profoundly interrupt the way we live and farm in the United States. Extreme heat, massive floods and more fires may force millions of people to move — and millions may be left behind.
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Deadly Restraint: How a Man in Psychiatric Crisis Died in Custody
Video shows that deputies used violent force against Phillip Garcia and lied about their treatment of him in reports.
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Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Coronavirus Antibody Test Results
In some situations, antibody tests generate more false positives than real ones. It’s because of math.
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Rescuing Her Father From an Assisted Living Facility in the Coronavirus Epicenter
The home’s administrator assured her that her 82-year-old father was safe, she said. Then she found out the coronavirus was tearing through the facility — and her dad had caught it.
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Seattle Allowed 33,000 Fans to Attend a Soccer Game as COVID-19 Cases Increased
Hundreds of pages of emails show officials debating how seriously to take the spreading virus.
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Why This Coronavirus Is Not Like the Flu, or Even the Swine Flu
COVID-19 is unlike anything in our lifetime. But the president has repeatedly compared it to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak of 2009. Here's why it's different, and much more dangerous.
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Inside an Immigration Detention Facility as the Coronavirus Spreads
At an ICE detention facility in New Jersey, detainees are on a hunger strike to try to obtain soap and toilet paper in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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How Quickly Hospitals Could Fill Up if We Don’t Slow Coronavirus Down
How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast the novel coronavirus spreads, and how many open beds they had to begin with.
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Watch: Test Videos Reveal How Evenflo Put Children at Risk
There’s no government oversight of side-impact tests, so Evenflo made up its own and gave itself passing grades.
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Adrift: How the Marine Corps Failed Squadron 242
Falling from 15,000 feet, two Marines hit the Pacific Ocean at 800 feet per minute. They were bruised and cold, their rescue equipment failed and help was hours away.
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New Video Shows Border Patrol Account of Child’s Death Was Not True
Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol's account of his death.
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How We Identified the Frat Brothers Holding Guns in Front of an Emmett Till Memorial
We searched through property records, tips from Instagram users, and dozens of Instagram and Facebook photos and videos to figure out their names.
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Here’s How a Foreign Official Ended Up Writing Part of Trump’s Campaign Speech
We have the texts and emails.
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Police Footage: The Interrogation That Led to Ricky Joyner’s Murder Charge
During more than two hours of interrogation, Joyner repeatedly said he wanted to talk to a lawyer. But police kept questioning him, even after he asked to leave.
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How the FBI Uses Unproven Image Analysis Techniques in Criminal Cases
The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics.
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Americans Dodge $660 Billion in Taxes Each Year — And It’s Probably Getting Worse
The IRS is underfunded and understaffed. One result: audits of the wealthy are rapidly declining.
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How a Police Beating in Elkhart, Indiana Unfolded
Reporting by ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune revealed a history of corruption and police abuse in Elkhart. This video, obtained through a public records request, shows police officers punching and kicking a handcuffed man.
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Unprotected
Katie Meyler’s charity, More Than Me, was created to save vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped by a man Meyler trusted.
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How “Levee Wars” Are Making Floods Worse
High levees come at a high cost, often pushing water into communities that can’t afford the same protection. To demonstrate, we built a giant, scientific model of a river with levees — complete with adorable tiny houses.
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Treated Like Trash
Inside New York’s private garbage industry there’s fatal accidents; brutal work conditions; suspicious unions and lax oversight.
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Broken Hearts
ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle investigate troubles at Baylor St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, where an illustrious heart program has recently had some of the worst outcomes in the country.
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He’s a Proud Neo-Nazi, Charlottesville Attacker – and a U.S. Marine
Vasilios Pistolis, a Marine, took part in the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and later bragged about it online with other members of Atomwaffen, an extremist group preparing for a race war.
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Triste
A teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
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Treating a Common Children’s Ailment Isn’t Cheap
When Aviva Williams’ daughter got pinworms, her doctor prescribed albendazole, a prescription treatment that has been around for decades. Williams thought little of it, until she checked the price: $724 for a four-tablet treatment.
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“What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?”
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.
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Walking While Black
After watching a viral video of a Jacksonville cop stopping a young black man for jaywalking, reporters Ben Conarck and Topher Sanders examine how “walking while black” can come at a high price.
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Unmasking California’s New White Supremacists
A group of young white supremacists, known as the Rise Above Movement, coordinated violence at rallies in Charlottesville, VA and across California cities. We identified some of the group members using social media posts and the group’s own propaganda.
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How Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr. Avoided Criminal Indictment
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor.
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The Big Problems with Testing Tiny Bits of DNA
New York City’s crime lab has been a pioneer nationally in analyzing especially difficult DNA samples. Now these DNA analysis methods are under the microscope, with scientists questioning their validity.
