Films 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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.
