Free Contemporary Issues Documentaries

The PBS Frontline series are some of the best documentaries available on public television, but it's often difficult to carve out time to sit down and watch them. Now Frontline has released over 100 of their documentaries as audio podcasts and they actually work really well as just audio.

The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice.

Landmark radio programmes from the BBC World Service archive.

FRONTLINE has produced over 500 documentary films on contemporary social and political issues in the past 20 years. And you can not only watch most of them online for free through the PBS FRONTLINE website, but you can also listen to over 100 of them on the Frontline Audiocast Podcast.

This informative documentary intertwines the biographical story of the presidential candidates John McCain & Barack Obama along with a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of their presidential campaigns.

Each presidential election the PBS series Frontline produces an election special that profiles the two major candidates. Their two-hour special aired last night on PBS and is now available to stream on their YouTube channel.

2014's Academy Award winning documentary Citizenfour is a real life international thriller that unfolds by the minute.

After 30 years, America's War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight....

This documentary explores the prison industrial complex which has become a $50 billion-a-year industry. It examines the tough laws which the corrections industry lobbies for.

This is the first time that anybody has sued an American corporation in an American court on the grounds that the company's violating human rights in another country.