Fault Lines gains rare access into North Korea and examines the impact of U.S. policies on the secretive nation
Fault Lines investigates why so many North Dakota oil workers are dying—and who should be held responsible
In 2015, there were nearly 3,000 people shot in Chicago. Much of the violence happens in poor residential neighborhoods, where thousands of children are growing up without a baseline of safety.
Early exposure to trauma and chronic stress can have severe and lasting mental and physical health consequences. Many children impacted by violence become hyper-vigilant and operate in constant “survival mode,” unable to let their guard down. If left unaddressed, the psychological shock can alter the way they learn and function—and increase the risk they will be victimized again or even perpetrate violence themselves in the future.
Fault Lines travels to Chicago to meet children and teenagers who are exposed to ongoing violence—including a few recovering from gunshot injuries and reckoning with deeper psychological wounds—to see how young people cope with living in an urban war zone.
Clinical psychologist Bradley Stolbach says that children growing up surrounded by violence are often traumatized
Deamonte Lee discusses the lingering psychological impact of being the victim of a 2014 shooting.
Fault Lines examines the psychological toll of violence on children growing up in Chicago’s most dangerous communities
Students at the Montesorri School pratice yoga to help clear their minds of the violence that surrounds their lives
Four crisis counselors care for 400,000 schoolkids amid Chicago's spiraling violence, teachers' union says
To confront the effects of community violence, we must treat psychological trauma too
Where do people go when their homes are threatened by forces beyond their control?
A man from Charkh District describes what happened the day a joint US-Afghan operation commandeered his family’s house
A 'Fault Lines' investigation in Congo turns up fraud, smuggling in trade of minerals used in popular electronics
Fault Lines travels to Alaska to examine the costs of climate change
Fault Lines travels to Oklahoma to find out what is causing its daily earthquakes
In an exclusive report, Fault Lines investigates a US-Afghan military operation during which 15 civilians were killed
Did a law lobbied for by Western advocacy groups bring peace to miners in eastern Congo?
Fault Lines travels to San Juan as protests erupt over the island’s crippling debt crisis
Fault Lines investigates the practice of pretrial detention—and how courts in US counties are failing poor citizens
Elderly Americans are becoming addicted to painkillers. Fault Lines explores what's behind this hidden epidemic
Fault Lines travels down the Colorado River to find who, in times of drought, owns water?
Fault Lines looks at how, for decades, the FBI used microscopic hair analysis to convict criminal defendants
Fault Lines examines what happens to young inmates when they are placed in adult prisons
Fault Lines examines why wages are so low for Mexican farm workers who pick the produce that ends up on U.S. tables
Fault Lines travels to Baltimore to investigate the city's fractured relationship with law enforcement.
Fault Lines looks at what happens when for-profit companies set their sights on helping humans live healthier, longer.
Fault Lines investigates how the U.S. helped create the world’s newest nation, then watched it spiral into civil war.
Fault Lines examines the the forces driving the historic crisis of family homelessness in New York City
Fault Lines unravels years of impunity and thousands of missing people leading up to the disappearance of 43 students.
Fault Lines investigates the role of the fossil fuel industry in Louisiana’s disappearing coastline.
Fault Lines gains rare access into North Korea and examines the impact of U.S. policies on the secretive nation.
Fault Lines investigates why North Dakota has the highest worker fatality rate—and who should be held responsible.
Fault Lines returns to Ferguson to investigate how and why black communities feel targeted by law enforcement
Fault Lines investigates investment firms' new bet on housing.
Fault Lines travels to Mexico to examine the ongoing humanitarian crisis of disappearances of Mexican citizens.
Fault Lines examines the worst epidemic of drug addiction and overdose in U.S. history
Fault Lines travels to Irbil to examine the consequences of the latest U.S. intervention in Iraq.
Fault Lines investigates the child migration boom from Central America.
Fault Lines travels to Missouri to document the reaction to the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a police officer.
Fault Lines examines why 5 million mostly working poor Americans have been left without any health care coverage.
Fault Lines travels to Caracas to find out what’s really going on in the streets of a polarized Venezuela.
Fault Lines investigates the industry of college football and players' demands for a more equitable game.
A proposal to dig one of the largest open pit mines, pits corporate interests against tribes and local residents.
Fault Lines examines the effect of increased police presence in schools and zero-tolerance policies on students
Fault Lines examines America’s bail bond industry and how money determines who stays behind bars while awaiting trial
Fault Lines travels to W. Virginia to examine the state’s complex relationship with the coal industry.
Fault Lines travels to the Mexican state of Michoacán to find out what happens when vigilantes take on drug cartels.
Fault Lines travels to Texas to investigate why some women are taking abortion into their own hands.
Fault Lines explores what happens when corporations go in search of profits in the unregulated territory that is space.
Fault Lines reports from the Charkh District—a microcosm of Taliban rule just an hour outside Kabul.
Fault Lines reports from the Taliban stronghold of Charkh District, just an hour outside Kabul.
Fault Lines travels to South Carolina to investigate the epidemic of domestic violence homicide.
Fault Lines investigates the system that brings foreign laborers to work on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.
Fault Lines investigates how federal dollars and combat equipment is transforming U.S. police into military-like forces.
Fault Lines investigates what happens to families torn apart by a broken immigration system
Fault Lines travels to Mi’kmaq territory in Canada to find out what happens when a First Nation says no to fracking.
As healthcare spending continues to grow, Fault Lines examines why so many babies are dying in the U.S.
‘Fault Lines’ examines why so many Native American children are caught in the child welfare system
In this episode, Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA's data collection programs in the U.S. and abroad.
Fault Lines’s Wab Kinew investigates how children are hired by US agriculture to help put food on America’s tables.
Fault Lines follows the 2013 wildfire season, chasing the flames as they spread throughout the West.
Fault Lines investigates the US-Egypt relationship after the military coup of July 3, 2013.
Fault Lines investigates wage theft in the food services industry, when workers are not paid what they are owed.
Fault Lines investigates the rapid growth of America’s female prison population.
As healthcare spending continues to grow, Fault Lines examines why so many babies are dying in the U.S.
Fault Lines investigates the growing business of elderly care, and what happens when corporations put profits first.
Fault Lines investigates the lack of accountability when U.S. Border Patrol agents shoot across international lines.
Fault Lines travels to Yemen to meet and talk with former Guantanamo detainees.
The U.N. Struggles to Explain the Haitian Cholera Epidemic. Saturday at 7p ET/ 4p PT.
Fault Lines investigates if retailers know where and under what conditions their clothes are being made.
Fault Lines takes you beyond the headlines and holds the powerful to account, by examining the U.S.'s role in the world.
