BIG STORY – Nurture

October 15, 2024

Big Story – Dead End, Drug Overdoses in the U.S.

‘Portland, Oregon, is an epicenter of the deepening opioid crisis in the United States, where a life is lost to drug use every eleven minutes.

October 6, 2024

Big Story – Red Light, Racial Violence in the U.S. South

‘Red Light, Racial Violence in the U.S. South’ sheds light into one of the country’s major fault lines. Correspondent Dan Williams combines detailed reporting of current events with historical precedents to deliver a hard hitting piece of journalism.

October 2, 2024

Big Story – Toxic, U.S. Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

In Toxic – U.S. Warfare in Vietnam, Big Story correspondent Jason Motlaugh hears directly from the survivors of a conflict that ended in 1975 but is still claiming victims to this day.

September 29, 2024

Big Story – Buried, U.S. Bombs in Laos

The dark story behind America’s “Secret War” and its enduring effects in tiny Laos, 50 years later.

September 28, 2024

Big Story – Connected to China

Connected to China tells the stories of the people who have built cultural, educational and economic ties with China that have helped foster mutual exchange and diplomacy.

August 31, 2024

Big Story – Submerged in Plastic

Submerged in Plastic tells the stories of the people fighting the threat of microplastic pollution.

March 16, 2024

Big Story – Coca Growers

The decades-long War on Drugs failed. The Colombian government is trying a new approach.

March 2, 2024

Big Story – Children Of The Border

On the Colombia-Venezuela border, dozens of children relentlessly pursue their education as they dream of a better future. Every day, they brave the indomitable terrain of the La Guajira peninsula to get to school.

December 16, 2023

Big Story – Lawless. Gangs of Haiti

The factions battling for supremacy in Port-au-Prince and the civilians trapped in the crossfire.

December 1, 2023

BIG STORY – The Handshake

U.S. President Richard Nixon called his 1972 visit to China “the week that changed the world.” But it was the secret trip taken by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger the year before that laid the foundation of the historic meeting that would see China and the United States begin to normalize bilateral relations.

Head shot of Jaz, a transgender woman, as she's seated in the grounds of the encampment where she resides. She's wearing a multicolored wool beanie and a leather jacket. You can see building in the background.

November 4, 2023

BIG STORY – Homeless – Inequality In The U.S.

In San Francisco, rampant crime, soaring costs and a broken government are driving residents into the streets — or out of state. Big Story reports on the unraveling of America’s largest economy.

Patrick Malia during a doctor's appointment

July 10, 2023

BIG STORY – Coping With Long COVID

Last may, the U.S. ended the state of national emergency declared because of the COVID-19 epidemic. For thousands of ‘long haulers’, however, the virus is still part of their daily lives.

January 29, 2023

BIG STORY – Good with Numbers

A new generation of math and science innovators are pushing research to new levels.

December 9, 2022

Balance: Biodiversity in the Americas

Biodiversity is the variety of life on planet earth. Declining ecosystems threaten our way of life. Balance: Biodiversity in the Americas show some of the efforts being undertaken in Latin America and the U.S. to maintain a diversity of species and allow our society to function in perfect symmetry.

December 9, 2022

BIG STORY -Balance: Biodiversity in China

Even as the world inches toward its sixth mass extinction event, the first one driven by human activity, an army of conservationists and researchers is fighting to restore balance and protect the biodiversity in China, one of the largest countries on earth.

December 9, 2022

BIG STORY – Unbearable: Sandy Hook 10 Years Later

A decade after the killings at Sandy Hook, the frequency of these events seems to have spiked. 2022 is the third year in a row that the United States recorded over 600 mass shootings.

November 22, 2022

BIG STORY – Long COVID

Long COVID sufferers share what it’s like living with these symptoms for weeks, months and even years after an initial infection.

A long range picture of the city of Kabul

August 27, 2022

BIG STORY – Abandoned: Afghanistan After The U.S. Occupation

One year after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan’s dark past haunts the present — and the future looks bleaker by the day.

July 17, 2022

BIG STORY – The Race Gap in the U.S. Native Americans

Native Americans are the most vulnerable minority in the country. This episode of The Race Gap in the U.S. takes us to South Dakota, homeland of the Lakota people, to examine how this came to be.

A Border Patrol van parked with the rear doors open. And a group of migrants lining up to get in.

July 11, 2022

BIG STORY – The Race Gap in the U.S. Hispanics

At the turn of this century, Hispanics became the largest minority group in the United States. This milestone, however, hasn’t changed the way members of the community are being treated by authorities.

July 2, 2022

BIG STORY – The Race Gap in the U.S. African Americans

Since the pandemic hit, attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. The Race Gap in the U.S. premieres with an episode about the latest wave of anti Asian sentiment and its deep seeded roots in the country’s history.

June 25, 2022

BIG STORY – The Race Gap in the U.S. Asian Americans

August 2, 2021

Big Story – Forever Young

‘Forever Young’ meets with scientists, doctors and entrepreneurs deep in the pursuit for everlasting youth.

July 9, 2021

BIG STORY – New Endeavors

‘New Endeavors’ highlights how economic growth and a shared sense of the common good have led to unprecedented gains for China’s people, as well as how those values are deeply rooted in how Chinese people envision their own futures.

May 3, 2021

BIG STORY – The Sounds of Mali

Speaking with United Nations peacekeepers, officials, educators, musicians and activists, ‘The Sounds of Mali’ takes viewers from the wind-swept dunes of the Sahara, to the adobe brick-built streets of Timbuktu.

April 26, 2021

BIG STORY – Two Degrees Celsius

‘Two Degrees Celsius’ examines the physical, material and psychological damage being dealt by climate change.

April 19, 2021

BIG STORY – The Molecule Movers

Speaking with former addicts, chemists, family members of victims and current synthetic drug users; ‘The Molecule Movers’ takes viewers into the world of black-market chemistry.

April 14, 2021

BIG STORY – The Spanish Gate

The Spanish Gate takes an in-depth look at how the Iberian nation became a major gateway for narcotics, the methods used by smugglers and cartels and the efforts of law enforcement, activists and municipalities vying to solve this problem.

October 26, 2020

BIG STORY – State of Fear: The U.S. Legacy in El Salvador

‘State of Fear: The U.S. Legacy in El Salvador’ takes viewers deep inside this ever-growing world of gangs and violence while examining the effects of migration and deportation on gang membership.

October 19, 2020

BIG STORY – Running Water: COVID-19 in Africa

‘Running Water: COVID-19 in Africa’ takes viewers to South Africa and Kenya to see the struggles faced by their citizens while examining the efforts being made by their governments, NGOs and residents to remain safe where little water is to be found.

October 7, 2020

BIG STORY – A Long Lost War: The U.S. Military in Afghanistan

‘A Long Lost War: The U.S. Military in Afghanistan’ takes viewers to the embattled Wardak province on the outskirts of Kabul to examine how far along the country is in its peace process.

October 7, 2020

BIG STORY – Pandemic Response

‘Pandemic Response’ takes viewers to Texas, Georgia and North Carolina to see first-hand the divisions being caused by measures made to protect against COVID-19.

October 6, 2020

BIG STORY – Collateral: Drug Trafficking During COVID-19

‘Collateral: Drug Trafficking During COVID-19’ goes behind the scenes of the Mexican narcotics industry to speak with drug lords, assassins and the people who have suffered loss at their hands to depict the impacts of COVID-19 south of the US border.

September 30, 2020

BIG STORY – Resilience: 24 Hours in Sweden

‘Reconciliation: Colombia’s Journey for Peace’ takes viewers to the cities and wildernesses of the nation to see what progress is being made and what hurdles remain in Colombia’s quest to form a cohesive, peaceful and unified state.

September 24, 2020

BIG STORY – Reconciliation: Colombia’s Journey for Peace

September 21, 2020

BIG STORY – Surging: 24 Hours in New Delhi

‘Surging: 24 Hours in New Delhi’ takes viewers to India’s capital to reveal how COVID-19 is impacting the city’s different social classes while underlining challenges preventing doctors and police officers from containing the pandemic.

August 11, 2020

BIG STORY – Curfew: 24 Hours in Africa

‘Curfew: 24 Hours in Africa’ takes viewers to Nairobi, Kenya and Durban, South Africa to show viewers challenges faced by doctors treating an already immunocompromised community as well as those facing two of Africa’s fastest growing countries.

July 31, 2020

BIG STORY – Emerging: 24 Hours in Europe

‘Emerging: 24 Hours in Europe’ takes viewers to Spain, Italy, Germany and France to see how far efforts to combat COVID-19 have come and to learn what challenges still remain for the continent’s residents, medical workers and first responders.

July 28, 2020

BIG STORY – Made in Different Places

Though your phone may have been designed in California, your car in Germany and your camera in Japan, their components originate from all corners of the globe.
Globalization has changed how our products are manufactured, making the globe an international cooperative factory.
Made in Different Places takes a close look at how multinational the products we use have become and how this process has changed how the world conducts business.

July 27, 2020

BIG STORY – White Space

July 20, 2020

BIG STORY – Up North

‘Up North’ takes viewers to Norway, Russia and France to see how wildfires, lack of snow and melting ice are impacting daily life as temperatures continue to climb.

July 1, 2020

BIG STORY – Infection: COVID-19 in Latin America

‘Infection: COVID-19 In Latin America’ examines and Brazil and Mexico to get a firsthand look at how Latin America’s two largest economies are dealing with the Coronavirus through interviews with doctors, residents and community workers vying to contain its spread.

June 19, 2020

BIG STORY – I Can’t Breathe: Racism in the U.S.

‘I Can’t Breathe: Racism in the U.S.’ takes viewers to the front lines of the protests in the nation’s capital, Minneapolis and New York, to hear the message of the frustrated masses while examining the history of racial inequality in the U.S.

June 2, 2020

BIG STORY – State of Emergency

‘State of Emergency: 24 Hours in New York’ puts viewers in the shoes of paramedics, doctors, bankers and restaurateurs to depict life in America’s most populous and economically critical city.

April 24, 2020

BIG STORY – Widespread

A look inside the lives of those fighting, and at risk from, the public health emergency threatening the entire planet; COVID-19.

April 9, 2020

BIG STORY – 24 Hours in Wuhan

On the eve of the 2020 Chinese New Year a mysterious new illness was discovered in Wuhan China. Now known as COVID-19, the illness quickly infected thousands causing the unprecedented lockdown of millions within the city and its surrounding areas.

January 20, 2020

BIG STORY – The New Germans

The New Germans takes an in-depth look at the efforts to integrate and welcome the country’s newest residents as well as the growing political movement to prevent further immigration.

January 12, 2020

BIG STORY – Deserted

Separating the United States from Mexico is a border spanning nearly 2000 miles. Much it is covered by vast swaths of deserts; making entry difficult even where no man-made barriers stand. Deserted explores the peril of this crossing, and the work done by humanitarians to prevent deaths.

November 1, 2019

BIG STORY – The Red Line

The Red Line takes an in-depth look into the violence, poverty and discrimination dividing St. Louis and examines what some locals are doing to improve the situation in the city.

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