Frontline Season 40 · Episode 5

Iraq's Assassins/ COVID in Yemen

9th February 2021 54 mins Season 40 Episode 5

How Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing Iraq. FRONTLINE investigates allegations that militias are threatening and killing critics with impunity and targeting U.S. interests. Also in this hour, how COVID is worsening Yemen's humanitarian crisis.

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Season 40 · Episode 6

Death Is Our Business/ Love, Life & the Virus

At Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans, COVID-19 reshapes the grieving process. How the pandemic has transformed mourning in a city known for its jazz-filled funerals. Also in this hour, follow a mother’s fight to survive COVID-19 and see her newborn baby. FRONTLINE filmmaker Oscar Guerra documents how the coronavirus hit one immigrant family, their struggle to be reunited, and the community that rallied around them.

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Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)