Law: Streaming Media

More African Americans are under 'correctional' (prison) control today than were enslaved in 1850. The movie explores mass incarceration across the U.S. and the intersection of race, poverty, and the criminal justice system.

Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? Program investigates the conviction of four men -- current and former sailors in the U.S. Navy -- for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997.

A story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control, Law & Disorder investigates charges that New Orleans Police Department officers inappropriately used lethal force against citizens and then tried to cover up their actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Law of the Dragon examines how justice is served in the rural areas of China so remote and isolated that villagers have almost no contact with the central government. At the heart of the film stands the austere Judge Chen, head of a provincial legal practice, the Tiger Law Firm of Chengdu.

Since President Obama took office, deportations and detentions have reached record levels. The get-tough policy has brought complaints of abuse and harsh treatment. Frontline investigates Obama's enforcement strategies and journeys into the secretive world of immigrant detention, with a penetrating look at who is being detained and what is happening to them.

Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.

Originalists believe the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789. Others believe the Constitution was crafted in broad, open-ended language and that its meaning evolves over time. Original Intent: The Battle for America argues that the far right is using originalism as a cover to advance a radically conservative political agenda.