E3: America's Great Divide

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE begins its 2020 election year coverage with a two-part, four-hour documentary series investigating America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump draws on revelatory new interviews with key political and cultural figures, as well as an unparalleled archive of in-depth broadcast reporting across two presidential administrations, to offer crucial context for the current moment. Part One traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. Part Two examines how Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions, how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide, and what America’s polarization could mean for the country’s future.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the audio version
0:01.5	of the frontline documentary,
0:02.8	America's Great Divide, from Obama to Trump.
0:05.8	Here is episode three.
0:07.2	MUSIC
0:11.4	Tonight on Nightline, licensed to kill,
0:14.2	it's the shooting death that sparked an explosion of outrage.
0:18.4	Good evening, I'm Terry Moran.
0:19.8	It's the story that's ignited fierce passions
0:22.4	across the nation as allegations of racism
0:25.1	and miscarriage of justice tear apart
0:27.6	a small Florida town.
0:29.7	For Obama, once again, the issue of race.
0:32.7	Trayvon Martin was walking back from a convenience store
0:36.0	when he was allegedly shot by a neighbor.
0:37.9	The police have begun, they've got the shooter,
0:39.9	but they have not arrested him.
0:41.5	The dead man's grieving family wants to know why not?
0:44.5	PBS NewsHour reporter Yami Shalsendor.
0:47.1	President Obama as the first African-American president
0:50.1	had been very careful not to talk too much about race.
0:53.4	It was frustrating some African-Americans.
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