The Secret History of ISIS

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world.

Season 2016 Episode 8 | 54m 47s | CC

From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team comes the inside story of the creation of ISIS, and how the United States missed the many warning signs. The film uncovers the terror group’s earliest plans, the Islamic radicals who became its leaders, and the American failures to stop ISIS’s brutal rise.

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