# Fault Lines (TV program)

Fault Lines is an American current affairs and documentary television program broadcast on Al Jazeera English. Premiering in November 2009, the program is known for investigative storytelling across the United States and the Americas, examining the United States and its role in the world.

## Team

As of 2018, the program's correspondents are Josh Rushing, Sharif Kouddous, Natasha del Toro, and Femi Oke. Past correspondents include Sebastian Walker, Anjali Kamat, Zeina Awad, Avi Lewis, Teresa Bo, Wab Kinew, and Nagieb Khaja.

## Episodes

* Obama's Policy on Torture (2009)
* Tale of Two Bankruptcies (2009)
* Collapsing Auto Industry in Detroit (2009)
* Town Hall Debate on Torture (2009)
* California in Crisis (2009)
* Evangelism in the Military (2009)
* Newt Gingrich: Former Speaker of House of Representatives (2009)
* US Admiral Michael Mullen (2009)
* Health Care Reform (2009)
* Obama's Strategy in Afghanistan (2009)
* Harry Belafonte: On Obama and politics of race (2009)
* Mental Illness in America's Prisons (2009)
* The Best of Fault Lines 2009 (2009)
* Honduras: 100 Days of Resistance (2009)
* US Ambassador to Iraq: Christopher Hill (2009)
* Afghanistan & the United States: The Deeper Debate (2009)
* Race and Recession Town Hall (2009)
* US Colombia Base Agreement (2009)
* Rio: Olympic City (2010)
* Obama: Year One (2010)
* Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding (2010)
* On the brink: Iraq, Kurdistan and the Battle for Kirkuk (2010)
* Cornel West (2010)
* America's Job Crisis, Working through the US job crisis (2010)
* Cyber War (2010)
* Arundhati Roy (2010)
* The Other Debt Crisis: Climate Debt in Bolivia (2010)
* Elderly in Prison (2010)
* In Deep Water - A Way of Life in Peril (2010)
* Danny Glover (2010)
* Haiti: Six Months On (2010)
* General Wesley Clark (2010)
* Illegal America: Arizona's Immigration Fight (2010)
* Politics of Death Row (2010)
* The High and the Mighty (2010)
* Tea Party, Big Money, Twisted maps (2010)
* US Midterm Elections: A Town Hall Debate (2010)
* Fast food, Fat profits: Obesity in America (2010)
* The Other Special Relationship (2010)
* Mexico: Impunity and Profits (2011)
* Mexico's Hidden War (2011)
* Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment (2011)
* Colombia's Gold War (2011)
* Outsourced: Clinical Trials Overseas (2011)
* The US and the New Middle East: Libya (2011)
* The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf (2011)
* The Top 1% (2011)
* Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine (2011)
* Horn of Africa Crisis: Drought Zone (2011)
* Politics, Religion, and the Tea Party (2011)
* The Decline of Labor Unions in the US (2011)
* Robot Wars (2011)
* Chile Rising (2012)
* Occupy Wall Street: History of an Occupation (2012)
* Occupy Wall Street: Surviving the Winter (2012)
* Disenfranchised in America (2012)
* Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention (2012)
* Iraq: After the Americans (2012)
* Controlling the Web (2012)
* The US and Honduras (2012)
* Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City (2012)
* The Abortion War (2012)
* For Sale - The American Dream (2012)
* Conventions 2012: The Price of the Party (2012)
* Fracking in America (2012)
* Battle for the Arctic (2012)
* Elsipogtog: The Fire Over Water (2013)
* Collect it All: America's Surveillance State (2013)
* Chasing Fire (2013)
* Egypt and the U.S. (2013)
* Stolen Wages (2013)
* America's Infant Mortality Crisis (2013)
* Cross Border Killings (2013)
* Life After Guantanamo (2013)
* Haiti in a Time of Cholera (2013)
* Made in Bangladesh (2013)
* America's Hidden Harvest (2013)
* Women Behind Bars (2013)
* Elders Incorporated (2013)
* Ferguson: Race and Justice in the U.S. (2014)
* Wall Street Landlords (2014)
* The Disappeared (2014)
* Opioid Wars (2014)
* Iraq divided: The fight against ISIL (2014)
* No Refuge: Children at the Border (2014)
* Ferguson: City Under Siege (2014)
* The Coverage Gap (2014)
* State of Play: Football Players and the NCAA (2014)
* Wisconsin's Mining Standoff (2014)
* Chasing Bail (2014)
* Water for Coal (2014)
* Mexico's Vigilante State (2014)
* Access Restricted: Abortion in Texas (2014)
* Space Inc. (2014)
* This is Taliban Country (2014)
* On the Front Lines With the Taliban (2014)
* Death in Plain Sight (2014)
* America's War Workers (2014)
* Deadly Force: Arming America's Police (2014)
* Libya: State of Insecurity (2014)
* Colombia: Deadly Fight for Land (2014)
* The Deported: America's Immigration Battle (2014)
* Alaska: When the Water Took the Land (2015)
* Earthquake State (2015)
* One Day in Charkh (2015)
* Conflicted: The Fight Over Congo's Minerals (2015)
* The Puerto Rico Gamble (2015)
* Lost in the System (2015)
* Take as Prescribed: Drug Addiction in the U.S. (2015)
* The Colorado River: a lifeline running dry (2015)
* Under the Microscope: The FBI Hair Cases (2015)
* Forgotten Youth: Inside America's Prisons (2015)
* Invisible Hands (2015)
* Baltimore Rising (2015)
* The Death of Aging (2015)
* South Sudan: Country of Dreams (2015)
* Shadow City (2015)
* Mexico's Disappeared (2015)
* The Disappearing Delta (2015)
* Hidden State: Inside North Korea (2015)
* Death on the Bakken Shale (2015)
* Standing Rock & The Battle Beyond (2016)
* The Anacortes Disaster (2016)
* The Contract: Chicago's Police Union (2016)
* Afghan Translators: Out of Hiding (2016)
* Crypto Wars: Behind the Encryption Debate (2016)
* The Lives of Black Women (2016)
* The Taser Cases (2016)
* Honduras: Blood and the Water (2016)
* The Poison In Our Walls (2016)
* The Trump Takeover (2016)
* The Rise of Trump (2016)
* Albuquerque Police: A History of Violence (2016)
* Afghan Translators: Out of Hiding (2016)
* Dark Prison: The Legacy of the CIA Torture Programme (2016)
* Seafood Slaves (2016)
* The Final Call: Why Firefighters Commit Suicide (2016)
* Survival Mode: Growing Up With Violence (2016)
* Life of the Party (2017)
* The Rollback: Trump's Toxic War (2017)
* Confidential: Surveilling Black Lives (2017)
* Houston After Harvey (2017)
* Hate in Trump's America (2017)
* Heroin's Children (2017)
* Undocumented in Trump's America (2017)
* State of Denial (2017)
* The Trump Show (2017)
* The Prison Factory (2017)
* Guatemala's Disappeared (2017)
* Haiti by Force: UN Sex Abuse (2017)
* The Ban (2017)
* American Sheriff (2018)
* Puerto Rico: Shelter After the Storm (2018)
* Between War and the Ban: An American-Yemeni Story (2018)
* Fire and Fury: Trump's North Korea Crisis (2018)
* Trump's War on Gangs (2018)
* This is Antifa: Behind the mask of the US anti-fascist movement (2018)
* "No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border" (2018)
* "The Gang Within: A Baltimore Police Scandal" (2018)
* "Adoption Inc: The Baby Business" (2018)
* "Donald Trump: All the President's Profits" (2018)
* "Church of Trump" (2018)
* "Recovering from Rehab: Work-based therapy in the US" (2019)
* "The Aftermath: Mass Shootings in the US" (2019)
* "The Search: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" (2019)
* "Targeted by a Text" (2019)
* "The Viral Threat: Measles and Misinformation" (2019)
* "System Failure: The Boeing Crashes" (2019)
* "In Bad Faith: Child Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church" (2019)
* "The Cost of Living: Why US Prescription Drug Prices Are so High" (2019)
* "Sick Inside: Death and Neglect in US Jails" (2019)
* "The Abortion Bans" (2019)
* "Licence to Hate: White Supremacy in the US" (2019)
* "Amazon Burning: Death and Destruction in Brazil's Rainforest" (2019)
* "The Impossible Choice: America's Paid Leave Crisis" (2020)
* "America's Divided Democrats" (2020)
* "Houston's Cancer Cluster" (2020)
* "Afghanistan: Civilian Loss in the US Air War" (2020)
* "Conspiracy to Massacre: Anti-Semitism in America" (2020)
* "America's Pandemic Workers" (2020)
* "Moment of Reckoning: Racism and Police in America" (2020)
* "Virus on the Poultry Line" (2020)
* "Pandemic in Prison: The San Quentin Outbreak" (2020)
* "When COVID Hit: America's Nursing Home Nightmare" (2020)
* "The End of Presidency" Trump's Loss in a Divided America" (2020)
* "The Great Divide: COVID-19 and Race in Chicago" (2020)
* "Capitol Attack: Where will the GOP go after Trump?" (2021)
* "Shelter in Place: LA's fight for housing in a pandemic" (2021)
* "No Consent: Did a doctor abuse immigrant women?" (2021)
* "Failure to Protect: How domestic violence separates families" (2021)
* "The Texas Blackout" (2021)
* "The Jim Crow Convictions" (2021)
* "Unrelenquished: When America's Gun Laws Fail Abuse Victims" (2021)
* "Exit Honduras: A climate in crisis" (2021)
* "When the Water Stopped" (2021)
* "Buried Truths: America's Indigenous Boarding Schools" (2021)
* "A Toxic Feed: Social Media and Teen Mental Health" (2022)
* "Shadow System: LA's Secretive Sheriff 'gangs'" (2022)
* "51 Years Behind Bars" (2022)
* "The End of Roe: Living Without Abortion Rights" (2022)
* "Impunity at the Border: Inside US Border Patrol's 'cover-up' Unit" (2022)
* "Silenced: The Killing of Journalists in Mexico" (2022)
* "Bloodsport: How the NFL Failed its Black Players" (2022)
* "No Country for Haitians: Deported From the US" (2022)
* "The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh" (2022)
* "The Imprisonment of Julian Assange" (2023)
* "El Salvador's Prison State" (2023)
* "ThePrice of Perfection: The Dangers of Brazilian Butt Lifts" (2023)
* "Derailed: Investigating the US Railroad Industry" (2023)
* "The Confession: A Colombian Colonel Faces His Victims" (2023)
* "The Box: 27 Years in Solitary Confinement" (2023)

## Awards

| Year | Title | Awarding Body | Award | Recognition |
| 2011 | Haiti - Six Months On | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award | Excellence in Broadcast and Digital News |
| 2014 | Haiti in a time of Cholera | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | News & Documentary Emmy Award | Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine |
| 2014 | Haiti in a time of Cholera | Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication | Peabody Awards | |
| 2014 | Made in Bangladesh | Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication | Peabody Awards | |
| 2014 | Made in Bangladesh | Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights | Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award | International TV |
| 2014 | Made in Bangladesh | Press Club of Atlantic City | National Headliner Awards, first place | Instigative report |
| 2014 | Deadly Force | Press Club of Atlantic City | National Headliner Awards, first place | Instigative report |
| 2014 | Water for Coal | Press Club of Atlantic City | National Headliner Awards, first place | Environmental |
| 2014 | America's Infant Mortality Crisis | Press Club of Atlantic City | National Headliner Awards, first place | Health/science reporting, first place |
| 2015 | Ferguson: City Under Siege | National Association of Black Journalists | | Television: Documentary, winner |
| 2015 | Ferguson: City Under Siege | ATAS, NATAS, and IATAS | Emmy Award | Coverage of Breaking news in News Magazine, nominee |
| 2015 | American War Workers | ATAS, NATAS, and IATAS | Emmy Award | Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine, nominee |
| 2015 | American War Workers | Overseas Press Club of America | Joe & Laurie Dine Award | Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights |
| 2015 | Mexico's Vigilante State | Overseas Press Club of America | Robert Spiers Benjamin Award | Best reporting in any medium on Latin America |
| 2015 | Ferguson: Race and Justice in the US | Radio Television Digital News Association | Kaleidoscope Award | |
| 2015 | Opioid Wars | National Institute for Health Care Management | Television & Radio Journalism Award, tied first place | |
| 2016 | Baltimore Rising | National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications | Vision Award, Documentary | |
| 2016 | Baltimore Rising | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine, nominee |
| 2016 | Forgotten Youth: Inside America's Prisons | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine, nominee |
| 2016 | Forgotten Youth: Inside America's Prisons | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Research, nominee |
| 2016 | Conflicted: The Fight for Congo's Minerals | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine, nominee |
| 2016 | The Puerto Rico Gamble | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine, nominee |
| 2016 | Death of Aging | New York International Film and TV Festival | Gold World Medal, Science & Technology | |
| 2017 | Standing Rock and the Battle Beyond | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report, nominee |
| 2017 | The Anacortes Disaster | ATAS, NATAS, IATAS | Emmy Award | Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report, nominee |
| 2017 | The Anacortes Disaster | Society of Environmental Journalists | Society of Environmental Journalists Award | Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, first place |
| 2017 | Left Behind | New York International Film and TV Festival | Gold World Award | |
| 2017 | The Dark Prison | New York International Film and TV Festival | Gold World Award | |
| 2018 | Haiti By Force | CINE | Golden Eagle Award | Short documentary |
| 2018 | The Ban | 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards | Emmy Award | Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine |
| 2019 | No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border. | Overseas Press Club of America | Edward R. Murrow award | Best TV, video, or documentary interpretation of international affairs |
| 2019 | Adoption Inc. | 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards | Emmy Award | Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine |
| 2022 | When the Water Stopped | Society of Environmental Journalists | SEJ Award | Outstanding Feature Story, Large Category. First place. |
| 2022 | Unrelinquished: When Abusers Keep Their Guns | Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights | Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award | Domestic Television Award |
| 2023 | The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh | Long Island University | George Polk Award | Foreign Television Reporting |
| 2023 | No Country for Haitians | Overseas Press Club of America | The Edward R. Murrow Award | Best TV, video, or documentary interpretation of international affairs |
| 2023 | Blood Sport | Association of International Broadcasting | The AIB | Sports Journalism |
| 2024 | The Shark Fin Hunters | 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards | Emmy Award | Outstanding Climate, Environment and Weather Coverage |