This series of 11 documentaries, hosted by journalist Robert MacNeil, explores the challenges confronting the world post 9/11 - including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops; the struggle for balance within the Islamic world and Muslim life in America; and perspectives on America's role in the world. Additional films will air as specials following the premiere.

JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda
Sunday, 4/15/07 from 9-11 p.m. ET
Providing an in-depth look at modern, radical Islamic groups, this episode explores the ideas and beliefs that inspire them, along with the challenges they pose for governments in the Middle East and the West.  From the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1940s to Islamic organizations today, the film offers insightful perspectives of Islam from Western and Middle Eastern journalists, U.S. intelligence experts on the frontlines of the fight against Al Qaeda, and friends and contemporaries of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Warriors
Monday, 4/16/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET
This episode profiles a handful of Army soldiers filmed during the spring and fall of 2005 in some of the most dangerous areas in and around Baghdad. Their stories are revealed through intimate snapshots as they face the daily complexities and personal risks of the war in Iraq. The program opens a compelling, harrowing and at times humorous window on some less familiar sides of a soldier's daily life: a look at who they are, what they do and why.

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Monday, 4/16/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET
This documentary explores the searing firsthand accounts of American troops through their own words - fiction, verse, letters, essays and personal journals. The film is based on the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) initiative by the same name, which was a series of writing workshops conducted by distinguished authors at domestic and overseas military installations. Combining interviews and dramatic readings, the film transforms this remarkable collection of writing into a deep examination of life on the front lines. The film provides depth and context for these experiences through conversations with great American writers from previous wars, including Tim O'Brien and James Salter. The stories recounted are sad, funny, violent and uplifting. The writings come to life with readings by Josh Lucas, Aaron Eckhart, Blair Underwood and others. Operation Homecoming evokes the universal emotions of war with a haunting poignancy and raw emotion.

Gangs of Iraq
Tuesday, 4/17/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET
Day after day, scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To stanch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to "stand up" the Iraqi forces. In this joint production of Frontline and America at a Crossroads series, Frontline takes a hard look at how the four-year training effort has failed and how the Coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias. Now, with President Bush proposing to send new U.S. troops to Iraq, it remains to be seen if America and its allies can build a national Iraqi army and police and restore order.

The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom
Tuesday, 4/17/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET
With debate over the war in Iraq reaching a fever pitch, this program follows one of the advocates for the war against Saddam Hussein. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle travels the globe articulating, defending and debating the neo-conservative case for an assertive American foreign policy. Perle finds no shortage of candidates willing to challenge him on the issue, including the wife of a soldier serving in Iraq and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke.

Europe's 9/11
Wednesday, 4/18/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET
This episode explores in-depth the phenomenon of homegrown terrorism, examining the bombings in Madrid, Spain, and the connections between those bombers and al Qaeda cell activities in Milan, Italy, and the Van Gogh murder in the Netherlands. Interviews with key officials and intelligence agencies highlight the difficulties governments face in identifying potential terrorists among radical Islamists and in protecting citizens from these internal threats.

The Muslim Americans
Wednesday, 4/18/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET
This episode explores the diversity of Muslims in America today, focusing on communities' experience after 9/11, and contrasting life for Muslims here in the United States with Muslims in Britain and Europe. The film - produced in conjunction with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, including NewsHour correspondents Ray Suarez, Judy Woodruff, Spencer Michels and Fred de Sam Lazaro, and with openings and closings by Robert MacNeil - looks at the ongoing conversation American Muslims are having about life in the United States, including assimilation, discrimination, Muslim youth, religion and politics.

Faith Without Fear
Thursday, 4/19/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET
Muslim dissident Irshad Manji is on a journey to help restore humanity and reason to Islam. Inspired by the Qur'an, Irshad asks, "How has a religion of justice become mired in fear?" Trekking through Yemen, Europe and North America, she discovers that Islamic faith can be reconciled with individual freedom - if Muslims have the courage to change. Along the way, Irshad is changed by one of her fiercest Muslim critics. But the biggest epiphany of all comes from her pious mom.

Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia
Thursday, 4/19/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET
This episode explores Indonesia's long history of moderation in its practice of Islam, and how Islamist radicals have made the country a flash point in the global war on terror. The film provides an inside look at how this fledgling democracy, with its moderate Muslim majority that practices Islam markedly differently from that in the Middle East, is struggling to control the rise of religious extremism. A potential model for Muslim democracy emerges, if Indonesia can succeed in containing the terrorist threat.

Security Versus Liberty: The Other War
Friday, 4/20/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET
Following 9/11, the U.S. government adopted some controversial new policies to help prevent terrorism at home, including eavesdropping on Americans' phone calls, secret demands for records under the Patriot Act and the use of FBI sting operations. The Bush administration contends these tactics have helped save American lives, but critics say they have taken a toll on our liberties. The film explores this urgent national debate by talking with both critics and advocates of the new policies and telling the compelling real-life stories of people whose lives have been directly affected.

The Brotherhood
Friday, 4/20/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET
The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated to the spread of a fundamental form of Islam throughout the world - but is it also supporting terrorists? Award-winning Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff investigate a movement that preaches peaceful co-existence while offering inspiration for jihadi groups. They meet a top Brotherhood leader condemned by President Bush for financing al Qaeda and Hamas, a sympathizer living freely in Germany though believed to have played a significant role in 9/11 and a Brotherhood supporter who met with U.S. presidents while plotting an assassination.

The Anti-Americans (a hate/love relationship)
Monday, 8/27/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET and Sunday, 9/2/07 from 4-5 a.m. ET
Why does Europe hate us? It's a question that comes to mind for many Americans when they see polls proclaiming that one out of two Europeans sees America as playing a mainly negative role in the world. This program not only explores this pointed query with disarming humor, but also provides powerful insight, told from the "other" point of view. This special is a whimsical yet serious look at the estrangement between Europeans and Americans, especially in the era of the Iraq war. The documentary travels to Ireland, France, Poland and Great Britain to examine the thesis that each country responds to American culture and society in a unique way, based on its own cultural needs, history and prejudices.

Inside America's Empire
Monday, 9/3/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET and Sunday, 9/9/07 from 4-5 a.m. ET
The attacks of September 11, 2001, shattered the American mirage of invulnerability, a false security born of being the world's only superpower. The challenge of terrorism is likely to last for generations, and in a war without definable geographic borders or clear-cut victories, the threat may crop up anywhere. Inside America's Empire illuminates how the U.S. military is confronting this complicated challenge in unexpected and innovative ways, as chronicled by respected military correspondent Robert Kaplan of The Atlantic. Kaplan takes viewers to the Philippines, Mali, Colombia and the Republic of Georgia to meet the commanders and grunts who are waging the war on terror, often acting more as humanitarians than as warriors. Kaplan's insightful and incisive reporting and analysis make the case that this engagement with the peoples and cultures of the world is integral to America's security and future prosperity.

Kansas to Kandahar
Monday, 9/10/07 from 10-11:30 p.m. ET
One of a series of specials commissioned by America at a Crossroads, this documentary explores the response of the U.S. military in the war on terror, examining the service of army reservists as they are called for an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan. Viewers follow the experiences and emotions of a Chinook helicopter unit from suburban Kansas City in their one-year deployment, serving first in Pakistan - providing humanitarian relief following the devastating 2005 earthquake - and then in the war zone in Afghanistan. Illustrative of the personnel and logistical strains on the American military, the film's core remains the personal insights and attitudes of these citizen soldiers as they fulfill their duties while their families strive for normality on the homefront.

Homegrown: Islam in Prison
Monday, 12/17/07 from 2:30-3:30 a.m. ET
"Homegrown" examines a crucial question: are U.S. prisons incubators for radical Islam and terrorist ideology? With overcrowded correctional facilities offering little rehabilitation for inmates and idle time to embrace radical ideologies, should prison reform become part of America's national security policy?

Campus Battleground
Monday, 12/17/07 from 3:30-4:30 a.m. ET
Since the 1960s, American universities have been less a free marketplace of ideas and more of a combat zone where partisan groups forcefully and fiercely argue their positions on national and world affairs. "Campus Battleground" focuses on the University of California-Berkeley and Columbia University, where pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students struggle over the competing claims of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism.

Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age
Sunday, 5/11/08 from 1-2 a.m. ET
The latest installment in this series explores the emergence of Muslim- and Arab-American comedians in the wake of 9/11, demonstrating how they use humor to take on stereotypes about Middle Easterners and terrorism. The film showcases five performers, their comedy, and the way it is shaped by the everyday tribulations of their lives. Some of the comics are Arab, some are Muslim, and some are both. All are Americans. This is the story of how each of these men and women felt the aftershock of 9/11. At a time when people of Middle Eastern background were advised to lie low, they all chose to stand up ... and crack jokes.

The Trial of Saddam Hussein
Sunday, 10/12/08 from 11 p.m. - 12 a.m. ET
This program follows the courtroom drama surrounding the trial of Iraq's former president, revealing a tainted procedural that can be seen as a microcosm of the challenges and dysfunctions of forming the Iraqi government itself.

Dissonance and Harmony: Arabic Music Goes West
Sunday, 11/16/08 from 10:30-11:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday, 11/18/08 from 3:30-4:30 a.m. ET
This episode offers new imagery of Arabs, not as patently anti-American, not as terrorists, but as artists, universally familiar in their struggle to share their talent and ideas. The film follows an eclectic mix of Middle Eastern musicians from their own very specific turf in the Middle East to the United States. Once there, in Los Angeles, they collaborate with other gifted musicians from the West, finding common ground between two cultures in conflict.