Sundance Audience Award Winner "One in a Million" Heads to PBS
A documentary that won the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival will air on PBS. The film, "One in a Million," is the latest release from Frontline Features, a studio set up to put Frontline's feature documentaries in cinemas and festivals before they reach public television.
The film follows 11-year-old Israa over ten years. She and her family flee the war in Syria for Turkey, then settle in Germany. Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes made it, and Raney Aronson-Rath, who runs Frontline, is one of its producers. She received raw footage of Israa when the girl was 10 years old, according to Variety.
That mix of long-term access and patient reporting is the Frontline approach. The series, PBS's flagship investigative documentary strand, has been under Aronson-Rath since 2015. Under her, Frontline has won 44 Emmys. It launches around 20 documentaries a year.
Frontline Features began in November 2025. Its job is to premiere feature and short documentaries in festivals and theatres first, with the PBS broadcast following. "One in a Million" is the studio's latest title.
The series has a major recent honour too. In 2024, Frontline won its first documentary Oscar for "20 Days in Mariupol." The film follows Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues in the Ukrainian city during Russia's invasion in early 2022. Chernov has said it was his debut film.
Aronson-Rath has also been recognised personally. In August 2026, DOC NYC gave her its Leading Light Award. The same month, Deadline released an exclusive trailer for "One in a Million."
For viewers, the route is simple. The film has already reached audiences through festival screenings, and it is due on PBS. Anyone who misses it in a cinema can watch it when the broadcast arrives, as long as they have access to their local PBS station.
