Frontline

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 0h 55m

Release: 1983

Rating: 7.5

Season 1 - Frontline
1983-01-17
"In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football and the world of sports gambling and organized crime."
1983-01-24
"On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina. Correspondent James Reston, Jr.,investigates the role of a police informant who was with the group when the attack was planned and when it was carried out."
1983-01-31
"Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry."
1983-02-07
"For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland."
1983-02-14
"In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest bank and chief advisor to the Vatican's bank. Reporter Jeremy Paxman investigates Calvi's links with the Vatican and with P-2, a secret Italian society, and questions whether his death was really a suicide."
1983-02-21
"Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chasing Pentagon dollars for the jobs those dollars create in their districts; scientists and universities find themselves dependent on the military if they want to do research in many high-tech areas."
1983-02-28
"Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, and the sharpest minds on both sides, Frontline explores the underlying fears that make gun control such an emotional issue."
1983-03-07
"Kojo Odo, a 42 year-old single black man, took in his first child a decade ago-a 7 year old boy with his arm missing. No one wanted the youngster. Each of Odo's 21 children came to him with a physical or mental handicap. Frontline looks at the daily life of this remarkable family and Odo's battle to keep the family together."
1983-03-21
"Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. They encounter young, articulate Russians whose world view is completely contradictory to their own."
1983-03-28
"Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline follows her through all the procedures, but the heart of the story is an exploration of values, character, cosmetics, and the business of plastic surgery."
1983-04-11
"Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as 'high ground,' the battle area to control."
1983-04-18
"For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most personal decisions a woman can make. By focusing not only on the clinic, but also on a right-to-life doctor who pickets the clinic every Saturday, the film becomes a revealing study of people confronting their most deeply held values."
1983-04-25
"Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the end of the guerilla war may not mean an end to fighting. Correspondent Charlie Cobb finds a rift between the nation's two black leaders that threatens to split the country along tribal lines."
1983-05-02
"Frontline investigates the frightening aftermath of one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history-the June 9, 1982 crash of Pan Am flight 759 at the New Orleans airport. The report discovers how human greed and legal machinations over hundreds of millions of dollars bring new horror to survivors and victims' relatives alike."
1983-05-09
"Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and social relaxation. Frontline explores what has been retained and what has been rejected from the days of the Cultural Revolution."
1983-05-16
"For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli Television. This is Rafik's story-a story in which his identity and loyalty became a national controversy."
1983-05-23
"Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathing in it. Frontline chronicles Kaler's six-year battle with local and federal officials over the chemical pollution of his drinking water."
1983-05-30
"Frontline tells the story of five days in the fall of 1982 when more than 150,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the dedication of the Vietnam Memorial. Parents, friends, and survivors came to the emotion-filled event reflecting the pain and conflict many still feel about that war."
1983-06-06
"When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applauded the project. But Frontline found that park policies of condemning hundreds of businesses and homes soon generated intense local opposition as well as charges that the homes of politically influential citizens were being spared."
1983-06-20
"Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship and bureaucratic indifference as they take their cases to the courts and to Congress."
1983-06-27
"In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and truth remains elusive. Frontline interviews government soldiers, rebels, and noncombatants to find out why the killing continues."
1983-07-04
"Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight of the people who seek refuge from governments allied to the United States."
1983-07-11
"Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers, Brazil and Mexico,are struggling even to repay the interest. Correspondent Anthony Sampson finds that threats to repudiate the loans are causing American bankers to fear financial catastrophe."
1983-07-18
"Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he would reveal embarrassing evidence about French collaboration, and some Americans feared that he would talk about his postwar work for U.S. intelligence agencies."
Season 2 - Frontline
1984-01-16
"Investor-owned for-profit hospital chains are aggressively marketing themselves to treat only the insured or wealthy patient. But most Americans assume government and charity programs enable everyone -- no matter how poor -- to receive treatment for serious health problems."
1984-01-23
"As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate environment, Frontline looks at the darker side of Japanese labor relations at the Nissan Motor Company in both Japan and Smyrna, Tennessee."
1984-02-06
"Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Profiles Michael Flannery, Grand Marshal of New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade, who participated in an ambush on British troops in Ireland some 50 years ago."
1984-02-13
"Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goes more to doing God's work or to keeping the preachers on TV. Should the government regulate religious fundraising?"
1984-02-27
"On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behind the scenes at the presidential candidates and the political reporters who cover them -- the story behind the story and who writes it."
1984-03-19
"Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, almost escaped punishment for these crimes because he convinced a group of experts that he had multiple personalities and was not mentally competent to stand trial."
1984-03-26
"Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker."
1984-04-02
"A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves examines black political power today and the struggle for the heart and soul of the black voter."
1984-04-16
"Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador -- a tiny Central America nation about which we know so much, and yet so little -- to examine the politics and the people the U.S. government supports there."
1984-04-23
"Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education in exchange for play, but 75% of players never obtain a degree. Are colleges too busy with their big-time sports programs to be concerned with educating their players?"
1984-05-07
"An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachusetts where infirm horses run for purses that can barely pay the feed bill. This is America's number one spectator sport, in which tens of millions wager tens of billions every year."
1984-05-14
"Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet which critics warn may not be suited to the kind of wars the nation is most likely to fight."
1984-05-21
"Explores what Los Angeles is trying to do about its gang problem. It's the worst in the nation, killing more than 1,000 people over the past three years -- the majority of whom were not even gang members."
1984-06-04
"Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which they capture the human story as well as the political environment surrounding the issue."
1984-06-18
"Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some animal rights groups break into labs to 'liberate' research animals, many scientists claim any significant restriction on animal testing would end medical progress."
1984-10-09
"Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on television -- from the early days of lonely ambition, through the months of promise, to the day of denial."
1984-10-16
"The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, fail, fight, love, laugh, and confront an America unlike anything they had ever imagined."
1984-10-23
"As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through the eyes of accomplished women like UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro."
1984-10-30
"It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28 years at the same job, he was laid off-a victim of the recession. Now he's broke, afraid, and at the mercy of the welfare system. Frontline follows him into the maze of the bureaucracy."
1984-11-13
"Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk shows and interviews, they try to project a message: that a solution for the West Bank is possible."
1984-11-20
"Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for infants born so physically and mentally damaged that they have no hope of leading normal lives? Several intimate case histories are examined, as are the politics of recent legal decisions and government rules relating to the medical care for critically ill babies."
1984-11-27
"In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In desert camps described as 'the closest thing to hell on earth,' nearly 100 children, old people, and the infirm were dying every day. They were dying while the US and the Soviet Union argued over how to feed them and what to do about Ethiopia."
1984-12-11
"In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan, examining the stalemate in the Persian Gulf and the pressure placed on Pakistan to accept over one million Afghan refugees."
1984-12-18
"Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperately to upgrade academic standards and to make a difference in the lives of it students. Frontline looks at the struggle to salvage Marshall High and the lessons this school has for a nation trying to improve its public schools."
Season 3 - Frontline
1985-01-15
"Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their victory, the countryside remains scarred and war-torn. Frontline examines the legacies of the longest and most unpopular war in American history on the country where it was fought."
1985-01-22
"Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting gang members who live across Imperial Highway. It's a war being fought on the streets and in the courtroom between gang members and the Hawkins family."
1985-01-29
"The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside the housing project where they live in the Watts section of Los Angeles, gang members talk about gangs and why they form, and the threat they pose to ordinary citizens."
1985-02-05
"He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way through the prison system to parole from a life sentence, and Lesley Earl, the woman who wants to help him go straight."
1985-02-12
"Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and the figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from the Emergency Children's Service of New York into homes where they confront violent parents and battered children."
1985-02-19
"Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, promoters, and fans who love the sport-and critics who say it should be banned."
1985-02-26
"They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire."
1985-03-05
"Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakistani businessman who tried to ship electrical devices which can be used as nuclear bomb triggers out of the US to Pakistan."
1985-03-26
"One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later."
1985-04-02
"Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the nation's capital on the shores of the Potomac river. Frontline follows two newly elected representatives from their homes to Washington where they experience the rewards-and the frustrations-of making the transition from citizen to congressman."
1985-04-09
"From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region."
1985-04-10
"The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of the revolution, Fidel Castro's rise to power, the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas, the support for his revolution abroad, and Cuba's troubled history with the United States."
1985-04-11
"In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the US first tried to prevent, then tried to court, and later tried to undermine. Part 3 traces the evolution of US involvement in Nicaragua and the struggle for control of the revolution."
1985-04-12
"Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part 4 traces the evolution of El Salvador's civil war and the US policy toward El Salvador."
1985-04-16
"Experts estimate there are at least four million child sexual abusers in the US, and they do not fit our stereotypes. Almost half of those guilty of incest also molest children outside the family. Many also commit adult rape-and they come from every social background. Should they be treated, punished, or both? Frontline examines a controversial Seattle, Washington, program aimed at treating child sexual abusers."
1985-04-23
"One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with the Vatican."
1985-04-30
"Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's role in fighting modern wars."
1985-05-07
"Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and is broadcast for the first time in its entirety on Frontline."
1985-05-14
"You go to rent an apartment and are turned down without any obvious reason. Then you find out your name is in a computer file of undesirable tenants and every other landlord in the city has access to the information. Correspondent Robert Krulwich investigates computerized information systems and the issues of privacy they raise."
1985-05-28
"In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest banks that failed, Penn Square in Oklahoma City, and another which nearly failed, Continental Illinois in Chicago, to examine the implications on the nation's banking system."
Season 4 - Frontline
1986-01-21
"While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of their release, using never-before-seen footage from inside the American embassy compound in Tehran, the hostages tell the story of their long ordeal."
1986-01-28
"For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice suit. Frontline takes an inside look at the fierce battle developing between doctors and lawyers over medical malpractice suits."
1986-02-04
"The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them live below the poverty line. Frontline follows them through the maze of social service programs available to them and discovers what it is like growing up poor."
1986-02-11
"A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russian tour. They elude their government guides and search for their fellow man on the streets of the Soviet Union."
1986-02-18
"Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspondent Judy Woodruff takes an inside look at the preparation of these massive lawsuits, concentrating on a suit that would later reach the Supreme Court as well as presenting the emphatic denials of the tobacco industry, which says smoking is a simple question of personal choice and responsibility."
1986-02-25
"Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profiles the couples, the lawyers, the judges, and most poignantly, the children caught between parents."
1986-03-18
"Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and asked questions about the role of the White House and a mysterious Marine colonel named Oliver North."
1986-03-25
"Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS. In a special broadcast, Frontline first follows Bridges' tragic journey across the US and later, a panel of national experts, led by Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, discuss how Americans should respond to this urgent public health issue."
1986-04-01
"Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed elections, corruption, violence, and the widening gap between Mexico City and the more conservative border states."
1986-04-08
"For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wisconsin criminal trial. The results yield a view of 12 Americans grappling with guilt, innocence, and the nature of justice as never before seen."
1986-04-15
"For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, and politics of tax reform. Correspondent William Greider investigates how Washington really works as seen through this exclusive access to the inner circles of Congress."
1986-04-20
"Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been called 'the greatest free lunch fiscal policy' in modern times."
1986-04-22
"Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contains the most comprehensive information on Star Wars ever produced. Correspondent Bill Kurtis interviews Russian and American scientists, arms-control experts, and politicians to reveal the scientific and political implications of what could become the world's most sophisticated military technology."
1986-05-13
"Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the American dream. In the real world of agents, casting directors, aspiring actors, and studio executives, how are movies made? Frontline examines the fantasy and reality of Hollywood's five billion dollar a year industry."
1986-05-20
"A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the highest casualties. But these young men say they were fighting two wars-against the enemy and against discrimination. Correspondent Wallace Terry, the author of 'Bloods,' the national bestseller on which this film is based, talks with black veterans who fought discrimination in Vietnam and who later confronted disillusionment when they came home."
1986-05-27
"Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. Paul, Minnesota, Frontline examines mental illness from the point of view of those who struggle with it as they fight their psychological demons and confront the social stigma of their disease."
1986-06-03
"Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and reveals why Iran's war with Iraq is an important step in spreading their brand of Islam throughout the world."
1986-06-10
"England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, power, privilege prevail. Ofra Bikel explores Britain's social structure, cultural values, and attitudes toward enterprise and work."
1986-06-17
"The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hiring of fellow firefighters in 1984. As a result, the Justice Department asked 50 cities to tighten their affirmative action policies. Correspondent George Curry examines the 20 year conflict over these policies and reveals the point of view of those whom it affects."
1986-07-01
"Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League member in Moscow are depicted as she completes her education at a prestigious school and begins her first teaching job."
1986-07-08
"For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, where they hunt on horseback for sable and other valuable fur animals. Frontline examines life in the taiga and follows the hunt of father and son."
1986-07-15
"Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is difficult to control. Made without the permission of Soviet authorities on a home video camera, Frontline takes a look at the Soviet music subculture and this one talented musician."
1986-07-22
"Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old hospital orderly on trial for theft in Soviet Moldavia, and Lyubov Bubulic, the female judge presiding over Russo's case."
1986-07-29
"Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosques in Samarkand. Frontline examines daily life in a Muslim community and explores the uneasy relationship between Islamic faith and Soviet power."
1986-08-05
"Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thousand miles and seven time zones from Moscow. Here, Frontline profiles the workaholic lifestyle of Tatyana Naumova, a communist zealot and town official in Nakhodka, and the tensions it creates with her husband, who cares for their two daughters."
1986-08-12
"Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for the town championship."
1986-08-19
"Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness has made him famous. He lives like a superstar with a chauffeur, a sumptuous apartment in Moscow, and a house in the country. Frontline follows Fyodorov through his day and reveals what life is really like for privileged Soviet Citizens."
1986-08-26
"For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and boredom of basic training in the military and focuses on his parents, who worry that in the next two years he may be fighting in Afghanistan."
1986-09-02
"The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through their daily lives during harvest time and takes a close look at the workings of the collective farm system to find that they, like many other Russian peasants, have discovered their own version of the Communist way of life-Leninism with loopholes."
1986-09-09
"Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state expects firm control over all productions. Dinara Asanova, one of the few female directors of Soviet features, knows how to bend the rules-departing from approved scripts and changing characters and locations, with controversial results."
Season 5 - Frontline
1987-01-27
"One year after the Challenger disaster, Frontline examined the all-too-human side of the space program as seen through the eyes of the astronauts and engineers responsible for making it work. Correspondent James Reston tells the inside story of a program plagued by problems and politics."
1987-02-03
"Frontline examines the startling implications of what will happen when the big earthquake hits California, detailing the awesome effects as systems rupture and the entire nation's economy, industries, and national security are jeopardized."
1987-02-10
"A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. Part 2 journeys into America\u2019s schools to find out if drugs are really a major problem and if anti-drug efforts are working."
1987-02-17
"A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. Part 2 journeys into America\u2019s schools to find out if drugs are really a major problem and if anti-drug efforts are working."
1987-02-24
"German scientists were responsible for putting the first American on the moon. Now, 15 years later, government investigators are asking whether some of them were also responsible for Nazi war crimes. Frontline examines their war records and the role of American officials who decided to bring them to the United States."
1987-03-03
"Two million American couples desperately want babies and can\u2019t have them. They are turning to private adoption deals brokered by lawyers and counselors. Sometimes they get a new baby and a happy home; sometimes their hearts are broken. Frontline looks at a system filled with ambiguity and heartbreak."
1987-03-31
"Frontline takes a gritty look at street cops. In Boston\u2019s busiest, most violent police district, they confront the never-ending calls for help and the never-ending chase after drugs."
1987-04-14
"How could an ordinary citizen be considered a national security risk? Penn Kimball, a university professor, former New York Times editor, Rhodes scholar, and Eagle Scout, was stunned to discover that for 30 years, government files existed declaring him as a disloyal American. As he tries to clear his name, Frontline examines the government decision to gather information on American citizens."
1987-04-21
"As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement there continues. The program is a meticulous reconstruction of US policy toward Nicaragua, and an investigation into how US foreign policy is made."
1987-05-05
"\u2018I could hear the bullets all around me, hitting all around the house. I was forced back by gunfire,\u2019 says Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor of MOVE, a small, violent, urban cult. Years of tension ended May 13, 1985, when police bombed Africa\u2019s house. The surrounding neighborhood burned out of control, leaving 250 homeless. Frontline correspondent Leon Dash examines why the bombing really happened."
1987-05-26
"The day Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986, they left with $8.9 million in jewelry, cash, and bonds. But the Philippine government claims they took much more, plundering the wealth of the nation, stashing it in fake companies and secret bank accounts. Frontline tracked hundreds of millions of dollars of the Marcos money and asked whether the Philippine government will ever get it back."
1987-06-02
"The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war\u2019s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling with its image and its role as a democracy and reveals what has happened to the dream."
1987-06-09
"She was from Minnesota. Young, pretty, and fresh. She went to Hollywood in search of a dream and found herself in X-rated movies, on drugs, and estranged from her family and friends. Correspondent Al Austin retraces her story, discovering why after two years as a porn queen, she took her own life."
1987-06-16
"The black church was once the soul of its community. It was a rallying point and a force for change. Now, as the black middle class grows and the church evolves, correspondent Roger Wilkins asks whom does it serve and to what end?"
1987-06-23
"As corruption scandals rock New York City, the careers of dozens of high officials are being destroyed. Frontline takes an inside look at the seamy side of urban politics and asks whether this is any way to run a government."
Season 6 - Frontline
1987-12-14
"Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before the first tiny Dutch settlement in 1652. Part 1 refutes this claim and traces the country\u2019s colonial history, the emergence early in the 20th century of the African National Congress, the rise to power of Afrikaner nationalists, and the formal policy of apartheid."
1987-12-14
"Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had lived for generations, and establishing separate and unequal schooling for blacks. Frontline focuses on the increasing black resistance in the 1950s and the rise of resistance leader Nelson Mandela."
1987-12-15
"Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on how the white government found African leaders to collaborate with them in a plan to make foreigners of black South African citizens by deporting them to independent homelands in rural areas of the country. The program looks at the increased resistance to the homeland policy as seen through the first nationwide attack by young black South Africans in the Soweto ghetto in 1976."
1987-12-15
"When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must \u2018adapt or die.\u2019 Part 4 explores the reforms undertaken by Botha to maintain white supremacy, changes that have deeply divided Afrikaners and have provoked explosive reactions from many blacks."
1987-12-16
"Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa\u2019s future. Two years before the release of Nelson Mandela, dissident white Afrikaners met with black leaders from the outlawed African National Congress in Dakar, Senagal, to discuss strategies for change in South Africa, presaging the reforms that would come later."
1988-01-26
"Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in the Bakker empire."
1988-02-02
"Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan\u2019s greatest truimphs-the rescue of American students during the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Hersh\u2019s reporting reveals an inept US military operation and questions whether the students needed rescuing at all."
1988-02-09
"Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records paint the chilling portrait of a celebrity stalker who meticulously planned the murder, believing it would make him famous."
1988-02-16
"Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This film probes the air traffic dilemma inside America's busiest airport -- in the control tower and behind the ticket counter."
1988-02-23
"Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to probe the contininuing struggle between the inmates and the guards, the wardens and the reformers, for control of one of our most dangerous prisons."
1988-03-01
"Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before it became the US Supreme Court\u2019s first right-to-die case, Frontline explored the complex legal and moral issues of this Missouri couple\u2019s battle to allow their daughter to die."
1988-03-29
"In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline returned with the Schecter family to the Soviet Union as they renewed old friendships and explored Russia under glasnost."
1988-04-05
"The military is America\u2019s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon\u2019s poor record of cleaning up its pollution that contaminates the ground water in communities across the country."
1988-04-12
"When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her, reuniting with her brothers and sister who were also brutally abused, and trying to make peace with the horror story that was her childhood."
1988-04-19
"Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that night on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This report dissects the motives of possible conspirators and follows the trail of the man suspected of planting the bomb."
1988-04-26
"Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a society that looks Western, but operates by a very different set of rules."
1988-05-10
"Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America\u2019s college campuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at some of the country\u2019s best universities where years after the civil rights struggle, full integration is still only a dream."
1988-05-17
"An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels."
1988-10-24
"Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis."
1988-06-21
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1990-10-16
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1990-10-30
"Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has shattered families and left tens of thousands on the nation\u2019s streets."
1990-11-06
"Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, \u2018Who really wins and who loses?\u2019"
1991-02-05
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1991-05-07
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1991-05-14
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1991-05-21
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Season 12 - Frontline
1993-11-09
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1993-12-14
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1994-03-01
"Sarajevo: the Living and the Dead is a 1993 documentary film directed by Radovan Tadic."
1994-03-29
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1994-04-26
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Season 13 - Frontline
1994-10-18
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1994-11-01
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1994-11-15
"In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women. But what about her classmates who left college believing they could do anything? In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women."
1995-01-03
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1995-01-10
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1995-02-21
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1995-04-25
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1995-06-06
"Prozac is the most prescribed antidepressant drug in America. FRONTLINE travels to the prozac capital of the world, Wenatchee, Washington, and talks to the \u2018Pied Piper of Prozac,\u2019 Dr. Jim Goodwin, a clinical psychologist who says Prozac is \u2018probably less toxic than salt\u2019 and has had it prescribed for all his seven hundred patients. Psychiatrist Peter Breggin and members of the Prozac Survivors Support Group, however, question the use of the drug."
1995-06-13
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Season 14 - Frontline
1995-10-17
"FRONTLINE investigates the April 1993 FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas. With access to secret government documents, audio and videotapes, correspondent Peter Boyer of \"The New Yorker\" probes the untold story of the fierce political infighting inside the FBI's Waco command center and in the corridors of power at the Justice Department in Washington."
1995-11-14
"FRONTLINE takes a riveting and intimate look at a notorious murder case--the story of Maduev, a cunning Russian gangster and killer known as 'The Wolf.' Maduev charmed and seduced all who crossed his path, including his state prosecutor, Natasha Voronstova, who smuggled him a gun to make his escape from prison. With exclusive access to the central characters, the trial, and to secret KGB tapes, this film reveals the heart of a killer's chilling story that has mesmerized Russia."
1996-01-09
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1996-01-16
"In this investigative biography of the outspoken and controversial speaker, which first aired in 1996, correspondent Peter J. Boyer takes an inside look at how Gingrich led the GOP to become the majority party and examines the childhood, people and events that shaped his personality and political career."
1996-02-06
"Clinic workers Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols are murdered by John Salvi, a radical, young, Catholic abortion opponent."
1996-04-02
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1996-04-17
"FRONTLINE producer Marian Marzynski travels to Poland to search for remnants of the lives and memories of an entire Jewish village, a shtetl lost in the Holocaust."
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Season 17 - Frontline
1998-09-21
"The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: \" It's a revelation of what television can be.\""
1998-09-22
"The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: \" It's a revelation of what television can be.\""
1998-10-13
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1998-10-27
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1998-11-03
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1999-01-12
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1999-02-09
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1999-02-23
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1999-04-27
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1999-05-25
"An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders."
1999-06-01
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1999-06-22
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1999-06-29
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Season 18 - Frontline
1999-10-12
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1999-10-19
"Conyers, Georgia is a prosperous bedroom community just outside Atlanta. FRONTLINE examines the link between an outbreak of syphilis among a group of its teenagers and the well-off community in which they live. The film reveals a parent's worst nightmare--children as young as fourteen naming scores of sexual partners; others telling of binge drinking, drugs and sex parties. In a series of intertwining profiles, FRONTLINE uncovers the roots of the Conyers syphilis epidemic and reveals the turbulent psychology of America's suburban teenagers."
1999-11-22
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1999-11-23
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2000-01-18
"FRONTLINE explores what led Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old Oregon boy, to kill his parents and two classmates, and shoot and injure 25 others at his high school."
2000-02-22
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2000-05-23
"During the election year of 2000, George Bush and Al Gore battled over issues regarding education. This program explores the heated political debate over the reform of public education and investigates the spectrum of \"school choice\" options, from vouchers to charter schools to for-profit academies"
Season 19 - Frontline
2000-10-02
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2000-10-09
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2000-10-10
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2000-10-24
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2000-11-11
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2000-11-18
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2001-01-16
"A look at Bill Clinton's life from the Arkansas governor's mansion through a hard-fought presidential campaign and his eight years in the White House."
2001-01-30
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2001-02-06
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2001-02-13
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2001-02-27
"FRONTLINE explores how America's giant media corporations skillfully court the teenage consumer."
2001-03-27
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2001-04-10
"What explains the surge in behavior-modifying drugs for children? How safe \u2013 and necessary \u2013 are they?"
2001-04-24
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2001-05-15
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2001-06-05
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Season 20 - Frontline
2001-09-13
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2001-10-04
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2001-10-18
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2001-11-15
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2002-01-10
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2002-01-24
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2002-02-07
"Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry\u2019s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?"
2002-04-18
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2002-04-25
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2002-05-09
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2002-06-27
"How the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed."
Season 21 - Frontline
2002-09-03
"For many Americans, the most difficult questions about 9\/11 were not about politics, military strategy or homeland security. They were questions about God, about evil and about the potential for darkness within religion itself. What was it we saw on Sept. 11? Was it the true face of evil? Was it the face of religion? And where, if one is a believer, was God on that tragic morning?"
2002-10-03
"When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill."
2002-10-10
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2002-11-14
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2002-11-21
"In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air. In this 2002 documentary, FRONTLINE investigates what happened to the fighters who survived."
2003-01-09
"Each year, six thousand Americans lose their lives on the job. Tens of thousands more are seriously injured or exposed to deadly poisons and carcinogens in the workplace. Yet if one of those workers dies on the job due to a company's willful disregard for federal safety regulations, the maximum penalty his employer faces is just six months in prison. Are America's workplace safety laws tough enough? And are companies being held responsible for protecting the safety of their employees? FRONTLINE investigates workplace safety in one of America's most dangerous industries."
2003-02-13
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2003-04-03
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2003-04-24
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Season 22 - Frontline
2003-10-09
"Did America rush into a war in Iraq for which is was unprepared? Could the volatility in Iraq have been prevented? FRONTLINE takes an in-depth, behind the scenes look at what some government officials said was the underlying cause of America\u2019s problems in Iraq: prewar political infighting that hampered efforts to plan for an orderly postwar transition."
2004-02-12
"Veteran investigative team Martin Smith, Marcela Gaviria and Scott Anger continued their reporting on Iraq, setting out on a five-week journey across the country, from the Kurdish north, through the Sunni Triangle, to the Shiite south, taking a hard look at the social and political reality beyond the political corridors of Baghdad."
2004-02-19
"In \"Tax Me If You Can,\" FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith investigates the rampant abuse of tax shelters since the late 1990s. Through interviews with government officials, tax experts, and industry insiders, Smith uncovers an avalanche of bogus transactions -- created by some of America's biggest and most-respected accounting firms, law firms, and investment banks -- that were then aggressively marketed to big corporations and wealthy individuals."
2004-04-01
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2004-04-08
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2004-04-29
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2004-06-17
"Nearly 95 percent of all cases resulting in felony convictions never reach a jury. They are settled through plea bargains in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence. But what are the implications of a system that relies on pleas to expedite justice?"
Season 23 - Frontline
2004-09-17
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2004-10-12
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2004-10-26
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2004-11-09
"FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar \u201cpersuasion industries\u201d of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public."
2004-11-16
"FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home.\n\nhttps:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/frontline-wal-mart-good-america\/"
2004-11-23
"The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand."
2005-01-25
"Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda."
2005-02-08
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2005-03-01
"The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the psychological cost of those who fight it."
2005-04-05
"A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel."
2005-05-10
"A report on the new reality for the mentally ill in America: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. How did we get here, and are we doing anything to help them?"
2005-06-21
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Season 24 - Frontline
2005-10-04
"On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. Ten years later, veteran FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel revisits the \"perfect storm\" that was the O.J. Simpson trial. Through extensive interviews with the defense, prosecution and journalists, FRONTLINE explores the verdict -- which, more than any other in recent history, measured the difference between being white and black in America."
2005-10-18
"The 9\/11 attacks lead to a \u201cget-tough\u201d policy for the U.S. government. FRONTLINE examines how this harsh new standard for torture worked its way around the globe and down to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib."
2005-11-08
"The abortion debate rages on in the U.S. as laws regulating women\u2019s access to abortion flip in each state. In what direction is the country headed on its abortion policies \u2013 diminishing options state by state, or access for all?"
2005-11-22
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FRONTLINE will produce a documentary special that investigates the political storm surrounding the devastation of America's Gulf Coast. Veteran FRONTLINE producer\/reporter Martin Smith will lead a team to ask hard questions about the decisions leading up to the disaster and beyond."
2006-02-07
"Hidden cameras trail \"Olga\" as she takes the women from the port of Odessa to Istanbul and then to a parking lot in the Aksaray district where the women are sold. An undercover journey deep into the world of sex trafficking, following one man determined to rescue his wife -- kidnapped and sold into the global sex trade."
2006-02-14
"Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among West Coast motorcycle gangs in the 1970s has spread across the United States, and despite lawmakers' calls for action, the drug is now more potent, and more destructive, than at any time in the past decade. In The Meth Epidemic, FRONTLINE, in association with The Oregonian, investigates the meth rampage in America: the appalling impact on individuals, families and communities, and the difficulty of controlling an essential ingredient in meth\u2014ephedrine and pseudoephedrine\u2014sold legally in over-the-counter cold remedies."
2006-02-21
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2006-04-11
"17 years later, what does he mean for a China that today is a global economic powerhouse and now hosts the 2008 Olympics?"
2006-05-16
"There have always been rumors about disappearing social security, but now the U.S faces a real risk of dried up dollars. With vanishing pensions and faltering 401(k) plans, are middle class Americans facing a rough ride in their retirement years?"
2006-06-20
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Season 25 - Frontline
2006-10-03
"Nearly seven years after the Taliban were toppled, Al Qaeda and the Taliban continue to use Pakistan as a de facto base, virtually unchallenged and far out of America\u2019s reach."
2006-10-10
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2006-11-14
"In May 2005, Jim West, the once-popular mayor of Spokane, Wash., made headlines with rampant accusations of abuse. FRONTLINE takes a look at West\u2019s two lives: the public and the private, the political and the deeply, disturbingly possible."
2007-03-27
"The fourth hour of News War looks at media around the globe to reveal the international forces that influence journalism and politics in the United States. The lead story focuses on the new Arab media and its role in both mitigating and exacerbating the clash between the West and Islam. With a focus on Al Jazeera and how it has changed the face of a parochial and tightly controlled Arab media, this hour explores Al Jazeera's growing influence around the world -- from Muslim communities in Europe to the pending launch of a new English-language service that will be broadcast in the United States."
2007-01-16
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2007-04-17
"Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to \"stand up\" the Iraqi forces. In Gangs of Iraq, a joint production of FRONTLINE and the \"America at a Crossroads\" series, FRONTLINE takes a hard look at how the four-year training effort has fared and how the coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias. Now, with President Bush sending 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."
2007-04-30
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 12 million members today and over half of them live outside the United States. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in their first co-production to provide a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney (\"Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,\" \"John Paul II: The Millennial Pope\"), the film will explore the richness, the complexities, and the controversies of the Mormons' story as told through interviews with leaders and members of the church, with leading writers and historians, and with supporters and critics of the Mormon faith."
2007-05-01
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 12 million members today and over half of them live outside the United States. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in their first co-production to provide a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney (\"Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,\" \"John Paul II: The Millennial Pope\"), the film will explore the richness, the complexities, and the controversies of the Mormons' story as told through interviews with leaders and members of the church, with leading writers and historians, and with supporters and critics of the Mormon faith."
2007-04-24
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2007-05-08
"It\u2019s often said that kids have their whole lives ahead of them. What happens when, early on, that life becomes a life in prison? FRONTLINE examines the convictions of the children who committed murder, and how they\u2019re viewed in the eyes of the law."
2007-06-19
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2006-11-21
"With 35 million elderly people in America, \u201cthe old, old\u201d \u2014 those over 85 \u2014 are now considered the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. While medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans to live longer and healthier lives, this new longevity has also had unintended consequences. For millions of Americans, living longer also means serious chronic illness and a protracted physical decline that can require an immense amount of care, often for years and sometimes even decades. Yet just as the need for care is rising, the number of available caregivers is dwindling. With families more dispersed than ever and an overburdened healthcare system, many experts fear that we are on the threshold of a major crisis in care."
Season 26 - Frontline
2007-10-16
"For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law."
2007-10-23
"As the U.S. and Iran compete for influence across the Middle East, FRONTLINE examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have served to strengthen Iran\u2019s position as an emerging global power."
2008-02-05
"Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the iron pipe foundry business. One company stood out, the McWane Corporation. It had more health and safety violations than all of its competitors combined, and there were a number of environmental violations as well. In the five years since our original broadcast, federal prosecutors obtained indictments against and juries convicted the company in five cases in four states. Today McWane says it has made a dramatic turnaround and that worker safety and environmental protection are now high priorities. FRONTLINE revisits its original broadcast with correspondent Lowell Bergman who then reports on what has changed at McWane and whether the company has become a less dangerous business."
2007-11-20
"The world vowed \u201cnever again\u201d after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and its members once again failed to stop the slaughter."
2008-01-08
"Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?"
2008-01-22
"What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Program."
2008-02-19
"What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting. This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form."
2008-03-24
"On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast."
2008-03-25
"The inside story of the war that will define a presidency -- a war that no one expected, and no one planned for."
2008-04-01
"FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a \"virtual embed\" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq."
2008-10-14
"This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their very different candidacies say about America."
2008-10-21
"For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental policy and stifled the debate over climate change in America and around the globe. Now, facing rising pressure from governments, green groups and investors alike, big business is reshaping its approach to the environment. With the election looming, FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith investigates what some businesses are doing to fend off new regulations and how others are repositioning themselves to prosper in a radically changed world."
2008-10-28
"The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on two fronts. FRONTLINE gives viewers a hard, inside look at the real policy choices the next president will face. The report features strategists and diplomats giving their best advice about how to correct past failures and how to shape a realistic foreign policy approach in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."
2008-11-11
"In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed \"the most evil man in America,\" but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare."
2008-11-25
"FRONTLINE looks at Venezuela's controversial and outspoken president Hugo Chavez and the revolution he claims is turning his country into an anti-capitalist beacon for Latin America and the world. Through the lens of his unique weekly program \"Al Presidente\" and the eyes of the Venezuelans who know him well, FRONTLINE digs below the surface of his presidency and his personality to try to understand the mercurial leader."
2008-04-15
"In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies?"
2008-06-17
"A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history."
2008-05-13
"As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now returns to Everest to tell the fuller story of what really happened on that legendary climb. Through remarkably intimate interviews with the climbers and Sherpas many who have never spoken before on American television Breashears sheds new light on the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest s history."
Season 27 - Frontline
2009-01-02
"The compelling saga of one family's efforts to rebuild their homes, and their lives, in post-Katrina New Orleans."
2009-01-09
"A rich personal and political biography of America's 44th president and what has brought him to this historic moment..."
2009-02-03
"Correspondent Dave Iverson's personal journey to understand Parkinson's, the disease which has taken such a toll on his family."
2009-02-17
"How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Paulson and Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix."
2009-03-24
"How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Paulson and Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix."
2009-03-31
"FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and exploring the need for a fundamental overhaul."
2009-04-07
"FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery."
2009-04-21
"Investigating the dangerous new wave of pollutants entering our waterways and drinking water - and who's responsible."
2009-04-28
"What happens to the mentally ill when they leave America's prisons? Why do they return at such alarming rates ?"
2009-05-12
"Inside the world's first global Ponzi scheme - and how he got away with it for so long..."
2002-01-31
"Teenagers are often described as erratic, unthoughtful, and rapidly changing human beings. But is there a universal explanation for the stereotype? FRONTLINE reveals new scientific studies that dig deep into the workings of the teenage mind."
2009-06-16
"The inside story of one of the most controversial moments in America's financial crisis - and its ongoing drama."
2009-10-13
"Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the \"graveyard of empires?\""
2009-10-20
"Long before the economic meltdown, one woman tried to warn about the threat to the financial system..."
2009-10-27
"Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession's impact on one unlikely neighborhood--New York's Upper East Side.."
2009-11-17
"The life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the Iranian reform movement alive."
2009-11-24
"Investigating the massive consumer loan industry and what's ahead for banks and consumers..."
Season 28 - Frontline
2010-02-02
"Frontline explores how the Internet and digital media have completely transformed contemporary life."
2010-02-09
"One year after the deadly airline crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, FRONTLINE investigates the accident and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation's daily departures. The rise of the regionals and arrival of low-cost carriers have been a huge boon to consumers, and the industry insists that the skies remain safe. But many insiders are worried that now, 30 years after airline deregulation, the aviation system is being stretched beyond its capacity to deliver service that is both cheap and safe."
2010-02-23
"This past fall, an Afghan video journalist negotiated extraordinary access to a part of the country that has quietly reverted back to Taliban control. For close to two weeks, the journalist traveled a region that he found was now largely under control of the Taliban \"shadow\" government. He also tracked members of an insurgent cell working with members of Al Qaeda on a mission to sabotage a major U.S.\/NATO supply route. As the new U.S. strategy focuses on the south and eastern parts of the country, this film opens up a window onto a potential new front in the north, and sheds an important light on who's fighting the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and why. Also in this hour: A report from Pakistan on the country's troubled public school system which is among the worst in the world, despite years of U.S. aid."
2010-03-02
"Do we have the right to end our lives if life itself becomes unbearable, or when we enter the late-stages of painful, terminal illness? The questions, debated for centuries, have only grown more pressing in recent years as medical technology has allowed us to live longer lives, and several U.S. states have legalized physician-assisted suicide. With unique access to Dignitas, the Swiss non-profit that has helped over one thousand people die since 1998, Academy award- winning filmmaker John Zaritsky offers a revealing look at a couple facing the most difficult decision of their lives--and lets us see for ourselves as one Chicago native makes the trip to Switzerland for what will become the last day of his life."
2010-03-30
"On January 12, 2010, Haiti was leveled by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian state and the United Nations, were crippled by the magnitude of the disaster and struggled to respond. In the confused aftermath, survivors were left without food, water or shelter. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith and team arrived in Port-au-Prince within days, and in this powerful report, bears witness to the disaster and the ill-coordinated relief efforts in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Drawing on interviews with key officials and humanitarian experts from Port-au-Prince to New York, The Quake asks, can the world do better? And how?"
2010-04-13
"Health care reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the young president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. In a new investigation FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors at the White House, in Congress and the boardrooms of the giant health-care lobby to examine the political battles and costly compromises that defined Barack Obama's endeavor. From early positive efforts, through the bitter battles with the Tea Party, the elation of apparent success at Christmas, to the crushing failure in the Massachusetts Senatorial election, FRONTLINE follows the story and reveals the first in-depth look at how the Obama administration operates. In Obama's Deal, FRONTLINE veteran producer Michael Kirk (Bush's War, Dreams of Obama, Inside the Meltdown, The Warning) provides a sobering expose' of the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups, and the role of money in policy making."
2010-04-20
"In Afghanistan today, in the midst of war and endemic poverty, an ancient tradition ? banned when the Taliban were in power ? has re-emerged across the country. It?s called Bacha Bazi, translated literally as ?boy play.? Hundreds of boys, some as young as 11, street orphans or boys bought from poor families by former warlords and powerful businessmen, are dressed in women?s clothes, taught to sing and dance for the entertainment of male audiences and then sold to the highest bidder or traded among the men for sex. With remarkable access inside a Bacha Bazi ring operating in northern Afghanistan, Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi investigates this practice, still illegal under Afghan law, talking with the boys, their families and their masters, exposing the sexual abuse and even murders of the boys, and documenting how Afghan authorities responsible for stopping these crimes are sometimes themselves complicit in the practice."
2010-04-27
"Frontline examines both sides of the debate over vaccines. On one side, the public health community wholeheartedly endorses them. One the other, parents and politicians accuse them of causing disorders like autism."
2010-05-04
"The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist they're innovators, widening access to education. FRONTLINE follows the money to uncover how Wall Street and a new breed of for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America."
2010-05-18
"Since the Iraq War began, soldier arrests in the city of Colorado Springs have tripled. At least thirty-six servicemen based at the nearby Army post of Fort Carson have committed suicide. And fourteen Fort Carson soldiers have been charged or convicted in at least eleven killings. Many of the most violent crimes involved men who had served in the same battalion in Iraq. Three of them came from a single platoon of infantrymen. FRONTLINE tells the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st battalion of the 506th infantry; and how the war followed them home. It is a story of heroism, grief, vicious combat, depression, drugs, alcohol and brutal murder; an investigation into the Army's mental health services; and a powerful portrait of what multiple tours and post-traumatic stress are doing to a generation of young American soldiers."
2010-08-25
"Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. Law & Disorder a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, investigates charges that NOPD officers inappropriately used lethal force against New Orleans citizens and then tried to cover up their actions. Airing days before the fifth anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history and drawing from reports published in a real-time online investigation, FRONTLINE takes a fresh look at how the NOPD performed when the rules of civilized society collapsed."
2010-10-19
"Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it\u2019s the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham \u2014 convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children \u2014 that\u2019s now at the center of the national debate. With unique access to those closest to the case, FRONTLINE examines the Willingham conviction in light of new science that raises doubts about whether the fire at the center of the case was really arson at all. [Explore more stories on the original website for Death by Fire.]"
2010-10-26
"Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a \"serial environmental criminal\" that left behind a long trail of problems -- deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations -- which many now believe should have triggered action by federal regulators. Could the spill have been prevented? Through interviews with current and former employees and executives, government regulators, and safety experts, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith joins with the investigative non-profit ProPublica to examine the trail that led to the disaster in the Gulf. From BP's vast oil fields in Alaska to its refineries in Texas and its trading rooms in New York and London, the film raises new questions about whether BP's corporate culture will finally be forced to change."
2010-11-09
"Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman in 1997."
2010-11-23
"How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own?"
Season 29 - Frontline
2010-10-19
"At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty?"
2010-10-26
"Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf."
2010-11-09
"Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions."
2010-11-23
"The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families"
2011-01-11
"In the chaos of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, thousands of the country's worst criminals seized the opportunity to stage a mass escape from the National Penitentiary. One year later, the gang leaders are re-asserting control in the capital, threatening the country's stability."
2011-01-18
"Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9\/11.\n\nFlying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop."
2011-02-01
"A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths."
2011-02-22
"A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011."
2011-03-29
"Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports.\n\nWho's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China.\n\nThe Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth"
2011-04-12
"High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?"
2011-04-19
"Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska."
2011-05-03
"The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
2011-05-10
"Goes inside the \"kill\/capture\" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs."
2011-05-24
"The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history."
2011-06-28
"The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases.\n\nEducating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep."
2011-07-26
"The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market.\n\nDoctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called \u201chotspotting,\u201d in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs.\n\nThe Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI\u2019s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life."
2011-09-06
"A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending"
2011-09-27
"The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity."
2011-09-27
"The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center."
Season 30 - Frontline
2011-10-11
"Frontline, with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism."
2011-10-18
"Frontline investigates President Obama's enforcement strategies and immigrant detention - who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees."
2011-11-08
"Reporter Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. Plus a profile of the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab unrest\u2014President Bashar al-Assad."
2011-11-22
"Life of a Pakistani-American David Headley."
2012-01-03
"Frontline reports on the unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan."
2012-01-17
"It\u2019s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country\u2019s once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O\u2019Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: The controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan?"
2012-02-14
"The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these \u201cViolence Interrupters,\u201d who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city\u2019s most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a murdered father, and a man haunted by a killing he committed as a teenager. As they intervene in disputes to prevent violence, they reveal their own inspired journeys of struggle and redemption."
2012-02-28
"An unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster."
2012-03-27
"Accounts of bribery, blackmail, and privacy invasions has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic."
2012-04-17
"How reliable is the science behind forensics? A Frontline investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science."
2012-04-24
"Frontline tells the inside story of the global financial crisis. (four one-hour episodes, May 4 premier concluded)."
2012-05-22
"Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases.\n\nSix Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 and lost a massive bet on European debt, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing. FRONTLINE investigates how Corzine\u2019s traders went around MF Global\u2019s risk officers and how he swayed regulators in Washington to allow risky practices to continue."
2012-05-29
"Frontline travels into the heart of Yemen's radical heartland, and shows how Al Queda is taking control of towns and cities in an attempt to establish its own state."
2012-06-26
"Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by Frontline and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broken safety net."
2012-07-10
"Nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. Trace the history of the AIDS epidemic through the experiences of individuals who tell their stories."
2012-07-07
"Fast Times at West Philly High: Students and teachers from West Philadelphia High School, a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia, defy expectations as they design and build two super-hybrid cars for international competition and compete for the chance to be part of a technological revolution.\n\nMiddle School Moment: New evidence that suggests the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school. The film explores how one Bronx school is using a novel form of data collection and analysis to predict and prevent dropouts before they happen."
2012-09-18
"Frontline takes you inside the heart of the insurgency, where rebel groups are waging a full-scale assault on the forces of President Bashar al Assad."
2012-07-24
"Frontline probes the fault lines of a growing battle in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, home to the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery-and enormous mineral deposits.[24]"
2012-09-25
"What does it take to save a student?"
2012-10-09
"A journey into the places, people, and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reveal new details and fresh insights about the two candidates \u2014 and our choice this November."
2012-10-23
"Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What\u2019s behind this massive reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate."
2012-10-29
"FRONTLINE travels to the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision changed campaigns in America? Ask Montana, which has tried to challenge the ruling in court, is investigating alleged campaign abuses and is playing host to a bitter race that could decide control of the U.S. Senate."
2012-11-13
"FRONTLINE explores the underground world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time \u2013 told not only by the people choosing to die, but also by their \"assisters,\" individuals and right-to-die organizations that put themselves in legal jeopardy by helping others to die."
2012-11-20
"Through the stories of three families told over the course of half a decade, FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children in America."
Season 31 - Frontline
2013-01-08
"Examine the legacy of controversial former chancellor of Washington, DC, public schools, Michelle Rhee."
2013-01-15
"As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president\u2019s key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term."
2013-01-22
"FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street\u2019s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages."
2013-02-12
"FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country\u2019s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, the film shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation\u2019s economy to the edge of the \u201cfiscal cliff,\u201d and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration."
2013-02-19
"In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where FRONTLINE and The Hartford Courant find a town divided and explore how those closest to the tragedy are now wrestling with our nation\u2019s gun culture and laws.\n\nIn the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. He left no known friends, no diary. He destroyed his computer and any evidence it might have provided. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. In collaboration with The Hartford Courant, FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central\u2013and so far elusive\u2013question: who was Adam Lanza?"
2013-04-01
"In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer\u2019s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota\u2019s Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Kind Hearted Woman is a special co-presentation of FRONTLINE and Independent Lens."
2013-04-09
"In Syria\u2019s rural heartland, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. The once-peaceful Orontes River valley is now a perilous sectarian front line where neighbor is fighting neighbor. Olly Lambert spent five weeks living on both sides, and his unprecedented film documents the everyday lives of rebels, government soldiers and the civilians who support them."
2013-04-23
"The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America\u2019s financial institutions protect our retirement savings."
2013-05-14
"In the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores, for the first time, his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors, teasing out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive \u201cnever forget to lie.\u201d"
2013-05-28
"In Pakistan, women and girls who allege rape are often more strongly condemned than their alleged rapists. Some are even killed by their own families. For this unforgettable documentary, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent years tracing one alleged rape victim\u2019s odyssey through Pakistan\u2019s flawed justice system\u2014as well as her alleged rapists\u2019 quest to clear their names."
2013-06-25
"FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America\u2019s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting."
2013-07-09
"Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee \u2014 one black, one white \u2014 as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty. A remarkable portrait of perseverance, Two American Families raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the U.S. economy and the fate of a declining middle class."
2013-07-30
"More and more elderly Americans are choosing to spend their later years in assisted living facilities, which have sprung up as an alternative to nursing homes. But is this loosely regulated, multi-billion dollar industry putting seniors at risk? In a major investigation with ProPublica, FRONTLINE examines the operations of the nation\u2019s largest assisted living company, raising questions about the drive for profits and fatal lapses in care."
2013-09-17
"FRONTLINE and GlobalPost\u2019s Charles M. Sennott go inside the Egyptian revolution, tracing how what began as a youth movement to topple a dictator evolved into an opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to seemingly find the political foothold it had sought for decades \u2014 and then why it all fell apart. Were the Brothers ever really in charge? Or was the Egyptian \u201cdeep state\u201d in control all along?"
2013-10-08
"An investigation of the health crisis threatening NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football."
2013-10-22
"Has the age of antibiotics come to an end? From a young girl thrust onto life support in Arizona to an uncontrollable outbreak at one of the nation\u2019s most prestigious hospitals, FRONTLINE investigates the alarming rise of a deadly type of bacteria that our modern antibiotics can\u2019t stop."
2013-11-19
"FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s assassination with an encore broadcast of Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? \u2014 an investigative biography of the man at the center of the political crime of the century. The three-hour documentary special traces Oswald\u2019s life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions: Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed \u201clone gunman\u201d? Was he one of two gunmen that day in Dallas? Or was he an unwitting scapegoat for the real assassins?"
2013-11-26
"A report on domestic violence allegations within police departments focuses on the death of a young Florida woman whose boyfriend was a deputy sheriff."
2013-04-02
"In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer\u2019s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota\u2019s Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Kind Hearted Woman is a special co-presentation of FRONTLINE and Independent Lens."
Season 32 - Frontline
2014-01-07
"FRONTLINE tracks an ongoing seven-year investigation into the largest insider trading scandal in U.S. history."
2014-01-14
"FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, revealing how ordinary citizens are resisting one of the world\u2019s most oppressive regimes."
2014-02-11
"Three years in to Syria\u2019s civil war, rebel forces aren\u2019t just fighting the Assad regime. They\u2019re also vying for control against a group known as ISIS. FRONTLINE correspondent Muhammad Ali \u2014 a Syrian native himself, and one of only a few reporters to make it safely into, and then out of, Syria\u2019s northern front in recent months \u2014 delivers a gripping report from inside a country in turmoil.\n\nA startling portrait of everyday life in a war zone, through the eyes of children."
2014-02-18
"Thanks to social media, today\u2019s teens are able to directly interact with their culture \u2014 artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another \u2014 in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand? In Generation Like, author and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders) explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media \u2014 and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Do kids think they\u2019re being used? Do they care? Or does the perceived chance to be the next big star make it all worth it?"
2014-02-25
"Secrets of the Vatican tells the epic, inside story of the collapse of the Benedict papacy \u2014 and illuminates the extraordinary challenges facing Pope Francis as he tries to reform the powerful Vatican bureaucracy, root out corruption, and chart a new course for the troubled Catholic Church and its 1.2 billion followers."
2014-03-25
"Tuberculosis was once thought to be a disease of the past. But with virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, TB \u2014 passed simply by a cough or a sneeze \u2014 is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease on the planet. In TB Silent Killer, FRONTLINE presents an unforgettable portrait of the lives at the pandemic\u2019s epicenter."
2014-04-22
"With extraordinary access, award-winning producer and director Dan Edge (Inside Japan\u2019s Nuclear Meltdown, Kill\/Capture, The Wounded Platoon) takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. Solitary Nation brings you an up-close, graphic look at a solitary confinement unit in Maine\u2019s maximum security prison."
2014-04-29
"There are roughly 2.3 million people behind bars in the U.S., with a disproportionate number coming from a few city neighborhoods. More than two years in the making, Prison State takes an intimate look at the cycle of incarceration in America, and one state\u2019s effort to reverse the trend."
2014-05-13
"The history of the National Security Agency's unprecedented surveillance program is investigated."
2014-05-20
"The role of Silicon Valley in the National Security Agency's surveillance program is explored."
2014-05-27
"FRONTLINE draws on personal and dramatic footage to reveal the deep-seated hatreds between right-wing Ukrainian nationalists with historic ties to the Nazis and violent pro-Russian separatists vying for control of the country.\n\nFRONTLINE finds Syrian rebel fighters who say they\u2019re being secretly armed and trained by the United States."
2014-07-15
"When FRONTLINE first met Omarina Cabrera back in 2012 for the documentary Middle School Moment, she was a struggling student at Middle School 244 in the Bronx. Today, she\u2019s excelling at an elite prep school in New England. In part two of our July 15 hour on education, class and race in America, FRONTLINE revisits Omarina as part of our continued examination of a groundbreaking program to stem the dropout crisis in America\u2019s high-poverty schools.\n\nSixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What\u2019s behind the growing racial divide in American schools \u2014 and what\u2019s the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?"
2014-07-29
"In a special developing report, FRONTLINE examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the investigative team behind The Lost Year in Iraq, The Torture Question, Endgame and Bush\u2019s War traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence \u2014 exploring how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong and what happens next."
2014-09-09
"When the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, it sparked international outrage and worldwide pressure to #BringBackOurGirls. But now, FRONTLINE investigates evidence that in the fight against Boko Haram, members of the Nigerian military and state-sponsored militias have been committing atrocities against suspects, many of them innocent civilians.\n\nFRONTLINE travels to the epicenter of the Ebola crisis to find out how and why the outbreak has spiraled out of control \u2014 and to track the fight to contain the virus\u2019s deadly spread. With special access to teams fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone, FRONTLINE, in collaboration with the Channel 4 foreign affairs series Unreported World, brings you an up-close, on-the-ground look at how and why the outbreak is endangering civilians and health-care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse."
2014-10-14
"FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health."
2014-10-28
"FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. As part of a special FRONTLINE series, correspondent Martin Smith reports from Iraq on how the country began coming undone after the American withdrawal and what it means for the U.S. to be fighting there again."
2014-11-18
"What are the costs of doing business in a war zone? On Nov.18, 2014, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the relationship between Firestone and the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Based on the inside accounts of Americans who ran the company\u2019s Liberia rubber plantation, and diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation reveals how Firestone conducted business during the brutal Liberian civil war."
2014-12-17
"What happens when we lock up juvenile offenders in adult prisons? \u201cStickup Kid,\u201d a FRONTLINE digital exclusive, tells the story of Alonza Thomas \u2014 sent to adult prison in California at age 16 \u2014 and how spending over a decade behind bars impacted him."
Season 33 - Frontline
2015-01-06
"FRONTLINE investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America. With first-hand accounts of school killings in Newtown and Columbine, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, \"Gunned Down\" examines why, despite the national trauma over gun violence, Washington hasn't acted."
2015-01-13
"FRONTLINE investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, \"Putin's Way\" reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War."
2015-02-10
"FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande\u2019s new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors \u2014 himself included \u2014 are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients."
2015-04-07
"As recently as September, President Obama was pointing to Yemen as a model for the U.S.\u2019s counter-terrorism strategy. But now, the country is being torn apart in a violent conflict led by an anti-American rebel movement known as the Houthis. With the Yemeni president ousted from the capital, and Saudi Arabia leading a coalition of regional forces against the Houthis, FRONTLINE in conjunction with BBC Arabic brings this special report from inside the war zone, exposing the violent feuds tearing the country apart, the rival anti-American and Al Qaeda-aligned forces fighting for control and the dangerous consequences for the region and the world."
2015-04-21
"FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film \u2014 an updated and expanded version of A Perfect Terrorist \u2014 reveals how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper."
2015-05-05
"FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn\u2019t stopped before it was too late. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak\u2019s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping firsthand accounts of victims from the jungles of Guinea to the slums of Monrovia, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic."
2015-05-12
"FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our meat -- particularly poultry -- and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the film shows how contaminants are evading regulators and causing more severe illnesses at a time when Americans are consuming more chicken than ever."
2015-05-19
"From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush\u2019s War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA\u2019s controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did \u2014 and whether it worked."
2015-05-26
"Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith goes inside the Obama administration\u2019s struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria. With interviews from key military and diplomatic leaders, the documentary examines the hard choices facing the president as he tries to defeat the Islamic State without dragging America into a prolonged regional conflict."
2015-06-23
"A joint investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women who clean the malls where you shop, the banks where you do business and the offices where you work."
2015-06-30
"Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too \u2014 with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. In Growing Up Trans, FRONTLINE takes viewers on an intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families."
2015-07-14
"Using undercover footage, FRONTLINE presents the gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS \u2014 and follows an underground network that\u2019s helping them escape."
2015-07-21
"A feature documentary about two filmmakers who set out to interview El Chapo Guzm\u00e1n, leader of one of the biggest drug cartels in history. Before his capture in 2014, El Chapo had been on the run from the US and Mexican governments for over a decade \u2014 and after his July 2015 escape from prison, he\u2019s now on the lam once again."
2015-09-29
"When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9\/11? In My Brother\u2019s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers."
2015-10-06
"When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9\/11? In My Brother\u2019s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers."
2015-10-13
"When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later, only one suspect, a Libyan man, was ever convicted of the terror plot, which killed 270 people in total. He was sentenced to life in prison but later released. Who else was involved remains an open case. Who was really responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks on Americans before 9\/11? In My Brother\u2019s Bomber, an emotional and suspenseful three-part series, Dornstein embarks on a quest for answers."
2015-10-20
"Why has it been so hard for Washington to fix our country\u2019s broken immigration system? In \u201cImmigration Battle,\u201d a special two-hour feature film presentation from FRONTLINE and INDEPENDENT LENS, acclaimed independent filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini take viewers behind closed doors in Washington\u2019s corridors of power to explore the political realities surrounding one of the country\u2019s most pressing and divisive issues."
2015-10-27
"The world\u2019s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe. But what is life like for those left behind? Correspondent Martin Smith goes Inside Assad\u2019s Syria to report from government-controlled areas as war rages, with on-the-ground reporting and firsthand accounts from Syrians caught in the crisis."
2015-11-03
"FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up to investigate a wave of terror that targeted Vietnamese-American journalists. Uncovering a trail that leads from American cities to jungles in Southeast Asia, FRONTLINE and ProPublica shine new light on a series of unsolved murders and attacks."
2015-11-17
"Inside a counter-terrorism unit in Karachi, Pakistan that\u2019s dedicated to tracking down Taliban suspects.\n\nISIS is on the rise in Afghanistan \u2014 and they say they\u2019re getting young kids to join the jihad. In a special report, FRONTLINE correspondent Najibullah Quraishi reveals on film the degree to which ISIS is gaining a foothold in the country, and how they\u2019re focusing their efforts on training a new generation of jihadists."
Season 34 - Frontline
2016-01-05
"The inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces Netanyahu's rise to power and his high-stakes fight with the president over Iran's nuclear program."
2016-01-19
"An investigation into the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, a multibillion-dollar industry with limited FDA oversight. FRONTLINE, The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation examine the marketing and regulation of supplements, and cases of contamination and serious health problems."
2016-02-09
"An investigation with The New York Times into fantasy sports and online sports betting. With law enforcement cracking down, the film traces the growth of these booming businesses and goes inside their operations at home and abroad."
2016-02-23
"FRONTLINE looks at America's heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime."
2016-03-29
"With undercover footage and on-the-ground reporting, FRONTLINE reveals a side of Saudi Arabia that's rarely seen, and traces the efforts of men and women who are working to bring about change."
2016-04-19
"The story of one Syrian family struggling amid war, from the siege of their city, to the kidnapping of their father, to the shock of becoming refugees."
2016-05-03
"In a special two-part hour, journalist Feras Kilani reports from inside the war-torn city of Benghazi -- the birthplace of Libya\u2019s uprising, now besieged by ISIS and warring militias. Then, journalist Safa Al Ahmad makes a dangerous trip to report on the fighting in Yemen."
2016-05-17
"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\u2019s earliest plans, the Islamic radicals who became its leaders, and the American failures to stop ISIS\u2019s brutal rise."
2016-05-24
"When disaster strikes, who profits? FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the Business of Disaster, focusing on the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: the thousands still not home, the agencies that were supposed to help and the companies that made millions."
2016-06-28
"How do you change a troubled police department? FRONTLINE goes inside the Newark Police Department \u2014 one of many forces in America ordered to reform. As the country\u2019s debate over race, policing and civil rights continues to unfold, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb examines allegations of police abuses in Newark, N.J. and the challenge of fixing a broken relationship with the community."
2016-09-13
"FRONTLINE examines allegations of fraud and predatory behavior in the for-profit college industry.\n\nThe Education of Omarina continues a story FRONTLINE has been following since 2012 \u2014 showing how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl\u2019s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college."
Season 35 - Frontline
03 Jan 2017
"Examine the key moments that shaped President-elect Donald Trump. Interviews with advisors, business associates and biographers reveal how Trump transformed himself from real estate developer to entertainer to president."
17 Jan 2017
"Review the partisanship that gridlocked Washington and charged the 2016 presidential campaign."
2016-12-27
"The first-person stories of refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and hardship \u2014 drawing on footage filmed by the families themselves as they leave their homes on dangerous journeys in search of safety and refuge in Europe."
31 Jan 2017
"On the frontlines of the battle for Mosul, with civilians, soldiers, and ISIS suspects. Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad examines the fight and its toll, surviving a suicide bomb. Also, ..."
27 Feb 2017
"The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after 14 years. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international ..."
22 Mar 2017
"Inside Iraq, as militias and the military fight for the future of the country. The film examines the power of the militias, the impact on civilians, and the places where ISIS has been pushed out."
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"The impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to re-evaluate juvenile murder cases."
09 May 2017
"An investigation into the billions spent on housing the poor, and why so few get the help they need. With NPR, the film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis."
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"President Trump's advisor Stephen Bannon's war - with radical Islam, Washington, and White House rivals. The story of Bannon's fight to deliver on Trump's promises, with a confrontational ..."
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2017-05-09
"An investigation with NPR into the billions spent on housing low-income people, and why so few get the help they need. The film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis."
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2017-07-18
"With unique access, Frontline and The New York Times go inside an effort to change the way parole works in Connecticut and reduce the number of people returning to prison. The film follows four former inmates as they try to find work, stay sober and keep out of trouble while navigating their first year on parole."
2017-09-12
"From acclaimed director Steve James, the little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis. An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 2018."
2017-10-04
"Who killed Kim Jong-un\u2019s half brother, Kim Jong-nam? What does the murder reveal about the North Korean leader and his regime? As nuclear tensions grow, Frontline examines claims that Kim Jong-un ordered the assassination of his half brother, and sheds light on his broader intentions."
2017-10-11
"How did Scott Pruitt go from fighting the EPA to running it and rolling back years of environmental protections? With access to key players behind his rise, and former EPA officials, Frontline provides an inside look at the ascent of the anti-regulatory movement in America."
Season 36 - Frontline
2017-10-18
"The battle to drive ISIS out of Iraq\u2019s second-largest city was brutal and grueling. Shot over the course of the nine-month battle, \u201cMosul\u201d follows one Iraqi special forces unit as they lead the fight. Also in this two-part hour: \u201cInside Yemen\u201d offers a rare, up-close look at the country that\u2019s home to what the United Nations recently called the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis."
2017-10-25
"Reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes inside the battle against ISIS for control of the city of Mosul. Also in this two-part hour: \"Hunting ISIS,\" a dramatic report on an Iraqi unit at the center of the fight."
2017-11-01
"The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after more than a decade. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international terrorists. Also in this two-part hour: \u201cForever Prison,\u201d a collaboration with Retro Report exploring the untold history of the Guantanamo Bay prison."
2017-11-22
"In 2012, FRONTLINE spent months following four young children as their families struggled with financial ruin. This documentary revisits the families to see what their lives are like now, offering a powerful, firsthand look at what poverty means to children."
2018-01-23
"The intimate stories of refugees and migrants, caught in Europe\u2019s tightened borders. Amid the ongoing migration crisis, the film \u2014 a sequel to the award-winning 2016 documentary, Exodus \u2014 follows personal journeys over two years, as countries become less welcoming to those seeking refuge."
2018-02-13
"Some 25 dead bodies have been found on Long Island since 2016, all linked to the violent gang MS-13. Numerous immigrant teens are missing. As law enforcement tries to stop the gang, FRONTLINE goes inside the crackdown \u2014 investigating how the slew of gruesome killings led to many immigrant teens being accused of gang affiliation and unlawfully detained."
2018-02-20
"FRONTLINE investigates how a dangerous political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war."
2018-02-27
"FRONTLINE investigates how a dangerous political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war."
2018-03-02
"FRONTLINE investigates how Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein\u2019s early years, the film examines the elaborate ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers."
2018-04-10
"FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump\u2019s high-stakes battle for control of the GOP, examining how he attacked fellow Republicans and used inflammatory rhetoric that rallied his base and further divided the country in his first year as president."
2018-04-17
"Inside John McCain\u2019s complicated relationship with President Donald Trump and his own Republican Party."
2018-04-24
"FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley tell the inside story of Guatemalan teens who were forced to work against their will on an Ohio egg farm in 2014."
2018-05-01
"FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive."
2018-05-08
"Secret footage and eyewitness accounts shine new light on a brutal campaign by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims \u2014 an effort that has been described by both the United Nations and the United States as \u201cethnic cleansing.\u201d"
2018-07-24
"An investigation into sex abuse by United Nations peacekeepers in the world\u2019s conflict zones. Award-winning correspondent Ramita Navai (Iraq Uncovered) traces allegations from Congo to the Central African Republic, with firsthand accounts from survivors, witnesses and officials."
Season 37 - Frontline
2018-07-31
"The inside story of what happened to immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. The film explores the impact of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy, and how both Trump and Obama dealt with minors at the border."
2018-08-07
"FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. This is the first in a series of two Documenting Hate films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica, with the second coming later in 2018."
2018-08-13
"Thomas Erdbrink shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at odds with its conservative clerics and leaders. The series offers surprising encounters inside the closed society of Iran, as Erdbrink gets Iranians to reveal the intricacies of their private worlds and the challenges of living under theocratic leaders."
2018-08-14
"Thomas Erdbrink shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at odds with its conservative clerics and leaders. The series offers surprising encounters inside the closed society of Iran, as Erdbrink gets Iranians to reveal the intricacies of their private worlds and the challenges of living under theocratic leaders."
2018-09-11
"Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city\u2019s struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. FRONTLINE and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent of people now live in poverty."
2018-10-02
"FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump\u2019s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice. With the threat of impeachment growing, this two-hour documentary from filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces Trump\u2019s unprecedented war against the special counsel, the FBI, and even his own attorney general."
2018-10-23
"FRONTLINE investigates the role of state governments and Wall Street in driving America\u2019s public pensions into a multi-trillion-dollar hole. Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith, and Nick Verbitsky go inside the volatile fight over pensions playing out in Kentucky, and examine the broader consequences for teachers, police, firefighters and other public employees everywhere."
2018-10-29
"Facebook\u2019s promise was to create a more open and connected world. Frontline finds that multiple warnings about the platform\u2019s negative impact on privacy and democracy were eclipsed by Facebook\u2019s relentless pursuit of growth."
2018-10-30
"A series of mounting crises at Facebook, from the company\u2019s failure to protect users\u2019 data, to the proliferation of \u201cfake news\u201d and disinformation, have raised the question: How has Facebook\u2019s historic success brought about real-world harm? Frontline traces a series of warnings to the company as it grew into a global empire."
2018-11-20
"An investigation of a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military examining the group\u2019s terrorist objectives."
2019-01-22
"Frontline and NPR investigate the rise of severe black lung disease among coal miners, and the failure to respond. This joint investigation reveals the biggest disease clusters ever documented, and how the industry and the government failed to protect miners. Also in this two-part hour, Frontline presents a report from Yemen."
2019-02-12
"FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigate the decades-long failure to stop a government doctor accused of sexually abusing Native American boys for years, and examine how he moved from reservation to reservation despite warnings."
2019-02-26
"Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what\u2019s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences."
2019-03-19
"Victims call him the Butcher of Bosnia. Defenders say he protected the Serbs. With exclusive access to the prosecution and defense teams, the film chronicles the trial of Ratko Mladi\u0107 accused of genocide and war crimes. FRONTLINE offers an epic story of justice, accountability and a country at odds over its bloody past."
2019-03-25
"For two years, special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election has dominated headlines. Drawing from interviews with U.S. officials, Trump advisers, legal experts and journalists, FRONTLINE offers an inside look into the investigation that President Donald Trump has continually deemed a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d Update aired 5\/14\/2019."
2019-04-15
"Elizabeth Perez, a decorated U.S. Marine veteran, fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported. Meanwhile, Marcos is alone in Mexico, working as a soccer referee, struggling with depression and fighting the urge to cross the border illegally to see his family."
2019-04-23
"FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict."
2019-04-30
"As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. More than seventy years after World War II, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma. FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have affected the daily lives and relationships of some of the Holocaust\u2019s youngest victims \u2013 from survivor\u2019s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma."
2019-05-07
"The inside story of President Trump\u2019s gamble to confront China over trade. Reporting from the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate what led the world\u2019s two largest economies to the brink, and the billions at stake."
2019-05-21
"Inside the no-holds-barred war for control of the Supreme Court. From Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Bork, an investigation of how a 30-year-old grievance transformed the court and turned confirmations into bitter, partisan conflicts."
2019-05-28
"Sex Trafficking in America tells the unimaginable stories of young women coerced into prostitution \u2013 and follows one police unit that\u2019s committed to rooting out sexual exploitation."
2019-09-10
"Five years after the start of Flint\u2019s water crisis, FRONTLINE exposes its hidden toll. Our two-year investigation traces how a public health disaster that\u2019s become known for the lead poisoning of thousands of children also spawned one of the largest outbreaks of Legionnaires\u2019 disease in U.S. history."
Season 38 - Frontline
2019-10-01
"A year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, FRONTLINE investigates the rise of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. In a two-hour documentary, Martin Smith \u2014 who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years \u2014 examines the crown prince's vision for the future of Saudi Arabia, his handling of dissent and his ties to Khashoggi's killing."
2019-10-08
"A searing, on-the-ground look at President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly campaign against suspected drug dealers and users in the Philippines, \"On the President's Orders\" is told with unprecedented access to the police themselves. It offers a gripping, visually stunning window into the war on drugs \u2014 those carrying it out, and those most impacted by it."
2019-10-22
"How Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division. Inside the effort by three insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the GOP, and crack down on immigration."
2019-10-29
"A year after the devastating Camp Fire, FRONTLINE examines who\u2019s to blame and why it was so catastrophic. With accounts from survivors and first responders, the documentary tells the inside story of the most destructive fire in California's history, its causes and the impact of climate change."
2019-11-05
"From fears about work and privacy to a rivalry between the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society."
2019-11-12
"In an investigation with The Associated Press, FRONTLINE examines the widespread consequences \u2014 and business \u2014 of the mass confinement of migrant children. The documentary details the traumatic stories of migrant children detained under President Trump\u2019s immigration policies. Also in this two-part hour, a report on the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Iraq."
2019-11-19
"In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling \u2014 while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. The award-winning documentary unfolds as a love letter from filmmaker and young mother Waad al-Kateab to her daughter \u2014 Sama."
2020-01-07
"FRONTLINE investigates how El Paso, Texas became the Trump administration\u2019s immigration testing ground, and then the target of a white supremacist. Interviews with current and former officials, Border Patrol agents, advocates and migrants tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis."
2020-01-13
"A two-part investigation into America\u2019s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Part One of the documentary traces how Barack Obama\u2019s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump."
2020-01-13
"A two-part investigation into America\u2019s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Part Two of the documentary examines how Donald Trump\u2019s campaign exploited the country\u2019s divisions and how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide."
2020-01-21
"FRONTLINE reporter Najibullah Quraishi goes on a dangerous journey into both Taliban- and ISIS-held territory amid efforts to end nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan. Also in this two-part hour, an investigation with the ICIJ into how Isabel dos Santos became Africa\u2019s richest woman."
2020-02-11
"FRONTLINE goes inside the battle for Hong Kong, following protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against what they say is growing influence from the communist government of mainland China."
2020-02-18
"FRONTLINE examines Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company\u2019s rapid growth, and the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world."
2020-03-24
"Once an unrivaled political power, the NRA is facing challenges from all sides. FRONTLINE examines how the NRA aligned with President Trump and his base, and finds itself under attack ahead of the 2020 election."
2020-03-31
"With the plastic industry expanding like never before, and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics."
2020-04-07
"With undercover footage and firsthand accounts from survivors of China's detention camps, FRONTLINE investigates the Communist regime\u2019s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use of sophisticated surveillance technology against the Uyghur community."
2020-04-21
"How did the U.S. become the country with the worst known coronavirus outbreak in the world? FRONTLINE investigates the American response to COVID-19 \u2014 from Washington State to Washington, D.C. \u2014 and examines what happens when politics and science collide."
2020-05-19
"FRONTLINE goes inside a hospital battling the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy, as doctors are forced to make life and death decisions. An intimate, exclusive story that follows one besieged ER doctor, her staff and the patients suffering from COVID-19, from the darkest days to the signs of hope."
2020-06-16
"As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so unprepared? Despite repeated warnings of a potent contagion headed our way, America\u2019s leaders failed to prepare and protect us. Why and who is accountable?"
2020-06-23
"The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin."
2020-07-14
"This is the story of the Iraq war, told by Iraqis who lived through it. They share their personal accounts and lasting memories of life under Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion of their country and the 17 years of chaos that followed \u2014 from the sectarian violence to the rise and brutal reign of ISIS."
Season 39 - Frontline
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2020-11-17
"A FRONTLINE post-election special on the lives, fears and hopes of Americans, from the pandemic to the polls. This documentary was filmed around the U.S. for much of the year, following Americans as they dealt with COVID-19 in their communities this spring, responded to George Floyd\u2019s killing this summer, and then experienced this divisive election and its aftermath this fall."
2020-12-15
"The story of an American mother who takes her son to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. A special report three years in the making investigating how the family ended up in Syria and what happened when they came home to the United States."
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Season 40 - Frontline
2021-01-08
"With press freedom under threat in the Philippines, we go inside the escalating war between the press and the government. The documentary follows Maria Ressa, a renowned journalist who has become a top target of President Duterte's crackdown on the news media."
2021-01-19
"The story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America\u2019s next president. Those who know him best describe the searing moments that shaped President-elect Biden and what those challenges reveal about how he will govern."
2021-01-26
"From his first days as president to his last, how Trump stoked division, violence, and insurrection. FRONTLINE investigates Trump\u2019s siege on his enemies, the media, and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come."
2021-02-02
"The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak, and lessons for the world."
2021-02-09
"How Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing Iraq. FRONTLINE investigates allegations that militias are threatening and killing critics with impunity and targeting U.S. interests. Also in this hour, how COVID is worsening Yemen's humanitarian crisis."
2021-03-23
"At Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans, COVID-19 reshapes the grieving process. How the pandemic has transformed mourning in a city known for its jazz-filled funerals. Also in this hour, follow a mother\u2019s fight to survive COVID-19 and see her newborn baby. FRONTLINE filmmaker Oscar Guerra documents how the coronavirus hit one immigrant family, their struggle to be reunited, and the community that rallied around them."
2021-04-13
"Over the last three years, FRONTLINE has collaborated with ProPublica to investigate the rise of extremism in America. In the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up again to examine how far-right groups were emboldened and encouraged by former President Trump and how individuals were radicalized and brought into the political landscape."
2021-04-26
"The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege."
2021-04-27
"The epic story of people around the world living through the year of the pandemic continues in a second part. With extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE shows the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege."
2021-05-04
"An unprecedented undercover investigation into one of the world\u2019s most repressive regimes \u2014 Eritrea. Exclusive secret footage and testimony shed new light on shocking allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and indefinite forced conscription."
2021-05-18
"FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The documentary examines how pressure to increase profits and uneven government support is widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals, endangering care for the most needy."
2021-06-01
"A powerful Syrian militant called a terrorist by the U.S. seeks a new relationship with the West. In his first interview with a Western journalist, former Al Qaeda commander Abu Mohammad al-Jolani says his fight is with Syrian President Assad, not the U.S."
2021-06-29
"FRONTLINE investigates the rise of far-right extremism and violence in Germany. The documentary traces how extremists have carried out terror plots and attacks on Jews and migrants, infiltrated the security services, and what authorities are doing to confront the growing problem."
2021-07-13
"When COVID struck, the Federal Reserve stepped in to try to avert economic crisis. As the country\u2019s central bank continues to pump billions of dollars into the financial system daily, who is benefitting and at what cost?"
2021-07-20
"FRONTLINE investigates the consequences of America\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan. With exclusive access to a militant wing of the Taliban, correspondent Najibullah Quraishi tells the story of Iran\u2019s growing influence across Afghanistan. Also this hour, a report on politics and rape in India."
2021-08-10
"How seven men in Miami were indicted for the biggest alleged Al Qaeda plot since 9\/11. From the director of \"Leaving Neverland,\" the bizarre story of an FBI sting that led to a terror prosecution, though the men had no weapons or connection to Al Qaeda."
2021-09-07
"From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team, this documentary traces the U.S. response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across three presidencies. This two-hour special offers an epic re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America."
2021-09-14
"In an investigation with The New York Times, FRONTLINE examines the commercial pressures, flawed design and failed oversight behind Boeing\u2019s 737 Max jet and the crashes that killed 346 people."
2021-10-12
"The Taliban take over Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies. On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi investigates uncertainty and fear among the Afghan people and revisits the lead-up to the U.S. defeat and the Taliban\u2019s return."
2021-11-09
"A leak reveals hidden assets and deals of the wealthy and powerful; the legacy of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador."
2021-11-23
"Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state. With local journalism partner The Salt Lake Tribune, FRONTLINE examines police training, tactics and accountability, as well as racial disparities in the way force is used."
Season 41 - Frontline
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14 Mar 2023
"With the Fed raising interest rates, there is economic uncertainty among businesses and individuals. This documentary investigates how the Fed's loose monetary policy changed the U.S. economy and what could happen in the future."
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2023-04-11
"How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part two of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences."
2023-04-25
"How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part three of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences."
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2023-06-29
"With a trove of gripping footage filmed by protestors, this documentary goes inside the uprising that rocked Iran after the death of a young woman in police custody \u2014 and sheds new light on a regime under unprecedented pressure.\n\nLast fall, anti-government protests swept across Iran after the death in police custody of a young woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, who was accused of not adhering to the Islamic regime\u2019s strict dress code. In the crackdown on protests that followed, human rights groups estimate that more than 500 Iranians have been killed, including 72 children.\n\nIn a country where journalists are tightly controlled, young Iranians have been filming the uprising themselves and posting the videos online. For more than six months, FRONTLINE has been gathering and reviewing over 100 hours of this footage, cross-checking it with testimony from eyewitnesses and protestors, and following activists and exiles who have been gathering evidence of human rights violations."
2023-07-11
"With Vladimir Putin facing down a mutiny, how the Russian leader reached this moment of crisis. The story of Putin\u2019s rise, his clashes at home and abroad, and how his troubled Ukraine war led to the greatest threat yet to his grip on power."
2023-09-05
"In this two-part special, FRONTLINE looks at a little known \"two strikes\" law and pregnancy in prison. In collaboration with The Marshall Project, the first half examines how a former West Point cadet got life in prison under a \"two strikes\" law. The second half documents what happens to pregnant women in prison and their newborns."
2023-09-26
"The story of one journalist's battle to defend free speech in Putin's Russia. With unique access, the film follows Nobel prize-winner Dmitry Muratov as he fights to keep his newspaper alive and his reporters safe amid a government crackdown."
2023-10-03
"FRONTLINE examines the Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the documentary traces the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern Major League Baseball history, the limited accountability and how the Astros\u2019 approach to baseball changed the sport."
2023-10-10
"Elon Musk\u2019s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter. FRONTLINE traces Musk\u2019s journey from one of the platform\u2019s most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech issues and the company\u2019s uncertain future."
2023-10-31
"How Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court and a power struggle in the GOP, FRONTLINE examines McConnell's rise and role in pushing the judiciary to the right and America's polarized democracy."
2023-11-21
"The AP's Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues document atrocities and their own escape from the Russian siege of Mariupol."
2023-12-05
"Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps. The documentary delves into the lessons learned and the lingering trauma of that day."
2023-12-12
"How a young Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked classified documents onto the Discord chat platform. With The Washington Post, FRONTLINE examines Jack Teixeira\u2019s alleged leak of national security secrets, why he wasn\u2019t stopped, and the role of platforms like Discord."
2023-12-19
"Part 1: As the war in Gaza continues with devastating consequences, a major 90-minute documentary offers a sweeping examination of the critical moments and missteps that led to this crisis over the course of the past three decades, and the pivotal role of a central player: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Part 2: How Hamas was able to breach Israel\u2019s vaunted security barrier on Oct. 7, 2023. This special collaboration stems from a Washington Post reconstruction, now deepened with additional on-the-ground reporting and riveting interviews that present a remarkable picture of how, as The Post reporters show, Hamas was planning the attack in plain sight, and Israel was blinded to its own vulnerabilities."
Season 43 - Frontline
2024-01-23
"Beyond Gaza, the power of Hamas, Hezbollah and other forces in the region. Correspondent Ramita Navai investigates militants in the West Bank and Lebanon, their ties to Iran and their role in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians."
2024-01-30
"The roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss. Amid the presidential race, examining the House Jan. 6 committee\u2019s evidence, the threat to democracy and the historic charges against Trump."
2024-04-16
"FRONTLINE examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The documentary follows Ukrainian families searching for their missing children, organizations investigating the alleged abductions and Ukrainian teenagers who escaped and say they were subjected to Russian propaganda."
2024-04-30
"FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other \u201cless-lethal force.\u201d The documentary and accompanying reporting draw on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, and the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide."
2024-05-14
"With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happened to the journalists who helped uncover the corruption scandal."
2024-06-11
"FRONTLINE and Retro Report tell the inside story of the protests dividing college campuses over Israel and the war in Gaza. The documentary investigates the polarizing debate over free speech, antisemitism, Israel and the Palestinians, and the political forces behind the crisis."
2024-07-23
"Filmed over 34 years, two families struggle to survive in a changing American economy. Through hard times, falling wages, and loss of manufacturing jobs, the continuation of Bill Moyers\u2019 chronicle of perseverance as the American dream slips away."
2024-07-30
"Since the Holocaust, Germany has worked to overcome its Nazi history. But over the past decade, Germany has faced a rising wave of far-right violence and plots against Jews, Muslims, immigrants and politicians. Amid accusations that the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party (AfD) has provoked violence, which it denies, FRONTLINE investigates the rise of far-right extremism in Germany today."
2024-08-06
"A look at President Joe Biden's rise to the presidency, the personal and political forces that shaped him and his historic decision to step out of the 2024 presidential race."
2024-09-20
"FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea's historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over decades."
2024-09-24
"Investigating the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those who know the candidates best reveal key moments that shape how they would lead America."