List of Frontline (PBS) episodes
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A list of episodes from the Public Broadcasting Service
documentary series Frontline.
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documentary series Frontline.
| Title | Date | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Star Over Khyber | 1984 12 11 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | The Persian Gulf five years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. |
| Buying the Bomb | 1985 03 05 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | 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. |
| A Class Divided A Class Divided "A Class Divided" is an episode of Frontline directed by William Peters.-Plot summary:William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. The episode intercuts footage from... |
1985 03 21 | Racism | William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm Eye of the Storm (1970 film) Eye of the Storm is a 1970 American TV-documentary directed by William Peters.- Plot summary :William Peters follows Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids after their eye color.- Sequels :... about Jane Elliott Jane Elliott Jane Elliott is an American teacher and anti-racism activist. She created the famous “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise, first done with grade school children in the 1960s, and which later became the basis for her career in diversity training.-Origin of the idea:While there are variations of the... 's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. |
| Death of a Porn Queen | 1987 06 09 | Biographies | The life and suicide of young girl involved in the porn industry. |
| The Man Who Shot Lennon | 1988 02 09 | Biographies | Portrait of Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate who murdered former Beatles member John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He committed the crime as Lennon and Yoko Ono were outside of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman aimed five shots at Lennon, hitting him four times in his back... . |
| The Choice | 1988 10 24 | Biographies | Profiles of George Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... and Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving... . |
| The Real Life of Ronald Reagan | 1989 01 18 | Biographies | Profile of Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor.... . |
| The Shakespeare Mystery | 1989 04 18 | Biographies | Investigates the theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real Shakespeare. |
| The Faces of Arafat | 1990 02 27 | Biographies | Profile of Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar , was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization , President of the Palestinian National Authority... . |
| The Man Who Made the Supergun | 1991 02 12 | Biographies | Gerald Bull Gerald Bull Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to launch economically a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for the Iraqi government... designer of long-range artillery, assassinated in Belguim. |
| The Mind of Hussein | 1991 02 26 | Biographies | Personal and political history of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003... . |
| The Spy Hunter | 1991 05 14 | Biographies | James Angelton, ex-chief of counter-intelligence for the CIA and his misguided pursuit of an agency mole. |
| In the Shadow of Sakharov | 1991 10 15 | Biographies | Andrei Sakharov Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. He earned renown as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the... , the nuclear physicist turned human-rights advocate who became the father of the Soviet democracy movement. |
| The Choice 1992 | 1992 10 21 | Biographies | Biographies on Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... and George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... . |
| The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover | 1993 02 09 | Criminal Justice | The career and secrets of J. Edgar Hoover are explored. |
| Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? | 1993 11 16 | Biographies | Investigative biography examining the Kennedy assassination by exploring the life Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| Hillary’s Class | 1994 11 15 | Biographies | In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the... and four hundred other young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world opening its doors to women for the first time. |
| The Confessions of Rosalee | 1995 05 23 | Biographies | Interrelationships of poverty, racism, crime, illiteracy, and drug use and their persistence over generations. |
| Who’s Afraid of Rupert Murdoch? | 1995 11 07 | Biographies | Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate.... 's drive to establish the first global telecommunications network. |
| The Long March of Newt Gingrich | 1996 01 16 | Biographies | Biography of Newt Gingrich Newt Gingrich Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich is a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as the House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995 and as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.... . |
| The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson | 1996 04 30 | Biographies | Biography of Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to... and a portrait of race and politics in post-war America. |
| The Gate of Heavenly Peace | 1996 06 04 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | A feature-length documentary about Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989... , reflecting the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989. |
| The Choice 1996 | 1996 10 08 | Biographies | Biographies on Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... and Bob Dole Bob Dole Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996... . |
| Secret Daughter | 1996 11 26 | Biographies | June Cross tells her story as the daughter of a white woman and a well-known black vaudevillian Jimmy Cross Jimmy Cross Jimmy Cross was an American radio producer and singer who attained a minor Billboard Hot 100 hit with the novelty song "I Want My Baby Back" in 1965.... who was handed over to a black couple for rearing. |
| The Lost American | 1997 10 14 | Biographies | The mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny Fred Cuny Frederick C. Cuny was an American disaster relief specialist who was active in many humanitarian projects around the world from 1969 until his forced disappearance in Chechnya in 1995.-Life and career:... , a maverick humanitarian aid expert, helped millions and fought to change how the world responds to disaster. |
| From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians | 1998 04 6 & 7 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | Biblical scholars recount the rise of Christianity Christianity Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings... within the Roman Empire Roman Empire The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.... . (4 hours) |
| The World’s Most Wanted Man | 1998 05 26 | Biographies | The hunt for indicted Serbian war leader Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadžic Radovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre.Educated as a... , and his role in the atrocities and genocide of the Bosnia war |
| The Farmer's Wife | 1998 09 21 | Family/Children | A young Nebraska couple struggles on the family farm. |
| The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela | 1999 05 25 | Biographies | In-depth profile of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing... . |
| John Paul II: The Millennium Pope | 1999 09 28 | Biographies | Comprehensive biography of John Paul II. |
| The Survival of Saddam | 2000 01 25 | Biographies | Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003... ’s rise to power and how he has maintained his grip despite opposition. |
| War in Europe | 2000 02 22 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | NATO's 1999 war against Serbia over Kosovo. |
| Jefferson’s Blood | 2000 05 02 | Biographies | Examines Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia... 's relationship with his slave and mistress Sally Hemings Sally Hemings Sarah "Sally" Hemings was a mixed-race slave owned by President Thomas Jefferson through inheritance from his wife. She was the half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson by their father John Wayles... and follows their descendants as they undergo DNA testing. |
| Return of the Czar | 2000 05 09 | Biographies | An in-depth look at Russia a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| The Choice 2000 | 2000 10 02 | Biographies | Biographies on Al Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.... and George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... . |
| The Clinton Years | 2001 01 16 | Biographies | Follows Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... from the governor's mansion in Little Rock through a hard-fought campaign and his eight years in the White House. |
| The Merchants of Cool | 2001 02 27 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Corporations study teenagers to effectively market to them. |
| Medicating Kids | 2001 04 10 | Health/Medical | The growing use of psychoactive drugs in children. |
| Hunting Bin Laden" | 2001 09 13 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Episode traces the evidence linking bin Laden to terrorism and explores the challenges in trying to crack bin Laden’s network. |
| Looking for Answers | 2001 10 09 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Produced in partnership with The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization... , it looks into the roots of the Islamic terrorist network, and the anti-American hatred that feeds it, and traces how the trajectories of bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is an Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and current leader of al-Qaeda. He was previously the second and last "emir" of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded Abbud al-Zumar in the latter role when Egyptian authorities sentenced al-Zumar to life... met in the mountains of Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world... . |
| Saudi Time Bomb | 2001 11 15 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Can America still count on one of its most important allies in the Arab world -- Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World... ? Or does an undercurrent of militant Islamic fundamentalism threaten the stability of both Saudi Arabia and the entire region? |
| An Ordinary Crime | 2002 01 10 | Biographies | A bizarre case of injustice where two men with the same name are implicated in the same crime. |
| The Man Who Knew | 2002 10 03 | Biographies | |
| The Man Who Knew | 2002 10 03 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | A story of FBI agent John P. O'Neill John P. O'Neill John Patrick O'Neill was an American counter-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001... , the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime... ’s leading expert on al Qaeda, who tried to warn the U.S. of the threat it faced, and came very close to uncovering the September 11th attacks. He was a maverick agent and was pressured to leave the FBI. He left the FBI for a job in security at the World Trade Center World Trade Center The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new... , where he died during the attack. |
| In Search of Al Qaeda | 2002 11 21 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Follows the trail of Al Qaeda fighters who survived U.S. airstrikes in the mountains of Afghanistan. |
| Much Ado About Something | 2003 01 02 | Biographies | Did Shakespeare actually write his plays and poems, or was it Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May... ? |
| A Dangerous Business | 2003 01 09 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | The McWane Inc. foundries' focus on production and profitability comes at a price. Raises accusations of safety and environmental shortcuts that may have been taken by the McWane corporation to increase production at the cost of workers lives and limbs. |
| Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr | 2003 01 30 | Family/Children | The death of a five-year old in foster care forces Maine Maine Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost... to reexamine its child protection system. |
| Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files | 2003 02 06 | Family/Children | Discussion with caseworkers, experts and reformers on the failings and possible solutions for the child welfare system. |
| China in the Red | 2003 02 13 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | In China's economic reform there are stories of human success and cost, along with unknown political and social consequences. |
| The War Behind Closed Doors | 2003 02 20 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The key people and disagreements over Bush's George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... determination to go to war with Iraq. |
| The Long Road to War | 2003 03 17 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The complicated history of conflict between the U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... and Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003... as told by numerous Frontline reports. |
| Blair's War | 2003 04 03 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Facing strong opposition in Britain, Tony Blair Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007... supports the Iraq war in an attempt to gain access to the Bush administration George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... decision process. |
| Kim's Nuclear Gamble | 2003 04 10 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Nuclear weapons provide North Korea North Korea The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea... protection and a bargaining chip, but also antagonizes the international community. |
| Cyber War! | 2003 04 24 | Science & Technology | Counter-terrorism Counter-terrorism Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments... expert Richard Clarke Richard A. Clarke Richard Alan Clarke was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National... creates defenses for cyberspace. |
| Burden of Innocence | 2003 05 01 | Criminal Justice | What happens to the wrongly convicted? |
| The Wall Street Fix | 2003 05 08 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | With the deception of big banks and corporations, can confidence be restored? |
| The Other Drug War | 2003 06 19 | Health/Medical | The battle over high priced pharmaceuticals. |
| Public Schools, Inc. | 2003 07 03 | Family/Children | Edison Schools Edison Schools EdisonLearning Inc., formerly known as Edison Schools Inc., is a for-profit education management organization for public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992 as The Edison Project, largely the brainchild of Chris Whittle... are trying to run better public schools for profit. |
| Truth, War, and Consequences | 2003 10 09 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The consequences of using propaganda Propaganda Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.... in the lead up to war with Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.... . |
| Chasing the Sleeper Cell | 2003 10 16 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Background of the Lackawanna six and the Patriot Act. |
| The Alternative Fix | 2003 11 06 | Health/Medical | The big business and questionable science of alternative medicine Alternative medicine Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence.... . |
| Dangerous Prescription | 2003 11 13 | Health/Medical | Pharmaceutical influence over the Food and Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments... (FDA) drug approval process. |
| From China with Love | 2004 01 15 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Philosophy and failure of counter-intelligence Counter-intelligence Counterintelligence or counter-intelligence refers to efforts made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them. National intelligence programs, and, by extension, the overall defenses of... in the U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... . |
| Chasing Saddam's Weapons | 2004 01 22 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Hunting for Saddam Saddam –Saddam is an Arabic name which means "One who confronts", other meanings include: "One who frequently causes collisions", "Powerful collider", "One who causes a collision that had bad results", "Powerful confronter", "One who frequently crashes", or "Powerful commander"... 's WMD Weapons of mass destruction A weapon of mass destruction is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures , natural structures , or the biosphere in general... 's and unanswered questions. |
| Beyond Baghdad | 2004 02 12 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The dynamics of democracy across Iraq. |
| Tax Me if You Can | 2004 02 19 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Corporate Tax avoidance and its implications. |
| The Invasion of Iraq | 2004 02 26 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Strategies, key battles, surprises, and turning points of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 invasion of Iraq The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations... . |
| The Way the Music Died | 2004 03 27 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Business interests controlling creative endeavors. |
| Ghosts of Rwanda | 2004 04 01 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Accounting for the failure to stop The Rwandan genocide Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate... . |
| Diet Wars | 2004 04 08 | Health/Medical | Diet Dieting Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese. Some athletes, however, follow a diet to gain weight... s are competing for marketshare, but do they work? |
| Son of Al Qaeda | 2004 04 22 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | An informant from the inner circles of Al Qaeda. |
| The Jesus Factor | 2004 04 29 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | The role religion Religion Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to... played in Bush's George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... rise to power. |
| The Plea | 2004 06 17 | Criminal Justice | Harsh realities of U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... jurisprudence Jurisprudence Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions... . |
| Sacred Ground | 2004 09 07 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Debate over use of the World Trade Center site World Trade Center site The World Trade Center site , also known as "Ground Zero" after the September 11 attacks, sits on in Lower Manhattan in New York City... and designing the Freedom Tower Freedom Tower One World Trade Center , more simply known as 1 WTC and formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City... . |
| The Choice 2004 | 2004 10 12 | Government | Biographies on John Kerry John Kerry John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W... and George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... . |
| The Persuaders | 2004 11 09 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Marketing, Advertising, emotion Emotion Emotion is a complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience." Emotion is associated with mood,... s, elections, narrowcasting Narrowcasting Narrowcasting has traditionally been understood as the dissemination of information to a narrow audience, not to the general public. Narrowcasting involves aiming media messages at specific segments of the public defined by values, preferences, or demographic attributes. Also called niche... , with interviews with Acxiom Acxiom Acxiom is a global interactive marketing services company that uses consumer data, analytics, information technology, data aggregation, data integration, and consulting solutions to help companies conduct direct marketing programs... , Frank Luntz Frank Luntz Frank I. Luntz is an American political consultant and pollster. His most recent work has been with the Fox News Channel as a frequent commentator and analyst, as well as running focus groups after presidential debates... , Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Christian Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives... , Naomi Klein Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:... among others by Douglas Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media... . |
| Is WAL-MART Good For AMERICA? | 2004 11 16 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | American jobs. |
| The Secret History of the Credit Card | 2004 11 23 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Credit card Credit card A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services... companies develop tactics to increase revenue. |
| Al Qaeda’s New Front | 2005 01 25 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | An investigation into the threat radical jihad Jihad Jihad , an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God ". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is... ists pose to Western Europe Western Europe Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the... and its allies |
| House of Saud | 2005 02 08 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Explores how the Al Saud family maintains its hold on power with the ever-growing tensions between Islam and modernity Islam and modernity Islam and modernity is a topic of discussion in contemporary sociology of religion. Neither Islam nor modernity are simple or unified entities. They are abstract quantities which could not be reduced into simple categories. The history of Islam, like that of other religions, is a history of... . Also traces America's relations with the Saudi royal family from the 1930s through September 11 and the present day. |
| Israel's Next War Israel's Next War "Israel's Next War" is an episode of the PBS series Frontline that aired on 5 April 2005. The episode, by Israeli director Dan Setton, investigated the rise of the religious right in Israel and the role it could play as a "spoiler" in peace negotiations with the Palestinians... |
2005 04 05 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | An investigation into the world of Israel's right-wing religious extremists and their efforts to derail the Middle East peace process. |
| Karl Rove -- The Architect | 2005 04 12 | Biographies | Trace the political history and modus operandi of the man who has been on the inside of every political and policy decision of the Bush administration. |
| Private Warriors | 2005 06 21 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Examines the use of private contractors in the Iraq War. |
| Country Boys | 2006 01 09 | Biographies | Two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian hills, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives. |
| The Meth Epidemic | 2006 02 14 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | An investigation into the social, political, and corporate factors which influenced the spread of methamphetamine abuse in America during the 1980s and 90s. |
| The Tank Man | 2006 04 11 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime amazed the world. What became of him? And 17 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history? |
| The Age of AIDS | 2006 05 30 | Health/Medical | The history of the HIV HIV Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive... /AIDS AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus... epidemic. (4 hours) |
| The Dark Side | 2006 06 20 | Biographies | A step-by-step examination of what happened behind the headlines on the war on terror. |
| Return of the Taliban | 2006 10 03 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia. |
| The Enemy Within | 2006 10 10 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Looks at the America's response to homegrown terrorism. |
| The Lost Year in Iraq | 2006 10 17 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Documents multiple failures of the reconstruction Reconstruction of Iraq Investment in post-2003 Iraq refers to international efforts to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq since the Iraq War in 2003.Along with the economic reform of Iraq, international projects have been implemented to repair and upgrade Iraqi water and sewage treatment plants, electricity production,... efforts headed by the ORHA and the CPA Coalition Provisional Authority The Coalition Provisional Authority was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, members of the Multi-National Force – Iraq which was formed to oust the government of Saddam Hussein in 2003... . |
| Return of the Taliban | 2006 10 3 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | An investigation into U.S vs. Taliban battles within the so-called "ungovernable" tribal lands along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
| A Hidden Life | 2006 11 14 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | The former mayor Jim West James E. West (politician) James Elton "Jim" West was an American politician. In 2005, while Mayor of Spokane, Washington, he was the target of allegations of the sexual abuse of boys twenty years earlier. These allegations became public after West became a target of a sting operation conducted by his hometown newspaper,... of Spokane, Washington Spokane, Washington Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region... , was caught leading a double life as a conservative Republican anti-gay legislator and as a gay man. |
| Spying on the Home Front | 2007 05 15 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Post 9/11 domestic spying with Narus, Nora (technology) and Total Information Awareness Information Awareness Office The Information Awareness Office was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to national security,... . Mark Klein Mark Klein Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware to monitor and process American telecommunications... of ATT AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services... uncovers a domestic spying program by the NSA in San Francisco. |
| The Medicated Child | 2008 01 08 | Health/Medical | A look at child medication and the link between anti-psychotic drugs and bipolar disorder. |
| A Dangerous Business Revisited | 2008 02 05 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | A return look at McWane, Inc. and the significant progress it has made in regard to safety at its plants. |
| Bush's War | 2008 03 24 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | A two part series looking at the war's beginnings and conflicts within the Bush administration. |
| Sick Around the World | 2008 04 15 | Health/Medical | Comparing health care systems in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan. |
| Storm over Everest | 2008 05 13 | Personal struggles | 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. |
| Young and Restless in China | 2008 06 17 | Biographies | Coming of age in modern China. |
| Young & Restless in China | 2008 06 17 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | An intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese, coming of age in a society that's changing at breathtaking speed. |
| The War Briefing | 2008 10 08 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | The next president of the United States will inherit vast foreign policy challenges - an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on two fronts. |
| Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story | 2008 11 11 | Biographies | The rise and fall of the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. |
| The Hugo Chavez Show | 2008 11 25 | Biographies | An illuminating inside view of the mercurial Venezuelan president, his rise to power, and the new type of revolution he seems to be inventing -- on television |
| Dreams of Obama | 2009 01 20 | Biographies | On the eve of Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... 's inauguration as 44th president of the United States, an exploration into who he is and what has brought him to this historic moment. |
| Inside the Meltdown | 2009 02 17 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | How the economy went so bad, so fast and what Bernanke and Paulson didn't see, couldn't stop and weren't able to fix. |
| Ten Trillion and Counting | 2009 03 24 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | The causes of the U.S. public debt is analyzed. |
| Black Money | 2009 04 07 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | International bribery. It’s a trillion dollars a year, with corporations on one side, heads of state on the other. And it thrives in an invisible world. |
| The Madoff Affair | 2009 05 12 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Unraveling the story behind the world's first global Ponzi Scheme. |
| Obama’s War | 2009 10 13 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Examines the U.S. counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a fight that promises to be longer and more costly than most Americans understand. |
| The Warning | 2009 10 20 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | After the economic meltdown, sifting the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have been prevented. |
| The Card Game | 2009 11 24 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Investigating the massive consumer loan industry and what's ahead for customers and banks. |
| The Vaccine War | 2010 04 27 | Health/Medical | Examining the debate over medical risks vs. benefits. |
| God in America | 2010 10 11 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | 400-year history of religion and public life in the United States of America, in partnership with American Experience American Experience American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service Public television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history... . |
| Death by Fire | 2010 Oct 19 | Criminal Justice | The Cameron Todd Willingham story |
| Revolution in Cairo | 2011 02 22 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | April 6 Youth Movement April 6 Youth Movement The April 6 Youth Movement is an Egyptian Facebook group started in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.... , the Muslim Brotherhood History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Ismailia, Egypt by Hassan al-Banna in March 1928 as an Islamist religious, political, and social movement... , and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. |
| Behind Taliban Lines | 2011 02 23 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | An Afghan journalist's 10 days living with an insurgent cell allied with Al Qaeda who plan to sabotage a key U.S./NATO supply route. |
| Fighting for Bin Laden | 2011 05 03 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
| Kill/Capture | 2011 05 10 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's impact and its costs. |
| The man behind the mosque | 2011 09 27 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | the struggles of Sharif El-Gamal Sharif El-Gamal Sharif El-Gamal is a New York City real estate developer. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Soho Properties, a Manhattan-based real estate company... to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center World Trade Center The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new... . |
| Top Secret America | 2011 Fall | The Middle East & the War on Terror | A report from the Washington Post on US Government intelligence spending. (See Top Secret America Top Secret America Top Secret America is a series of investigative articles published on the post-9/11 growth of the United States Intelligence Community. The report was first published in The Washington Post on July 19, 2010, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dana Priest and William Arkin.The three-part series, which... ) |
| WikiSecrets | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | The inside story of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material... (Wikileaks Wikileaks WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more... ) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history. |
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| An optimist in Haiti | 2011 09 27 | Poverty | The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity. |
External links
- PBS.org – Full chronological list
- PBS-frontline – Watch Frontline online (streamed without commercials)