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Episode 12
12. Cell Tower DeathsNew!
aired: Tue, May 22, 2012
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases.
Episode 11
Money, Power and Wall Street, Pt. 2
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Part Two: This episode opens with Barack Obama taking office in the midst of the worst economic crisis in 80 years. To the surprise of many, he adopts a strategy to help the very Wall Street firms that plunged the American economy into chaos. FRONTLINE goes inside the White House to meet the key figures locked in a fierce debate over the administration’s game plan and follows those who said they had no choice but to rescue Wall Street. Did they choose the right course? In the final hour, FRONTLINE probes into a Wall Street culture that remains focused on making risky trades. Bankers left an ugly trail of deals extending from small American cities to European capitals. For more than three years, regulators have tried to fix an industry steeped in conflicts of interest, excessive risk taking and incentives to cheat. New rules and regulations are being written, but can they fend off the next crisis?
Episode 10
Money, Power and Wall Street, Pt. 1
aired: Wed, Apr 25, 2012
Part One: FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk (“Inside the Meltdown,” “The Warning”) investigates how two U.S. administrations have confronted the crisis — while dealing with sharp internal divisions and a relationship with Wall Street marked by mistrust and dependence, mutual interests and competing goals. The investigation charts the largest government bailout in U.S. history, a series of decisions that rewrote the rules of government and fueled a debate that would alter the country’s political landscape. Focusing on the Obama administration, FRONTLINE tells the story of a newly elected president with a mandate for change grappling with the multi-headed menace of economic instability, and with fundamental choices about winners and losers and the direction of his presidency.
Episode 9
The Real CSI
aired: Tue, Apr 17, 2012
From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis are routinely called on to solve the most difficult criminal cases - and to put the guilty behind bars. But how reliable is the science behind forensics? A FRONTLINE investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science and wide inconsistencies in how forensic evidence is presented in the courtroom. From the sensational murder trial of Casey Anthony and the FBI's botched investigation of the Madrid terrorist bombing to capital cases in rural Mississippi, FRONTLINE documents how a field with few uniform standards and unproven science can undermine the search for justice. As part of the investigative series Post Mortem, Correspondent Lowell Bergman reports in a joint investigation with ProPublica and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.
Episode 8
Murdoch's Scandal
aired: Tue, Mar 27, 2012
Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat - not from outside competition, but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail, and invasion of privacy. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. It has also cracked open the insular world of the Murdoch family, its news executives, and the political elite who court their favor. Today, the 80-year-old owner of the Wall Street Journal and FOX News Channel is in the fight of his life. In a joint production with the CBC, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman tells the story of the battle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's reputation and his family's fortunes.
Episode 7
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
aired: Tue, Feb 28, 2012
FRONTLINE continues its investigation of nuclear safety with an unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. With exclusive eyewitness testimony from key figures in the drama — including the Japanese prime minister and senior executives at the power company Tepco — FRONTLINE tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant’s pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings; the nuclear experts and officials in the prime minister’s office fighting to get information as the crisis spiraled out of control; and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives’ orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers. The story profiles the Japanese soldiers and firefighters drafted to cool the reactors, who were wounded when the reactor housings exploded; and the families, living near the nuclear plant, who unknowingly fled in the same direction as the radioactive plume, exposing themselves to dangerously high radiation levels.
Episode 6
The Interrupters
aired: Tue, Feb 14, 2012
During one weekend in Chicago in 2008, 37 people were shot, seven of them fatally. FRONTLINE follows a group of older former gang leaders trying to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once committed. The film follows the inner workings of CeaseFire, an innovative program in Chicago designed to prevent shootings, including weekly meetings where the interrupters report on the simmering disputes and the senseless shootings in their neighborhoods. From director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie), "The Interrupters" is a compelling observational journey into the stubborn, persistent violence that plagues our American cities.
Episode 5
Opium Brides
aired: Tue, Jan 3, 2012
Unexpected victims have been caught in the crossfire of attempts to eradicate Afghanistan's flourishing drug trade: young farm girls. Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's illicit opium. Opium farmers have long borrowed money from drug gangs, some with links to the Taliban, to subsidize their crops. Now, as the Afghan government destroys their livelihood in an eradication program, the farmers find themselves in a horrifying situation: repay their debts or give their daughters to drug-traffickers, often to be used for sex. Award-winning Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi reports on the harrowing story of families torn apart and the collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan. Also this hour, a timely encore broadcast: FRONTLINE crosses the border into Pakistan, where correspondents Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside "The Secret War" against the militants. They uncover evidence of covert support for elements of the Taliban by the Pakistani military and its intelligence service, the ISI. At a safe house not far from where Osama bin Laden was killed, they make contact with one mid-level Taliban commander who tells FRONTLINE, "If they really wanted to, [the Pakistanis] could arrest us all in an hour."
Episode 4
Season 30, Episode 4
aired: Wed, Nov 23, 2011
It has been called the most spectacular terror attack since 9/11. On the night of November 26, 2008, 10 men armed with guns and grenades launched an assault on Mumbai with a military precision that left 166 dead. India quickly learned the attackers belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group associated with Pakistan’s secretive intelligence agency, the ISI. But what wasn’t known then was that a Lashkar/ISI operative had been casing the city for two years, developing a blueprint for terror. His name was David Coleman Headley and he’d been chosen for the job because he had the perfect cover: He was an American citizen. FRONTLINE and ProPublica reporter Sebastian Rotella team up to investigate the mysterious circumstances behind Headley’s rise from heroin dealer and U.S. government informant to master plotter of the 2008 attack on Mumbai.
Episode 3
Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
As the death toll in Syria nears 3,000, the revolution rages on well after the fall of dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. While grainy cell phone videos of violent attacks on protesters are making it out, foreign journalists are seldom making it in. In this special newsmagazine report, FRONTLINE offers a rare look from inside, traveling with undercover reporter Ramita Navai into some of the most dangerous parts of Syria to meet members of the opposition movement forced into hiding. As the town of Madaya is besieged by the army, the security forces and the militia, Navai experiences first-hand life as a fugitive when she is trapped in a safe house with three opposition coordinators on the government’s most wanted list. Also this hour: A look at the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab unrest — President Bashar al-Assad.
Episode 2
Lost in Detention
aired: Tue, Oct 18, 2011
More than one million immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office. Under his administration, deportations and detentions have reached record levels. The get-tough policy has brought complaints of abuse and harsh treatment, including charges that families have been unfairly separated after being caught in the nationwide dragnet. The administration has promised to make the detention system more humane, and more selectively target the most serious criminals. But it faces Republican critics who urge stricter measures — and a growing backlash among Latino voters, a key 2012 electoral force. In a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop, correspondent Maria Hinojosa investigates Obama’s enforcement strategies and journeys into the secretive world of immigrant detention, with a penetrating look at who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees.
Episode 1
The Anthrax Files
aired: Tue, Oct 11, 2011
In the fall of 2001 envelopes carrying deadly anthrax were delivered to U.S. Senate offices, network news divisions and a tabloid newspaper. Five people were killed, many more were infected and the nation was terrorized. Seven years later, after the mistaken pursuit of one suspect, the most expensive and complex investigation ever undertaken by the FBI ended when the organization identified Army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins as the sole perpetrator of the attacks — after Ivins had taken his own life. Now, new questions are being raised about the FBI’s investigative methods and whether Ivins really did it. FRONTLINE, in a co-production with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI’s investigation of the country’s most notorious act of bioterrorism.
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Episode 21
Nuclear Aftershocks
aired: Tue, Jan 17, 2012
FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien travels to three continents to explore the revived debate about the safety of nuclear power, the options for alternative energy sources, and questions about whether a disaster like the one at Fukushima could happen in the United States.
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FRONTLINE: Cell Tower Deaths
aired: Wed, May 23, 2012
Magazine for May 22, 2012: "Cell Tower Deaths" and "Six Billion Dollar Bet"
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FRONTLINE: Cell Tower Deaths
aired: Tue, May 22, 2012
To satisfy the ever-increasing demand for cell phone service, tower climbers install and service cell antennas, a job that requires them to ascend hundreds of feet. Across the country, some of these workers have fallen to their deaths from cell phone towers. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate this hidden and deadly cost of the smartphone revolution.
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FRONTLINE: Six Billion Dollar Bet
aired: Tue, May 22, 2012
The story of Jon Corzine, the former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, who took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 with oversize ambition and a passion for risk. But after a massive bet on European debt turned sour, the firm lay in ruins, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing.
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FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street: Part Three
aired: Tue, May 1, 2012
FRONTLINE goes inside the Obama White House, telling the story of how a newly elected president with a mandate for change inherited a financial crisis that would challenge his administration and define his first term. From almost the very beginning, there was a division inside the economic team over how tough the White House should be on the banks that were at the heart of the crisis.
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FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street: Part Four
aired: Tue, May 1, 2012
FRONTLINE probes a Wall Street culture that remains focused on risky trades. Bankers left an ugly trail of deals extending from small U.S. cities to big European capitals. For more than three years, regulators have tried to fix an industry steeped in conflicts of interest, excessive risk taking, and incentives to cheat. New regulations are being written, but can they fend off the next crisis?
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Terri Duhon
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Terri Duhon joined JPMorgan as a derivatives trader in 1994, after graduating from MIT. Four years later she was tapped to develop JPMorgan's credit derivatives business. She is managing partner of B&B; Structured Finance.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Robert Wolf
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Chairman of UBS's Group Americas division, Wolf was an informal adviser to then-Sen. Obama during his presidential campaign. During the financial meltdown, Wolf was often Obama's "inside source" on Wall Street's closed-door meetings during the crisis. Wolf is a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and formerly served on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Phil Angelides
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Phil Angelides chaired the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which spent more than a year investigating the crisis and concluded that it was avoidable, and a result of excessive risk taking, failures of regulation and poorly prepared government leaders.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Christina Romer
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Shortly before Obama became president, Romer, his incoming chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, projected that the $787 billion stimulus package would curb unemployment at 8 percent. (It has remained above 8 percent since February 2009.) In this interview, she laments that she and other top advisers underestimated the extent of economic damage caused by the crisis.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Austan Goolsbee
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
A longtime economic adviser to Barack Obama, Goolsbee focused on developing economic arguments for tougher regulation of the financial industry.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Vice chair of the House Republican Conference, Rodgers (R-Wash.) is very critical of President Obama's handling of the crisis. She says the president did not take a very cooperative approach with Republicans in developing a policy response to the crisis, and says his attitude on the stimulus bill was "take it or leave it."
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Richard Kovacevich
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
The former chair and CEO of Wells Fargo, Kovacevich was a strong opponent of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), under which his bank was forced to accept a $25 billion capital injection from the federal government.
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FRONTLINE: The FRONTLINE Interview: Cathy O'Neil
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Cathy O'Neil taught mathematics at Barnard College before working as a "quant" (using statistical methods to predict patterns in the market) for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Disillusioned, she joined Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the SEC, where she hopes to devise an alternative banking system.
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FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
As Wall Street innovated, its revenues skyrocketed, and financial institutions of all stripes tied their fortunes to one another. FRONTLINE probes deeply into the story of the big banks -- how they developed, how they profited, and how the model that produced unfathomable wealth planted the seeds of financial destruction.
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FRONTLINE: Money, Power and Wall Street: Part Two
aired: Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Beginning with the government bailout of the collapsing investment bank Bear Stearns in the spring of 2008, FRONTLINE examines how the country's leaders -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner -- struggled to respond to a financial crisis that caught them by surprise.
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FRONTLINE: The Interrupters (Graphic Language)
aired: Tue, Feb 14, 2012
From acclaimed producer-director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and best-selling author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz ("There Are No Children Here"), an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities.
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FRONTLINE: The Secret War
aired: Tue, Jan 3, 2012
Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside the deepest front in America's war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban: Pakistan. They uncover new details about border-crossing CIA-funded Afghan militias, investigate covert support for elements of the Taliban by the Pakistani military and intelligence, and explore the Obama administration's escalated campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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FRONTLINE: A Perfect Terrorist
aired: Tue, Nov 22, 2011
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the mysterious circumstances behind American David Coleman Headley's rise from heroin dealer and government informant to plotting the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai. Despite repeated warnings, how did Headley slip into India to scout targets? And how much did U.S. officials know about his relationship with terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba?
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FRONTLINE: A Perfect Terrorist
aired: Tue, Nov 22, 2011
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the mysterious circumstances behind American David Coleman Headley's rise from heroin dealer and government informant to plotting the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai. Despite repeated warnings, how did Headley slip into India to scout targets? And how much did U.S. officials know about his relationship with terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba?
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FRONTLINE: The Regime
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
How Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad has managed to hold onto power for so long
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
Magazine airing November 8, 2011: "Syria Undercover" and "The Regime."
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
FRONTLINE takes a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria.
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
Magazine airing November 8, 2011: "Syria Undercover" and "The Regime."
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
FRONTLINE takes a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria.
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FRONTLINE: The Regime
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
How Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad has managed to hold onto power for so long
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
FRONTLINE takes a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria.
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FRONTLINE: The Regime
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
How Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad has managed to hold onto power for so long
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FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
Magazine airing November 8, 2011: "Syria Undercover" and "The Regime."
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FRONTLINE: The Regime
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 2011
How Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad has managed to hold onto power for so long
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FRONTLINE: Lost in Detention
aired: Tue, Oct 18, 2011
FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop explore the secretive world of immigration detention and examine the Obama administration's controversial get-tough immigration policy.
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Wed, Sep 14, 2011
September 13, 2011: "The Interrogator" and an encore of "Are We Safer?"
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Wed, Sep 14, 2011
September 13, 2011: "The Interrogator" and an encore of "Are We Safer?"
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Wed, Sep 14, 2011
September 13, 2011: "The Interrogator" and an encore of "Are We Safer?"
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Wed, Sep 14, 2011
September 13, 2011: "The Interrogator" and an encore of "Are We Safer?"
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Mon, Sep 12, 2011
Former FBI agent Ali Soufan says critical CIA intelligence about Al Qaeda was not communicated to the FBI. If that information had been shared, Soufan says, "The world would be very different today."
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Mon, Sep 12, 2011
Former FBI agent Ali Soufan says critical CIA intelligence about Al Qaeda was not communicated to the FBI. If that information had been shared, Soufan says, "The world would be very different today."
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FRONTLINE: The Interrogator
aired: Mon, Sep 12, 2011
Former FBI agent Ali Soufan says critical CIA intelligence about Al Qaeda was not communicated to the FBI. If that information had been shared, Soufan says, "The world would be very different today."
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FRONTLINE: Top Secret America
aired: Tue, Sep 6, 2011
FRONTLINE reveals 9/11's unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.
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FRONTLINE: Top Secret America
aired: Tue, Sep 6, 2011
FRONTLINE reveals 9/11's unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.
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FRONTLINE: Top Secret America
aired: Tue, Sep 6, 2011
FRONTLINE reveals 9/11's unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.
Episode
FRONTLINE: Top Secret America
aired: Tue, Sep 6, 2011
FRONTLINE reveals 9/11's unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.
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FRONTLINE: The Pot Republic
aired: Tue, Jul 26, 2011
The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. used to come across the border. Now, more than half is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state's medical marijuana law.
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FRONTLINE: The Pot Republic
aired: Tue, Jul 26, 2011
The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. used to come across the border. Now, more than half is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state's medical marijuana law.
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FRONTLINE: The Child Cases
aired: Wed, Jun 29, 2011
June 28, 2011 magazine: The Child Cases and Educating Sergeant Pantzke
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FRONTLINE: Behind the Danziger Bridge Shooting
aired: Tue, Jun 28, 2011
As a federal trial gets underway, a look back at the infamous post-Katrina shooting by police that killed two unarmed citizens and wounded four. Five current and former NOPD officers face charges ranging from civil rights violations to covering up the incident.
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FRONTLINE: The Child Cases
aired: Tue, Jun 28, 2011
What happens when a child dies under suspicious circumstances? Abuse is often suspected, but are forensic pathologists being properly trained to find out the cause of death?
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FRONTLINE: Educating Sergeant Pantzke
aired: Fri, Jun 24, 2011
In a follow-up to FRONTLINE's "College, Inc.," correspondent Martin Smith investigates how for-profit schools are aggressively recruiting huge numbers of new veterans with educational promises that many now question whether they can keep.
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FRONTLINE: WikiSecrets
aired: Wed, May 25, 2011
FRONTLINE reveals the inside story of Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history.
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FRONTLINE: Kill/Capture
aired: Tue, May 10, 2011
Inside the military's secret campaign to take out Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters.
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FRONTLINE: Fighting for Bin Laden
aired: Mon, May 9, 2011
Reporter Najibullah Quraishi gains rare access to fighters loyal to
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FRONTLINE: The Secret War
aired: Wed, May 4, 2011
Inside the campaign vs. Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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FRONTLINE: Fighting for Bin Laden
aired: Wed, May 4, 2011
Inside two fronts of the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban
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FRONTLINE: The Silence
aired: Wed, Apr 20, 2011
Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The Silence shows how the isolation of the villages and the absolute authority of the church over the Native population created an atmosphere where molestation could go unchecked and unreported.
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FRONTLINE: The Silence
aired: Wed, Apr 20, 2011
The FRONTLINE Magazine Series (4/19/11): The Silence and Flying Cheaper
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FRONTLINE: Meet the Shiloh Christian Saints
aired: Wed, Apr 13, 2011
The obsession and competiveness of high school football has never been more intense - as shown by the rise of Arkansas' Shiloh Christian Saints who are luring the region's most talented athletes.
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FRONTLINE: Football High
aired: Wed, Apr 13, 2011
High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?
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FRONTLINE: Money and March Madness
aired: Wed, Mar 30, 2011
These days everyone's in the money in big-time college sports -- so why not the athletes?
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FRONTLINE: Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?
aired: Tue, Mar 29, 2011
China's first global art star is pushing the boundaries of freedom. How far can he go?
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FRONTLINE: Money and March Madness
aired: Tue, Mar 29, 2011
This month's magazine: college sports; Chinese artist Ai Weiwei; the soldier accused of being a Wikileaker
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FRONTLINE: Bush's War
aired: Mon, Mar 21, 2011
A history of the Iraq War that features both new and archival reporting, beginning in the year following 9/11, when the Bush administration was discussing the idea of ousting Saddam Hussein's regime.
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FRONTLINE: The Country Boys Part Three
aired: Sat, Mar 5, 2011
David Sutherland, acclaimed producer of The Farmer's Wife, returns to rural America with Country Boys, an epic tale of two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian hills.
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FRONTLINE: The Country Boys Part Two
aired: Fri, Mar 4, 2011
David Sutherland, acclaimed producer of The Farmer's Wife, returns to rural America with Country Boys, an epic tale of two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian hills.
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FRONTLINE: The Country Boys Part One
aired: Fri, Mar 4, 2011
David Sutherland, acclaimed producer of The Farmer's Wife, returns to rural America with Country Boys, an epic tale of two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian hills.
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FRONTLINE: Egypt's Facebook Faceoff
aired: Fri, Feb 25, 2011
Watch Egypt's young democracy movement in action in this 2008 documentary. At the time, fearful of brutal police crackdowns the Egyptian population was not ready to follow the young activists. But they remained optimistic.
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FRONTLINE: The Brothers
aired: Thu, Feb 24, 2011
Veteran Middle East correspondent Charles Sennott of GlobalPost lands in Cairo for FRONTLINE to take a hard look at Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood--the most well-organized and powerful of the country's opposition groups--as a new fight for power in Egypt begins to takes shape.
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FRONTLINE: Revolution in Cairo: The April 6 Movement
aired: Wed, Feb 23, 2011
FRONTLINE dispatches teams to Cairo, going inside the youth movement that helped light the fire on the streets. We follow the "April 6th" group, which two years ago began making a bold use of the Internet for their underground resistance--tactics that led to jail and torture for many of their leaders.
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FRONTLINE: Revolution in Cairo
aired: Wed, Feb 23, 2011
Inside the youth movement that ignited the uprising, and a hard look at the Muslim Brotherhood, a key player in Egypt's future.
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FRONTLINE: Post Mortem
aired: Mon, Jan 31, 2011
A dysfunctional system in which there are few standards, little oversight, and the mistakes are literally buried.
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FRONTLINE: Flying Cheaper
aired: Tue, Jan 18, 2011
An investigation into a growing trend: the outsourcing of major airline repair work.
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FRONTLINE: Are We Safer?
aired: Tue, Jan 18, 2011
The Washington Post's Dana Priest reports on the sprawling post-9/11 terrorism-industrial complex -- and its growing reach into the lives of ordinary Americans
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FRONTLINE: Facing Death
aired: Wed, Jan 12, 2011
FRONTLINE gains access to the ICU of one of New York's biggest hospitals to examine the complicated reality of today's modern, medicalized death.
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FRONTLINE: The Confessions
aired: Tue, Nov 9, 2010
Why would four men confess to a crime they didn't commit?
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FRONTLINE: The Spill
aired: Tue, Oct 26, 2010
Could the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been prevented? FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up to investigate the long and troubled history of the oil giant, BP.
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FRONTLINE: HEAT
aired: Tue, Oct 26, 2010
A far-reaching investigation into America's energy landscape and what can be done to save our planet - and what it will take.
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FRONTLINE: God in America: Five: Soul of a Nation
aired: Wed, Oct 13, 2010
Evangelist Billy Graham tries to inspire a revival, fusing faith and patriotism to battle "godless communism." Americans flock in record numbers to houses of worship; nonbelievers and religious minorities appeal to the Supreme Court for protections. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor biblical teachings and the founders' democratic ideals.
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FRONTLINE: God in America: Six: Of God and Caesar
aired: Wed, Oct 13, 2010
Conservative evangelicals' embrace of presidential politics ends in disappointment and questions about mixing religion and politics. New waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America make the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth. In the 2008 presidential election, a religious voice reemerges in the Democratic Party.
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FRONTLINE: God In America: Four: A New Light
aired: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
Isaac Mayer Wise embraces change and establishes Reform Judaism in America. Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs seeks to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, and is tried for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faces off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.
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FRONTLINE: God in America: Two: A New Eden
aired: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
The unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forges a new concept of religious freedom. Upstart denominations race ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of revivals sweep thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspire a new gospel of social reform. Catholic immigrants challenge Protestant domination of public schools.
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FRONTLINE: God in America: One: A New Adam
aired: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
In New Mexico, Pueblo spirituality collides with the Franciscan missionaries' Catholicism. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop confronts religious dissenters within his ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers sweeps through the colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converges with the American Revolution.
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FRONTLINE: The Man Who Knew
aired: Thu, Sep 9, 2010
John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on Al Qaeda warned of its threat. But his maverick style doomed his career.
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FRONTLINE: Law & Disorder
aired: Wed, Aug 25, 2010
An investigation into questionable shootings by the New Orleans Police Department in the wake of Katrina
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FRONTLINE: The Storm
aired: Fri, Jul 30, 2010
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.
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FRONTLINE: The Wounded Platoon
aired: Tue, May 18, 2010
How a platoon of soldiers, changed by war. is battling mental health disorders that many blame for their violent, self-destructive behavior.
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FRONTLINE: College Inc.
aired: Wed, May 5, 2010
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.
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FRONTLINE: The Vaccine War
aired: Wed, Apr 28, 2010
Inside the raging debate: risks v. benefits, and parents' right to make choices about their child v. the needs of a community
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FRONTLINE: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
aired: Wed, Apr 21, 2010
FRONTLINE goes inside an ancient, illegal practice that's once again flourishing: an organized sex trade in young Afghan boys.
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FRONTLINE: Obama's Deal
aired: Wed, Apr 14, 2010
It wasn't pretty, but it worked. Inside the backroom deals and hardball politics that finally got Obama his health care bill.
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FRONTLINE: The Mormons Part One
aired: Mon, Apr 5, 2010
An exploration into the epic story of one of the most powerful, feared and misunderstood religions in American history. (Part One)
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FRONTLINE: The Mormons Part Two
aired: Mon, Apr 5, 2010
An exploration into the epic story of one of the most powerful, feared and misunderstood religions in American history.
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FRONTLINE: The Quake
aired: Sat, Apr 3, 2010
A powerful report on Haiti's tragedy, with never-before-seen footage. What can be done now - and who will do it?
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FRONTLINE: The Suicide Tourist
aired: Wed, Mar 3, 2010
A story of struggling to live ... and deciding when to die. Is this a choice everyone should have?
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FRONTLINE: Behind Taliban Lines
aired: Wed, Feb 24, 2010
An Afghan journalist's extraordinary 10 days living and filming with an insurgent cell allied with Al Qaeda.
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FRONTLINE: Flying Cheap
aired: Sat, Feb 13, 2010
Maybe it's time we take a hard look at the risks that may go with cheap flying...?
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FRONTLINE: Digital Nation
aired: Tue, Feb 2, 2010
FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier.
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FRONTLINE: From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)
aired: Mon, Dec 21, 2009
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."
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FRONTLINE: From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)
aired: Mon, Dec 21, 2009
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."
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FRONTLINE: The Card Game
aired: Wed, Nov 25, 2009
Investigating the massive consumer loan industry and what's ahead for banks and consumers...
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FRONTLINE: The Secret History of the Credit Card
aired: Wed, Nov 25, 2009
The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.
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FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran
aired: Wed, Nov 18, 2009
The life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the Iranian reform movement alive.
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FRONTLINE: The Medicated Child
aired: Mon, Nov 2, 2009
Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?
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FRONTLINE: Close to Home
aired: Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession's impact on one unlikely neighborhood--New York's Upper East Side..
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FRONTLINE: The Warning
aired: Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Long before the economic meltdown, one woman tried to warn about the threat to the financial system...
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FRONTLINE: Obama's War
aired: Wed, Oct 14, 2009
Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires?"
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FRONTLINE: Bush's War Part 2
aired: Mon, Sep 28, 2009
The inside story of the war that will define a presidency -- a war that no one expected, and no one planned for.
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FRONTLINE: Bush's War Part 1
aired: Mon, Sep 28, 2009
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast.
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FRONTLINE: Growing Up Online
aired: Thu, Sep 17, 2009
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.
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FRONTLINE: Breaking the Bank
aired: Tue, Jun 30, 2009
The inside story of one of the most controversial moments in America's financial crisis - and its ongoing drama
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FRONTLINE: The Tank Man
aired: Tue, Jun 9, 2009
17 years later, what does he mean for a China that today is a global economic powerhouse and now hosts the 2008 Olympics?
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FRONTLINE: The Madoff Affair
aired: Wed, May 13, 2009
Inside the world's first global Ponzi scheme - and how he got away with it for so long...
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FRONTLINE: The Released
aired: Tue, May 5, 2009
What happens to the mentally ill when they leave America's prisons? Why do they return at such alarming rates ?
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FRONTLINE: Ten Trillion and Counting
aired: Thu, Apr 23, 2009
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.
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FRONTLINE: Sick Around America
aired: Thu, Apr 23, 2009
FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and exploring the need for a fundamental overhaul.
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FRONTLINE: Inside the Meltdown
aired: Sat, Apr 4, 2009
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.
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FRONTLINE: My Father, My Brother, and Me
aired: Sat, Apr 4, 2009
Correspondent Dave Iverson's personal journey to understand Parkinson's, the disease which has taken such a toll on his family.
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FRONTLINE: Dreams of Obama
aired: Sat, Apr 4, 2009
A rich personal and political biography of America's 44th president and what has brought him to this historic moment...
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FRONTLINE: The Old Man and the Storm
aired: Sat, Apr 4, 2009
The compelling saga of one family's efforts to rebuild their homes, and their lives, in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law
aired: Fri, Apr 3, 2009
Inside the bruising closed door battles within the Bush administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.
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FRONTLINE: The Hugo Chavez Show
aired: Fri, Apr 3, 2009
Controversial, bombastic, he believes he is destined to change Venezuela and the whole of Latin America. Who is Hugo Chavez? And where is he headed?
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FRONTLINE: Rules of Engagement
aired: Fri, Apr 3, 2009
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.
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FRONTLINE: The Undertaking
aired: Fri, Apr 3, 2009
A haunting portrait of the world of Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors, a family which has long cared for the dead - and the living.
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FRONTLINE: The Choice 2008
aired: Thu, Mar 5, 2009
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.
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FRONTLINE: The War Briefing
aired: Thu, Mar 5, 2009
Can the war in Afghanistan be won? A hard, inside look at the real policy choices facing the next president. The War Briefing won the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography, Timothy Grucza, cameraman.
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FRONTLINE: Young & Restless in China
aired: Thu, Mar 5, 2009
A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history.
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FRONTLINE: Bad Voodoo's War
aired: Thu, Mar 5, 2009
FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a "virtual embed" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq.
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FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
aired: Thu, Mar 5, 2009
In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies?
