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|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1001.html/ In the Shadow of Sakharov]'' || {{dts|1991-10-15}} || Biographies || [[Andrei Sakharov]], the nuclear physicist turned human-rights advocate who became the father of the Soviet democracy movement. |
|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1001.html/ In the Shadow of Sakharov]'' || {{dts|1991-10-15}} || Biographies || [[Andrei Sakharov]], the nuclear physicist turned human-rights advocate who became the father of the Soviet democracy movement. |
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|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1011.html Coming From Japan]'' || {{dts|1992-02-18}} || Business/Economy/Financial Crisis || [[Shuichi Kato]] narrates over a controversial 30 year history between Matsushita Electric Company and the U.S. |
|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1011.html Coming From Japan]'' || {{dts|1992-02-18}} || Business/Economy/Financial Crisis || [[Shūichi Katō (critic)|Shuichi Kato]] narrates over a controversial 30 year history between Matsushita Electric Company and the U.S. |
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|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1103.html/ The Choice 1992]'' || {{dts|1992-10-21}} || Biographies || Biographies on [[Bill Clinton]] and [[George H. W. Bush]]. |
|''[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/1103.html/ The Choice 1992]'' || {{dts|1992-10-21}} || Biographies || Biographies on [[Bill Clinton]] and [[George H. W. Bush]]. |
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The following is a list of episodes from the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series Frontline.
Title | Date | Topic | Description | |
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Abortion Clinic | April 18, 1983 | Health/Science/Technology | The abortion debate. | |
Red Star Over Khyber | December 11, 1984 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | The Persian Gulf five years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. | |
Buying the Bomb | March 5, 1985 | 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 | March 26, 1985 | Racism | 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. | |
Death of a Porn Queen | June 9, 1987 | Biographies | The life and suicide of young girl involved in the porn industry. | |
The Man Who Shot Lennon | February 9, 1988 | Biographies | Portrait of Mark David Chapman. | |
The Choice | October 24, 1988 | Biographies | Profiles of George Bush and Michael Dukakis. | |
The Real Life of Ronald Reagan | January 18, 1989 | Biographies | Profile of Ronald Reagan. | |
The Shakespeare Mystery | April 18, 1989 | Biographies | Investigates the theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real Shakespeare. | |
The Faces of Arafat | February 27, 1990 | Biographies | Profile of Yasser Arafat. | |
The Man Who Made the Supergun | February 12, 1991 | Biographies | Gerald Bull designer of long-range artillery, assassinated in Belgium. | |
The Mind of Hussein | February 26, 1991 | Biographies | Personal and political history of Saddam Hussein. | |
The Spy Hunter | May 14, 1991 | Biographies | James Angelton, ex-chief of counter-intelligence for the CIA and his misguided pursuit of an agency mole. | |
In the Shadow of Sakharov | October 15, 1991 | Biographies | Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist turned human-rights advocate who became the father of the Soviet democracy movement. | |
Coming From Japan | February 18, 1992 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Shuichi Kato narrates over a controversial 30 year history between Matsushita Electric Company and the U.S. | |
The Choice 1992 | October 21, 1992 | Biographies | Biographies on Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush. | |
The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover | February 9, 1993 | Criminal Justice | The career and secrets of J. Edgar Hoover are explored. | |
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? | November 16, 1993 | Biographies | Investigative biography examining the Kennedy assassination by exploring the life Lee Harvey Oswald. | |
How to Steal $500 Million | November 8, 1994 | Criminal Justice | The rapid rise and stunning fall of Phar-Mor, and how Michael "Mickey" Monus, the flamboyant co-founder and president, was able to hide one of the largest corporate frauds in U.S. history from the company's auditors. | |
Hillary’s Class | November 15, 1994 | Biographies | In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton 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 | May 23, 1995 | Biographies | Interrelationships of poverty, racism, crime, illiteracy, and drug use and their persistence over generations. | |
Who’s Afraid of Rupert Murdoch? | November 7, 1995 | Biographies | Rupert Murdoch's drive to establish the first global telecommunications network. | |
The Long March of Newt Gingrich | January 16, 1996 | Biographies | Biography of Newt Gingrich. | |
The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson | April 30, 1996 | Biographies | Biography of Jesse Jackson and a portrait of race and politics in post-war America. | |
The Gate of Heavenly Peace | June 4, 1996 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | A feature-length documentary about Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, reflecting the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989. | |
The Choice 1996 | October 8, 1996 | Biographies | Biographies on Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. | |
Secret Daughter | November 26, 1996 | Biographies | June Cross tells her story as the daughter of a white woman and a well-known black vaudevillian Jimmy Cross who was handed over to a black couple for rearing. | |
The Lost American | October 14, 1997 | Biographies | The mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny, a maverick humanitarian aid expert, helped millions and fought to change how the world responds to disaster. | |
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians | April 6, 1998 and 07 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | Biblical scholars recount the rise of Christianity within the Roman Empire. (4 hours) | |
The World’s Most Wanted Man | May 26, 1998 | Biographies | The hunt for indicted Serbian war leader Radovan Karadzic, and his role in the atrocities and genocide of the Bosnia war | |
The Farmer's Wife | September 21, 1998 | Family/Children | A young Nebraska couple struggles on the family farm. | |
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela | May 25, 1999 | Biographies | In-depth profile of Nelson Mandela. | |
John Paul II: The Millennium Pope | September 28, 1999 | Biographies | Comprehensive biography of John Paul II. | |
The Survival of Saddam | January 25, 2000 | Biographies | Saddam Hussein’s rise to power and how he has maintained his grip despite opposition. | |
War in Europe | February 22, 2000 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | NATO's 1999 war against Serbia over Kosovo. | |
Jefferson’s Blood | May 2, 2000 | Biographies | Examines Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave and mistress Sally Hemings and follows their descendants as they undergo DNA testing. | |
Return of the Czar | May 9, 2000 | Biographies | An in-depth look at Russia a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. | |
The Choice 2000 | October 2, 2000 | Biographies | Biographies on Al Gore and George W. Bush. | |
The Clinton Years | January 16, 2001 | Biographies | Follows Bill Clinton 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 | February 27, 2001 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Corporations study teenagers to effectively market to them. | |
Medicating Kids | April 10, 2001 | Health/Medical | The growing use of psychoactive drugs in children. | |
Hunting Bin Laden | September 13, 2001 | 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 | October 9, 2001 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Produced in partnership with The New York Times, 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 met in the mountains of Afghanistan. | |
Saudi Time Bomb | November 15, 2001 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Can America still count on one of its most important allies in the Arab world -- Saudi Arabia? Or does an undercurrent of militant Islamic fundamentalism threaten the stability of both Saudi Arabia and the entire region? | |
The Monster That Ate Hollywood | November 22, 2001 | Arts/Entertainment | How Hollywood created the blockbuster, and a question on the future of the independent film. | |
An Ordinary Crime | January 10, 2002 | Biographies | A bizarre case of injustice where two men with the same name are implicated in the same crime. | |
The Man Who Knew | October 3, 2002 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | A story of FBI agent John P. O'Neill, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’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, where he died during the attack. | |
In Search of Al Qaeda | November 21, 2002 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Follows the trail of Al Qaeda fighters who survived U.S. airstrikes in the mountains of Afghanistan. | |
Much Ado About Something | January 2, 2003 | Biographies | Did Shakespeare actually write his plays and poems, or was it Christopher Marlowe? | |
A Dangerous Business | January 9, 2003 | 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 | January 30, 2003 | Family/Children | The death of a five-year old in foster care forces Maine to reexamine its child protection system. | |
Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files | February 6, 2003 | Family/Children | Discussion with caseworkers, experts and reformers on the failings and possible solutions for the child welfare system. | |
China in the Red | February 13, 2003 | 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 | February 20, 2003 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The key people and disagreements over Bush's determination to go to war with Iraq. | |
The Long Road to War | March 17, 2003 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The complicated history of conflict between the U.S. and Saddam Hussein as told by numerous Frontline reports. | |
Blair's War | April 3, 2003 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Facing strong opposition in Britain, Tony Blair supports the Iraq war in an attempt to gain access to the Bush administration decision process. | |
Kim's Nuclear Gamble | April 10, 2003 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Nuclear weapons provide North Korea protection and a bargaining chip, but also antagonizes the international community. | |
Cyber War! | April 24, 2003 | Science & Technology | Counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke creates defenses for cyberspace. | |
Burden of Innocence | May 1, 2003 | Criminal Justice | What happens to the wrongly convicted? | |
The Wall Street Fix | May 8, 2003 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | With the deception of big banks and corporations, can confidence be restored? | |
The Other Drug War | June 19, 2003 | Health/Medical | The battle over high priced pharmaceuticals. | |
Public Schools, Inc. | July 3, 2003 | Family/Children | Edison Schools are trying to run better public schools for profit. | |
Truth, War, and Consequences | October 9, 2003 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The consequences of using propaganda in the lead up to war with Iraq. | |
Chasing the Sleeper Cell | October 16, 2003 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Background of the Lackawanna six and the Patriot Act. | |
The Alternative Fix | November 6, 2003 | Health/Medical | The big business and questionable science of alternative medicine. | |
Dangerous Prescription | November 13, 2003 | Health/Medical | Pharmaceutical influence over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug approval process. | |
From China with Love | January 15, 2004 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Philosophy and failure of counter-intelligence in the U.S.. | |
Chasing Saddam's Weapons | January 22, 2004 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Hunting for Saddam's WMD's and unanswered questions. | |
Beyond Baghdad | February 12, 2004 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | The dynamics of democracy across Iraq. | |
Tax Me if You Can | February 19, 2004 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Corporate tax avoidance and its implications. | |
The Invasion of Iraq | February 26, 2004 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Strategies, key battles, surprises, and turning points of Operation Iraqi Freedom. | |
The Way the Music Died | March 27, 2004 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Business interests controlling creative endeavors. | |
Ghosts of Rwanda | April 1, 2004 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Accounting for the failure to stop The Rwandan genocide. | |
Diet Wars | April 8, 2004 | Health/Medical | Diets are competing for marketshare, but do they work? | |
Son of Al Qaeda | April 22, 2004 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | An informant from the inner circles of Al Qaeda. | |
The Jesus Factor | April 29, 2004 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | The role Christianity played in Bush's rise to power. | |
The Plea | June 17, 2004 | Criminal Justice | Harsh realities of U.S. jurisprudence. | |
Sacred Ground | September 7, 2004 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Debate over use of the World Trade Center site and designing the Freedom Tower. | |
The Choice 2004 | October 12, 2004 | Government | Biographies on John Kerry and George W. Bush. | |
The Persuaders | November 9, 2004 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Marketing, Advertising, emotions, elections, narrowcasting, with interviews with Acxiom, Frank Luntz, Karl Rove, Naomi Klein among others by Douglas Rushkoff. | |
Is WAL-MART Good For AMERICA? | November 16, 2004 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | American jobs. | |
The Secret History of the Credit Card | November 23, 2004 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Credit card companies develop tactics to increase revenue. | |
Al Qaeda’s New Front | January 25, 2005 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | An investigation into the threat radical jihadists pose to Western Europe and its allies | |
House of Saud | February 8, 2005 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | Explores how the Al Saud family maintains its hold on power with the ever-growing tensions between Islam and modernity. Also traces America's relations with the Saudi royal family from the 1930s through September 11 and the present day. | |
Israel's Next War | April 5, 2005 | 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 | April 12, 2005 | 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 | June 21, 2005 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Examines the use of private contractors in the Iraq War. | |
Country Boys | January 9, 2006 | 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 | February 14, 2006 | 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 | April 11, 2006 | 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 | May 30, 2006 | Health/Medical | The history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. (4 hours) | |
The Dark Side | June 20, 2006 | Biographies | A step-by-step examination of what happened behind the headlines on the war on terror. | |
Return of the Taliban | October 3, 2006 | 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 | October 10, 2006 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Looks at the America's response to homegrown terrorism. | |
The Lost Year in Iraq | October 17, 2006 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Documents multiple failures of the reconstruction efforts headed by the ORHA and the CPA. | |
Return of the Taliban | October 3, 2006 | 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 | November 14, 2006 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | The former mayor Jim West of Spokane, Washington, was caught leading a double life as a conservative Republican anti-gay legislator and as a gay man. | |
The Mormons | April 30, 2007 | Mormons | with American Experience four hour PBS documentary aired April 30-May 1, 2007. | |
Spying on the Home Front | May 15, 2007 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | Post 9/11 domestic spying with Narus, Nora (technology) and Total Information Awareness. Mark Klein of ATT uncovers a domestic spying program by the NSA in San Francisco. | |
The Medicated Child | January 8, 2008 | Health/Medical | A look at child medication and the link between anti-psychotic drugs and bipolar disorder. | |
A Dangerous Business Revisited | February 5, 2008 | 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 | March 24, 2008 | 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 | April 15, 2008 | Health/Medical | Comparing health care systems in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan. | |
Storm over Everest | May 13, 2008 | 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 & Restless in China | June 17, 2008 | 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 | October 8, 2008 | 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. | |
The Choice 2008 | October 14, 2008 | Biographies | Profiles of Barack Obama and John McCain. | |
Heat | October 21, 2008 | Climate change | Investigation into US energy use and climate change mitigation. | |
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story | November 11, 2008 | Biographies | The rise and fall of the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. | |
The Hugo Chavez Show | November 25, 2008 | 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 | January 20, 2009 | Biographies | On the eve of Barack Obama'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 | February 17, 2009 | 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 | March 24, 2009 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | The causes of the U.S. public debt is analyzed. | |
Black Money | April 7, 2009 | 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. | |
Poisoned Waters | April 21, 2009 | Environment/Health | There's a new wave of pollution that's killing fish, causing mutations in frogs - and threatening human health. | |
The Madoff Affair | May 12, 2009 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Unraveling the story behind the world's first global Ponzi Scheme. | |
Obama’s War | October 13, 2009 | 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 | October 20, 2009 | 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 | November 24, 2009 | Business/Economy/Financial Crisis | Investigating the massive consumer loan industry and what's ahead for customers and banks. | |
The Vaccine War | April 27, 2010 | Health/Medical | Examining the debate over medical risks vs. benefits and related vaccine controversies. | |
God in America | October 11, 2010 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | 400-year history of religion and public life in the United States of America, in partnership with American Experience. | |
Death by Fire | October 19, 2010 | Criminal Justice | The Cameron Todd Willingham story | |
Revolution in Cairo | February 22, 2011 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. | |
Behind Taliban Lines | February 23, 2011 | 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 | May 3, 2011 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |
Kill/Capture | May 10, 2011 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's impact and its costs. | |
WikiSecrets | May 24, 2011 | Foreign Affairs/Defense/Military | The inside story of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange (Wikileaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history. | |
The Man Behind the Mosque | September 27, 2011 | Social Issues / Race / Religion | the struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center. | |
Top Secret America | September 6, 2011 | The Middle East & the War on Terror | A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending. (See Top Secret America) | |
An Optimist in Haiti | September 27, 2011 | Poverty | The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity. | |
Opium Brides | January 3, 2012 | Afghanistan/Pakistan | Collateral damage caused in Afghanistan by drug trafficking. | |
A Perfect Terrorist | November 22, 2011 | Terrorism | Life of a Pakistani-American David Headley. | |
The Interrupters | February 14, 2012 | violence | The Interrupters | |
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown | February 28, 2012 | Nuclear power | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster | |
Money, Power and Wall Street | April 24, 2012 | Money, Power and Wall Street | (four one hour episodes, May 4th premier concluded). | |
Alaska Gold | July 24, 2012 | Environmental management | Bristol Bay region of Alaska |
External links
- PBS.org – Full chronological list
- PBS-frontline – Watch Frontline online (streamed without commercials)