Seasons & episodes
S29 · E11Football High 2011-04-12
High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?
S29 · E12The Silence 2011-04-19
Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska.
S29 · E13Fighting for Bin Laden 2011-05-03
The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
S29 · E14Kill/Capture 2011-05-10
Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.
S29 · E15WikiSecrets 2011-05-24
The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.
S29 · E16The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke 2011-06-28
The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases. Educating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep.
S29 · E17The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists 2011-07-26
The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market. Doctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called “hotspotting,” in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. The Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI’s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life.
S29 · E18Top Secret America 2011-09-06
A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending
S29 · E19An Optimist in Haiti 2011-09-27
The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.
S29 · E20The Man Behind the Mosque 2011-09-27
The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
S30 · E1The Anthrax Files 2011-10-11
Frontline, with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism.
S30 · E2Lost in Detention 2011-10-18
Frontline investigates President Obama's enforcement strategies and immigrant detention - who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees.
S30 · E3Syria Undercover 2011-11-08
Reporter Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. Plus a profile of the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab unrest—President Bashar al-Assad.
S30 · E4A Perfect Terrorist 2011-11-22
Life of a Pakistani-American David Headley.
S30 · E5Opium Brides 2012-01-03
Frontline reports on the unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan.
S30 · E6Nuclear Aftershocks 2012-01-17
It’s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country’s once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: The controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan?
S30 · E7The Interrupters 2012-02-14
The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these “Violence Interrupters,” who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city’s most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a murdered father, and a man haunted by a killing he committed as a teenager. As they intervene in disputes to prevent violence, they reveal their own inspired journeys of struggle and redemption.
S30 · E8Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown 2012-02-28
An unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
S30 · E9Murdoch's Scandal 2012-03-27
Accounts of bribery, blackmail, and privacy invasions has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.
S30 · E10The Real CSI 2012-04-17
How reliable is the science behind forensics? A Frontline investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science.
S30 · E11Money, Power and Wall Street Parts I-IV 2012-04-24 · 53 min
Frontline tells the inside story of the global financial crisis. (four one-hour episodes, May 4 premier concluded).
S30 · E12Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet 2012-05-22
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases. Six Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 and lost a massive bet on European debt, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing. FRONTLINE investigates how Corzine’s traders went around MF Global’s risk officers and how he swayed regulators in Washington to allow risky practices to continue.
S30 · E13Al Qaeda in Yemen 2012-05-29
Frontline travels into the heart of Yemen's radical heartland, and shows how Al Queda is taking control of towns and cities in an attempt to establish its own state.
S30 · E14Dollars and Dentists 2012-06-26
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by Frontline and the Center for Public Integrity reveals the shocking consequences of a broken safety net.