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Frontline

Season 29 2010 - 2011
TV-PG

  • 2010-10-20T01:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • 17h 30m (19 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, News, Talk Show
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

19 episodes

Season Premiere

2010-10-20T01:00:00Z

29x01 Death by Fire

Season Premiere

29x01 Death by Fire

  • 2010-10-20T01:00:00Z55m

At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty?

2010-10-27T01:00:00Z

29x02 The Spill

29x02 The Spill

  • 2010-10-27T01:00:00Z55m

Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.

2010-11-10T02:00:00Z

29x03 The Confessions

29x03 The Confessions

  • 2010-11-10T02:00:00Z55m

Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions.

2010-11-24T02:00:00Z

29x04 Facing Death

29x04 Facing Death

  • 2010-11-24T02:00:00Z55m

The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families

2011-01-12T02:00:00Z

29x05 Battle for Haiti

29x05 Battle for Haiti

  • 2011-01-12T02:00:00Z55m

In the chaos of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, thousands of the country's worst criminals seized the opportunity to stage a mass escape from the National Penitentiary. One year later, the gang leaders are re-asserting control in the capital, threatening the country's stability.

Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11.

Flying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

2011-02-02T02:00:00Z

29x07 Post Mortem

29x07 Post Mortem

  • 2011-02-02T02:00:00Z1h

A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.

2011-02-23T02:00:00Z

29x09 Revolution in Cairo

29x09 Revolution in Cairo

  • 2011-02-23T02:00:00Z55m

A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports.

Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China.

The Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth

2011-04-13T01:00:00Z

29x11 Football High

29x11 Football High

  • 2011-04-13T01:00:00Z55m

High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?

2011-04-20T01:00:00Z

29x12 The Silence

29x12 The Silence

  • 2011-04-20T01:00:00Z55m

Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska.

2011-05-04T01:00:00Z

29x13 Fighting for Bin Laden

29x13 Fighting for Bin Laden

  • 2011-05-04T01:00:00Z55m

The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

2011-05-11T01:00:00Z

29x14 Kill/Capture

29x14 Kill/Capture

  • 2011-05-11T01:00:00Z55m

Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.

2011-05-25T01:00:00Z

29x15 WikiSecrets

29x15 WikiSecrets

  • 2011-05-25T01:00:00Z55m

The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.

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.

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.

2011-09-07T01:00:00Z

29x18 Top Secret America

29x18 Top Secret America

  • 2011-09-07T01:00:00Z55m

A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending

2011-09-28T01:00:00Z

29x19 An Optimist in Haiti

29x19 An Optimist in Haiti

  • 2011-09-28T01:00:00Z55m

The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.

Season Finale

2011-09-28T01:00:00Z

29x20 The Man Behind the Mosque

Season Finale

29x20 The Man Behind the Mosque

  • 2011-09-28T01:00:00Z55m

The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.

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