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First Aired: January 17th, 1983
Status: Continuing
Network: PBS
Summary: 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.
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Season 2013
Episode 1: The Education of Michelle Rhee
Air Date: January 8th, 2013
Summary: The legacy of Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools, is examined.
Episode 2: Inside Obama's Presidency
Air Date: January 15th, 2013
Summary: A probing look at the first four years of Barack Obama's presidency examines his key decisions.
Episode 3: The Untouchables
Air Date: January 22nd, 2013
Summary: A look at why Wall Street's leaders and have escaped prosecution since America's financial meltdown.
Episode 4: Cliffhanger
Air Date: February 12nd, 2013
Summary: Frontline investigates how Washington has failed to solve America's problems of debt and deficit.
Episode 5: Raising Adam Lanza
Air Date: February 19th, 2013
Summary: Frontline investigates Adam Lanza and the town he changed forever after the killings at Sandy Hook.
Episode 6: Syria Behind the Lines
Air Date: April 9th, 2013
Summary: An unprecedented film documents the new and perilous reality of everyday life for both Syria’s rebels and its regime.
Episode 7: The Retirement Gamble
Air Date: April 23rd, 2013
Summary: Frontline raises troubling questions about how America's financial institutions protect our savings, and reveals how fees, self-dealing and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals.
Episode 8: Top Secret America – 9/11 to the Boston Bombings
Air Date: April 30th, 2013
Summary: An updated version of our film which originally aired in September 2011. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest traces the journey from 9/11 to the marathon bombings, examines efforts to improve information sharing among federal agencies tasked with keeping us safe and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism.
Episode 9: Never Forget to Lie
Air Date: May 14th, 2013
Summary: Filmmaker and Holocaust survivor Marian Marzynski returns to Poland and the Jewish ghettos of his childhood to chronicle the poignant, painful recollections of other child survivors.
Episode 10: Outlawed In Pakistan
Air Date: May 28th, 2013
Summary: A teenager makes her way through Pakistan's broken justice system after accusing four men of rape.
Episode 11: Rape in the Fields
Air Date: June 25th, 2013
Summary: For the women who pick and process the food we eat every day, getting sexually assaulted, and even raped, is sometimes part of the job. FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America's fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Episode 12: Two American Families
Air Date: July 9th, 2013
Summary: Two families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - work hard to keep from sliding into poverty.
Episode 13: Life and Death In Assisted Living
Air Date: July 30th, 2013
Summary: A look at the nation's largest assisted living company sheds light on this billion dollar industry.
Episode 14: Egypt In Crisis
Air Date: September 17th, 2013
Summary: Martin Smith and Charles Sennott examine the rise and rapid fall of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
Episode 15: League of Denial - The NFL's Concussion Crisis
Air Date: October 8th, 2013
Summary: The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America's indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under assault as thousands of former players and a host of scientists claim the league has covered up how football inflicted long-term brain injuries on many players. In a special investigation, FRONTLINE and prize-winning journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN reveal the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries, drawn from their forthcoming book League of Denial - The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth (Crown Archetype, October 2013). What did the NFL know and when did it know it? What's the truth about the risks to players? What can be done? The FRONTLINE investigation details how, for years, the league denied and worked to refute scientific evidence that the violent collisions at the heart of the game are linked to an alarming incidence of early onset dementia, catastrophic brain damage, death, and other devastating consequences for some of football's all-time greats.
Episode 16: Hunting The Nightmare Bacteria
Air Date: October 22nd, 2013
Summary: A look the alarming rise of untreatable infections in hospitals, communities and across the globe.
Episode 17: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Air Date: November 19th, 2013
Summary: Lee Harvey Oswald and forensic evidence of his role in the Kennedy assassination are investigated.
Episode 18: A Death In St. Augustine
Air Date: November 26th, 2013
Summary: Allegations of domestic violence surface during the investigation of a deputy sheriff's death.
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