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.
Summary: 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?
Episode 2: The Spill
Air Date: October 26th, 2010
Summary: Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
Episode 3: The Confessions
Air Date: November 9th, 2010
Summary: 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.
Episode 4: Facing Death
Air Date: November 23rd, 2010
Summary: The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families
Episode 5: Battle for Haiti
Air Date: January 11st, 2011
Summary: 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.
Episode 6: Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper
Air Date: January 18th, 2011
Summary: 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.
Episode 7: Post Mortem
Air Date: February 1st, 2011
Summary: A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.
Episode 8: Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?
Air Date: March 29th, 2011
Episode 9: Revolution in Cairo
Air Date: February 22nd, 2011
Summary: A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
Episode 10: Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning
Air Date: March 29th, 2011
Summary: 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
Episode 11: Football High
Air Date: April 12nd, 2011
Summary: High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?
Episode 12: The Silence
Air Date: April 19th, 2011
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Fighting for Bin Laden
Air Date: May 3rd, 2011
Summary: The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Episode 14: Kill/Capture
Air Date: May 10th, 2011
Summary: Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.
Episode 15: WikiSecrets
Air Date: May 24th, 2011
Summary: The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.
Episode 16: The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke
Air Date: June 28th, 2011
Summary: 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.
Episode 17: The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists
Air Date: July 26th, 2011
Summary: 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.
Episode 18: Top Secret America
Air Date: September 6th, 2011
Summary: A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending
Episode 19: An Optimist in Haiti
Air Date: September 27th, 2011
Summary: The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.
Episode 20: The Man Behind the Mosque
Air Date: September 27th, 2011
Summary: The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Episode 21: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
Air Date: September 7th, 2011
Episode 22: The Interrogator
Air Date: September 13rd, 2011
Episode 23: The Wounded Platoon
Air Date: September 20th, 2011
Episode 24: The Man Behind the Mosque
Air Date: September 27th, 2011
Episode 25: An Optimist in Haiti
Air Date: September 27th, 2011
Episode 26: The Anthrax Files
Air Date: October 11st, 2011
Episode 27: Lost in Detention
Air Date: October 18th, 2011
Episode 28: Syria Undercover
Air Date: November 8th, 2011
Episode 29: A Perfect Terrorist
Air Date: November 22nd, 2011
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