David Fanning
Director
Frontline (1983)
Specials
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.
Released Jan. 17, 1983
Episode 76 min
14+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: tmdb.investigative-journalism, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.political-superpower, imdb.u-s-military, imdb.armed-forces, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.american-politics + 5 more, imdb.public-affairs, imdb.investigative-journalism, imdb.military, imdb.power-politics, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: WGBH Boston, Frontline
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S0E5 - God in America: A New Adam (1)
The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic faith of Franciscan missionaries, ending in a bloody revolt. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop faced off against religious dissenters from within his own ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers like George Whitefield swept through the American colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converged with the political upheaval of the American Revolution.
Oct. 11, 2010, midnight
S0E6 - God in America: A New Eden (2)
Hour two considers the origins of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals swept thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspired a new gospel of social reform. In a fierce political struggle, Catholic immigrants challenged Protestant domination of public schools and protested the daily classroom practice of reading from the King James Bible.
Oct. 11, 2010, midnight
S0E7 - God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)
Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son. The president, who previously had put his faith in reason over revelation, embarked on a spiritual journey that transformed his ideas about God and the ultimate meaning of the war.
Oct. 12, 2010, midnight
S0E8 - God in America: A New Light (4)
During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Bohemian immigrant Isaac Mayer Wise embraced change and established Reform Judaism in America while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. In New York, Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, leading to his trial for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes evolution trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faced off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.
Oct. 12, 2010, midnight
S0E9 - God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)
Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism." As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.
Oct. 13, 2010, midnight
S0E10 - God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)
The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. Across America, the religious marketplace expanded as new waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America made the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth. In the 2008 presidential election, the re-emergence of a religious voice in the Democratic Party brought the country to a new plateau in its struggle to reconcile faith with politics. God in America closes with reflections on the role of faith in the public life of the country, from the ongoing quest for religious liberty to the enduring idea of America as the "city on a hill" envisioned by the Puritans nearly 400 years ago.
Oct. 13, 2010, midnight
S0E11 - Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
April 1, 2013, midnight
S0E12 - Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a divorced single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
April 2, 2013, midnight
S0E637 - Stickup Kid
A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.
Dec. 17, 2014, midnight
S0E669 - Mosquito Hunter
A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.
Aug. 2, 2016, midnight
S0E680 - Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs
A trio of reports from FRONTLINE, Marketplace and PBS NewsHour on what Donald Trump's promises mean to voters in California's Central Valley (farming and water), West Virginia (coal industry), and Erie, Pennsylvania (jobs)
Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
S0E681 - Big Sky, Big Money
In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed the landscape of campaign finance in America.
The decision held that political spending is a form of protected speech and let corporations and unions spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. But to avoid corruption, the court said the money can’t go directly to candidates; it has to go to independent outside groups. What did that mean in reality? The 2012 documentary Big Sky, Big Money, from FRONTLINE and APM’s Marketplace, offered an on-the-ground look. With that year’s election cycle underway, correspondent Kai Ryssdal traveled to Montana, a battleground over campaign finance at the time, and uncovered startling new evidence of outside interest groups’ influence on local campaigns.
Oct. 30, 2012, midnight
S0E682 - Harvest of Fear
April 24, 2001, midnight
S0E683 - The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
March 17, 2003, midnight
S0E684 - Bush's War: Part 1
March 24, 2008, midnight
S0E685 - Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
April 1, 2013, midnight
S0E686 - Kind Hearted Woman Part 2
April 2, 2013, midnight
S0E687 - Bigger Than Vegas
Sept. 30, 2014, midnight
S0E688 - A Daughter's Death
Feb. 15, 2011, midnight
S0E689 - When Children Testify
May 7, 1991, midnight
S0E690 - Waiting for Tearah
Oct. 7, 2019, midnight
S0E691 - Ebola in Congo
Dec. 23, 2019, midnight
S0E692 - Tutwiler
May 6, 2020, midnight
S0E693 - Betting on Trump: Coal
Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
S0E694 - Children of ISIS
S0E695 - Betting on Trump: Jobs
Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
S0E696 - Inside Yemen
July 19, 2017, midnight
S0E697 - Stickup Kid
Dec. 17, 2014, midnight
S0E698 - Betting on Trump: Water
Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
S0E699 - Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)
Nov. 24, 2020, midnight
S0E700 - The Mind of a Murderer
March 19, 1984, midnight
S0E701 - The Mind of a Murderer
March 26, 1984, midnight
S0E702 - Shootout on Imperial Highway
Jan. 22, 1985, midnight
S0E703 - Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2
Jan. 29, 1985, midnight
S0E704 - Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years
April 9, 1985, midnight
S0E705 - Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge
April 10, 1985, midnight
S0E706 - Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.
April 11, 1985, midnight
S0E707 - Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.
April 12, 1985, midnight
S0E708 - Comrades
July 1, 1986, midnight
S0E709 - Comrades
July 8, 1986, midnight
S0E710 - Comrades
July 15, 1986, midnight
S0E711 - Comrades
July 22, 1986, midnight
S0E712 - Comrades
July 29, 1986, midnight
S0E713 - Comrades
Aug. 5, 1986, midnight
S0E714 - Comrades
Aug. 12, 1986, midnight
S0E715 - Comrades
Aug. 19, 1986, midnight
S0E716 - Comrades
Aug. 26, 1986, midnight
S0E717 - Comrades
Sept. 2, 1986, midnight
S0E718 - Comrades
Sept. 9, 1986, midnight
S0E719 - Stopping Drugs (1)
Feb. 10, 1987, midnight
S0E720 - Stopping Drugs (2)
Feb. 17, 1987, midnight
S0E721 - Apartheid Parts 1-2
Dec. 14, 1987, midnight
S0E722 - Apartheid Parts 3-4
Dec. 15, 1987, midnight
S0E723 - Apartheid Part 5
Dec. 16, 1987, midnight
S0E724 - Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
Sept. 18, 1990, midnight
S0E725 - Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
Sept. 19, 1990, midnight
S0E726 - Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
Sept. 20, 1990, midnight
S0E727 - Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
Sept. 21, 1990, midnight
S0E728 - Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
July 20, 1993, midnight
S0E729 - Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
July 21, 1993, midnight
S0E730 - Divided Memories Part 1
April 4, 1995, midnight
S0E731 - Divided Memories Part 2
April 11, 1995, midnight
S0E732 - The Gulf War (1)
Jan. 9, 1996, midnight
S0E733 - The Gulf War (1)
Jan. 9, 1996, midnight
S0E734 - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)
April 6, 1998, midnight
S0E735 - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)
April 6, 1998, midnight
S0E736 - The Farmer's Wife
Sept. 21, 1998, midnight
S0E737 - The Farmer's Wife
Sept. 22, 1998, midnight
S0E738 - The Farmer's Wife
Sept. 23, 1998, midnight
S0E739 - Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2
Nov. 22, 1999, midnight
S0E740 - War in Europe (1)
Feb. 22, 2000, midnight
S0E741 - War in Europe (2)
Feb. 29, 2000, midnight
S0E742 - Drug Wars (1)
Oct. 9, 2000, midnight
S0E743 - Drug Wars (2)
Oct. 24, 2000, midnight
S0E744 - Real Justice (1)
Nov. 11, 2000, midnight
S0E745 - Real Justice (2)
Nov. 18, 2000, midnight
S0E746 - Organ Farm (1)
April 3, 2001, midnight
S0E747 - Organ Farm (2)
April 10, 2001, midnight
S0E748 - Country Boys: Part 1
Jan. 9, 2006, midnight
S0E749 - Country Boys: Part 2
Jan. 10, 2006, midnight
S0E750 - Country Boys: Part 3
Jan. 11, 2006, midnight
S0E751 - The Age of AIDS: Part 1
May 30, 2006, midnight
S0E752 - The Age of AIDS: Part 2
May 31, 2006, midnight
S0E753 - News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin
Feb. 13, 2007, midnight
S0E754 - News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin
Feb. 20, 2007, midnight
S0E755 - News War (3): What's Happening To The News
Feb. 21, 2007, midnight
S0E756 - The Mormons (1)
April 30, 2007, midnight
S0E757 - The Mormons (2)
May 1, 2007, midnight
S0E758 - Bush's War, Part 1
March 23, 2008, midnight
S0E759 - Bush's War, Part 2
March 24, 2008, midnight
S0E760 - 2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited
Feb. 5, 2008, midnight
S0E761 - Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2
April 24, 2012, midnight
S0E762 - Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4
April 25, 2012, midnight
S0E763 - 2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"
April 30, 2013, midnight
S0E764 - United States of Secrets (Part One)
May 13, 2014, midnight
S0E765 - United States of Secrets (Part Two)
May 20, 2014, midnight
S0E766 - My Brother's Bomber (1)
Sept. 29, 2015, midnight
S0E767 - My Brother's Bomber (2)
Oct. 6, 2015, midnight
S0E768 - My Brother's Bomber (3)
Oct. 13, 2015, midnight
S0E769 - 3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)
March 1, 2016, midnight
S0E770 - Yemen Under Siege
May 3, 2016, midnight
S0E771 - The Education of Omarina
Sept. 13, 2016, midnight
S0E772 - Divided States of America
Jan. 17, 2017, midnight
S0E773 - Divided States of America
Jan. 18, 2017, midnight
S0E774 - Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Feb. 20, 2018, midnight
S0E775 - Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Feb. 27, 2018, midnight
S0E776 - Our Man in Tehran
Aug. 13, 2018, midnight
S0E777 - 2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"
Nov. 22, 2017, midnight
S0E778 - Putin's Revenge
Oct. 25, 2017, midnight
S0E779 - Putin's Revenge
Nov. 1, 2017, midnight
S0E780 - The Facebook Dilemma (1)
Oct. 29, 2018, midnight
S0E781 - The Facebook Dilemma (2)
Oct. 30, 2018, midnight
S0E782 - Targeting Yemen
Jan. 22, 2019, midnight
S0E783 - Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
Nov. 12, 2019, midnight
S0E784 - America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)
Jan. 13, 2020, midnight
S0E785 - America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)
Jan. 14, 2020, midnight
S0E786 - The Luanda Leaks
Jan. 21, 2020, midnight
S0E787 - Undocumented in the Pandemic
Aug. 11, 2020, midnight
S0E788 - COVID in Yemen
Feb. 9, 2021, midnight
S0E789 - The Virus That Shook the World
April 26, 2021, midnight
S0E790 - The Virus That Shook the World
April 27, 2021, midnight
S0E791 - India's Rape Scandal
July 20, 2021, midnight
S0E792 - Massacre in El Salvador
Nov. 9, 2021, midnight
S0E793 - The Power of Big Oil - Denial
April 19, 2022, midnight
S0E794 - The Power of Big Oil - Doubt
April 26, 2022, midnight
S0E795 - The Power of Big Oil - Delay
May 3, 2022, midnight
S0E796 - After Zero Tolerance
Dec. 6, 2022, midnight
S0E797 - Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
Jan. 3, 2023, midnight
S0E798 - Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
Jan. 10, 2023, midnight
S0E799 - America and the Taliban
April 4, 2023, midnight
S0E800 - America and the Taliban
April 11, 2023, midnight
S0E801 - America and the Taliban
April 25, 2023, midnight
S0E802 - Tutwiler
Sept. 5, 2023, midnight
S0E803 - Failure at the Fence
Dec. 19, 2023, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 76 min.
Season Runtime: 64372 min.
Released: Jan. 17, 1983
Last Air Date: Dec. 16, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 14+
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