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Frontline Season 26 Episodes
Season 26 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
The Medicated Child
Tue, Jan 8, 2008
Frontline investigates the medical practice of prescribing behavior-modifying drugs to children. It interviews
Episode 2
Growing Up Online
Tue, Jan 22, 200857 mins
Frontline investigates the the first generation to grow up with access to the Internet. It examines the risks and realities of teens and their online existence.
Episode 3
A Dangerous Business Revisited
Tue, Feb 5, 2008
Five years after its original report on McWane, Inc., FRONTLINE returned to find out if it was still one of the most dangerous businesses in America.
Episode 4
Rules of Engagement
Tue, Feb 19, 2008
Frontline investigates the Haditha incident in which a group of Marines are accused of murdering 24 men, women and children in Iraq.
Episode 5
Bush's War: Part I
Mon, Mar 24, 2008150 mins
Frontline examines the war in Iraq and offers an inside look at a number controversies surrounding the war including September 11, al-Qaida, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraid, WMDs, and Fallujah.
Episode 6
Bush's War: Part II
Tue, Mar 25, 2008150 mins
Frontline examines the war in Iraq and offers an inside look at a number controversies surrounding the war including September 11, al-Qaida, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraid, WMDs, and Fallujah.
Episode 7
Bad Voodoo's War
Tue, Apr 1, 200860 mins
In June 2007, the Bad Voodoo Platoon deployed to Iraq during the American military surge. To capture an intimate, vivid account of the new realities of war, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created a "virtual embed" with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so she could better crawl inside the experience of "boots on the ground." Bad Voodoo's War is the story of of the daily grind, the brotherhood, the fear and fatigue of war, through the eyes of the soldiers.
Episode 8
Sick Around the World
Tue, Apr 15, 2008
Given the problems facing the U.S. health care system, Frontline looks at other leading capitalist democracies to see how their health care systems operate and whether those systems could be adapted for reform in the United States.
Episode 9
Storm Over Everest
Tue, May 13, 2008
David Breashears relives the rescue effort to save climbers who were stranded near the summit of Mount Everest during a ferocious storm on May 10, 1996.
Episode 10
Young & Restless in China
Tue, Jun 17, 2008104 mins
YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA tracks the lives of nine Chinese Gen X'ers over four years as they scramble to keep pace with a society changing faster than any in history. Raised under communism they are now making their way in China's blazing capitalist economy. Their stories of ambition, exuberance, crime and corruption are interwoven with moments of love, heartbreak and passion. Together they capture the changing values, hopes and dreams of a pivotal generation.
Episode 11
The Choice 2008
Tue, Oct 14, 2008116 mins
The biographies of Barack Obama and John McCain, nominated by their parties as presidential candidates in 2008.
Episode 12
Heat
Tue, Oct 21, 2008116 mins
Frontline correspondent Martin Smith investigates the environmental impact of big business by examining how corporations have lobbied hard against environmental regulations.
Episode 13
The War Briefing
Tue, Oct 28, 200857 mins
Whoever wins the 2008 presidential election will have to confront the war in Afghanistan. Frontline takes a deep look at developments there.
Episode 14
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Tue, Nov 11, 2008
In wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited.
Episode 15
The Hugo Chavez Show
Tue, Nov 25, 200885 mins
Frontline examines Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chronicling his rise to power and offering insights into his personality, policies and his shrewd use of the media.
