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Frontline Season 28 Episodes
Season 28 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2007 - 2010
Episode 1
Digital Nation
Tue, Feb 2, 2010124 mins
Frontline explores how the Internet and digital media have completely transformed contemporary life.
Episode 2
Flying Cheap
Tue, Feb 9, 201055 mins
Frontline investigates how low-cost airlines and regional carriers have changed the airline business and whether the search for greater profit has led to sacrifices in safety.
Episode 3
Behind Taliban Lines
Tue, Feb 23, 201055 mins
Frontline followers a reporter who is embedded with Hezb-e-Islami who are group of insurgents allied with the Taliban.
Episode 4
The Suicide Tourist
56 mins
Do we have the right to end our lives if life itself becomes unbearable, or we are terminally ill? With unique access to Dignitas, the Swiss non-profit that has helped over one thousand people die, filmmaker John Zaritsky offers a revealing look at two couples facing the most difficult decision of their lives--and lets us see as one Chicago native makes the trip to Switzerland for what will become the last day of his life.
Episode 5
The Quake
Tue, Mar 30, 201056 mins
Frontline takes an in depth look at the 2010 earthquake in Haiti examining problems with relief efforts, issues with governmental management, and the earthquake's effects on people's lives.
Episode 6
Obama's Deal
Tue, Apr 13, 201055 mins
Frontline examines the Obama administration and its efforts to pass a health care reform bill.
Episode 7
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Tue, Apr 20, 201052 mins
In Afghanistan many hundreds of boys, often as young as ten, are being lured off the streets on the promise of a new life.
Episode 8
The Vaccine War
Tue, Apr 27, 201055 mins
Frontline examines both sides of the debate over vaccines. On one side, the public health community wholeheartedly endorses them. One the other, parents and politicians accuse them of causing disorders like autism.
Episode 9
College, Inc.
Tue, May 4, 201060 mins
Frontline investigates for-profit colleges and universities. It examines their recruitment methods, their online curriculum, and connections to big business.
Episode 10
The Wounded Platoon
Tue, May 18, 201086 mins
Frontline investigates the violence, depression, and stress exhibited by a platoon of Iraq War veterans whose members who have committed murder, assault, and suicide.
Episode 11
Law & Disorder
Wed, Aug 25, 201055 mins
Frontline examines several questionable shootings by the New Orleans Police Department in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 12
Death by Fire
Tue, Oct 19, 201054 mins
Frontline investigates the case of Todd Willingham a Texas man who was executed in 2004 for the fiery deaths of his three daughters. Although he is accused of arson, a forensic scientist discovers that that there is evidence that the fire may have been accidental.
Episode 13
The Spill
Tue, Oct 26, 2010
Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
Episode 14
The Confessions
Tue, Nov 9, 201083 mins
In this edition of the investigative PBS series, show producer Ofra Bikel looks into the case of four U.S. Navy seamen living in the hellish aftermath of falsely confessing to the 1997 rape and murder of a Virginia woman. Through interviews with the convicted men, Bikel exposes the high-pressure interrogation methods used by police to extract confessions despite the absence of evidence connecting the sailors to the crime.
Episode 15
Facing Death
Tue, Nov 23, 201054 mins
Frontline investigates the complex and often agonizing end-of-life choices that are made by physicians and families.