Frontline Season 29 Episodes

Episode 1

Battle for Haiti

Tue, Jan 11, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - Last year, 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 2

Are We Safer?

Tue, Jan 18, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - FRONTLINE launches its new monthly magazine program with three reports, led by "Are We Safer?" In this first story, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11.

Episode 3

Flying Cheaper

Tue, Jan 18, 2011

FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien investigates reports of undertrained mechanics, foreign workers who can't read the English language repair manuals, inadequate FAA oversight, and the use of unauthorized airline parts.

Episode 4

Post Mortem

Tue, Feb 1, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on CSI. But the reality is very different.

Episode 5

Revolution in Cairo

Tue, Feb 22, 201154 mins

In "Revolution in Cairo", Frontline follows the founders of the April 6th Movement as they use social networking in an effort to bring down Hosni Mubarak. In "The Brotherhood", Charles Sennott the changing face of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Episode 6

Money and March Madness

Tue, Mar 29, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - FRONTLINE continues its new monthly magazine program with the lead story "Money and March Madness," an inside look at the multi-billion dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports.

Episode 7

Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei

Tue, Mar 29, 2011

The Silence and Flying Cheaper

Episode 8

The Private Life of Bradley Manning

Tue, Mar 29, 2011

Inside two fronts of fight against Al Qaeda and Taliban

Episode 9

Football High

Tue, Apr 12, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - High school football has never had a higher profile, with nationally televised games, corporate sponsorships and minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites. In northwest Arkansas, FRONTLINE examines one ambitious high school team working its way towards national renown.

Episode 10

The Silence

Tue, Apr 19, 201154 mins

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 11

Fighting for Bin Laden

Tue, May 3, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - In the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, FRONTLINE presents two inside views of the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Episode 12

Kill/Capture

Tue, May 10, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden was one of the U.S. military's best-kept secrets: a covert campaign that officials have credited with taking out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by FRONTLINE has gone inside the military's "kill/capture" operations to discover new evidence of the program's impact -- and its costs.

Episode 13

WikiSecrets

Tue, May 24, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history-the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the Wikileaks website in the spring of 2010.

Episode 14

The Child Cases

Tue, Jun 28, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - When a child dies under suspicious circumstances, abuse is often suspected. That's what happened in the case of six-month-old Isis Vas, whose death was deemed "a clear-cut and classic" case of child abuse, sending a man named Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years. But now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and new questions are being asked about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other similar cases.

Episode 15

Educating Sergeant Pantzke

Tue, Jun 28, 2011

Adam Davidson of NPR's "Planet Money" travels to Haiti to meet a man with an unlikely tourism plan to help turn around his country's economy.

Episode 16

The Pot Republic

Tue, Jul 26, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - FRONTLINE's primetime monthly newsmagazine returns with three new stories, leading with a timely report from the frontlines of marijuana legalization in California.

Episode 17

Doctor Hotspot

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

FRONTLINE and Investigative Reporting Workshop explore secretive world of immigration detention.

Episode 18

The Atomic Artists

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

"Syria Undercover" and "The Regime."

Episode 19

Top Secret America

Tue, Sep 6, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - In the years after September 11th, FRONTLINE produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America's response to them. Now on the tenth anniversary of September 11th, FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk-Bush's War, The Torture Question, and Cheney's Law-teams up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest, to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade.

Episode 20

An Optimist in Haiti

Tue, Sep 27, 2011

Episode 21

The Man Behind the Mosque

Tue, Sep 27, 201154 mins

From PBS and Frontline - It became the most controversial building in America, a mostly derelict property in lower Manhattan made infamous overnight as the Ground Zero Mosque. Going beyond frenzied media portraits at the time, FRONTLINE tells the inside stories of Sharif El-Gamal, a real estate developer, and of the victims' relatives and anti-Islam activists who helped turn his project into a continuing battle over faith, values, and the meaning of being American.

Episode 22

The Anthrax Files

Tue, Oct 11, 201154 mins

In the fall of 2001 envelopes carrying deadly anthrax were delivered to U.S. Senate offices, network news divisions and a tabloid newspaper. Now, new questions are being raised about the most expensive and complex investigation ever undertaken by the FBI. FRONTLINE, in a co-production with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism.

Episode 23

Lost in Detention

Tue, Oct 18, 201154 mins

More than one million immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office. Frontline investigates Obama's enforcement strategies and journeys into the secretive world of immigrant detention, with a penetrating look at who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees.

Episode 24

Syria Undercover

Tue, Nov 8, 201154 mins

Reporter Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. Plus a profile of the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab unrest--President Bashar al-Assad.

Episode 25

A Perfect Terrorist

Tue, Nov 22, 201154 mins

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the mysterious circumstances behind David Headley's rise from heroin dealer and U.S. government informant to plotter of the 2008 attack on Mumbai.

Episode 26

Episode #29.26

Fri, Feb 6, 2026