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Frontline Season 37 Episodes
Season 37 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Coal's Deadly Dust
Tue, Jan 22, 201933 mins
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the rise of severe black lung disease among coal miners, and the failure to respond. This joint investigation reveals the biggest disease clusters ever documented, and how the industry and the government failed to protect miners.
Episode 2
Targeting Yemen
Tue, Jan 22, 201919 mins
The escalation of the U.S. fight against Al Qaeda and its impact on Yemen civilians.
Episode 3
Predator on the Reservation
Tue, Feb 12, 201954 mins
Predator on the Reservation is an American documentary from 2019. It is about how Stanley Weber (a pediatrician), for more than 20 years committed sexual assaults against Native American boys. In this documentary Frontline and The Wall Street Journal are investigating how the former pediatrician could move from one Native American Reserve to another - despite repeated warnings. Why wasn't he stopped?
Episode 4
Right to Fail
Tue, Feb 26, 201953 mins
Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what's happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
Episode 5
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Tue, Mar 19, 2019116 mins
The five-year war crimes trial and ultimate conviction of Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, for masterminding the genocide of 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
Episode 6
The Mueller Investigation
Fri, Mar 22, 201952 mins
For two years, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election dominated news headlines and rocked Washington D.C. Drawing on in-depth interviews with senior law enforcement officials, Trump insiders, attorneys, authors and journalists, FRONTLINE offers an inside look into the investigation that President Donald Trump has continually deemed a "witch hunt."
Episode 7
Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Mon, Apr 15, 2019
A decorated Marine veteran fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband is deported. David Sutherland examines the U.S. immigration system through the lives of two protagonists whose lives reveal the cost of deportation.
Episode 8
The Abortion Divide
Tue, Apr 23, 201955 mins
FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict.
Episode 9
The Last Survivors
Tue, Apr 30, 201990 mins
Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journeys.
Episode 10
Trump's Trade War
Tue, May 7, 201953 mins
President Donald Trump's gamble to confront China over trade.
Episode 11
Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court
Tue, May 21, 201953 mins
With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 presidential election, conservatives solidified a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court - and the chance to shape American life and policy for a generation. Behind it all was a powerful Republican from Kentucky: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for whom Barrett's confirmation was a crowning achievement in a hard-fought, decades-long effort to transform the nation's highest court. "Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court" tells the inside story of that effort, and how it was sparked in part by a 30-year-old grievance. With McConnell elected to another six year term and President-elect Joe Biden preparing to take office in January, the film offers both a gripping political narrative and critical context on the state of America's judiciary at the dawning of the Biden administration.
Episode 12
Separated: Children at the Border
Tue, Jul 31, 201853 mins
The inside story of what happened to immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. The film explores the impact of the Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, and how both Trump and Obama dealt with minors at the border.
Episode 12
Sex Trafficking in America
Tue, May 28, 201953 mins
Exposing the hidden reality of sex trafficking, inside a police unit and a victim's harrowing story. Filmed over three years, a look at how victims are groomed and sold and innovative ways undercover police target traffickers and buyers.
Episode 13
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
Tue, Aug 7, 201853 mins
In Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. Our joint reporting has already shed new and troubling light on the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 - revealing that one participant in the violence, Vasillios Pistolis, was an active-duty Marine, and that another, Michael Miselis, worked for a major defense contractor and held a U.S. government security clearance. Now, correspondent A.C. Thompson goes even deeper, showing how some of those behind the racist violence nearly one year ago went unpunished and continued to operate around the country. This is the first in a series of two Documenting Hate films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica, with the second coming later this fall.
Episode 13
Flint's Deadly Water
Tue, Sep 10, 201953 mins
FRONTLINE's two-year investigation traces how a public health disaster that's become known for the lead poisoning of thousands of children also spawned one of the largest outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in U.S. history.
Episode 14
Our Man In Tehran, Part 1
Mon, Aug 13, 2018
On Monday, August 13 and Tuesday, August 14, FRONTLINE presents Our Man in Tehran - a revealing series on life inside Iran.
Episode 14
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Tue, Oct 1, 2019120 mins
One year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a two-hour FRONTLINE documentary investigates the rise and rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (MBS). Correspondent Martin Smith, who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years, examines the crown prince's vision for the future, his handling of dissent, his relationship with the United States -- and his ties to Khashoggi's killing.
Episode 15
Our Man in Tehran - Part 2
Tue, Aug 14, 2018155 mins
More surprising encounters inside the closed society with NY Times correspondent Thomas Erdbrink.
Episode 15
On the President's Orders
Tue, Oct 8, 201955 mins
Military police and an ordinary family from the slums provide views of President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines.
Episode 16
Left Behind America
Tue, Sep 11, 201853 mins
The economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once booming city that now struggles to recover in the post-recession economy.
Episode 16
Zero Tolerance
Tue, Oct 22, 201955 mins
Frontline investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence.
Episode 17
Trump's Showdown
Tue, Oct 2, 2018113 mins
President Donald Trump fights against the investigation of his campaign and the claim of obstruction of justice, waging a war against the special counsel, FBI and attorney general.
Episode 17
Fire in Paradise
Tue, Oct 29, 201953 mins
Survivors and first responders provide insight into the 2018 Camp Fire in California, the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
Episode 18
The Pension Gamble
Tue, Oct 23, 2018
The Pension Gamble goes inside the volatile fight over pensions that's playing out in one state, and examines the broader consequences for teachers, police officers, firefighters and public employees everywhere.
Episode 18
In the Age of AI
Tue, Nov 5, 2019113 mins
FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
Episode 19
The Facebook Dilemma: Part 1
Mon, Oct 29, 201855 mins
The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform's impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
Episode 19
Kids Caught in the Crackdown/Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
Tue, Nov 12, 2019
An investigation into the widespread consequences and business of the mass confinement of migrant children detained under President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Episode 20
The Facebook Dilemma: Part 2
Tue, Oct 30, 201855 mins
The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform's impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
Episode 20
For Sama
Tue, Nov 19, 201995 mins
A young mother, Waad al-Kateab in Aleppo, Syria, kept her camera rolling - while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. A love letter from a filmmaker to her daughter - Sama.
Episode 21
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
Tue, Nov 20, 201853 mins
Exposing a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. An investigation with ProPublica shows the group's terrorist objectives and how it gained strength after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.
