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Frontline(1983)
- Genre:
- Documentary,News
- Country:
- United States of America
- Creator:
- David Fanning
- Released:
- 1983-01-17
Synopsis
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.
Seasons & Episodes
1. God in America: A New Adam (1)
2010-10-11
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.
6. God in America: A New Eden (2)
2010-10-11
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.
7. God in America: A Nation Reborn (3)
2010-10-12
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.
8. God in America: A New Light (4)
2010-10-12
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.
9. God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)
2010-10-13
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.
10. God in America: Of God and Caesar (6)
2010-10-13
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.
11. Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
2013-04-01
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.
12. Kind Hearted Woman: Part Two
2013-04-02
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.
637. Stickup Kid
2014-12-17
A FRONTLINE digital exclusive. Frontline explores what happens when a juvenile offender is sent to adult prison.
669. Mosquito Hunter
2016-08-02
A look at Brazil's efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, most notably Zika fever.
680. Betting on Trump: Water / Coal / Jobs
2017-02-15
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)
681. Big Sky, Big Money
2012-10-30 · 53m
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.
682. Harvest of Fear
2001-04-24
683. The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
2003-03-17
684. Bush's War: Part 1
2008-03-24
685. Kind Hearted Woman: Part One
2013-04-01
686. Kind Hearted Woman Part 2
2013-04-02
687. Bigger Than Vegas
2014-09-30
688. A Daughter's Death
2011-02-15
689. When Children Testify
1991-05-07
690. Waiting for Tearah
2019-10-07
691. Ebola in Congo
2019-12-23
692. Tutwiler
2020-05-06
693. Betting on Trump: Coal
2017-02-15
694. Children of ISIS
695. Betting on Trump: Jobs
2017-02-15
696. Inside Yemen
2017-07-19
697. Stickup Kid
2014-12-17
698. Betting on Trump: Water
2017-02-15
699. Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (2020)
2020-11-24
700. The Mind of a Murderer
1984-03-19
701. The Mind of a Murderer
1984-03-26
702. Shootout on Imperial Highway
1985-01-22
703. Shootout on Imperial Highway Part 2
1985-01-29
704. Crisis in Central America Pt 1 Yankee Years
1985-04-09
705. Crisis in Central America Pt 2 Castro's Challenge
1985-04-10
706. Crisis in Central America Pt 3 Revol. in Nicrgua.
1985-04-11
707. Crisis in Central America Pt 4 Battle for El Sal.
1985-04-12
708. Comrades
1986-07-01
709. Comrades
1986-07-08
710. Comrades
1986-07-15
711. Comrades
1986-07-22
712. Comrades
1986-07-29
713. Comrades
1986-08-05
714. Comrades
1986-08-12
715. Comrades
1986-08-19
716. Comrades
1986-08-26
717. Comrades
1986-09-02
718. Comrades
1986-09-09
719. Stopping Drugs (1)
1987-02-10
720. Stopping Drugs (2)
1987-02-17
721. Apartheid Parts 1-2
1987-12-14
722. Apartheid Parts 3-4
1987-12-15
723. Apartheid Part 5
1987-12-16
724. Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
1990-09-18
725. Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
1990-09-19
726. Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
1990-09-20
727. Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
1990-09-21
728. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
1993-07-20
729. Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
1993-07-21
730. Divided Memories Part 1
1995-04-04
731. Divided Memories Part 2
1995-04-11
732. The Gulf War (1)
1996-01-09
733. The Gulf War (1)
1996-01-09
734. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1)
1998-04-06
735. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (2)
1998-04-06
736. The Farmer's Wife
1998-09-21
737. The Farmer's Wife
1998-09-22
738. The Farmer's Wife
1998-09-23
739. Apocalypse! Parts 1 and 2
1999-11-22
740. War in Europe (1)
2000-02-22
741. War in Europe (2)
2000-02-29
742. Drug Wars (1)
2000-10-09
743. Drug Wars (2)
2000-10-24
744. Real Justice (1)
2000-11-11
745. Real Justice (2)
2000-11-18
746. Organ Farm (1)
2001-04-03
747. Organ Farm (2)
2001-04-10
748. Country Boys: Part 1
2006-01-09
749. Country Boys: Part 2
2006-01-10
750. Country Boys: Part 3
2006-01-11
751. The Age of AIDS: Part 1
2006-05-30
752. The Age of AIDS: Part 2
2006-05-31
753. News War (1): Secrets, Sources & Spin
2007-02-13
754. News War (2): Secrets, Sources & Spin
2007-02-20
755. News War (3): What's Happening To The News
2007-02-21
756. The Mormons (1)
2007-04-30
757. The Mormons (2)
2007-05-01
758. Bush's War, Part 1
2008-03-23
759. Bush's War, Part 2
2008-03-24
760. 2008-02-05 "A Dangerous Business Revisited
2008-02-05
761. Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2
2012-04-24
762. Money, Power and Wall Street, Parts 3 and 4
2012-04-25
763. 2013-04-30 "Top Secret America: 9/11 to the Boston Bombings"
2013-04-30
764. United States of Secrets (Part One)
2014-05-13
765. United States of Secrets (Part Two)
2014-05-20
766. My Brother's Bomber (1)
2015-09-29
767. My Brother's Bomber (2)
2015-10-06
768. My Brother's Bomber (3)
2015-10-13
769. 3/1/16 (Tu.) 10:00 PM PBS (#3024) Poor Kids (R)
2016-03-01
770. Yemen Under Siege
2016-05-03
771. The Education of Omarina
2016-09-13
772. Divided States of America
2017-01-17
773. Divided States of America
2017-01-18
774. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
2018-02-20
775. Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
2018-02-27
776. Our Man in Tehran
2018-08-13
777. 2017-11-22 "Poor Kids"
2017-11-22
778. Putin's Revenge
2017-10-25
779. Putin's Revenge
2017-11-01
780. The Facebook Dilemma (1)
2018-10-29
781. The Facebook Dilemma (2)
2018-10-30
782. Targeting Yemen
2019-01-22
783. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
2019-11-12
784. America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (1)
2020-01-13
785. America's Great Divide: Obama to Trump (2)
2020-01-14
786. The Luanda Leaks
2020-01-21
787. Undocumented in the Pandemic
2020-08-11
788. COVID in Yemen
2021-02-09
789. The Virus That Shook the World
2021-04-26
790. The Virus That Shook the World
2021-04-27
791. India's Rape Scandal
2021-07-20
792. Massacre in El Salvador
2021-11-09
793. The Power of Big Oil - Denial
2022-04-19
794. The Power of Big Oil - Doubt
2022-04-26
795. The Power of Big Oil - Delay
2022-05-03
796. After Zero Tolerance
2022-12-06
797. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
2023-01-03
798. Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
2023-01-10
799. America and the Taliban
2023-04-04
800. America and the Taliban
2023-04-11
801. America and the Taliban
2023-04-25
802. Tutwiler
2023-09-05
803. Failure at the Fence
2023-12-19
804. Remaking the Middle East: The U.S., Israel and Iran (2026 Version)
2026-03-10
805. Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (2026 Version)
2026-03-31
In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat.But months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes in June 2025, the message coming from Washington, D.C., was that Iran's key nuclear facilities had been "obliterated."Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, FRONTLINE, The Washington Post, Evident Media and Bellingcat investigate the status of Iran's nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year.This updated version of the documentary previously aired on December 16, 2025.
Cast
Will Lyman
Self - Narrator (voice)
