Season 29
19 episodes · first aired 2010-10-19
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 01 | Death by Fire 2010-10-19 | At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty? | 2010-10-19 | 0.0 |
![]() | 02 | The Spill 2010-10-26 | Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf. | 2010-10-26 | 0.0 |
![]() | 03 | The Confessions 2010-11-09 | Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions. | 2010-11-09 | 0.0 |
![]() | 04 | Facing Death 2010-11-23 | The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families | 2010-11-23 | 0.0 |
![]() | 05 | Battle for Haiti 2011-01-11 | 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. | 2011-01-11 | 0.0 |
![]() | 06 | Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper 2011-01-18 | Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Flying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop. | 2011-01-18 | 0.0 |
![]() | 07 | Post Mortem 2011-02-01 | A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths. | 2011-02-01 | 8.0 |
![]() | 09 | Revolution in Cairo 2011-02-22 | A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. | 2011-02-22 | 0.0 |
![]() | 10 | Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning 2011-03-29 | Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China. The Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth | 2011-03-29 | 0.0 |
![]() | 11 | Football High 2011-04-12 | High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks? | 2011-04-12 | 0.0 |
![]() | 12 | The Silence 2011-04-19 | 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. | 2011-04-19 | 0.0 |
![]() | 13 | Fighting for Bin Laden 2011-05-03 | The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | 2011-05-03 | 0.0 |
![]() | 14 | Kill/Capture 2011-05-10 | Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs. | 2011-05-10 | 0.0 |
![]() | 15 | WikiSecrets 2011-05-24 | The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history. | 2011-05-24 | 0.0 |
![]() | 16 | The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke 2011-06-28 | The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases. Educating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep. | 2011-06-28 | 0.0 |
![]() | 17 | The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists 2011-07-26 | The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market. Doctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called “hotspotting,” in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. The Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI’s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life. | 2011-07-26 | 0.0 |
![]() | 18 | Top Secret America 2011-09-06 | A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending | 2011-09-06 | 0.0 |
![]() | 19 | An Optimist in Haiti 2011-09-27 | The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity. | 2011-09-27 | 0.0 |
![]() | 20 | The Man Behind the Mosque 2011-09-27 | The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center. | 2011-09-27 | 0.0 |
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