Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut on PBS as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 30 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
When FRONTLINE was born, however, the prospects for television news documentaries looked grim. Pressure was on network news departments to become profitable, and the spirit of outspoken journalistic inquiry established by programs like Edward R. Murrow’s See It Now and Harvest of Shame had given way to entertainment values and feature-filled magazine shows. Therefore, it fell to public television to pick up the torch of public affairs and carry on this well-established broadcast news tradition…. more
FRONTILINE’s reporting from 9/11 to the present include dozens of first-quality documentaries on the most pressing international challenges of the early 21st century.
Al Qaeda in Yemen
Originally broadcast May 29, 2012
The Interrogator
Originally broadcast Sept. 13, 2011
Top Secret America
Originally broadcast September 6, 2011
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