FRONTLINE

News and Public Affairs Series / 31 Seasons

FRONTLINE explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.

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Top Secret America – 9/11 to the Boston Bombings

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Have the hundreds of billions of dollars spent since 9/11 on counterterrorism efforts made us safer? On April 30, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest traces the journey from 9/11 to the Boston Marathon bombings, examines efforts to improve information sharing among federal agencies tasked with keeping us safe and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism.

The Retirement Gamble Preview

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Ten trillion dollars in Americans' retirement savings are invested in large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds, and insurance companies. The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America's financial institutions protect our savings, and asks whether there is a better way to manage our retirements.

Syria Behind the Lines Preview

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In Syria’s rural heartland, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. The once-peaceful Orontes River valley is now a perilous sectarian front line where neighbor is fighting neighbor. Olly Lambert spent five weeks living on both sides, and his unprecedented film documents the everyday lives of rebels, government soldiers and the civilians who support them.

Darian's Dreams for the Future

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When filming began on "Kind Hearted Woman," Darian was barely a teenager. Today, she has a learner's permit, and in just a few months, will try for her driver's license. On a drive with filmmaker David Sutherland, Darian shares her plans for the future, including her hopes for "a whole parking lot of Porsches."

"The Lost Look Of Addiction"

3m 51s

Robin tells her academic adviser what led her to pursue a degree in social work, explaining she is driven by "the whole lost look of addiction" she has seen on countless faces back in Spirit Lake.

Going Home

2m 21s

Since filming ended on Kind Hearted Woman, Robin Charboneau has returned to her home on the Spirit Lake Reservation. In this character update, she talks about her work there as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse. In her advocacy work at Spirit Lake Reservation, Robin has had to work with people who took her kids away. She's even spoken in front of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

"I Need To Smudge My House"

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Robin Charboneau has returned from a 20-day stint in rehab. She wants to start a new life clean and sober, or as Native Americans describe it, a new life along "the red road." For help, she turns to a spiritual elder, who arrives at her home for a purification ceremony.

Coming in Part Two of "Kind Hearted Woman"

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In the gripping conclusion to David Sutherland's "Kind Heated Woman," Robin Charboneau's battle for custody of her two children continues. But for Robin, Darian and Anthony, it is also a time for new beginnings, new conflicts, new struggles and new triumphs.

Kind Hearted Woman - Long Preview

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Coming Spring 2013 to FRONTLINE, “Kind Hearted Woman” shines a light on the epidemic of child sexual abuse on Native American reservations by following one woman’s intimate journey. Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland follows the single mother for three years as she struggles to save her children and heal herself.

Newtown Divided

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In the aftermath of the Sand Hook tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where FRONTLINE finds a town divided and explores how those closest to the tragedy are now wrestling with our nation’s gun culture and laws.

Raising Adam Lanza

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In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. In collaboration with "The Hartford Courant," FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central - and so far elusive - question: Who was Adam Lanza?

Raising Adam Lanza Preview

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In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook, FRONTLINE looks for answers to the elusive question: who was Adam Lanza? Also this hour: In the aftermath of the tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. In Newtown, FRONTLINE explores how those closest to the tragedy are now wrestling with our nation's gun culture and laws.

The FRONTLINE Interview: William Daley

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Obama's former chief of staff talks about the difficulties of negotiating the nation's fiscal problems with a divided GOP. "To some degree, I guess ... I underestimated that separation between Boehner and much of the caucus that he was trying to control," he tells FRONTLINE producer Jim Gilmore.

The FRONTLINE Interview: John Boehner

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In a candid interview, the speaker discusses why he attempted to make a "grand bargain" with President Obama, why the talks were secret, what was behind the deal's failure and whether it's possible to achieve big deals in Washington.

Cliffhanger Preview

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FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the "fiscal cliff," and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration.

The Untouchables Preview

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Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? Though fraudulent practices at banks contributed to America’s financial meltdown, to date no Wall Street titan has been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis. FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street's leaders have escaped prosecution.

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