Episode guide
Frontline: Season 29
19 episodes · premiered Oct 18, 2010
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- Episode 1: Death by Fire Oct 19, 2010 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?
- Episode 2: The Spill Oct 26, 2010 Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.
- Episode 3: The Confessions Nov 9, 2010 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.
- Episode 4: Facing Death Nov 23, 2010 The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families
- Episode 5: Battle for Haiti Jan 11, 2011 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…
- Episode 6: Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper Jan 18, 2011 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…
- Episode 7: Post Mortem Feb 1, 2011 A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.
- Episode 9: Revolution in Cairo Feb 22, 2011 A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- Episode 10: Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning Mar 29, 2011 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…
- Episode 11: Football High Apr 12, 2011 High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?
- Episode 12: The Silence Apr 19, 2011 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.
- Episode 13: Fighting for Bin Laden May 3, 2011 The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Episode 14: Kill/Capture May 10, 2011 Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.
- Episode 15: WikiSecrets May 24, 2011 The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.
- Episode 16: The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke Jun 28, 2011 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…
- Episode 17: The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists Jul 26, 2011 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…
- Episode 18: Top Secret America Sep 6, 2011 A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending
- Episode 19: An Optimist in Haiti Sep 27, 2011 The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.
- Episode 20: The Man Behind the Mosque Sep 27, 2011 The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.