Episode guide
Frontline: Season 31
19 episodes · premiered Jan 7, 2013
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- Episode 1: The Education of Michelle Rhee Jan 8, 2013 Examine the legacy of controversial former chancellor of Washington, DC, public schools, Michelle Rhee.
- Episode 2: Inside Obama's Presidency Jan 15, 2013 As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican…
- Episode 3: The Untouchables Jan 22, 2013 FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages.
- Episode 4: Cliffhanger Feb 12, 2013 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…
- Episode 5: Newtown Divided / Raising Adam Lanza Feb 19, 2013 In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where…
- Episode 6: Kind Hearted Woman Apr 1, 2013 · 1h 57m In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single…
- Episode 7: Syria Behind the Lines Apr 9, 2013 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…
- Episode 8: The Retirement Gamble Apr 23, 2013 The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America’s financial institutions protect our retirement savings.
- Episode 9: Never Forget to Lie May 14, 2013 In the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores, for the first time, his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors…
- Episode 10: Outlawed in Pakistan May 28, 2013 In Pakistan, women and girls who allege rape are often more strongly condemned than their alleged rapists. Some are even killed by their own families. For this unforgettable documentary…
- Episode 11: Rape in the Fields Jun 25, 2013 FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families…
- Episode 12: Two American Families Jul 9, 2013 Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee — one black, one white — as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty. A…
- Episode 13: Life and Death in Assisted Living Jul 30, 2013 More and more elderly Americans are choosing to spend their later years in assisted living facilities, which have sprung up as an alternative to nursing homes. But is this loosely…
- Episode 14: Egypt in Crisis Sep 17, 2013 FRONTLINE and GlobalPost’s Charles M. Sennott go inside the Egyptian revolution, tracing how what began as a youth movement to topple a dictator evolved into an opportunity for the Muslim…
- Episode 15: League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis Oct 8, 2013 An investigation of the health crisis threatening NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football.
- Episode 16: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria Oct 22, 2013 Has the age of antibiotics come to an end? From a young girl thrust onto life support in Arizona to an uncontrollable outbreak at one of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals, FRONTLINE…
- Episode 17: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Nov 19, 2013 FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination with an encore broadcast of Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? — an investigative biography of the man at the center of…
- Episode 18: A Death in St. Augustine Nov 26, 2013 A report on domestic violence allegations within police departments focuses on the death of a young Florida woman whose boyfriend was a deputy sheriff.
- Episode 19: Kind Hearted Woman (2) Apr 2, 2013 · 2h 57m In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single…