Episode guide
Frontline: Season 33
20 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 2015
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- Episode 1: Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA Jan 6, 2015 FRONTLINE investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America. With first-hand accounts of school killings in Newtown and Columbine, and the…
- Episode 2: Putin's Way Jan 13, 2015 FRONTLINE investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, "Putin's Way" reveals…
- Episode 3: Being Mortal Feb 10, 2015 FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction…
- Episode 4: The Fight for Yemen Apr 7, 2015 As recently as September, President Obama was pointing to Yemen as a model for the U.S.’s counter-terrorism strategy. But now, the country is being torn apart in a violent conflict led by…
- Episode 5: American Terrorist Apr 21, 2015 FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film — an updated and expanded…
- Episode 6: Outbreak May 5, 2015 FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn’t stopped before it was too late. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West…
- Episode 7: The Trouble with Chicken May 12, 2015 FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our meat -- particularly poultry -- and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of…
- Episode 8: Secrets, Politics and Torture May 19, 2015 From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush’s War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA’s controversial…
- Episode 9: Obama at War May 26, 2015 Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith goes inside the Obama administration’s struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria. With interviews from key military and…
- Episode 10: Rape on the Night Shift Jun 23, 2015 A joint investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women who clean the malls where you shop, the banks where you do business and the offices where you work.
- Episode 11: Growing Up Trans Jun 30, 2015 Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. In Growing…
- Episode 12: Escaping ISIS Jul 14, 2015 Using undercover footage, FRONTLINE presents the gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS — and follows an underground network that’s helping them escape.
- Episode 13: Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty Jul 21, 2015 A feature documentary about two filmmakers who set out to interview El Chapo Guzmán, leader of one of the biggest drug cartels in history. Before his capture in 2014, El Chapo had been on…
- Episode 14: My Brother's Bomber (1) Sep 29, 2015 When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later…
- Episode 15: My Brother's Bomber (2) Oct 6, 2015 · 56m When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later…
- Episode 16: My Brother's Bomber (3) Oct 13, 2015 When filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old, his older brother David was one of 189 Americans killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some 25 years later…
- Episode 17: Immigration Battle Oct 20, 2015 Why has it been so hard for Washington to fix our country’s broken immigration system? In “Immigration Battle,” a special two-hour feature film presentation from FRONTLINE and INDEPENDENT…
- Episode 18: Inside Assad's Syria Oct 27, 2015 The world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe. But what is life like for those left behind? Correspondent Martin Smith goes Inside…
- Episode 19: Terror in Little Saigon Nov 3, 2015 FRONTLINE and ProPublica team up to investigate a wave of terror that targeted Vietnamese-American journalists. Uncovering a trail that leads from American cities to jungles in Southeast…
- Episode 20: Taliban Hunters / ISIS in Afghanistan Nov 17, 2015 Inside a counter-terrorism unit in Karachi, Pakistan that’s dedicated to tracking down Taliban suspects. ISIS is on the rise in Afghanistan — and they say they’re getting young kids to…