Inc Rain Media
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history: the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the Wikileaks website in the spring of 2010. Behind it all stand two very different men: Julian Assange, the Internet activist and hacker who published the documents and an Army intelligence analyst named Bradley E. Manning, who's currently charged with handing them over. Assange's mission is to force the U.S. and other governments...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has drawn the world's attention to the young Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Frontline investigates the rise of MBS, his vision for the future, his handling of dissent, his relationship with the United States -- and his ties to Khashoggi's killing.
4) College, Inc
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A closer look at for-profit colleges and universities and how the way they use money affects the education they provide.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A dangerous rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. From revolution in Iran, reaction by Saudi Arabia, and wars in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq, how religion and power politics drive perpetual conflict.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The Retirement Gamble reveals how fees, self-dealing, and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals. The film questions who has the consumer's best interests in mind, and whether there is a better way to manage our retirements.
7) The spill
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010, 2011
Description
Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a 'serial environmental criminal' that left behind a long trail of problems, deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations, which many now believe should have triggered action by federal regulators.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE....
10) Heat
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Under pressure from governments, green groups, and investors, big businesses, such as the oil and coal companies, electric utilities, and automobile manufacturers, are promising to reshape their approach to the environment, climate change, and carbon emissions. Shows how some corporations around the world are fighting to fend off new regulations while others are repositioning themselves to meet these challenges. Visits the melting glaciers of the...
11) Obama at war
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Drawing on interviews with key military and diplomatic leaders, this Frontline episode examines the Obama administration's complicated struggle to deal with the deadly civil war in Syria, which by 2015 was in its fifth year.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Traces the roots of the Iraqi war back to the days immediately following September 11, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the creation of a special intelligence operation to quietly begin looking for evidence that would justify the war. The intelligence reports soon became a part of a continuing struggle between civilians in the Pentagon on one side and the CIA, State Department, and uniformed military on the other, a struggle that would...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden would push Silicon Valley into the center of a debate...
14) Beyond Baghdad
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria take a 5-week trek across Iraq from the Kurdish north through the Sunni triangle and into the Shiite south and take a hard look at the prospect for democracy there.
15) Private warriors
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
FRONTLINE returns to Iraq, this time to embed with Halliburton/KBR, and to take a hard look at private contractors who play a critical role in running U.S. military supply lines, providing armed protection and operating U.S. military bases. Their dramatic story illuminates the Pentagon's new reliance on corporate outsourcing and raises questions about where they fit in the chain of command and the price we are paying for their role in the war.
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Frontline and ProPublica investigate the relationship between Firestone and the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Based on the inside accounts of Americans who ran the company's Liberia rubber plantation, and diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation reveals how Firestone conducted business during the brutal Liberian civil war.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In a special 4-hour investigation, Frontline tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the unprecedented and uneasy partnership between government leaders and titans of finance that affects the fortunes of millions of people around the world.
18) Chasing heroin
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Frontline looks at America's heroin crisis-- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.
19) Obama's war
Publisher
WGBH Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires"? And can the U.S. stop the Taliban in neighboring Pakistan, where U.S. troops are not allowed and the government is weak? In Obama's War, veteran correspondent Martin Smith travels across Afghanistan...