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Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change..

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s23e01 Al Qaeda's New Front 2005-01-26 03:00

Al Qaeda's New Front

s23e01 · 2005-01-26 · 03:00

“Al Qaeda's New Front” surveys Islamic militancy in Europe, visiting Britain, France and Germany, as well as Spain, where last March's train bombings affected the country's election. “Al Qaeda has mutated and metastasized into a social movement,” says producer Neil Docherty, who adds that merely capturing leaders won't stop it. While many cells have been broken up, “the war in Iraq is serving as a recruitment tool,” says Docherty, “and that just means that there are going to be more of them.”

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s23e02 House of Saud 2005-02-09 03:00

House of Saud

s23e02 · 2005-02-09 · 03:00

Producer Martin Smith looks back over the seven decades that “The House of Saud” has ruled Saudi Arabia and explores the oil-rich kingdom's relations with the U.S. What makes the country tick? Smith points to tension stemming from the “unholy alliance” between the ruling family and the conservative clerics who help keep them in power. It's “barely controlled inside the kingdom,” Smith says. “Once it gets outside the kingdom it could be deadly.”

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s23e03 A Company of Soldiers 2005-02-23 03:00

A Company of Soldiers

s23e03 · 2005-02-23 · 03:00

The Iraq War---as seen by “A Company of Soldiers” with whom a “Frontline”-BBC crew was embedded during November and December 2004. The unit: a 10-person component of the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment. One soldier is killed in an ambush, and the crew's car is damaged by a roadside bomb, but, says producer Ed Jarvis, the film is more about the confusion and frustration that beset the group---and Iraqis they encounter---in the face of unremitting danger and uncertainty.

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s23e04 The Soldier's Heart 2005-03-02 03:00

The Soldier's Heart

s23e04 · 2005-03-02 · 03:00

“The Soldier's Heart” profiles Iraq War veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and examines the military's approach to it. The Defense Department takes PTSD seriously, but one of the hour's main points is that this sensitivity hasn't seeped easily into the military's macho culture, and this can make things all the worse for vets. “We're trained not to hurt,” says Jacob Martin, a marine who's in therapy between tours in Iraq. “That's the big deal: Just suck it up.”

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s23e05 Israel's Next War? 2005-04-06 02:00

Israel's Next War?

s23e05 · 2005-04-06 · 02:00

“Israel's Next War?” explores problems posed by Zionist hard-liners who want all Arabs out of Israel. The fear is that their provocations could lead to wider conflict. The hour includes interviews with hard-liners and Israeli officials, and profiles of Shlomo Dvir and Yarden Morag, who were convicted of attempting to blow up an Arab school in Jerusalem. This “enemy within,” as producer Dan Setton calls the militants, “is in many ways a mirror image” of Islamic terrorists.

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s23e06 Karl Rove -- The Architect 2005-04-13 02:00

Karl Rove -- The Architect

s23e06 · 2005-04-13 · 02:00

“Karl Rove---The Architect” profiles the Bush strategist and policy adviser. He's “an amazing political geek [who] knows every detail about everything,” says producer Michael Kirk, who prepared this profile with reporters from the Washington Post. And his method---“attack, attack, attack”---serves his “master plan” for conservative domination for the foreseeable future. Success in that remains to be seen, but for now, Kirk says, he's “the second most powerful man in America, maybe.”

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s23e07 Death of a Princess (Updated) 2005-04-20 02:00

Death of a Princess (Updated)

s23e07 · 2005-04-20 · 02:00

“Death of a Princess,” a “Rashomon”-like 1980 docudrama about the 1977 public execution of a Saudi princess and her lover for adultery, explores what “Frontline” executive producer David Fanning (a writer on “Princess”) calls “the private center of the Arab world.” The film incorporates interview transcripts (actors play the interviewees) with re-creations of the executions and events leading up to them. Also: a review of the controversy generated by the original film.

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s23e08 The New Asylums 2005-05-11 02:00

The New Asylums

s23e08 · 2005-05-11 · 02:00

A case-study report examining how the state of Ohio has dealt with an influx of mentally disturbed inmates in recent years. Many of them would have been sent to state mental hospitals in the past. But many of those institutions have closed and, says Ohio Corrections chief Reginald Wilkinson: “I became a de-facto director of a major mental-health system.”

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s23e09 A Jew Among the Germans 2005-06-01 02:00

A Jew Among the Germans

s23e09 · 2005-06-01 · 02:00

Filmmaker Marian Marzynski, a Holocaust survivor, is a wary “Jew Among the Germans” as he visits Berlin, where a Holocaust memorial was dedicated in May 2005. Marzynski opposed it and he sorts out his reasons why during this philosophical hour. He also samples young Germans' feelings about the Holocaust and finds a desire to rid themselves of their grandparents' guilt. He demurs, contending that sense of guilt is a necessity. But “an honorable one. And within it a proud guardianship of memory.”

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s23e15 A Jew Among the Germans 2005-06-01 02:00

A Jew Among the Germans

s23e15 · 2005-06-01 · 02:00

Filmmaker Marian Marzynski, a Holocaust survivor, is a wary “Jew Among the Germans” as he visits Berlin, where a Holocaust memorial was dedicated in May 2005. Marzynski opposed it and he sorts out his reasons why during this philosophical hour. He also samples young Germans' feelings about the Holocaust and finds a desire to rid themselves of their grandparents' guilt. He demurs, contending that sense of guilt is a necessity. But “an honorable one. And within it a proud guardianship of memory.”

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s23e10 Private Warriors 2005-06-22 02:00

Private Warriors

s23e10 · 2005-06-22 · 02:00

“Private Warriors” assesses the implications of the presence of thousands of private security guards in Iraq, where they protect U.S. generals and diplomats, not to mention military bases. Reporter Martin Smith toured Iraq in April 2005 for the report, accompanied by private guards (one of whom was killed). Many of these “guys with guns” do fine work---for their bosses, but not U.S. policy makers, Smith says. “They're not accountable in any chain of command.”

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s23e16 Private Warriors 2005-06-22 02:00

Private Warriors

s23e16 · 2005-06-22 · 02:00

“Private Warriors” assesses the implications of the presence of thousands of private security guards in Iraq, where they protect U.S. generals and diplomats, not to mention military bases. Reporter Martin Smith toured Iraq in April 2005 for the report, accompanied by private guards (one of whom was killed). Many of these “guys with guns” do fine work---for their bosses, but not U.S. policy makers, Smith says. “They're not accountable in any chain of command.”

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s23e11 The O.J. Verdict 2005-10-05 02:00

The O.J. Verdict

s23e11 · 2005-10-05 · 02:00

“The O.J. Verdict” explores reasons why Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, and gauges the case's impact 10 years later. Producer Ofra Bikel interviews prosecutors and defense lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz and F. Lee Bailey, and analyzes the media's role. The verdict, Bikel concludes, “cast doubt on the concept of our justice system, and became the event that measured the difference between being black and white in America.”

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s23e12 The Torture Question 2005-10-19 02:00

The Torture Question

s23e12 · 2005-10-19 · 02:00

“The Torture Question” explores how the post-Sept. 11 fear of terrorism led to the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. “We moved and blurred some important lines,” says producer Michael Kirk, “and we may have crossed them.” Kirk, who filmed at both prisons and follows cases, also interviews military and White House officials, and examines how government lawyers “rewrote” the definition of torture. They “miniaturized it,” he says.

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s23e13 The Last Abortion Clinic 2005-11-09 03:00

The Last Abortion Clinic

s23e13 · 2005-11-09 · 03:00

“The Last Abortion Clinic,” a review of the pro-life movement's strategy, focuses on Mississippi, where just one one clinic provides abortions. The strategy: “Chip away at Roe v. Wade” with state laws limiting abortions, says Betty Thompson, the Mississippi clinic's former director. The hour also looks at how the Supreme Court has ruled on such laws (and might rule in the future), and it visits another Southern abortion clinic, whose director admits: “We feel very, very isolated.”

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s23e14 The Storm 2005-11-23 03:00

The Storm

s23e14 · 2005-11-23 · 03:00

This report on the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina illustrates the chaos and the tension in the affected areas and examines the subsequent political fallout. Included: New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum (National Guard) and former FEMA director Michael Brown.

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