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• *PBS Frontline - Plastic Wars (54 min)
  Season 2020: Episode 14, March 31, 2020
  With the plastic industry expanding like never before and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics.
• *PBS Frontline - The Man Who Knew (90 min)
  Produced by Michael Kirk, Oct. 3, 2002. As an FBI agent who specialized in counter-terrorism, John P. O’Neill investigated the bombing of the American embassies in Africa, the USS Cole in Yemen, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, and the first attack on the World Trade Center. O’Neill came to believe America should kill Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda launched a devastating attack, but his was often a lonely voice. A controversial figure inside the buttoned-down world of the FBI, he was forced out of the job he loved and entered the private sector – as director of security for the World Trade Center.
• Abacus: Small enough to jail (75 min)
  PBS Frontline, Sept 12, 2017 From acclaimed director Steve James, the little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis.
• American Porn (52 min)
  By Michael Kirk. PBS Frontline. Season 20, Episode 12. February 7, 2002 It’s one of the hottest industries in America — and with adult movies, magazines, retail stores, and the growth of the Internet — business is booming. The Bush administration has pledged a new attack on the porn industry and for the first time in years, there’s a renewed interest in mounting prosecutions. FRONTLINE investigates American Porn and the pending political battle that will soon engulf the multibillion dollar business and its distribution partners — some of America’s best known corporations.
• Big Sky, Big Money
  The joint project with “Marketplace” and ProPublica explores how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed political campaigns in America. The documentary received an award (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/big-sky-big-money/big-sky-big-money-wins-investigative-reporting-award/). The organization that was the primary focus of the documentary, Western Tradition Partnership, has since changed its name to American Tradition Partnership. In 2012 a Montana judge ruled in a suit filed by Christian and Allison LeFer that the documents described in the documentary were stolen property and should be returned to their owners. In October 2013 a federal judge in Montana ruled against the LeFer's (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/big-sky-big-money/remember-those-campaign-finance-documents-we-found-in-a-meth-house/). A November ruling by District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock fined ATP $260,000, but ATP has become defunct (http://mtpr.org/post/judge-fines-dark-money-group-more-260000 and http://combatblog.net/?p=5662) (More on ATP: http://mtcowgirl.com/tag/american-tradition-partnership/). More on the Supreme Court and political contributions: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/big-sky-big-money/trevor-potter-the-political-reality-of-citizens-united/
• Documenting Hate - two films from PBS Frontline and ProPublica
• For Sama (84 min.)
  PBS Frontline Season 2019: Episode 17
  In a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled.
  Directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, the award-winning documentary unfolds as a love letter from al-Kateab to her daughter — Sama.
  For Sama is produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions for Channel 4 and WGBH/FRONTLINE. The directors are Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. For Sama is filmed and produced by Waad al-Kateab. The senior producer is Dan Edge (FRONTLINE). The executive producers are Raney Aronson-Rath (FRONTLINE), Ben de Pear, Nevine Mabro & Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4), and George Waldrum (ITN). Transcript available.
• John Bogle and Index Funds
• Locked up in America - 2 films: Solitary Nation, Prison State
  PBS Frontline, April 22 and 29, 2014
• Memory of the Camps (57 min)
  PBS Frontline, May 7, 1985
  
  See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/faqs.html for background about this film.
• PBS Frontline: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
  Broadcast 10/22/2013
• PBS Frontline: Losing Iraq
  July 29, 2014
• PBS Frontline: Money, Power, and Wall Streeet
  Firsthand testimony from deep inside the financial crisis & its aftermath (2012)
  Plus transcripts
• PBS Frontline: TB Silent Killer
  March 25, 2014
• PBS FRONTLINE: The Economic Meltdown: How America's Fiscal Fallout Triggered a Global Crisis
  FRONTLINE: The Economic Meltdown: How America's Fiscal Fallout Triggered a Global Crisis
  (Note: individual episodes are available online)
  Episodes include...
  Inside the Meltdown - FRONTLINE investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. It also examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix. (Closed Captioned)
  
  Ten Trillion and Counting - All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new administration, and on the growing chorus, that without fiscal reform the US government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that make the current financial problems look almost painless by comparison. (Closed Captioned)
  
  Breaking the Bank - The bets were huge and risky, billions of dollars on the housing market. Superbanks reaped billions of dollars, and gobbled up competitors. Then the bottom dropped out, massive losses on Wall Street nearly broke the banks and many are on the brink of failure. As the federal government contemplates what could become a massive nationalization of the industry, watch as FRONTLINE tells the inside story. (Closed Captioned)
  
  The Warning - In the aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE looks for clues about why it happened and examines moments when it might have gone much differently. Producer/director Michael Kirk discovers early warnings of the crash, reveals an intense battle among members of the Clinton administration, and uncovers a concerted effort not to regulate the lucrative derivatives markets, which would become the ticking time-bomb within the American economy. (Closed Captioned) (TV-PG)
  
  Cliffhanger - In February 2013, as the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, 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 House, FRONTLINE goes behind the scenes to show how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation's economy to the edge of the "fiscal cliff," and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. The film explores the deep ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats. (Subtitles in English (SDH))
• PBS Frontline: The Interrupters (1 hr 54 min)
  PBS Frontline, Feb 14, 2012 The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these “Violence Interrupters,” who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city’s most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a murdered father, and a man haunted by a killing he committed as a teenager. As they intervene in disputes to prevent violence, they reveal their own inspired journeys of struggle and redemption.
• PBS Frontline: The Meth Epidemic
  The Meth Epidemic
  An investigation into how and why meth use spiraled out of control and became the fastest-growing drug abuse problem in America. In association with The Oregonian.
• PBS Frontline: To Catch a Trader
  Insider trading, 2014
• PBS Frontline: Trafficked in America (55 min)
  PBS Frontline, April 24, 2018 - Season 36, Episode 9 FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley tell the inside story of Guatemalan teens forced to work against their will on an egg farm in Ohio.
• PBS Frontline - Putin's Way
  FRONTLINE investigates of the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Putin’s rise and reign. Broadcast Jan 13, 2015
• PBS Frontline - Supplements and Safety (54 min)
  Supplements and Safety (54 min). PBS Frontline, January 2016 "An investigation into the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, a multibillion-dollar industry with limited FDA oversight. FRONTLINE, The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation examine the marketing and regulation of supplements, and cases of contamination and serious health problems."
• Rape in the Fields
• The Future of Digital Marketing Is You
  Sarah Childress, PBS Frontline, Febr “Those who have access to and control the platforms have the largest, most powerful source of information about human behavior that anyone has ever had in human history,” Mark Andrejevic, deputy director for the University of Queensland’s Center for Critical and Cultural Studies in Australia, who studies surveillance and the web, told FRONTLINE. “And that’s information that they are going to use for their ends, whatever those might be.” See also https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/are-you-what-you-like/
• The Making of Cool, Generation Like
• The Persuaders (55 min)
  Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Crispin Miller, Douglas Atkin and Kevin Roberts.for PBS Frontline, November 9, 2004, Season 23, Episode 3 FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public. Original website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
• The Retirement Gamble
  Retirement is big business in America, but is the system costing workers and retirees more than what they’re getting in return, asks FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith.
• The Secret State of North Korea
  Includes video footage smuggled out of North Korea.
• Watchdog Calls Out DOJ For Mortgage Fraud Response
  In a damning review of the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on mortgage fraud, a new report has found that the Justice Department made the crime one of its lowest priorities while overstating its success in prosecuting such cases.
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