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The Best Episodes of Frontline

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...

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  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Al Qaeda's New Front

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    S23:E7

    Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda.

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  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Trump's Showdown

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    FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice. With the threat of impeachment growing, this two-hour documentary from filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces Trump’s unprecedented war against the special counsel, the FBI, and even his own attorney general.

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  3. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden

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    In this 2-hour special from veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, hear from friends, family, colleagues and adversaries about the challenges that shaped Trump and Biden’s lives and could inform how they confront the crises facing the nation at this pivotal juncture.

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  4. 9.5/10(10 votes)

    #4 - Yellowstone Under Fire

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  5. 9.0/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Iran and the Bomb

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  6. 9.0/10(8 votes)

    #6 - My Retirement Dreams

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  8. 8.9/10(47 votes)

    #7 - Tabloid Truth: the Michael Jackson Story

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  9. 8.9/10(20 votes)

    #8 - The Triumph of Evil

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  10. 8.9/10(21 votes)

    #9 - Israel's Next War?

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    A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.

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  11. 8.9/10(53 votes)

    #10 - Country Boys: Part 3

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    David Sutherland, acclaimed producer of The Farmer’s Wife, returns to rural America with Country Boys, an epic tale of two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky’s Appalachian hills. Viewers meet Cody Perkins and Chris Johnson, classmates at an alternative high school who inhabit the same world yet are light years apart. Through intimate cinematography and extraordinary sound design that puts the viewer inside the skin of the story’s colorful and memorable characters, Country Boys traverses the emotional terrain of two boys who are about to become men, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives.

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  12. 8.8/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Who Cares About Children?

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  13. 8.8/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Hot Guns

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  14. 8.8/10(189 votes)

    #13 - Busted: America's War on Marijuana

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  15. 8.7/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Country Boys: Part 2

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    David Sutherland, acclaimed producer of The Farmer’s Wife, returns to rural America with Country Boys, an epic tale of two boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky’s Appalachian hills. Viewers meet Cody Perkins and Chris Johnson, classmates at an alternative high school who inhabit the same world yet are light years apart. Through intimate cinematography and extraordinary sound design that puts the viewer inside the skin of the story’s colorful and memorable characters, Country Boys traverses the emotional terrain of two boys who are about to become men, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives.

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  16. 8.7/10(24 votes)

    #15 - Law & Disorder

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    Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. Law & Disorder a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, investigates charges that NOPD officers inappropriately used lethal force against New Orleans citizens and then tried to cover up their actions. Airing days before the fifth anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history and drawing from reports published in a real-time online investigation, FRONTLINE takes a fresh look at how the NOPD performed when the rules of civilized society collapsed.

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  17. 8.7/10(8 votes)

    #16 - WikiSecrets

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    The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.

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  18. 8.7/10(283 votes)

    #17 - United States of Secrets (1)

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    The history of the National Security Agency's unprecedented surveillance program is investigated.

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  19. 8.6/10(17 votes)

    #18 - The Battle for Eastern Airlines

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  20. 8.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

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    An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.

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  21. 8.6/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists

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    The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market. Doctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called “hotspotting,” in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. The Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI’s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life.

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  22. 8.6/10(32 votes)

    #21 - Children of Syria

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    The story of one Syrian family struggling amid war, from the siege of their city, to the kidnapping of their father, to the shock of becoming refugees.

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  23. 8.5/10(203 votes)

    #22 - A Class Divided

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    One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later.

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  24. 8.5/10(295 votes)

    #23 - Memory of the Camps

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    Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and is broadcast for the first time in its entirety on Frontline.

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  25. 8.5/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Betting on the Lottery

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    Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, ‘Who really wins and who loses?’

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  26. 8.5/10(464 votes)

    #25 - Angel on Death Row

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Best Episodes Summary

"Al Qaeda's New Front" is the best rated episode of "Frontline". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Trump's Showdown".