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The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 29

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Every episode of Frontline Season 29 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Frontline Season 29!

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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  • WikiSecrets
    8.7/10(8)
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    #1 - WikiSecrets

    Season 29 Episode 15

    Aired 5/24/2011

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

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  • The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists
    8.6/10(7)
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    #2 - The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists

    Season 29 Episode 17

    Aired 7/26/2011

    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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  • Facing Death
    8.0/10(45)
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    #3 - Facing Death

    Season 29 Episode 4

    Aired 11/23/2010

    The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families

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  • An Optimist in Haiti
    7.9/10(32)
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    #4 - An Optimist in Haiti

    Season 29 Episode 19

    Aired 9/27/2011

    The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.

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  • Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning
    7.8/10(17)
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    #5 - Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning

    Season 29 Episode 10

    Aired 3/29/2011

    Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China. The Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth

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  • The Silence
    7.6/10(20)
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    #6 - The Silence

    Season 29 Episode 12

    Aired 4/19/2011

    Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska.

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  • The Confessions
    7.4/10(13)
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    #7 - The Confessions

    Season 29 Episode 3

    Aired 11/9/2010

    Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions.

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  • The Spill
    7.3/10(9)
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    #8 - The Spill

    Season 29 Episode 2

    Aired 10/26/2010

    Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.

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  • Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper
    7.2/10(8)
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    #9 - Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper

    Season 29 Episode 6

    Aired 1/18/2011

    Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Flying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

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  • Battle for Haiti
    7.1/10(16)
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    #10 - Battle for Haiti

    Season 29 Episode 5

    Aired 1/11/2011

    In the chaos of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, thousands of the country's worst criminals seized the opportunity to stage a mass escape from the National Penitentiary. One year later, the gang leaders are re-asserting control in the capital, threatening the country's stability.

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  • Fighting for Bin Laden
    7.0/10(44)
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    #11 - Fighting for Bin Laden

    Season 29 Episode 13

    Aired 5/3/2011

    The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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  • Revolution in Cairo
    6.9/10(22)
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    #12 - Revolution in Cairo

    Season 29 Episode 9

    Aired 2/22/2011

    A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

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  • The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke
    6.6/10(10)
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    #13 - The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke

    Season 29 Episode 16

    Aired 6/28/2011

    The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases. Educating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep.

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  • Post Mortem
    6.5/10(13)
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    #14 - Post Mortem

    Season 29 Episode 7

    Aired 2/1/2011

    A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.

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  • Kill/Capture
    6.5/10(8)
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    #15 - Kill/Capture

    Season 29 Episode 14

    Aired 5/10/2011

    Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.

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  • Death by Fire
    6.3/10(23)
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    #16 - Death by Fire

    Season 29 Episode 1

    Aired 10/19/2010

    At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty?

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  • Football High
    5.6/10(12)
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    #17 - Football High

    Season 29 Episode 11

    Aired 4/12/2011

    High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?

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  • Top Secret America
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    #18 - Top Secret America

    Season 29 Episode 18

    Aired 9/6/2011

    A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending

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  • The Man Behind the Mosque
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    #19 - The Man Behind the Mosque

    Season 29 Episode 20

    Aired 9/27/2011

    The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.

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Season 29 Ratings Summary

"WikiSecrets" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 29. It scored 8.7/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/24/2011. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists".