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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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".