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The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 9

Every episode of Frontline Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Frontline Season 9!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Frontline Season 9 Episode 10 - Betting on the Lottery
    8.8/10(9 votes)

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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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  2. Frontline Season 9 Episode 3 - Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land
    8.3/10(11 votes)

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Frontline Season 9 Episode 5 - Decade of Destruction (4): Chico Mende
    7.4/10(9 votes)

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  4. Frontline Season 9 Episode 1 - The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  5. Frontline Season 9 Episode 2 - Decade of Destruction (1): Ashes of Forest
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  6. Frontline Season 9 Episode 4 - Decade of Destruction (3): Mountains of Gold
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  7. Frontline Season 9 Episode 6 - Global Dumping Ground
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Frontline Season 9 Episode 7 - When Cops Go Bad
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  9. Frontline Season 9 Episode 8 - The Hunt for Howard Marks
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  10. Frontline Season 9 Episode 9 - Broken Minds
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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    Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has shattered families and left tens of thousands on the nation’s streets.

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  11. Frontline Season 9 Episode 11 - Springfield Goes to War
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  12. Frontline Season 9 Episode 12 - High Crimes and Misdemeanors
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Frontline Season 9 Episode 13 - The Struggle for South Africa
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  14. Frontline Season 9 Episode 14 - The Spirit of Crazy Horse
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  15. Frontline Season 9 Episode 15 - To the Brink of War
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  16. Frontline Season 9 Episode 16 - Cuba and Cocaine
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  17. Frontline Season 9 Episode 17 - The Man Who Made the Supergun
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  18. Frontline Season 9 Episode 18 - Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Frontline Season 9 Episode 19 - The Mind of Hussein
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  20. Frontline Season 9 Episode 20 - Black America's War
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  21. Frontline Season 9 Episode 21 - War and Peace in Panama
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  22. Frontline Season 9 Episode 22 - The Election Held Hostage
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  23. Frontline Season 9 Episode 23 - Who Pays for Mom and Dad?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Frontline Season 9 Episode 24 - Innocence Lost
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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  25. Frontline Season 9 Episode 25 - The Spy Hunter
    0.0/10(0 votes)

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Betting on the Lottery" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 9. It scored 8.8/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/6/1990. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land".