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

The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 9

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. 8.5/10(9 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 8.2/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land

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  3. 8.0/10(9 votes)

    #3 - Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev

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  4. 7.6/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Decade of Destruction (4): Chico Mendes

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    #5 - The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special

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    #6 - Decade of Destruction (1): Ashes of Forest

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    #7 - Decade of Destruction (3): Mountains of Gold

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    #8 - Global Dumping Ground

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    #9 - When Cops Go Bad

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    #10 - The Hunt for Howard Marks

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    #11 - Broken Minds

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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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    #12 - Springfield Goes to War

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    #13 - High Crimes and Misdemeanors

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    #14 - The Struggle for South Africa

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    #15 - The Spirit of Crazy Horse

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    #16 - To the Brink of War

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    #17 - Cuba and Cocaine

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    #18 - The Man Who Made the Supergun

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    #19 - The Mind of Hussein

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    #20 - Black America's War

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    #21 - War and Peace in Panama

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    #22 - The Election Held Hostage

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    #23 - Who Pays for Mom and Dad?

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    #24 - Innocence Lost

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    #25 - The Spy Hunter

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Betting on the Lottery" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 9. It scored 8.5/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/6/1990. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land".