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The smartphone revolution came with a hidden cost. Tower climbers install and service cell phone antennas, ascending hundreds, sometimes more than a thousand feet. Nearly 100 climbers were killed on radio, TV and cell towers in the decade before the documentary was released — a rate that at the time was about 10 times the average for construction workers. Reporters at FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigated 50 cell-related deaths in this 2012 documentary.
While some cell phone tower climbers said they were under pressure to cut corners, layers of subcontracting made it difficult for safety inspectors to determine fault when a tower worker was killed or injured.
“Cell Tower Deaths” was a FRONTLINE production with RAIN Media, Inc., in partnership with ProPublica. The documentary was written and produced by Travis Fox. Martin Smith was senior producer and correspondent. Reporting was by FRONTLINE’s Ryan Knutson and ProPublica’s Liz Day. The series senior producer for FRONTLINE in 2012 was Raney Aronson-Rath. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was David Fanning.
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CHAPTERS:
High Rate of Deaths for Tower Climbers - 00:00
“Free Climbing” Cell Phone Towers, Contractors & Workplace Safety - 5:35
3G & Smartphones Lead to Rush to Upgrade Cell Phone Towers - 11:51
“Money Versus Safety” in Cell Phone Tower Industry - 20:35
Credits - 30:28
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Based on the inside accounts of Americans who helped run a rubber plantation for the company in Liberia, diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation revealed how Firestone conducted business during a brutal Liberian civil war that began on Christmas Eve, 1989.
With remarkable access to key participants, the 90-minute documentary pieced together how, over the next several years, the stories of Charles Taylor, the American-educated warlord notorious for his use of child soldiers, and Firestone, Liberia’s largest private employer, intersected in fateful ways.
FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria teamed up with reporters T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Jonathan Jones to bring this story to light. Their investigation uncovered how, in exchange for being able to operate, Firestone made a deal with Taylor and, in Taylor’s own words, served as “at that particular time our most significant principal source of foreign exchange” — and how Taylor turned the Firestone plantation into a rebel base that he used to wage war.
“Do I think they have blood on their hands? Yes. I believe they facilitated a warlord in his insurrection and in the atrocities that he created,” Gerald S. Rose, Dpty. Chief of Mission, Liberia, 1991-93, told FRONTLINE and ProPublica in the 2014 documentary.
Firestone said it was powerless to prevent Taylor from occupying the plantation and that at no time did the company have a collaborative relationship with him. “Firestone’s decision to remain in Liberia was very costly for the company. Firestone was able to preserve an important economic asset for Liberia, and we are proud of that,” Firestone and its parent company, Bridgestone, told FRONTLINE and ProPublica at the time.
“Firestone and the Warlord” raised provocative questions about corporate responsibility, accountability, and the ethical ramifications of doing business in conflict zones.
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“Firestone and the Warlord” is a FRONTLINE production with Rain Media in partnership with ProPublica. The writer, director and producer is Marcela Gaviria. The co-producers are Will Cohen and Maeve O’Boyle. The reporters are Jonathan Jones and T. Christian Miller.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
A Story About Business and War - 1:10
Charles Taylor Declares a Revolution - 4:54
Firestone’s History in Liberia & Treatment of Plantation Workers- 11:43
Charles Taylor’s Forces Seize Firestone Plantation - 24:19
Charles Taylor Seeks ‘Absolute Power’; Accounts of Atrocities Mount - 36:10
Firestone Makes a Deal With Charles Taylor - 49:22
Firestone Restarts Operations at Its Plantation - 1:02:13
Charles Taylor’s All-Out Assault on Monrovia, Liberia - 01:10:14
Charles Taylor: Firestone Plantation Provided ‘Financial Assistance That We Needed for the Revolution’ - 1:17:44
Credits - 1:21:52
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FRONTLINE investigates the Fed’s epic economic experiment to revive the U.S. economy with what has been called an “easy money” policy and the far-reaching and sometimes unintended consequences.
“If we hadn't been driving our economy for 14 years with easy money and then tried to really quickly undo that now, we wouldn't be having these problems,” former top banking regulator Sheila Bair said in the documentary.
From the 2008 recession, to the COVID pandemic, to the rise in inflation, to the current economic uncertainty, “Age of Easy Money” charts the American economy’s tumultuous course, the fragility of the financial system and the widening gap between Wall Street and Main Street.
The documentary examines what led to the Fed’s recent decisions to hike interest rates at a historic pace and probes the ongoing effects, offering a comprehensive and timely examination of the role of the institution at the heart of America’s economy.
The documentary is supported by The WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative that examines poverty, justice and economic opportunity in America.
The director, producer and correspondent of “Age of Easy Money” is James Jacoby. The producer is Anya Bourg. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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Funding for “Age of Easy Money” is provided by The WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative reporting on poverty, justice, and economic opportunity in America, with major funding by The JPB Foundation and additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III.
CREDITS
Prologue - 00:00
Federal Reserve Tries Easy Money Policies in Great Recession - 5:38
In 2010, Federal Reserve Steps Up Quantitative Easing - 19:37
Concerns and Criticisms of the Federal Reserve’s Easy Money Policies - 28:48
After An Attempt to Pull Back in 2018, Easy Money Becomes Status Quo - 38:25
Dire Warnings About Largely Unregulated “Shadow Banks” - 50:28
Federal Reserve’s Easy Money Policies Go Into “Overdrive” to Combat COVID’s Economic Impacts - 53:28
“Bad News for the Economy was Good News for Markets” - 1:06:26
Warnings That “Unprecedented” Stimulus Could Lead to Excessive Demand and Inflation - 1:16:18
An Epicenter of High Inflation in the U.S. - 1:23:30
The Federal Reserve’s Response to Inflation - 1:28:42
The Impact of the Federal Reserve’s Interest Rate Hikes - 1:37:57
Lessons for the U.S. Economy From the Era of Easy Money - 1:48:34
Credits - 1:51:58
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Premiering March 14, 2023, “Age of Easy Money” examines how the policies of the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, ushered in an age of easy money — and what the Fed's pullback from those easy money policies could mean.
“Age of Easy Money,” a two-hour special, premieres Tues., March 14, at 9/8c on PBS stations (check local listings), at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS Video App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
The director, producer and correspondent of “Age of Easy Money” is James Jacoby. The producer is Anya Bourg. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.Explore additional reporting related to "Age of Easy Money" on our website: pbs.org/frontline
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Premiering March 14, 2023, “Age of Easy Money” examines how the policies of the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, ushered in an age of easy money — and explores the potential consequences of the Fed’s decision last year to start hiking interest rates at a historic pace in an effort to fight inflation.
This excerpt shows how many economic experts FRONTLINE spoke with alluded to a particular quote to describe the current economic moment, in which the risks and excesses that had been building in the age of easy money are beginning to surface.
“When interest rates start to rise, and the tide pulls out, as Warren Buffett would say ... you begin to see who's not been swimming with their shorts on,” Foroohar says in the clip.
“Age of Easy Money,” a two-hour special, premieres Tues., March 14, at 9/8c on PBS stations (check local listings), at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS Video App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
The director, producer and correspondent of “Age of Easy Money” is James Jacoby. The producer is Anya Bourg. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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In January 2015, attacks on a French satirical magazine office and a Jewish supermarket in Paris left 17 people dead. That November, attacks on multiple targets in Paris killed 130 people. Four months later, suicide bombings killed 32 people in Brussels.
In the 2016 documentary “Terror in Europe,” FRONTLINE and ProPublica examined whether these attacks by terrorists linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS could have been prevented and why Europe remained vulnerable to the terrorism threat.
Years before the attacks in Europe, ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella was already reporting on some of the jihadists who would go on to commit them and the counter-terror officials trying to stop them. In unusually candid interviews, European counter-terror veterans told Rotella how the attackers had escaped detection and how European countries had failed to put in place effective intelligence sharing and border enforcement in the lead-up to the attacks.
“Terror in Europe” is a FRONTLINE Production with Mongoose Pictures in partnership with ProPublica. The producer and director is Ricardo Pollack. The correspondent is Sebastian Rotella. The senior producer is Dan Edge. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
A Wave of Terror Attacks in Europe - 1:11
From Petty Criminals to Extremists Joining Al Qaeda or ISIS - 5:29
Networks of Terror in Europe - 22:43
Most Suspected Plotters of November 2015 Paris Attacks Already Known to Authorities - 36:30
Credits - 51:58
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FRONTLINE spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the Ebola outbreak’s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and 2015 and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. The documentary shared firsthand accounts from survivors and victims’ family members — from the forest region of Guinea to the bustling Liberian capital of Monrovia — including the father of a one-year-old Guinean child who was believed to be the first person to die in the outbreak.
With access to key global and local decision-makers and health responders, “Outbreak” exposed tragic missteps in the response to what would become the deadliest Ebola outbreak that the world had ever experienced. The documentary drew on revelatory and candid admissions of failure from key government and public health officials, some of whom were speaking publicly for the first time. The investigation raised prescient questions about whether governments and global health organizations had the capacity to respond at the right scale the next time the world faced a major infectious epidemic.
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“Outbreak” is a FRONTLINE production with Mongoose Pictures and Quicksilver Media in association with the BBC. The director and producer is Dan Edge. The producer is Sasha Joelle Achilli.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Where the 2014-16 Ebola Outbreak Is Believed to Have Begun - 0:34
The Ebola Virus Crosses Borders in West Africa in 2014 - 09:42
Ebola “Spreads Unchecked” in Sierra Leone in 2014 - 20:20
An Unprecedented Ebola Epidemic: The Death Count Rises - 29:10
Ebola Spreads in Monrovia, Liberia in August 2014 - 32:03
An Ebola Hospital Struggles in 2014 - 39:22
The International – and Local Liberian – Responses to Ebola in 2014-15 - 44:56
Credits - 51:55
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After the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in the 1990s, the world had vowed “never again.” Then came the crisis in Darfur. By the time the FRONTLINE documentary “On Our Watch” premiered in late 2007, the Sudanese government and Janjaweed militias had waged a brutal campaign against rebel groups and civilians in Darfur for four years. Even by the most conservative estimate, at least 200,000 people had been killed by then and 2.5 million driven from their homes. FRONTLINE examined how the international community and the U.N. responded as the crisis unfolded and why — after Rwanda and Srebrenica — they once again failed to stop the slaughter.
CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Darfur, Sudan: Allegations of Genocide - 01:10
How the U.N. Reacted to Reports of Janjaweed Atrocities in Darfur in 2003 - 11:36
The U.N.’s Failures in Rwanda & Srebrenica - 17:06
How the U.N. Security Council Responded in 2004 to the Darfur Crisis - 25:00
Documenting Atrocities and Collecting Witness Testimony in Darfur - 29:12
By 2006, Violence Spilled Over From Sudan to Chad - 37:15
Darfur: International Criminal Court Indictments & U.S. Sanctions in 2007 - 45:21
Credits - 52:53
The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 29, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/putin-and-the-presidents
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Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 26, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/putin-and-the-presidents
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In 2022, as Russia’s assault on Ukraine unfolded, FRONTLINE followed first responders, civilians and displaced families living through the bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city. Where are these Ukrainians now, nearly a year after the invasion began? This update provides answers.
Watch the original documentary from 2022, “Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack” here:
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"Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack" is a Basement Films production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4. The documentary was filmed, produced and directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola; produced in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavlov; and directed in London by Teresa Smith. The editor is Agniezska Liggett. The production manager is Leah Gowns. The executive producers are Ben de Pear, Edward Watts and Cate Blanchett. The editor-in-chief and executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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In “The Trouble with Antibiotics,” correspondent David E. Hoffman traveled the country and examined new research out of Arizona, Pennsylvania and North Texas focusing on how antibiotics on the farm might be fueling a crisis of antibiotic resistance for humans. The documentary traced the history and controversy over antibiotics in agriculture, discovered gaps in basic data about how antibiotics are used on the farm — and raised questions about why that information did not exist.
“The Trouble with Antibiotics” is a FRONTLINE production with American University School of Communication’s Investigative Reporting Workshop. It is produced by Rick Young and Anthony Szulc. The correspondent is David E. Hoffman.
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CHAPTERS:
Antibiotics in Agriculture: From Farm to Table? - 00:00
Antibiotic Resistance and the Environment - 08:15
An Early FDA Attempt to Reduce Use of Farm Antibiotics - 18:02
Farmers and Antibiotics: A Lack of Data - 26:18
Credits - 35:37
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Vika and her family shared their story in the August 2022 FRONTLINE documentary "Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s Attack." An updated version of the documentary, premiering Tues., Feb. 14 on PBS and online, revisits many of the people profiled in the original film and shares how months of war have reshaped their lives.
In this excerpt, see where Vika and her family are today.
For updates on other people who were featured in "Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack," watch an updated version the documentary Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, at 10/9c on PBS stations (check local listings), at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS Video App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
"Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack" is a Basement Films production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4. The documentary was filmed, produced and directed by Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola; produced in Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavlov; and directed in London by Teresa Smith. The editor is Agniezska Liggett. The production manager is Leah Gowns. The executive producers are Ben de Pear, Edward Watts and Cate Blanchett. The editor-in-chief and executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 29, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/putin-and-the-presidents
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The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 29, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/putin-and-the-presidents
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The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It’s also home to enormous deposits of copper, gold and molybdenum that have been estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. “Alaska Gold” delved into the complex fight over “Pebble mine,” including what happened when a group of Alaska Native tribes and commercial fishermen in Alaska petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene.
“This — I believe this will be the biggest environmental fight of this century for Alaska,” former Alaska State Senator Rick Halford, a Pebble mine opponent, told FRONTLINE in the 2012 documentary.
“Alaska Gold” is a FRONTLINE production with Kenneth Levis Productions, LLC. The writer and producer is Kenneth Levis. The co-producer is Aaron Ernst. The reporter is Blaine Harden.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
The Divide Over Alaska’s Proposed ‘Pebble Mine’ - 00:50
What Are the Risks of Mining at Bristol Bay’s Headwaters? - 18:42
Permitting ‘Pebble Mine’ - 35:42
The EPA Steps in to the ‘Pebble Mine’ Battle - 45:10
Credits - 52:02
The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 28, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Oct. 21, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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As this documentary, “Big Sky, Big Money,” explored, the Citizens United decision held that political spending is a form of protected speech, and let corporations and unions spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns. But to avoid corruption, the court said the money can't go directly to candidates; it has to go to independent outside groups.
What did that mean in reality? As the 2012 election loomed, correspondent Kai Ryssdal traveled to Montana, then a battleground over campaign finance, and uncovered startling new evidence of outside interest groups’ influence on local campaigns. The documentary raised questions about how secret “dark money” was transforming U.S. politics, looked at a boom in ads made by tax-exempt nonprofits known as 501(c)(4)s — which generally weren’t required to disclose their donors publicly — and probed evidence that appeared to show possible coordination with campaigns.
“Big Sky, Big Money” is a FRONTLINE production with American Public Media’s Marketplace in association with American University’s School of Communications Investigative Reporting Workshop. The writer, producer and director is Rick Young. The correspondent is Kai Ryssdal.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
After Citizens United, a Boom in Campaign Spending by Outside Groups - 1:20
A Rare Look Inside a Super PAC - 08:57
‘The Father of Citizens United’ on Secrecy in Campaign Spending - 19:43
Montana Takes on the Supreme Court Over Citizens United - 27:56
Did a 501(c)(4) Group Break the Law? - 39:41
Credits - 51:58
The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Oct. 14, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Michael Wiser for FRONTLINE on Sept. 28, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length.
This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/putin-and-the-presidents
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Drawing on in-depth conversations with insiders from five U.S. presidential administrations, former U.S. intelligence leaders, diplomats, Russian politicians, authors and journalists, “Putin and the Presidents” reveals how the miscalculations and missteps of multiple American presidents over two decades paved the way for Putin’s attack on Ukraine — as seen through the eyes of people who were in the room.
The documentary traces how, prior to launching the war on Ukraine, Putin tested the waters by defying American presidents for 20 years — including by invading Georgia, seizing Crimea, and interfering in a U.S. presidential election. The documentary provides unique insight into the icy relationship between Putin and current U.S. President Joe Biden, both of whom were shaped by the Cold War, and into the evolution of Putin’s grievances with the U.S. and the West.
As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, “Putin and the Presidents” gives essential context for this historic moment.
“Putin and the Presidents” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporter is Vanessa Fica. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Putin and the Fall of the Soviet Union - 2:21
President Clinton Meets Russia’s New President: Vladimir Putin - 4:40
Putin Sees President Bush’s Agenda to Spread Democracy as a Threat - 8:35
Putin’s ‘Red Line’ & the 2008 Russian Invasion of Georgia - 16:38
President Obama’s Relationship with Putin - 20:59
Vice President Biden and Putin: Shaped by the Cold War - 22:52
Russia Seizes Crimea From Ukraine in 2014 - 28:11
Russia’s Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election - 33:00
Putin and President Trump - 35:30
Putin, President Biden and Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine - 41:25
Credits - 51:27
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Drawing on in-depth conversations with insiders from five U.S. presidential administrations, former U.S. intelligence leaders, diplomats, Russian politicians, authors and journalists, “Putin and the Presidents” reveals how the miscalculations and missteps of multiple American presidents over two decades paved the way for Putin’s attack on Ukraine — and offers unique insight into the relationship between Putin and Biden.
“They're children of the Cold War and they see each other and their countries through the Cold War,” Peter Baker of The New York Times says of the two men in the above excerpt from “Putin and the Presidents.” “Biden saw Putin for what he is: a KGB revanchist who wants to remake the Russian empire.”
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“Putin and the Presidents” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporter is Vanessa Fica. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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The documentary details the FDA’s efforts to prove that cigarette manufacturers were manipulating nicotine in cigarettes to keep smokers hooked and examines the political headwinds the FDA faced at the time.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
FDA Makes a Case to Regulate Nicotine in Tobacco Like a Drug In 1994 - 00:45
Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking Cigarettes? - 09:57
FDA Commissioner Takes On the Tobacco Industry and Nicotine - 18:15
What Did the Tobacco Industry Know About Nicotine’s Addictive Properties nd When? - 26:40
Lawsuits Against the Tobacco Industry Begin After 1994 - 40:14
FDA Tackles the Issue of Children Smoking - 45:20
Credits - 53:50
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In 2020, the journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International gained access to a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers. They suspected it contained numbers selected for potential surveillance with Pegasus. The Pegasus Project reporting consortium — which was led by Forbidden Stories and included 16 other media organizations, FRONTLINE among them — found that the spyware had been used on journalists, human rights activists, the wife and fiancée of the murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and others.
Over two parts, this docuseries reveals the inside story of an investigation that prompted probes by governments and institutions around the world and sparked calls for an international treaty to govern the largely unregulated spyware industry.
NSO, which has disputed some of the Pegasus Project’s reporting, says that its technology was not associated in any way with Khashoggi’s murder and that it sells Pegasus to vetted governments for “the sole purpose of preventing and investigating terror and serious crime.”
Part one of “Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus” is available to stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVj1_SE4Mo
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“Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus” is a FRONTLINE production with Forbidden Films. It is a film by Anne Poiret and Arthur Bouvart. The director is Anne Poiret. The producers are Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud. The senior producers are Eamonn Matthews and Dan Edge. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Laura DeBonis.
CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
The Investigation Into Pegasus Spyware Continues - 0:36
Was Pegasus Used to Spy on French Politicians? - 3:21
Pegasus Spyware, Dubai’s Leader Sheikh Maktoum and Princess Latifa - 9:29
How Israel Develops and Deploys High-Tech Surveillance Technology - 16:09
Netanyahu’s Government, NSO Group and Pegasus - 19:37
Cecilio Pineda, a Journalist Murdered in Mexico - 23:52
The Pegasus Project Prepares to Publish - 30:05
‘A Go-To Spy Service for Tyrants’ - 39:28
NSO Group Representatives Appear Before European Parliament - 41:08
The Israeli Government’s Response to the Pegasus Spyware Revelations - 48:45
Credits - 51:59
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In 2020, the journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International gained access to a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers. They suspected it contained numbers selected for potential surveillance with Pegasus. The Pegasus Project reporting consortium — which was led by Forbidden Stories and included 16 other media organizations, FRONTLINE among them — found that the spyware had been used on journalists, human rights activists, the wife and fiancée of the murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and others.
Over two nights, this docuseries reveals the inside story of an investigation that prompted probes by governments and institutions around the world and sparked calls for an international treaty to govern the largely unregulated spyware industry.
NSO, which has disputed some of the Pegasus Project’s reporting, says that its technology was not associated in any way with Khashoggi’s murder and that it sells Pegasus to vetted governments for “the sole purpose of preventing and investigating terror and serious crime.”
Surveillance technologies like Pegasus are “a military weapon used against civilians, and the civilians, they don’t have any mechanism to help them in seeking justice,” says Laurent Richard, founder of Forbidden Stories and Forbidden Films and one of the producers of the films.
Part two of “Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus” premieres Tues., Jan. 10, 2023.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Laura DeBonis.
CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Spyware That Turns Phones Into Surveillance Devices - 00:49
What Pegasus Spyware Does - 03:15
The Pegasus Project Begins - 09:57
Jamal Khashoggi’s Wife and Fiancée’s Phones Targeted With Pegasus - 13:38
Prominent Mexican Journalist On Being a Pegasus Spyware Target - 25:26
An Investigative Journalist Finds Out Her Phone Was Infected by Pegasus Spyware - 35:16
Pegasus Spyware: “A Military Weapon Used Against Civilians” - 50:26
Credits - 51:54
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Ismayilova’s is just one of the stories that unfolds in “Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus,” which premieres Tues., Jan. 3, and Tues., Jan. 10, 2023. Two years in the making, the documentary series chronicles what happened after Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International gained access to a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers in 2020 that they suspected contained numbers selected for potential surveillance with the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group. NSO Group, which has disputed some of the Pegasus Project’s reporting, said it “does not operate the systems it sells” or “have access to the data of its customers’ targets,” but that it investigates credible claims of misuse and has terminated contracts.
“Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus” follows journalists across the world in the Pegasus Project reporting consortium as they race to piece together who has been targeted with the spyware — and the implications.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Laura DeBonis.
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The hamburger is as American as apple pie. When this documentary aired, the average American ate three a week — and hamburgers had become the engine of a vastly changed meat industry. In “Modern Meat,” FRONTLINE investigated whether dramatic changes in the U.S. meat industry were compromising the safety of America’s beef supply — and examined why contaminated meat was getting through the system.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 0:00
Food Poisoning and the Safety of America’s Meat Supply - 1:22
The 1993 Jack-in-the-Box Food Poisoning Outbreak - 5:31
Raising Cattle That Become Hamburgers - 8:39
The Dangers of Antibiotic Resistance - 14:09
Inside the Meat-Packing Business - 16:26
The USDA and the Debate Over Meat Safety Regulations - 24:06
Globalization and Food Safety - 39:34
The Meat Industry’s Safety Push - 47:48
Credits - 52:10
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This two-part series from FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films examines how the hacking tool was used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
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Starting in 2008, in the worst economic crisis in decades, brand-name banks were on the brink. As the federal government implemented a massive intervention in the financial industry, FRONTLINE went behind closed doors to tell the story of how things went so wrong so fast and to document efforts to stabilize Wall Street. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk untangled the complicated financial and political web surrounding one particular superbank — Bank of America.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 0:00
Wall Street Bankers and the NY Federal Reserve When the Housing Bubble Burst in 2008 - 2:05
A Deal to Save Merrill Lynch: A Merger with Bank of America - 10:17
Lehman Brothers’ Bankruptcy and the 2008 Financial Crisis - 22:50
The U.S. Government’s Role in the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Merger - 33:20
The Obama Administration, Congress and the Bankers - 45:52
Credits - 52:19
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In “Nuclear Aftershocks,” O’Brien traveled to three continents to explore the revived debate about the safety of nuclear power, the options for alternative energy sources, and questions about whether a disaster like the one at Fukushima could happen in the United States. In particular, he visited one emergent battleground: the controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, located on a fault line some 35 miles from Manhattan, in the most densely populated region in the U.S. Were there lessons to be learned from the disaster in Japan?
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue: After Fukushima, is America prepared for nuclear disaster? – 00:00
New York’s aging Indian Point, near Manhattan, up for relicensing – 01:04
2011 earthquake & tsunami take down Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant – 04:33
Photos, footage inside Fukushima Daiichi show meltdown damage – 11:39
Warnings in a rice paddy: ancient poem recounts Jogan tsunami – 15:23
What did Fukushima operator TEPCO know & what did it do wrong? – 18:07
Japanese public worries about fallout, radiation, cancer, contamination – 23:00
With Chernobyl in mind, Germany shuts down nuclear reactors – 28:49
Can solar, wind & other renewable energy replace nuclear power? – 32:00
Nuclear Regulatory Commission monitors U.S. plants – 37:35
Located on a fault line, could Indian Point weather an earthquake? – 43:20
Fukushima, 1 year later: cold shutdown & generations evacuated – 49:52
Credits – 51:59
The story of a Honduran family’s struggle to reunite after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border three years earlier under the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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Anavelis, whose then-six-year-old daughter, Genesis, was taken from her in 2018 after the duo crossed into the United States, said, “When I got there it became hell, a nightmare that has been tormenting me all these years.”
Anavelis was deported back to Honduras without her daughter. Several years later, many families separated under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy had been reunited, but hundreds of children, like Genesis, were still in the U.S. waiting for their parents to be allowed to return.
This documentary chronicles Anavelis’ quest to reunite with Genesis and offers insight into the work of a Biden administration task force charged with reuniting families like theirs.
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“After Zero Tolerance” is a FRONTLINE production with Five O’Clock Films in association with Guerra Productions, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and University of Connecticut. The writer, producer and director is Oscar Guerra. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Mother and Daughter Separated Under “Zero Tolerance” - 00:05
Efforts to Locate Families Separated at the U.S. Border - 6:52
Biden Administration’s Task Force to Reunite Families - 11:03
What Humanitarian Parole Means - 18:00
A Family Separated at the U.S. Border Reunites - 21:07
Credits - 27:05
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Anavelis and Genesis share their stories in this excerpt from "After Zero Tolerance," a documentary short premiering Tues., Dec. 6, 2022 on FRONTLINE. Follow their years-long quest to reunite in the full documentary: to.pbs.org/3h42qPH
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“After Zero Tolerance” is a FRONTLINE production with Five O’Clock Films in association with Guerra Productions, Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and University of Connecticut. The writer, producer and director is Oscar Guerra. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.
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Guantanamo Bay is well known as a symbol of the post-9/11 war on terror.
In this 2017 documentary, FRONTLINE and Retro Report drew on extensive and rare archival footage to tell the story of how the military base came to be used to hold people beyond the reach of U.S. law. It happened a decade before 9/11, when some 70,000 Haitian refugees fled their country, hoping to seek asylum in the U.S. in the wake of a bloody coup.
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CHAPTERS:
A 1991 Coup in Haiti Spurs a Refugee Crisis - 0:00
U.S. Detains Haitian Refugees at Guantanamo Bay Camp in 1990s - 2:47]
Yale Law Team Takes on U.S. Government Over Guantanamo - 3:54
Evidence of Mistreatment of Haitian Refugees at Guantanamo - 6:11
Court Ruling Frees Haitians Held at Guantanamo - 9:59
Credits - 12:19
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Popular television shows have portrayed death investigators as high-tech sleuths wielding the most sophisticated tools of 21st century science. A 2011 investigation by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and NPR found a very different reality: A dysfunctional system with few standards and little oversight. In state after state, reporters found autopsies conducted by doctors who lacked certification and training, an increasing number of Americans going to the grave without being examined at all – and vulnerable people suffering most from the country’s system of death investigation.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
A Trail of Autopsies by an "Incompetent" Forensic Pathologist - 1:43
The Role of Coroners in Death Investigations - 12:50
The New Orleans Coroner and the Police - 17:30
A Call for National Standards for Death Investigations - 33:05
Deaths of Elderly People Are Among Least Likely to Be Investigated - 37:11
“Autopsies Can Save Lives As Well As Solve Crimes” - 43:09
Credits - 51:57
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FRONTLINE went inside former President Trump’s high-stakes battle for control of the GOP, examining how he attacked fellow Republicans and used inflammatory rhetoric that rallied his base and further divided the country in his first year as president. Through interviews with longtime Republican legislators like former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), House Freedom Caucus members including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), former senior White House officials including Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and other D.C. insiders, “Trump’s Takeover” examined how, years before the Jan. 6., 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, the president was remaking the GOP in his own image, counter-punching when criticized and publicly attacking those who defied him.
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In “My Father, My Brother and Me,” a FRONTLINE and ITVS joint production, Iverson set off on a personal journey to explore the scientific, ethical and political debates that surround Parkinson’s, a disease at the center of a controversy over embryonic stem cell research. Iverson talked to scientists working towards new cures and therapies for Parkinson’s as well as a number of other major neurological conditions. He also had intimate conversations with fellow Parkinson’s sufferers like actor Michael J. Fox and writer Michael Kinsley.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Parkinson's Disease: A Family Saga - 01:19
Hunting for What Causes Parkinson’s Disease - 09:40
The Quest for a Cure for Parkinson’s Disease - 18:27
Parkinson’s Disease and the Stem Cell Controversy - 25:27
Living With Parkinson's Disease - 35:41
Parkinson’s Disease and the Enduring Power of the Human Spirit - 46:21
Credits - 52:25