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FRONTLINE: Poor Kids

FRONTLINE
Poor Kids

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

  FRONTLINE follows three young girls in the Midwest growing up amidst their families’ struggles against financial ruin. This is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it’s rarely seen, through the eyes of children. With one in five American children living below the poverty line, this is an unflinching and revealing exploration of […]

FRONTLINE: Business of Disaster

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Business of Disaster

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

  Disasters are big business. Follow an investigation with NPR into who profits when disaster strikes. The film focuses on 2012’s Hurricane Sandy: the thousands rendered homeless, the agencies that were supposed to help and the companies that made millions.  

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FRONTLINE
League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis, Part 1 of 2

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

  The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America’s indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under siege as thousands of former players and a host of scientists claim the league has covered up how football inflicted long-term brain injuries on many players. In a special investigation, FRONTLINE joins prize-winning journalists Steve […]

FRONTLINE The Vaccine War

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The Vaccine War

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

  Join an investigation into the science and politics of vaccine safety. Despite a scientific consensus that there is no link between vaccines and disorders like autism, the war over whether to immunize children continues.  

FRONTLINE: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

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Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

Thursday, July 20th, 2017

  FRONTLINE investigates the alarming rise of untreatable infections: from a young girl thrust onto life support in an Arizona hospital, to a young American infected in India who comes home to Seattle, and an uncontrollable outbreak at the nation’s most prestigious hospital, where 18 patients were mysteriously infected and six died, despite frantic efforts […]