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Frontline

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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 extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

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Will Lyman

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Seasons

Season 1

25 episodes

Premiered Jan 16, 1983

Season 2

24 episodes

Premiered Jan 15, 1984

Season 3

21 episodes

Premiered Jan 14, 1985

Season 4

31 episodes

Premiered Jan 20, 1986

Season 5

15 episodes

Premiered Jan 26, 1987

Season 6

24 episodes

Premiered Dec 14, 1987

Season 7

19 episodes

Premiered Oct 9, 1988

Season 8

17 episodes

Premiered Nov 27, 1989

Season 9

28 episodes

Premiered Sep 11, 1990

Season 10

29 episodes

Premiered Oct 14, 1991

Season 11

21 episodes

Premiered Oct 12, 1992

Season 12

20 episodes

Premiered Oct 11, 1993

Season 13

19 episodes

Premiered Oct 17, 1994

Season 14

18 episodes

Premiered Oct 16, 1995

Season 15

18 episodes

Premiered Oct 7, 1996

Season 16

16 episodes

Premiered Oct 6, 1997

Season 17

19 episodes

Premiered Sep 20, 1998

Season 18

16 episodes

Premiered Sep 27, 1999

Season 19

16 episodes

Premiered Oct 1, 2000

Season 20

24 episodes

Premiered Sep 12, 2001

Season 21

21 episodes

Premiered Sep 2, 2002

Season 22

16 episodes

Premiered Oct 8, 2003

Season 23

16 episodes

Premiered Sep 16, 2004

Season 24

15 episodes

Premiered Oct 4, 2005

Season 25

15 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 2006

Season 26

18 episodes

Premiered Oct 15, 2007

Season 27

17 episodes

Premiered Jan 1, 2009

Season 28

15 episodes

Premiered Feb 2, 2010

Season 29

19 episodes

Premiered Oct 18, 2010

Season 30

24 episodes

Premiered Oct 10, 2011

Season 31

19 episodes

Premiered Jan 7, 2013

Season 32

18 episodes

Premiered Jan 6, 2014

Season 33

20 episodes

Premiered Jan 5, 2015

Season 34

11 episodes

Premiered Jan 4, 2016

Season 35

21 episodes

Premiered Sep 26, 2016

Season 36

15 episodes

Premiered Oct 18, 2017

Season 37

22 episodes

Premiered Jul 30, 2018

Season 38

21 episodes

Premiered Sep 30, 2019

Season 39

10 episodes

Premiered Jul 20, 2020

Season 40

21 episodes

Premiered Jan 7, 2021

Season 41

16 episodes

Premiered Feb 14, 2022

Season 42

22 episodes

Premiered Jan 2, 2023

Season 43

17 episodes

Premiered Jan 22, 2024

Season 44

25 episodes

Premiered Jan 21, 2025

Season 45

8 episodes

Premiered Sep 29, 2026

Episodes

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Ep 1

An Unauthorized History of the NFL

Jan 17, 1983

In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football and the world of sports gambling and organized crime.

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Ep 2

88 Seconds in Greensboro

Jan 24, 1983

On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina. Correspondent James Reston, Jr.,investigates the role of a police informant who was with the group when the attack was planned and when it was carried out.

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Ep 3

In the Shadow of the Capitol

Jan 31, 1983

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry.

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Ep 4

A Chinese Affair

Feb 7, 1983

For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland.

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Ep 5

God's Banker

Feb 14, 1983

In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest bank and chief advisor to the Vatican's bank. Reporter Jeremy Paxman investigates Calvi's links with the Vatican and with P-2, a secret Italian society, and questions whether his death was really a suicide.

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Ep 6

Pentagon, Inc.

Feb 21, 1983

Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chasing Pentagon dollars for the jobs those dollars create in their districts; scientists and universities find themselves dependent on the military if they want to do research in many high-tech areas.

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