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Summary 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.

Directed By: Jon Palfreman

Written By: Jon Palfreman

  • TV-MA
  • PBS
  • Oct 19, 1993
  • 1 h
  • TV-MA
  • PBS
  • Oct 19, 1993
  • 1 h
Frontline
S11 • Episode 17
Prisoners of Silence
Air Date: Oct 19, 1993
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Summary 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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Episode 1 • Jan 19, 1993
Clinton Takes Over
After campaign rhetoric subsides, a new president has only eleven weeks to establish form and substance of his administration.
Episode 2 • Jan 26, 1993
Journey to the Occupied Lands
As Arab-Israeli peace talks enter their 17th round of negotiations, Frontline examines issue.
Episode 3 • Feb 2, 1993
What Happened to the Drug War?
The federal government's multi-billion dollar war on drugs is an issue Bill Clinton largely ignored.
Episode 4 • Feb 9, 1993
The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians.
Episode 5 • Feb 16, 1993 • 53 m
The Arming of Saudi Arabia
Get an inside account of efforts to bring about change in the Saudi kingdom. With on-the-ground reporting, the film examines Saudi Arabia today.
Episode 6 • Mar 2, 1993
Apartheid's Last Stand
Three years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, talks between Mandela's African National Congress and government of President FW DE Klerk show signs of reaching an agreement will end apartheid.
Episode 7 • Mar 23, 1993
Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special
In Netherlands, euthanasia has been openly practiced for twenty years. Through personal accounts of doctors, patients, and families in Holland.
Episode 8 • Mar 30, 1993
In Our Children's Food
Frontline traces 30 year history of US pesticide use, regulation and scientific study.
Episode 9 • Apr 6, 1993
The Trouble with Baseball
As 1993 baseball season begins, Frontline looks at power struggle between owners and players for economic control of Major League baseball and how that battle has led national pastime to brink of disaster.
Episode 10 • Apr 13, 1993
Iran and the Bomb
With headlines focused on United Nation's search and destroy missions inside Iraq, Frontline investigates how Iran is quietly rebuilding its national arsenal of weapons.
Episode 11 • Apr 27, 1993 • 1 h 30 m
L.A. Is Burning: 5 Reports from a Divided City
A 90-minute, prime-time special featuring analysis of the Los Angeles riots by prominent observers from the African-American, Caucasian, Asian-American and Latino communities.
Episode 12 • May 4, 1993
Ashes of the Cold War
Three hundred thousand defense jobs have been lost since cutbacks began in 1989 and 1.
Episode 13 • May 25, 1993
The Health Care Gamble
Frontline, in association with The Health Quarterly, presents a behind-the-scenes report on Bill Clinton's savvy campaigning and hard bargaining for health care reform.
Episode 14 • Jul 20, 1993
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
Bizarre accusations of abuse surround a prominent daycare in Edenton, North Carolina. Frontline's 3-part investigation "Innocence Lost" chronicles how a disagreement between two friends snowballed into a sexual abuse hysteria.
Episode 15 • Jul 21, 1993
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
The Innocent Lost series continues, focusing on testimony of twelve children who took stand, questioning by prosecutors and defense attorneys, and jurors' decisions on what they heard.
Episode 16 • Oct 12, 1993
The Heartbeat of America
FRONTLINE opens its twelfth season with story of General Motors--world's largest industrial company and symbol of corporate America's once golden age of optimism.
Episode 17 • Oct 19, 1993 • 1 h
Prisoners of Silence
Facilitated communication has been heralded as a breakthrough technique for nonverbal people with autism.
Episode 18 • Oct 26, 1993
Secrets of a Bomb Factory
Wes McKinley didn't know what he was getting into when, in 1990, he was chosen as foreman of a special grand jury investigating potential crimes at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado.
Episode 19 • Nov 9, 1993
Showdown in Haiti
FRONTLINE examines escalating confrontation between Haitian military government and Clinton administration.
Episode 20 • Nov 9, 1993 • 3 h
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
At heart of mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy lies puzzle of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Episode 21 • Nov 30, 1993
AIDS, Blood and Politics
Since outbreak of AIDS more than a decade ago, an estimated 30,000 Americans have become infected after receiving HIV-contaminated blood or blood products.
Episode 22 • Dec 14, 1993
Behind the Badge
In a year in which national attention has focused on police brutality trials in cities like Los Angeles, Detroit, and Miami, FRONTLINE crosses 'blue line' to examine police culture and to ask what do cops think of us?
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Sarah Childress

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Priyanka Boghani

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Arun Rath

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Judy Woodruff

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Katie Worth

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Martin Smith

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Jessica Savitch

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Jim Gilmore

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Mike McNally

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Peter Baker

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Jeremiah Kissel

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Dan Balz

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Lowell Bergman

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Peter Haydu

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Jane Mayer

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Steve Coll

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Peter Berkrot

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Susan Glasser

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Charles Linshaw

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