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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: Michael Kirk

Written By: Michael Kirk

  • TV-MA
  • PBS
  • Jun 20, 2006
  • 55 m
  • TV-MA
  • PBS
  • Jun 20, 2006
  • 55 m
Frontline
S24 • Episode 8
The Dark Side
Air Date: Jun 20, 2006
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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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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 9, 2006 • 6 h
Country Boys
The story of two boys growing up from ages 15 to 18 in rural parts of the United States.
Episode 2 • Aug 31, 2005 • 1 h 29 m
Sex Slaves
A documentary exposé inside the global sex slave trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.
Episode 3 • Feb 14, 2006 • 1 h
The Meth Epidemic
An investigation into how and why meth use spiraled out of control and became the fastest-growing drug abuse problem in America.
Episode 4 • Feb 21, 2006
The Insurgency
In recent decades, more than 10,000 children reportedly were sexually abused by Catholic priests in United States.
Episode 5 • Apr 11, 2006
The Tank Man
Episode 6 • May 16, 2006
Can You Afford to Retire?
Speed. Meth. Glass. On street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among motorcycle gangs in 1970s has become big business.
Episode 7 • May 30, 2006 • 4 h
The Age of AIDS
Episode 8 • Jun 20, 2006 • 55 m
The Dark Side
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Episode 9 • Oct 3, 2006 • 1 h
Return of the Taliban
The baby boomer generation is headed for a shock as it hits retirement: boomers will be long on life expectancy but short on income.
Episode 10 • Oct 10, 2006 • 1 h
The Enemy Within
After a quarter-century of political denial and social stigma, of stunning scientific breakthroughs, bitter policy battles and inadequate prevention campaigns, HIV/AIDS continues to spread rapidly.
Episode 11 • Oct 17, 2006 • 1 h
The Lost Year in Iraq
After a quarter-century of political denial and social stigma, of stunning scientific breakthroughs, bitter policy battles and inadequate prevention campaigns, HIV/AIDS continues to spread rapidly.
Episode 12 • Nov 14, 2006 • 1 h
A Hidden Life
On September 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering US fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in air above America.
Episode 13 • Nov 21, 2006 • 1 h
Living Old
FRONTLINE reports from lawless Pakistani tribal areas along Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Episode 14 • Oct 17, 2006
Episode #24.14
Five years after attacks on 9/11 and massive, multi-billion-dollar reorganization of government agencies.
Episode 15 • Nov 14, 2006
Episode #24.15
In aftermath of fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off to Baghdad to build a new nation.
Episode 16 • Nov 21, 2006
Episode #24.16
On May 5, 2005, residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to strangest headlines in town's history: "West Tied to Sex Abuse in '70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men.
43 Seasons

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Will Lyman

Narrator, Self - Narrator, Self

Sarah Childress

Self - Reporter, Reporter, Self

Priyanka Boghani

Self - Reporter, Reporter, Digital Reporter

Arun Rath

Self - Reporter, Self, Reporter

Judy Woodruff

Self - Host, Self, Self - Anchor

Katie Worth

Self - Reporter, Reporter, Digital Reporter

Martin Smith

Self - Correspondent, Self, Correspondent

Jessica Savitch

Self - Host, Narrator, Self - Host (1983)

Jim Gilmore

Self - Reporter, Self, Reporter

Mike McNally

Self - Narrator, Narrator

Peter Baker

Self, Self - The New York Times, Self - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising, Self - Author, Self - Author, Days of Fire, Self - Author, Obama: The Call of History, Self - Co-author Kremlin Rising, Self - Co-author, Kremlin Rising, Self - co-author of 'Kremlin Rising'

Jeremiah Kissel

Self, Self - Narrator, Self - Reporter, Voiceover

Dan Balz

Self - The Washington Post, Self, Self, journalist, The Washington Post

Lowell Bergman

Self, Self - Correspondent, Correspondent, Self - Reporter, Self - Correspondnet, Self - Frontline

Peter Haydu

Self, Voiceover

Jane Mayer

Self - The New Yorker, Self, Reporter, Self - Author, The Dark Side, Self, investigative journalist for The New Yorker

Steve Coll

Self - Author, 'Ghost Wars', Self - The New Yorker, Self, Self - Author, Self - Author, Private Empire, Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker, Self - The New Yorker, Author: Ghost Wars

Peter Berkrot

Narrator, Self - Narrator

Susan Glasser

Self, Self - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising, Self - Co-author Kremlin Rising, Self - Co-author, Kremlin Rising, Self - The New Yorker, Self - The Washington Post (1998-2008)

Charles Linshaw

Self, Narrator

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