Frontline - Season 29

First aired: 10/18/2010 19 episodes

Episodes

1. Death by Fire

Aired: 10/19/2010

At the center of the national death penalty debate today is the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death for the arson-murder of his three little girls. But was he guilty?

2. The Spill

Aired: 10/26/2010

Frontline investigates BP's record of safety violations and accidents in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf.

3. The Confessions

Aired: 11/9/2010

Frontline looks at the case of the Norfolk Four in which four men were convicted of the rape and murder of a woman on the basis of coerced confessions.

4. Facing Death

Aired: 11/23/2010

The end-of-life choices made by physicians and families

5. Battle for Haiti

Aired: 1/11/2011

In the chaos of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, thousands of the country's worst criminals seized the opportunity to stage a mass escape from the National Penitentiary. One year later, the gang leaders are re-asserting control in the capital, threatening the country's stability.

6. Are We Safer? / Flying Cheaper

Aired: 1/18/2011

Are We Safer?: Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Flying Cheaper: A follow-up to Season 28's Flying Cheap examines the trend of airlines outsourcing Maintenance; a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

7. Post Mortem

Aired: 2/1/2011

A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.

9. Revolution in Cairo

Aired: 2/22/2011

A look at the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

10. Money and March Madness / Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei / The Private Life of Bradley Manning

Aired: 3/29/2011

Money and March Madness: An inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei: How Ai Weiwei dares to walk the fine line between freedom and censorship in China. The Private Life of Bradley Manning: Exclusive interview with Private Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth

11. Football High

Aired: 4/12/2011

High school football has never had a higher profile ... but is winning worth the risks?

12. The Silence

Aired: 4/19/2011

Frontline reveals a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska.

13. Fighting for Bin Laden

Aired: 5/3/2011

The fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

14. Kill/Capture

Aired: 5/10/2011

Goes inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's effect and its costs.

15. WikiSecrets

Aired: 5/24/2011

The inside story of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history.

16. The Child Cases / Educating Sergeant Pantzke

Aired: 6/28/2011

The Child Cases: Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years when a child dies under suspicious circumstances. Now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and questions are raised about the quality of expert testimony in this and many other cases. Educating Sergeant Pantzke: In a follow-up to College, Inc., FRONTLINE investigates how the for-profit schools are recruiting veterans with educational promises that they may not keep.

17. The Pot Republic / Doctor Hotspot / The Atomic Artists

Aired: 7/26/2011

The Pot Republic: FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate California's marijuana market. Doctor Hotspot: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called “hotspotting,” in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. The Atomic Artists: FRONTLINE with PRI’s The World meet Chim?Pom, a provocative group of young artists using art to challenge the status quo and ask Japan to rethink their way of life.

18. Top Secret America

Aired: 9/6/2011

A report from the Washington Post on US government intelligence spending

19. An Optimist in Haiti

Aired: 9/27/2011

The struggle of one man to develop a tourist destination in Haiti and bring economic prosperity.

20. The Man Behind the Mosque

Aired: 9/27/2011

The struggles of Sharif El-Gamal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.