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'' Frontline'' is an
investigative journalism Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend m ...
television program from
PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...
(Public Broadcasting Service), producing in-depth
documentaries A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill ...
on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and broadcasting them on air and online. Produced at
WGBH-TV WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS List of PBS member stations, member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Affiliated stations and facilities WGBH-TV is the Flagship (broadcasting), ...
in
Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
,
Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
, and distributed through PBS in the United States, the critically acclaimed program has received every major award in broadcast journalism. Its investigations have helped breathe new life into terrorism cold cases, freed innocent people from jail, prompted U.N. resolutions, and spurred both policy and social change.


Series overview


Episodes


Season 1 (1983)

''Frontline''s first season, in 1983, was the only season to have
Jessica Savitch Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of ''NBC Nightly News'' and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of ...
as its host (Savitch died in October of that year).


Season 2 (1984)

Season 2 of ''Frontline'' saw
Judy Woodruff Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the ''PBS NewsHour'' through the end of 20 ...
become the show's host after Jessica Savitch's death.


Season 3 (1985)


Season 4 (1986)

During its fourth season, ''Frontline'' presented ''
Comrades In political contexts, comrade means a fellow party member. The political use was inspired by the French Revolution, after which it grew into a form of address between socialists and workers. Since the Russian Revolution, popular culture in the ...
'', a 12-part documentary series that originally aired on the
BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
in
Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...
. ''Comrades'' profiled everyday life in and citizens of the
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
through interviews and
fly on the wall Fly on the wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them. In the purest form of fly-on-the-wall documentary-making, ...
filming. ''Frontline''s presentation of ''Comrades'' featured "wraparound" segments where host
Judy Woodruff Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the ''PBS NewsHour'' through the end of 20 ...
interviewed Richard Denton and other ''Comrades'' producers about the episode's background.


Season 5 (1987)

The end of ''Frontline''s 5th season featured the documentary ''Apartheid''. Spanning over 3 centuries, the 5-part historical documentary looked into the background and practice by
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
's government of
apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English:  , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
, the institutionalized form of
racial segregation Racial segregation is the separation of people into race (human classification), racial or other Ethnicity, ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, ...
that favored the country's white minority at the expense of its indigenous black population.


Season 6 (1988)


Season 7 (1989)

''Frontline''s 7th season was
Judy Woodruff Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the ''PBS NewsHour'' through the end of 20 ...
's last as on-air host.


Season 8 (1990)

Beginning with Season 8, ''Frontline'' would eschew from using a regular on-air host, using an off-screen narrator to introduce each episode. As part of its 8th season, ''Frontline'' aired the 4-part documentary ''Decade of Destruction''. Produced by
Adrian Cowell John Adrian Cowell (2 February 1934 – 11 October 2011) was a British filmmaker, born in Tongshan or Tangshan, China. He was best known for producing documentaries about Chico Mendes and deforestation in the Amazon and the opium/heroin trade ou ...
, the series spotlighted the
destruction Destruction may refer to: Concepts * Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger * Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism * Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that ''conceptualises'' certain kin ...
of
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
's
Amazon rainforest The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin ...
, regarded as one of Earth's "last great frontier , during the decade of the 1980s.


Season 9 (1991)


Season 10 (1992)


Season 11 (1993)


Season 12 (1994)


Season 13 (1995)


Season 14 (1996)


Season 15 (1997)


Season 16 (1998)


Season 17 (1999)


Season 18 (2000)


Season 19 (2001)


Season 20 (2002)


Season 21 (2003)


Season 22 (2004)


Season 23 (2005)


Season 24 (2006)


Season 25 (2007)

As part of its 25th season, ''Frontline'' presented a four-part series titled ''News War''.''Frontline'': "News War"
on PBS.org (accessed 12/15/2018) Featuring 3 ''Frontline'' episodes and a fourth on its offshoot series ''Frontline World'', ''News War'' explored the news media's reaction to the various internal and external forces (political, cultural, legal, economic) that changes and challenges its role in society. ''News War'' was a co-production of ''Frontline'' and the
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is a graduate professional school on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. It is designed to produce journalists with a two-year Master of Journalism (MJ) degree. It also offers a minor i ...
.


Season 26 (2008)


Season 27 (2009)


Season 28 (2010)


Season 29 (2011)


Season 30 (2012)


Season 31 (2013)


Season 32 (2014)


Season 33 (2015)


Season 34 (2016)


Season 35 (2017)


Season 36 (2018)


Season 37 (2019)


Season 38 (2020)


Season 39 (2021)


Season 40 (2022)


Season 41 (2023)


Season 42 (2024)


Season 43 (2025)


References


External links


PBS.org – Full chronological list
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thefutoncritic.com
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