Frontline
Since January 1983, Frontline has served as American public television's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," the series' stature over 26 years is reaffirmed through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
The Untouchables (#3104) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? Though fraudulent practices at banks contributed to America's financial meltdown, to date no Wall Street titan has been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis. Frontline investigates why Wall Street's leaders have escaped prosecution.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED 9: Wed, May 22, 2013 -- 4:00am
- KQED World: Wed, May 22, 2013 -- 7:00am
- KQED World: Wed, May 22, 2013 -- 1:00pm
- KQED Life: Wed, May 22, 2013 -- 9:00pm
- KQED Life: Thu, May 23, 2013 -- 3:00am
Outlawed In Pakistan (#3110) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
When Pakistani teenager Kainat Soomro accused four men of gang rape, the courageous young woman did not put her suffering behind her. For this unforgettable documentary, which premiered at Sundance, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent five years tracing both Kainat's odyssey through Pakistan's broken justice system-and her alleged rapists' quest to clear their names. The result is a powerful and nuanced profile of courage in a society where rape victims and their families are often considered dishonorable and subjected to humiliation, poverty, and mortal danger.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED 9: Tue, May 28, 2013 -- 10:00pm email reminder
- KQED 9: Wed, May 29, 2013 -- 4:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Wed, May 29, 2013 -- 7:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Wed, May 29, 2013 -- 1:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Wed, May 29, 2013 -- 9:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Thu, May 30, 2013 -- 3:00am email reminder
Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings (#2918H) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG
In the years after September 11, Frontline produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America's response to them. Now, on the tenth anniversary of September 11, the Frontline team that produced "Bush's War," "The Torture Question" and "Cheney's Law" teams up with Pultizer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. Over one hour, the film examines the history of the dark side of America's "war on terror." From the creation of black site prisons abroad and super-secret facilities here in America, to targeted killings and covert wars waged by special forces, to a multibillion-dollar terrorism industrial complex, Frontline and Dana Priest ask how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED 9: Wed, May 29, 2013 -- 10:00pm email reminder
- KQED 9: Thu, May 30, 2013 -- 4:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 -- 11:00pm email reminder
The Real CSI (#3010) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis is routinely called on to solve the most difficult criminal cases - and to put the guilty behind bars. But how reliable is the science behind forensics? A FRONTLINE investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science and wide inconsistencies in how forensic evidence is presented in the courtroom. From the sensational murder trial of Casey Anthony and the FBI's botched investigation of the Madrid terrorist bombing to capital cases in rural Mississippi, FRONTLINE documents how a field with few uniform standards and unproven science can undermine the search for justice. As part of the investigative series Post Mortem, Correspondent Lowell Bergman reports in a joint investigation with ProPublica and the Investigative Reporting Program at UCBerkeley.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 -- 7:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 -- 1:00pm email reminder
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The episode for these dates will be selected close to broadcast time. Please check the Frontline series info page in our Programs A-Z Directory periodically for updates.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED 9: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 -- 10:00pm email reminder
- KQED 9: Wed, Jun 12, 2013 -- 4:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 -- 7:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 -- 1:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 -- 9:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Sat, Jun 15, 2013 -- 3:00am email reminder
- KQED 9: Tue, Jun 18, 2013 -- 10:00pm email reminder
- KQED 9: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 -- 4:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 -- 7:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 -- 1:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 -- 9:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 -- 3:00am email reminder
- KQED 9: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 -- 10:00pm email reminder
- KQED 9: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 -- 4:00am email reminder
- KQED Life: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 -- 9:00pm email reminder
- KQED Life: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 -- 3:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 -- 7:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 -- 1:00pm email reminder
The Undertaking (#2603) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
Frontline enters the world of Thomas Lynch, a poet and undertaker whose family for three generations has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town. Through the intimate stories of families coming to terms with grief, mortality, and a funeral's rituals, the film illuminates the heartbreak and beauty in the journey taken between the living and the dead when someone dies.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 -- 5:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 -- 11:00am email reminder
- KQED World: Sat, Jun 29, 2013 -- 2:00am email reminder









