Programs by Year: 2006

Nov. 21, 2006

Living Old

(60 minutes) A powerful and intimate look at the new realities of aging in America and the burgeoning 85+ population. Are we prepared? (Web site »)

Nov. 14, 2006

A Hidden Life

(60 minutes) Examining the outing of a mayor and the tangled story of politics, sexuality, fear, and judgment in one all-American city. (Web site »)

Oct. 17, 2006

The Lost Year in Iraq

(60 minutes) Was the violence convulsing Iraq inevitable? Examining the initial, critical postwar decisions of the U.S.-led regime in Baghdad. (Web site »)

Oct. 10, 2006

The Enemy Within

(60 minutes) Is the real terrorist threat to America home grown plots? Investigating one case study of how the U.S. responded. (Web site »)

Oct. 3, 2006

Return of the Taliban

(60 minutes) Investigating Pakistan's wild tribal areas, a breeding ground for jihadists and a potential new front in America's war on terror. (Web site »)

Jun. 20, 2006

The Dark Side

(90 minutes) Investigating Vice President Cheney's role as chief architect in the war on terror and his internal war with George Tenet's CIA... (Web site »)

May. 30, 2006

The Age of AIDS

(240 minutes) The extraordinary story of a virus's spread -- infecting over 70 million people -- and how the world has been unable to stop it. (Web site »)

May. 16, 2006

Can You Afford to Retire?

(60 minutes) With vanishing pensions and faltering 401(k) plans, are middle class Americans facing a rough ride in their retirement years? (Web site »)

Apr. 11, 2006

The Tank Man

(90 minutes) 17 years later, what does he mean for a China that today has become a global economic powerhouse? (Web site »)

Feb. 21, 2006

The Insurgency

(60 minutes) Face to face with insurgents in Iraq, FRONTLINE investigates who they are and why they fight. (Web site »)

Feb. 14, 2006

The Meth Epidemic

(60 minutes) Why, and how, have we reached the point where the United States has 1.5 million meth users - and rising? (Web site »)

Feb. 7, 2006

Sex Slaves

(60 minutes) An estimated half-million women are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery. The women are kidnapped -- or lured by traffickers who prey on their dreams of employment abroad -- then they are "exported" to Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere, where they are sold to pimps, drugged, terrorized, locked in brothels, and raped repeatedly. In Eastern Europe, since the fall of communism, sex trafficking has become the fastest growing form of organized crime, with Moldova and Ukraine widely seen as the centers of the global trade in women and girls. On Feb. 7, FRONTLINE presents a unique hidden camera look at this world of sexual slavery, talking with traffickers and their victims, and exposing the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. Sex Slaves also follows the remarkable journey of one man determined to find his trafficked wife by posing as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom. (Web site »)

Jan. 9, 2006

Country Boys

(360 minutes) For everyone who remembers what it was like to be young, the story of two Appalachian teenagers becoming men... (Web site »)