previous reports: 2009

The Card Game
(60 minutes) As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman ... (more)

A Death in Tehran
(60 minutes) At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on ... (more)

Close to Home
(60 minutes) Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at ... (more)

The Warning
(60 minutes) In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE sifts the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might ... (more)

Obama's War
(60 minutes) Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan ... (more)

Breaking the Bank
(60 minutes) The bets were huge and risky -- billions of dollars on the housing market. The upside was undeniable -- superbanks reaped billions of dollars, dominated ... (more)

The Madoff Affair
(60 minutes) In the mid-1960s, Bernard Madoff tapped money from Jewish businessmen at exclusive country clubs with the promise of steady guaranteed returns on their investments. He ... (more)

The Released
(60 minutes) This year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses will be released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation's history. ... (more)

Poisoned Waters
(120 minutes) More than two decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America's waters clean enough for swimming and fishing again, two iconic waterways ... (more)

Black Money
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery. The story reveals how multi-national companies create slush funds, set up front companies, ... (more)

Sick Around America
(60 minutes) As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses -- potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance -- ... (more)

Ten Trillion and Counting
(60 minutes) All of the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of ... (more)

Inside the Meltdown
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the ... (more)

My Father, My Brother, and Me
(60 minutes) In 2004, journalist Dave Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: He had Parkinson's disease, ... (more)

Dreams of Obama
(60 minutes) As Barack Obama prepares to assume the presidency on January 20th, 2009, FRONTLINE tells the story of how a little known state senator rose from ... (more)

The Old Man and the Storm
(60 minutes) Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower ... (more)