FRONTLINE
Next on FRONTLINE: Flying CheapTue, 9 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST - Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings). One year after the deadly crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, FRONTLINE producer Rick Young and correspondent Miles O?Brien investigate the safety issues associated with regional airlines.
Digital NationTue, 02 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST - Available for viewing online. Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we\'re only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture--from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds, to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future, to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us, and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.
The Card GameTue, 24 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST - Available for viewing online. 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 examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over new regulation and the possible creation of a consumer finance protection agency. How are the credit, debit and pre-paid card industries repositioning themselves to maintain high profits under the new rules? The stakes couldn\'t be higher as many fear the consumer loan industry could be at the center of the next crisis.
A Death in TehranTue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST - Available for viewing online. 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 the streets of Tehran. Her death -- filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government\'s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the future of the movement that seems to have been silenced?
Close to HomeTue, 27 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EST - Available for viewing online. 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 the hair salon she\'s frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister\'s risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon--from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they\'re getting by in these turbulent times.
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