Post your favourite Frontline documentaries.

[Locut0s]

For years they have been putting out some of the best documentaries available. Post your favourites. Also episodes from recent years are available in full on their website!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

Mine:

China in the Red
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/red/

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. The Man Who Knew - FBI Special Agent John O'Neill was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/

[amerikat]

2. bookmarked

To tired this evening to contribute. I'll hit it tomorrow.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. THIS ONE..

It is still the most shocking thing I have ever seen on television.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/georgia/isolated/

The Lost Children of Rockdale County

An outbreak of syphilis triggers an investigation that uncovers the most unbelievable story of sexual behavior among teenagers I have ever seen. 14 year old girls who had 50-75-100 partners and were engaged in the most extreme sexual practices.
One girl tells the story of a 12 year old who thought nothing of giving herself up for "gang-bangs" with multiple partners from 13 to 40 year old men.

It haunts me to this day.

[Toucano]

4. The aforementioned Man Who Knew, and The Secret History of Credit Cards

Frontline is top drawer.

[Ex Lurker]

5. I wouldn't call it a favorite

because it was so damn disturbing, but the one about the teenager in Oregon who killed his family and then shot up a school was very compelling. A kid sliding deeper into mental illness and nobody recognizing how badly he needed intervention.

[Horse with no Name]

7. The Killer at Thurston High

about Kip Kinkel.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/

[Horse with no Name]

6. The Storm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/storm/view/

>>>snip
This report examines the chain of decisions that slowed federal response to the calamity in New Orleans, government's failure to protect thousands of Americans from a natural disaster that long had been predicted, and the state of America's disaster-response system four years after 9/11.

Correspondent and producer Martin Smith chronicles the disaster and the decision-making and relief efforts, drawing on footage of the devastation and suffering in New Orleans and interviews with key government officials from New Orleans to Washington. The interviews include former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown -- in his first televised interview since he resigned -- Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former Deputy Secretary James Loy.

Brown tells Smith that he misled the public in his televised statements during the crisis in order to quell panic: "I'm not going to go on television and publicly say that I think that the mayor and the governor are not doing their job … they don't have the sense of urgency," says Brown. "I'm not going to say that publicly." Privately, he thought Governor Blanco's requests for help were vague and confused. But Blanco remembers it differently: "Nobody ever told me the kinds of things that they could give me. … I wanted whatever assets they had."

But the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, tells FRONTLINE that valuable time was lost negotiating over who should take charge and talks about some of the frustrating meetings. "I didn't care who got the job done, whether it was a state or whether the feds," says Nagin. "In my sense, there was a dance going on about who had ultimate authority."

[Loki]

8. One from Frontline and one from NOVA

This was a riveting doc on the crew following a group of our soldiers in Iraq called "Bad Voodoo's War" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/
and a NOVA doc on intelligent design: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial"

Both are well worth the watch, especially the last one since the Texas State School Board is trying to allow ID to get a toe hold in our Science Education. This will not only affect Texas, but all states who would use the textbooks in their science classes because Texas is one of the largest purchasers of school books in the US. What we get, you get.

[Locut0s]

9. It's amazing and disturbing that in this day and age ideas like ID can still be a serious....

threat to the education of a nation!

[murdoch]

10. Conquest of Cool

How marketers sell crap to kids.

Very, very creepy.

[Pharlo]

11. Private Warriors

On Our Watch
The ten year anniversary special of Gulf War I
A Dangerous Business
Can you Afford to Retire?
The Other Drug War
Ghosts of Rwanda
Tax me if you can
The War Behind Closed Doors
...

Just too many to pick a SINGLE favorite. If someone were to put a gun to my head and say "Pick one!" I'd have to pull straws: Private Warriors, Ghosts of Rwanda, and the 10 year anniversary of Gulf I.