As the U.S. unemployment rate hits a 25-year high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a six-year low, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel ("The Hugo Chávez Show," "The Case for Innocence") chronicles the recession's impact on one...
"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency - the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) - who not only warned of the potential for economi...
Airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on KUED-Channel 7, Frontline opens a new season this month with three riveting new documentaries exploring the most pressing issues of the day. "Obama's War" October 13 Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on...
Ken Lewis, the CEO of Bank of America, is in trouble - a stock collapse; a rocky merger; the worst fourth-quarter losses in at least 17 years; a stockholder revolt; an urgent need to raise more capital despite a $45 billion infusion from the federal...
Watch the trailer at: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundamerica As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses - potentially forcing millions more Americans to live withou...
As the War in Iraq continues, the first measures of its psychological toll are coming in. A medical study estimates that more than one in seven returning veterans are expected to suffer from major depression, anxiety, or Post Traumatic Stress...
On Thursday, September 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. "There...
FRONTLINE/World, PBS's premier international newsmagazine, returns to KUED-Channel 7 Tuesday, January 27, at 9 p.m., with three more "stories from a small planet," starting with the inside story of a group of shop owners and young activists who stood...
On the evening of his inauguration, FRONTLINE examines Barack Obama's life story and political biography. Drawing from the critically acclaimed "The Choice 2008," a dual biography of then-candidates Obama and John McCain, FRONTLINE adds fresh intervi...
He's been portrayed as a savior and an autocrat; a hero to his nation's poor and a bombastic, would-be dictator eager to dominate the world stage. He forges controversial alliances while inventing a new kind of revolution he deems 21st-century soci...Lo definen como un Salvador y un autócrata; un héroe de los pobres y un altisonante, aspirante a dictador ansiosos de dominar el escenario mundial. Forja alianzas controversiales mientras inventa una nueva forma de revolució...
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