Frontline: Season 26
Season 26 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Frontline Season 25.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 26 Progress Shield
Cheney's Law
Oct 16, 2007 · 56 min
For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as
Showdown With Iran
Oct 23, 2007 · 55 min
As the U.S. and Iran compete for influence across the Middle East, FRONTLINE examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have served to strengthen Iran’s position as an
On Our Watch
Nov 20, 2007 · 54 min
The world vowed “never again” after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and it
The Medicated Child
Jan 8, 2008 · 116 min
Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?
Growing Up Online
Jan 22, 2008 · 54 min
What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Program.
A Dangerous Business Revisited
Feb 5, 2008
Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the iron pipe foundry busines
Rules of Engagement
Feb 19, 2008 · 116 min
What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting. This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Jo
Bush's War (1)
Mar 24, 2008 · 145 min
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast.
Bush's War (2)
Mar 25, 2008 · 114 min
The inside story of the war that will define a presidency -- a war that no one expected, and no one planned for.
Bad Voodoo's War
Apr 1, 2008 · 56 min
FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a "virtual embed" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq.
Sick Around the World
Apr 15, 2008 · 56 min
In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies?
Storm Over Everest
May 13, 2008 · 105 min
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their
Young & Restless in China
Jun 17, 2008 · 108 min
A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history.
The Choice 2008
Oct 14, 2008 · 115 min
This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment
Heat
Oct 21, 2008 · 116 min
For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental policy and stifled the debate over climat
The War Briefing
Oct 28, 2008 · 56 min
The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Nov 11, 2008
In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather
The Hugo Chavez Show
Nov 25, 2008 · 84 min
FRONTLINE looks at Venezuela's controversial and outspoken president Hugo Chavez and the revolution he claims is turning his country into an anti-capitalist beacon for Latin Americ