Frontline: Season 30
Season 30 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 29.
- 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 30 Progress Shield
The Anthrax Files
Oct 11, 2011
Frontline, with ProPublica and McClatchy Newspapers, takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism.
Lost in Detention
Oct 18, 2011
Frontline investigates President Obama's enforcement strategies and immigrant detention - who is being detained and what is happening to these detainees.
Syria Undercover
Nov 8, 2011
Reporter Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. Plus a profile of the dictator who has managed to hold on longer than any amidst the Arab u
Opium Brides
Jan 3, 2012
Frontline reports on the unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan.
Nuclear Aftershocks
Jan 17, 2012
It’s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country’s once popular energy program in shambles
The Interrupters
Feb 14, 2012
The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
Feb 28, 2012
An unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Murdoch's Scandal
Mar 27, 2012
Accounts of bribery, blackmail, and privacy invasions has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Real CSI
Apr 17, 2012
How reliable is the science behind forensics? A Frontline investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science.
Money, Power and Wall Street Parts I-IV
Apr 24, 2012 · 53 min
Frontline tells the inside story of the global financial crisis. (four one-hour episodes, May 4 premier concluded).
Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet
May 22, 2012
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases. Six Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, forme
Al Qaeda in Yemen
May 29, 2012
Frontline travels into the heart of Yemen's radical heartland, and shows how Al Queda is taking control of towns and cities in an attempt to establish its own state.
Dollars and Dentists
Jun 26, 2012
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Yet millions of Americans cannot afford a visit to the dentist. An investigation by Frontline and the Center for Public Integrity rev
Endgame: Aids in Black America
Jul 10, 2012
Nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. Trace the history of the AIDS epidemic through the experiences of in
Fast Times at West Philly High / Middle School Moment
Jul 7, 2012
Fast Times at West Philly High: Students and teachers from West Philadelphia High School, a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia,
The Battle for Syria
Sep 18, 2012
Frontline takes you inside the heart of the insurgency, where rebel groups are waging a full-scale assault on the forces of President Bashar al Assad.
Alaska Gold
Jul 24, 2012
Frontline probes the fault lines of a growing battle in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, home to the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery-and enormous mineral deposits.[
The Choice 2012
Oct 9, 2012 · 114 min
A journey into the places, people, and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reve
Climate of Doubt
Oct 23, 2012 · 113 min
Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians
Big Sky, Big Money
Oct 29, 2012
FRONTLINE travels to the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision changed c
The Suicide Plan
Nov 13, 2012 · 83 min
FRONTLINE explores the underground world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time – told not only by the people choosing to
Poor Kids
Nov 20, 2012
Through the stories of three families told over the course of half a decade, FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children in America.