Summary: When he was 29, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and told he had 2 to 5 years to live. This episode of Frontline follows Stephen and his family as they refuse to accept the doctors' death sentence. The Heywoods' tale shows a passionate, acerbic and relentlessly hopeful reaction to a disease that transforms their lives. They confront the encroaching paralysis of ALS with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This edition of Frontline takes viewers inside the iconic Abu Ghraib prison and investigates the path that led to torture techniques being used against Iraqi detainees there as well as prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Through interviews with policy makers, government interrogators, and interrogation subjects, this video examines a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This episode of Frontline offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This edition of Frontline examines the "persuasion industries": advertising and public relations. To cut through consumers' growing resistance to their pitches, marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages into the fabric of our lives, using sophisticated market research techniques to better understand consumers and turning to the little-understood techniques of public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZERSummary: The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This edition of Frontline investigates the causes of the 2008 economic meltdown, the worst American financial crisis in 70 years, and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This edition of 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 America and the world. Through the lens of his unique weekly program “Aló Presidente” and the eyes of the Venezuelans who know him well, Frontline digs beneath the surface of his presidency and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It's the mystery of mysteries, especially to parents. This edition of Frontline features experts who are exploring the recesses of the brain to find explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do. Brain mapping reveals a new understanding of what happens during puberty and the unusual sleep patterns of teenagers. The program discusses how these new discoveries can change the way we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: This edition of Frontline examines the consequences of the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism. Reporter Hedrick Smith details how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and considers whether or not it jeopardizes Americans' civil liberties. The program looks at clashing viewpoints on whether Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this edition of Frontline, an Afghan video journalist gains access to and travels a region of Afghanistan largely under control of the Taliban “shadow” government for nearly two weeks. While U.S. strategy focuses on the south and eastern parts of the country, this film opens a window onto a potential new front in the north and sheds an important light on the people fighting the U.S. efforts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: Frontline investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, Putin's Way reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PUTSummary: All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. national debt. This episode of Frontline reports on how this debt constrains and challenges the Obama administration and on the growing chorus that, without fiscal reform, the U.S. government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that would make the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The program traces how decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The program provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TORSummary: FRONTLINE examines living through the year of the pandemic, filmed around the world, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Using extensive personal video and local footage, see how people and countries responded to the virus, with the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021