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Subject: Ethical Issues
 
Burden of Innocence
Series: Frontline
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
In BURDEN OF INNOCENCE, acclaimed FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel -- whose unparalleled work on America's criminal justice system has helped exonerate 11 individuals and has won numerous awards, tracks ...

 

Class Divided
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Current Issues , American History
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is th...

 

A Company of Soliders
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Middle East
Category: Current Issues , World History
In November 2004, a FRONTLINE production team embedded with the soldiers of the 1-8 Cavalry's Dog Company in south Baghdad to document the day-to-day realities of a life-and-death military mission tha...

 

Daughter From Danang
Series: American Experience
Subject: Ethical Issues, Military History
Category: Current Issues , Military History
Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial 'all-American girl', hailing from small tow...

 

Diet Wars
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to do one thing: help us lose weight. From Atkins to Ornish and Weight Watchers to South Beach, today's dieters have a dizz...

 

Endgame: Ethics and Values in America
Subject: Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
This groundbreaking special enables viewers to enter the lives of fictional characters forced to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.

 

The Invasion of Iraq
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Middle East
Category: Current Issues , World History
FRONTLINE presents a special two-hour documentary investigation examining the key strategies, battles, and turning points of the war as seen from both sides of the battlefield. In THE INVASION OF IRA...

 

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in IS WAL-MART GOOD FOR AMERICA? Through interviews with retail executives, produ...

 

The Killer at Thurston High
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Education
Category: Current Issues , Education
In the late 1990s Americans witnessed a startling new terror: kids killing other kids in school. FRONTLINE takes a measure of this national dilemma through a detailed, intimate journey into the life o...

 

The Last Abortion Clinic
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Women's Studies
Category: Current Issues , Cultural Studies
In the summer of 2005 -- more than 30 years after Roe v. Wade established that access to abortion services is a fundamental right -- a FRONTLINE documentary team spent two months traveling across the ...

 

Medicating Kids
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Education
Category: Current Issues , Education
FRONTLINE examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary--and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation'...

 

Monkey Trials
Series: American Experience
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the twentieth century, a debate over free speech ...

 

Postville: When Cultures Collide
Subject: Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
n 1988, Aaron Rubashkin, a New York entrepreneur and Hasidic Jew, bought an abandoned meatpacking plant in Postville, IA and reopened it as a kosher slaughterhouse. Trained rabbis were hired to overse...

 

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Series: American Experience
Subject: Ethical Issues, African-American Studies
Category: Current Issues , Cultural Studies
The Scottsboro boys In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the ...

 

Spying on the Home Front
Series: Frontline
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrut...

 

The Tank Man
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Asia
Category: Current Issues , World History
One day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace....

 

The Torture Question
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Human Rights
Category: Current Issues
A FRONTLINE documentary crew made the journey to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed Humvees, the cr...

 

Truth, War, and Consequences
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Middle East
Category: Current Issues , World History
Did America rush into a war in Iraq for which it was unprepared? Could the current volatility in Iraq have been prevented? And was the White House's rationale for war based on faulty and exaggerated i...