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Frontline
Created by David Fanning
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change. From TMDB
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Frontline is a 1983 documentary news TV series, created by David Fanning, starring Will Lyman.
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Frontline has received generally positive reviews from television critics. David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the episode "Inside the Meltdown", was "one of the finest hours of non-fiction TV that I have seen." Vern Gay of Newsday wrote that "The Card Game" episode, "bores down to the hard, cold truth" and is "journalism at its best." Tom Brinkmoeller of TV Worth Watching called it, "Indispensable." Sean Gregory of Time wrote about the episode, "League of Denial", that it was "a first-rate piece of reporting." David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun wrote about the episode "The Rise of ISIS", that it was "superb and daring work." Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club wrote,…
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60 of 144 · most liked firstWe at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
neutral · AI labelView post →NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.
neutral · AI labelView post →NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.
neutral · AI labelView post →Since new PvP Series has started time to do small PSA for all FXIV players going for Rank 25. You can do 36-44 Frontline Roulettes a month and half. Or 120-155 CC matches. Or both and do it even faster.
neutral · AI labelView post →🔥 In Novospasskoye, another Russian oil refinery is burning. Frontline Russian units are reporting severe shortages of fuel. And even Rosstat's heavily manipulated numbers show a huge drop in petroleum product output.📉 Worse is yet to come. August will be decisive.⌛️💥
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t miss this terrific show- the latest from Frontline: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
positive · AI labelView post →#PLL85 PvP Series 8 will begin. PvP actions will be adjusted and several new ones will be added. Frontline (Secure) will return with various improvements, as pictured below:
neutral · AI labelView post →In Patch 7.4, PvP Series 10 will begin and PvP actions will see adjustments. A new Frontline map/campaign will be added. This map, "Worqor Chirteh", seen here in Urqopacha from the Dawntrail expansion. More details in the next broadcast.
neutral · AI labelView post →BTW. While we're making a big deal about the censored 60 minutes report, worth noting the PBS Frontline report on CECOT is online and can be watched free. Trump *tried* to destroy PBS as he did 60 minutes, & did manage to kill the 58-year-old CPB, but PBS so far survives. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
neutral · AI labelView post →[Girls' Frontline 2] Pin-Up Vector Vector didn't take too kindly to the pin-up series, I fear for what might have happened to SKK after this pic was taken 🔥 #GirlsFrontline #GirlsFrontline2 #vector #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →I just chipped in a tiny donation to support FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS. If you want to & can support their original, investigative reporting — here’s where you can donate: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... (currently they are matching so doubles your impact)
positive · AI labelView post →OMG, Bari Weiss just did a network kill switch to the longest running broadcast investigative journalism show in network television history. Unbelievable. Long live PBS Frontline. Please everyone, contribute to PBS. Don’t let broadcast investigative reporting and journalism be censored and die.
positive · AI labelView post →Speaking of 'Gacha games but I wish they weren't gacha', there's a decent discount on Reverse Collapse, a shockingly hardcore non-gacha spinoff from the Girl's Frontline series. It's a remake of one of the studio's earliest games, back when they were a small indie outfit. The OG game is unlockable!
neutral · AI labelView post →Frontline (PBS) just ran a show on CECOT. It’s as harrowing as you’re expecting.
positive · AI labelView post →Heads-up! Working Dog Productions' classic comedy series #Frontline, about tabloid current affairs tv, is now available on ABC iview. 📺 #comedy #journalism iview.abc.net.au/show/frontline
neutral · AI labelView post →“Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. ProPublica & FRONTLINE reviewed 100s of arrests. In more than a third of the cases, prosecutors quickly dismissed charges, refused to file charges or lost at trial. https://to.pbs.org/4mrkjVS
neutral · AI labelView post →In our new Frontline series, Symeon Brown has been granted rare access to see how the Met Police’s elite teams are tackling crime, as new statistics today show a fall in London's murder rate. 📩 Read the full newsletter:
neutral · AI labelView post →Was just on Frontline show with Philip Ingram @PhilipIngMBE - discussing what would be Russia's breaking point, and how technology of the war is going to change. Starlink is the double-edged sword for Ukraine, unfortunately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump loved military school. It really let him be the cruel bully he is. Frontline did an episode on it. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
neutral · AI labelView post →Frontline clashes show no sign of the promised ceasefire. This is even worse than Easter's fake truce. A slight increase in Russian casualties and still high artillery and vehicles. The 50,000th vehicle should be destroyed at the end of May.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're looking for classic cult comedy tv, all 3 seasons (39 eps) of #Frontline (1994-1997) are available on ABC iview. Mike Moore. Brooke Vandenberg. Martin Di Stasio. Enjoy. 😊 📺 #tabloid #journalism #currentaffairs #comedy iview.abc.net.au/show/frontline
neutral · AI labelView post →She did the right thing by resigning. The show Frontline had an episode" Germany's Enemy Within " about this group that Musk has endorsed. It's horrifying.
neutral · AI labelView post →Frontline communities at serious health risks from LNG, growing body of scientific research shows. Oped by Dr Ulrike Meyer & Dr @timtakaro.bsky.social: Gvts need to show via a comprehensive, cumulative & independent health impacts assessment that industry is safe. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
neutral · AI labelView post →i recommend watching #PBS #Frontline on #CECOT rather than the endless promo of Bari Weiss & the cowards at @60minutes.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Frontline report: Ukrainian intel confirms Russian assessments show four months of operational weather before seasonal mud returns, as Russian forces mass 50,000 troops to expand from limited buffer zones to full conquest of Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →My parents were visiting and my mum ended up critiquing/roasting my anime figure collection. She really likes the A-Z series by neco - she thinks they're extremely cool and badass. But she thinks my Girls' Frontline figures are frivolous and unserious 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →New on Tochnyi: Frontline Briefs. A new short-form update series produced with @warunitobserver.bsky.social focused on frontline developments that might otherwise go unnoticed. First post: 33rd Mechanized Brigade deploys to the Kharkiv front tochnyi.info/2026/03/fron...
neutral · AI labelView post →Such a hero. Washington Post obituary for Ofra Bikel whose films freed the wrongly convicted. Documentaries she produced for PBS’s “Frontline” series were credited with helping free 13 people from prison. Gift link!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the PBS Frontline episode on CECOT anyway, it's longer, as opposed to 13 minutes, and much more in depth. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
positive · AI labelView post →FRONTLINE has received a new grant from the Knight Foundation aimed at continuing the series' Local Journalism Initiative, a project that has supported more than a dozen local newsrooms around the country since 2019. Local reporters can submit proposals to join the next LJI cohort by June 2, 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →That he steals the name Frontline for his trash propaganda show is disgraceful
negative · AI labelView post →@georgianlegion.bsky.social's post elsewhere reminded me of a series of interviews that Frontline PBS did titled "Putin and the Presidents". If you haven't seen them, they're highly informative and give a lot of important background. #NAFO #Ukraine #Georgia www.youtube.com/results?sear...
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot Girls Frontline has an animated series... I guess I know what I'm doing...
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope PBS Frontline does a show on Bari Weiss and CBS
neutral · AI labelView post →🎨: Frontline Fire Protection will sponsor Brennan Poole and Team Alpha Prime in four NASCAR Xfinity Series events (Atlanta, Phoenix, Miami, and Texas). #NASCAR
neutral · AI labelView post →These are the 10 most-streamed new FRONTLINE documentaries of 2025 — and they're all streaming for free on our website, on YouTube and in the PBS App.
neutral · AI labelView post →PBS's "Frontline" series frequently collaborates with ProPublica. A lethal combination.
positive · AI labelView post →Frontline is a show I trust on PBS. Please watch this video.
positive · AI labelView post →US Stages Massive Show of Force at Frontline Base in Pacific https://twp.ai/4inWh7
neutral · AI labelView post →Get the Frontline guy to voice a nature show
neutral · AI labelView post →I totally forgot to post pic of me with the pvp series mount from last week....cuz I'm good and skilled at pvp ofc. And not deeply insane and grinding Frontline yea....
neutral · AI labelView post →Frontline covered it. The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
neutral · AI labelView post →Photos Show US Submarine Loading Cruise Missiles at Frontline Pacific Base https://twp.ai/4io2Uf
neutral · AI labelView post →Photos Show US Preparing Frontline Base for China Missile War https://twp.ai/4inOVS
neutral · AI labelView post →Girls' Frontline - Netsurou Kaisou Series Klukai 10th Anniversary ver. 1/6 Complete Figure www.biginjap.com/en/pvc-figur... Buying this product you will collect 527.70 points with our loyalty program.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Scammed" will be streaming starting 7pm EDT on PBS and YouTube, about 3 hours from now, or you can watch it when your local station airs Frontline tonight. I'm gonna say that yeah, it's probably gonna be important for loads of people.
neutral · AI labelView post →A good chunk of people did show a remarkable degree of collective action in the early phase of the crisis (and Frontline medical staff were heroic the whole time) but once it fell off it fell off *hard* and it's very unclear to me if we have the gas in the tank to do even that much next time
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s episode of ‘Frontline’ on PBS is about the crisis facing Haitians in the U.S. now that the Turd Reich has revoked their Temporary Protective Status, with particular focus on Springfield, Ohio. Check your local listings. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes! Financing the enemies buddies is an art! Seriously if there is single soldier who supports the shit show. They should be pushed to the Frontline!
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s been so slow at work today that I’ve been watching PBS Frontline episodes all day. This show is addictive! I watched the Ebola episode, the episode about the man that tried to warn the government about 9/11, & now I’m watching one about our filthy chicken.
positive · AI labelView post →Nevada Sec. of State Cisco Aguilar: On the Frontline of Protecting the Right to Vote | That Trippi Show www.lincolnsquare.media/p/nevada-sec...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Roy Cohn Playbook | Trump | The Choice 2024 Shorts FRONTLINE PBS Oct 18, 2024 “The Roy Cohn Playbook” is one in a series of shorts exploring some of the moments and experiences that shaped the lives of Kamala Harris & Donald Trump, as reported in “The Choice 2024.” youtu.be/mYMA3-ET4Ow?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Look all I can say is that having worked on a local morning news show (I made the chyrons pop up and down) I'm not sure "broadcast news" should be a thing that exists outside of like FRONTLINE documentaries.
positive · AI labelView post →Now the Kushner's Netanyahu, Rabin and the Assassination That Shook History | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series share.google/ENREAnkUeJ2S...
neutral · AI labelView post →I think one of these is the Clarence Thomas articles I was thinking of. The PBS one should have a link to the Frontline doc series video. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
neutral · AI labelView post →🇺🇸 What the hell just happened? 🤷♂️ And what's going to happen next? My conversation with @jessicahuseman.bsky.social @carterwalker.bsky.social and @jesselent.bsky.social on @wbai.org's Frontline Voices show. 🎧 Listen: wbai.org/archive/prog...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah so go play Girls Frontline 2. If you don’t, then imma show my main girl’s feet.
neutral · AI labelView post →25 years ago on October 18, 2001, TV show 'Frontline' aired episode "Dangerous Straits"
neutral · AI labelView post →On October 17, 2002, TV show 'Frontline' aired episode "A Crime of Insanity"
neutral · AI labelView post →And it's not just the Telegraph. Here's the Times with its 'Frontline' series. This one's a cracker! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyo0...
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