The BEST episodes of Frontline season 2013
Every episode of Frontline season 2013, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Frontline season 2013!
Explores a wide scope of the complex human experience.
#1 - Syria Behind the Lines
Season 2013 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/2013
An unprecedented film documents the new and perilous reality of everyday life for both Syria’s rebels and its regime.
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#2 - Inside Obama's Presidency
Season 2013 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2013
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president's key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.
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#3 - A Death In St. Augustine
Season 2013 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/26/2013
Allegations of domestic violence surface during the investigation of a deputy sheriff's death.
#4 - Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Season 2013 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/19/2013
Lee Harvey Oswald and forensic evidence of his role in the Kennedy assassination are investigated.
#5 - Hunting The Nightmare Bacteria
Season 2013 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/22/2013
A look the alarming rise of untreatable infections in hospitals, communities and across the globe.
#6 - League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis
Season 2013 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/8/2013
The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America's indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under assault as thousands of former players and a host of scientists claim the league has covered up how football inflicted long-term brain injuries on many players. In a special investigation, FRONTLINE and prize-winning journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN reveal the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries, drawn from their forthcoming book League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth (Crown Archetype, October 2013). What did the NFL know and when did it know it? What's the truth about the risks to players? What can be done? The FRONTLINE investigation details how, for years, the league denied and worked to refute scientific evidence that the violent collisions at the heart of the game are linked to an alarming incidence of early onset dementia, catastrophic brain damage, death, and other devastating consequences for some of football's all-time greats.
#7 - Egypt In Crisis
Season 2013 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/17/2013
Martin Smith and Charles Sennott examine the rise and rapid fall of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
#8 - Life and Death In Assisted Living
Season 2013 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/30/2013
A look at the nation's largest assisted living company sheds light on this billion dollar industry.
#9 - Two American Families
Season 2013 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/9/2013
Two families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - work hard to keep from sliding into poverty.
#10 - Rape in the Fields
Season 2013 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/25/2013
For the women who pick and process the food we eat every day, getting sexually assaulted, and even raped, is sometimes part of the job. FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America's fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
#11 - Kind Hearted Woman
Season 2013 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/3/2013
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the the wounds of sexual abuse.
#12 - Outlawed In Pakistan
Season 2013 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/28/2013
A teenager makes her way through Pakistan's broken justice system after accusing four men of rape.
#13 - Never Forget to Lie
Season 2013 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/2013
Filmmaker and Holocaust survivor Marian Marzynski returns to Poland and the Jewish ghettos of his childhood to chronicle the poignant, painful recollections of other child survivors.
#14 - The Retirement Gamble
Season 2013 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/2013
Frontline raises troubling questions about how America's financial institutions protect our savings, and reveals how fees, self-dealing and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals.
#15 - Raising Adam Lanza
Season 2013 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2013
Frontline investigates Adam Lanza and the town he changed forever after the killings at Sandy Hook. In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. In collaboration with "The Hartford Courant," FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central - and so far elusive - question: Who was Adam Lanza?
#16 - Cliffhanger
Season 2013 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/2013
Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the "fiscal cliff," and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. Frontline investigates how Washington has failed to solve America's problems of debt and deficit.
#17 - The Untouchables
Season 2013 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2013
A look at why Wall Street's leaders and have escaped prosecution since America's financial meltdown.
#18 - The Education of Michelle Rhee
Season 2013 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2013
The legacy of Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools, is examined.