Frontline World

Season 9

FRONTLINE World, which ran from 2002-2010, was a magazine format one-hour documentary series which aired within the PBS series FRONTLINE. Each episode usually included three stories. FRONTLINE World was designed to provide more feature news coverage of the world and to develop a younger, more diverse group of on-air reporters and producers.
Where to Watch Season 9
2 Episodes
  • The Carbon Hunters
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    Episode 1The Carbon HuntersThe Season 9 premiere examines the carbon trade in the Amazon; the repercussions of a 2008 immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa; and a new approach to the threat of cross-species diseases.q
  • Southern Africa: Troubled Water
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    Episode 2Southern Africa: Troubled WaterFRONTLINE/World investigates one of its own stories — "The Play Pump" — an apparently breakthrough idea to harness the energy of children to pump drinking water throughout remote areas of southern Africa. After FRONTLINE/World aired the story in 2005, major donors in the United States — and the U.S. government itself — launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to install the device in thousands of African schools and villages. Now, correspondent Amy Costello investigates what happened to those communities as the promise of the Play Pump fell short and the device's biggest American boosters began to back away from a technology they had once championed.
 
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