"Frontline" (1983)TV series 1983-????

Directors:

Brent E. Huffman
Katerina Monemvassitis

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | unknown

Release Date:

17 January 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | History | News | Sport

Plot Keywords:

Non Fiction

Awards:

25 wins & 21 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Aug. 2	2:30 PM	PBS	The Tank Man
Sat. Aug. 2	7:00 PM	PBS	Young and Restless in China

Cast

Will Lyman

...

Narrator / ... (106 episodes, 1982-2007)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Riot Pictures

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Saturday Night Live: Jeremy Piven/AFI (#32.11)" (2007)

Legendary Documentary!

PBS's Frontline has been a source of both information and enlightenment. It's one of the shows that is sorely not advertised enough because it's on public television. They show an unbiased, objective point of view regarding any issue, situation, or circumstances. One of the episodes is about climbing Mount Everest in May 1996 where several experienced climbers died after reaching the summit, a rare accomplishment for anybody. In fact, watching the documentary makes me want to climb it even though I would never get past first camp where you have to spend 3 weeks to get accumulated to the thin air. Everybody in the documentary regarding the climb on Mount Everest comes across as real and authentic. For those of us who would never make it to Everest, this documentary allows us to experience through the people's voices and memories that come alive in their re-telling almost better than any film version.