The inside story of the Houston Astros cheating scandal, the fallout and what it says about baseball today.
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This 90-minute FRONTLINE documentary investigates one of the most explosive scandals in modern baseball: a sign-stealing scheme that would taint the Houston Astros’ 2017 World Series win — the club’s first-ever — and reverberate across the sports world.
Gripping and revealing, the documentary features new and exclusive interviews with former MLB insiders — including a former Astros video manager who speaks out for the first time about the inner workings of the now-infamous sign-stealing scheme, and the most expansive on-camera interview yet with former Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, who continues to deny awareness of the cheating.
“The Astros Edge” is narrated by producer and reporter Ben Reiter, who has covered the team extensively for Sports Illustrated, in the book “Astroball,” and in the podcast, “The Edge: Houston Astros.” In the documentary, Reiter goes inside the Astros’ journey from the worst team in baseball to the most dominant club of the era, chronicling how their innovative and hypercompetitive approach — data-driven and drawn from Wall Street and Silicon Valley — took shape and changed the game. Then, Reiter probes that approach’s shadow side, piecing together how a “win-at-all-costs” culture inside the Astros helped lead to the cheating scheme.
The documentary also examines MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s own investigation into the scandal, which offered immunity to Astros players and resulted in few consequences for those who primarily carried out the cheating.
Explore additional reporting related to "The Astros Edge" on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-astros-edge/
“The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball” is a FRONTLINE Production with Left/Right Docs. The director, producer and writer is Jonathan Clasberry. The producer is Quinton Boudwin. The producer and correspondent is Ben Reiter. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The executive producers for Left/Right Docs are Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; Park Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
,,wFz-CdtQwYo,UC3ScyryU9Oy9Wse3a8OAmYQ, Politics,Society, channel_UC3ScyryU9Oy9Wse3a8OAmYQ, video_wFz-CdtQwYo,Returning to voters filmed in 2020, this 90-minute documentary explores how their hopes and fears have changed amid another polarizing election season.
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“American Voices 2024” begins in 2020, following ordinary Americans with different viewpoints as they dealt with COVID-19 in their communities that spring, responded to George Floyd’s murder that summer, and then participated in the election and its aftermath that fall. Then, the documentary revisits those same Americans from a mix of urban, rural and suburban areas as they reflect on the past four tumultuous years, navigate health and economic challenges, and share their perspectives on politics today.
Filmed everywhere from Texas to California; from Virginia to Minnesota; and from Iowa to Oregon, “American Voices 2024” is a journey across geography, race and politics that sheds light on where our country has been — and where it is headed.
“American Voices 2024” is a FRONTLINE production with Five O’Clock Films in association with DEC8 Productions and Mike Shum Productions. The producers are Qinling Li and Arthur Nazaryan. The writers are Qinling Li and Mike Shum. The director is Mike Shum. The senior producers are Callie T. Wiser and Frank Koughan. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from the Charina Endowment Fund and from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
03:00 - How Some Americans Responded to the COVID-19 Lockdown in 2020
14:28 - A Woman Who Contracted COVID and a Doctor Recall the Virus’ Challenges
19:33 - How Americans Viewed the Protests That Followed George Floyd’s Murder
39:58 - How Some American Voters Felt About the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
53:31 - What Some Voters Think About America in 2024
1:08:52 - Ordinary Americans React to the 2024 Presidential Debate Between Harris and Trump
1:12:47 - U.S. Voters Share Their Hopes and Fears About the Future
1:22:17 - Credits
,1,The 2009 FRONTLINE documentary “Black Money” examined bribery allegations against international companies and explored how prosecutors around the world cracked down on the practice. (Aired 2009)
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As pressure for profits increased on corporations during the global financial downturn of the late 2000s, the U.S. Department of Justice pursued an aggressive crackdown on an international business tactic: bribery. The 2009 documentary “Black Money” examined this shadowy side of international business. The film shed light on how some multinational companies routinely made secret payments — often referred to as “black money” — to win billions in business, and explored the crackdown being waged by prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice and allies abroad against companies including the British-based multinational defense company BAE Systems.
Explore developments in the BAE Systems case since this documentary aired:
https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2010/02/bae-to-pay-more-than-400-million-in-us-and-uk-fines.html
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
,1,The 2007 documentary “Spying on the Home Front” examined then-President George W. Bush’s domestic war on terrorism and its implications for Americans’ civil liberties. (Aired 2007)
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The attacks on 9/11 altered America in many ways, from barricades and body frisks in airports to greater government scrutiny of people’s records and electronic surveillance of their communications. The watershed, officials told FRONTLINE in the 2007 documentary “Spying on the Home Front,” was the government’s shift to a strategy of pre-emption at home — not just prosecuting terrorists for breaking the law, but trying to find and stop them before they struck.
The documentary probed the ramifications of that strategy, explored how the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program worked at the time, and examined various viewpoints on whether the Bush administration violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and infringed on constitutional protections.
Read an update involving an AT&T case featured in the film:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-att-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-millions/
Watch FRONTLINE’s later films on U.S. government surveillance programs:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/united-states-of-secrets/
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#Documentary #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #NSA
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
08:01 - How Government Surveillance in the U.S. Changed After the 9/11 Attacks
16:58 - Revisiting the National Security Agency’s Post- 9/11 Surveillance Mechanisms
31:56 - A Look Back at Surveillance in One American City: Las Vegas
53:09 - Credits
,1,FRONTLINE investigates the roots of the federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss.
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In March, 2024 Republican presidential nomination front-runner Trump is scheduled to begin standing trial on federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., in connection with efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He says the charges against him are politically motivated.
“Democracy on Trial” traces the road to this unprecedented moment, and examines the implications of the historic criminal case unfolding in the midst of a presidential election year. Drawing on court documents and revelatory interviews with elected officials, former government lawyers, House Select Committee witnesses and former committee staffers, authors and journalists, the documentary reports that the work of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack provided the groundwork for special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump and may offer insights into how the trial unfolds.
The documentary chronicles how the committee built its case against Trump and tried to prove his intent, how it chose to present its case to the American public, and criticisms of its work. Key witnesses who testified before the committee and whose firsthand accounts are now evidence in the federal case speak out in the documentary — including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling and former Arizona Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers.
Gripping and illuminating, “Democracy on Trial,” the newest film from FRONTLINE’s award-winning political team, Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica, also examines how Trump has challenged the case. Trump has pleaded not guilty and made the legal argument, now being reviewed by an appellate court, that he has “absolute immunity” from prosecution for his actions while in office.
“Democracy on Trial” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Additional support for this program is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
00:43 - Donald Trump, the First Former U.S. President Charged With Crimes in Office
05:10 - How the House Jan. 6 Committee Was Formed
26:14 - What Did Former President Trump Know About the 2020 Election Results and When Did He Know It?
44:06 - A Georgia Election Official’s Warning to Trump About Potential for Violence
51:17 - Arizona Lawmaker Rusty Bowers Recalls Call With Trump: ‘You’re Asking Me to Break My Oath’
1:03:02 - Poll Workers Caught in an Election Fraud Conspiracy
1:16:37 - Brad Raffensperger Describes His Georgia Election Phone Call With Trump
1:24:21- Trump’s Call for a “Big Protest” in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021
1:34:23 - The Pressure on Trump’s Justice Department in the 2020 Election’s Aftermath
1:42:10 - President Trump, Vice President Pence and the Jan. 6 Election Certification
1:54:04 - Trump White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Testifies Before the Jan. 6 Committee
2:05:21 - House Select Committee Examines What President Trump Did for 187 Minutes on Jan. 6
2:17:55 - Former President Donald Trump’s Looming Trial
2:21:58 - Credits
,1,Rusty Bowers is one of numerous Republican witnesses who share inside accounts of former President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in "Democracy on Trial," a 2.5-hour special on the roots of the federal criminal case against Trump, and how Trump has challenged the case. Watch an excerpt now.
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For the full story, watch "Democracy on Trial" starting Tues., Jan. 30, 2024:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/democracy-on-trial/
“Democracy on Trial” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Additional support for this program is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
,1,The inside story of the Houston Astros cheating scandal, the fallout and what it says about baseball today.
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate.
This 90-minute FRONTLINE documentary investigates one of the most explosive scandals in modern baseball: a sign-stealing scheme that would taint the Houston Astros’ 2017 World Series win — the club’s first-ever — and reverberate across the sports world.
Gripping and revealing, the documentary features new and exclusive interviews with former MLB insiders — including a former Astros video manager who speaks out for the first time about the inner workings of the now-infamous sign-stealing scheme, and the most expansive on-camera interview yet with former Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, who continues to deny awareness of the cheating.
“The Astros Edge” is narrated by producer and reporter Ben Reiter, who has covered the team extensively for Sports Illustrated, in the book “Astroball,” and in the podcast, “The Edge: Houston Astros.” In the documentary, Reiter goes inside the Astros’ journey from the worst team in baseball to the most dominant club of the era, chronicling how their innovative and hypercompetitive approach — data-driven and drawn from Wall Street and Silicon Valley — took shape and changed the game. Then, Reiter probes that approach’s shadow side, piecing together how a “win-at-all-costs” culture inside the Astros helped lead to the cheating scheme.
The documentary also examines MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s own investigation into the scandal, which offered immunity to Astros players and resulted in few consequences for those who primarily carried out the cheating.
Explore additional reporting related to "The Astros Edge" on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-astros-edge/
“The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball” is a FRONTLINE Production with Left/Right Docs. The director, producer and writer is Jonathan Clasberry. The producer is Quinton Boudwin. The producer and correspondent is Ben Reiter. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The executive producers for Left/Right Docs are Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
#Documentary #HoustonAstros #Baseball #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #BaseballDocumentary #Sports #SportsDocumentary
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