November Frontlines: Sick Around the World, Death in Tehran

Thu, November 5, 2009
Posted in Program Highlights, Schedule Updates

SICK AROUND THE WORLD

T.R. Reid examines first-hand how other advanced capitalist democracies — United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver healthcare and what the US might learn from their successes and their failures.

Tuesday, November 11. 8:00 p.m.

DEATH IN TEHRAN

At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death — filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the Web — quickly became an international outrage, and Soltani became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government’s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the nature of the reported divisions among Iran’s ruling elites?