Episode
Frontline: American Porn
Overview
Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry’s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 20
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2002-02-07
Episode context
American Porn is Episode 13 in Season 20 of Frontline. It aired on 2002-02-07.
Previous / Next
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: Dot Con
In "Dot Con," award-winning FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith takes an inside look at the precipitous rise and fall of the Internet economy -- and examines the allegations that brokers at some of Wall Street's most prestigious firms manipulated the hot IPO market of the late 1990s. Wall Street, of course, would prefer to forget the past. But investors and investigators want to know: During the headiest days of the Internet bubble, did investment banks and venture capitalists betray the public's trust? Did "irrational exuberance" give way to fraud?
Episode 15: Testing Our Schools
Episode 10: Inside the Terror Network
Episode 16: Battle for the Holy Land
Episode 9: An Ordinary Crime
Episode 17: Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
Episode 8: The Monster That Ate Hollywood
Episode 18: Modern Meat
Episode 7: Saudi Time Bomb?
Episode 19: Did Daddy Do It?