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FRONTLINE; Two American Families
07/02/2013
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Two American Families
- Program Number
3112
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
Since 1992, Bill Moyers and FRONTLINE have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, Two American Families chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children. A remarkable portrait of perseverance, the 90-minute film raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the U.S. economy and the fate of a declining middle class.
See also Frontline 1406: Living on the Edge
A FRONTLINE production with Okapi Productions LLC and Public Affairs Television, Inc. in association with Left/Right Docs
- Duration
01:26:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Two American Families,” 07/02/2013, GBH Archives, accessed October 2, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_12F6016BA2CB4D7F8424D67E3687EB7D.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Two American Families.” 07/02/2013. GBH Archives. Web. October 2, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_12F6016BA2CB4D7F8424D67E3687EB7D>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Two American Families. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_12F6016BA2CB4D7F8424D67E3687EB7D