Frontline
Season 9 Episode 10 - Betting on the Lottery
7.5 ?
1983
Documentary, News
Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, ‘Who really wins and who loses?’
Episodes in Season 9
1
The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special
2
Decade of Destruction (1): Ashes of Forest
3
Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land
4
Decade of Destruction (3): Mountains of Gold
5
Decade of Destruction (4): Chico Mende
6
Global Dumping Ground
7
When Cops Go Bad
8
The Hunt for Howard Marks
9
Broken Minds
10
Betting on the Lottery
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11
Springfield Goes to War
12
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
13
The Struggle for South Africa
14
The Spirit of Crazy Horse
15
To the Brink of War
16
Cuba and Cocaine
17
The Man Who Made the Supergun
18
Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev
19
The Mind of Hussein
20
Black America's War
21
War and Peace in Panama
22
The Election Held Hostage
23
Who Pays for Mom and Dad?
24
Innocence Lost
25
The Spy Hunter
26
To the Last Fish
27
The Color of Your Skin
28
