Streaming Pick (5/14/14)

Frontline: United States of Secrets, Part 1: The Program

If PBS' Frontline documentary series isn't the best show on television, it has to be pretty close. And given that 60 Minutes has become quite a joke and Dateline long ago became a basic-cable level tabloid, Frontline's long-form news format might also be the most important show on TV.

Bonus Streaming Pick 3/14

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune

Earlier in the week I recommended streaming Cisco Pike, the story of a struggling folk singer whose hangover from the 60s made the 70s a drug-addled nightmare. That story of the 70s hangover and bitterness from the high times of the 1960s got me thinking about an American Masters documentary I saw a few months ago on Phil Ochs, called Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.

If you have a Roku, you can subscribe to the highly recommended PBS channel and currently stream There But for Fortune for free. Watch it.