Frontline S9 E10 - Betting on the Lottery

Frontline

Frontline S9 E10 - Betting on the Lottery
Mar 10, 2026 55 min Documentary Movies
6.8

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?’

Creator David Fanning
Actor Will Lyman
Country United States of America
Production GBH