previous reports: 1989

The Right to Die?
(120 minutes) Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine the complex legal and moral issues involved in the US Supreme Court's first ... (more)

Tracking the Pan Am Bombers
(60 minutes) A Frontline special report investigates the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. The broadcast pieces together the latest information ... (more)

Who's Killing Calvert City?
(60 minutes) Calvert City, Kentucky, is at war with itself over the legacy of pollution and toxic waste from the chemical plants that are the heart of ... (more)

Death of a Terrorist
(60 minutes) Mairead Farrell was one of three Irish Republican Army terrorists gunned down by British security forces on Gibraltar in March 1988. Frontline examines her 17 ... (more)

Babies at Risk
(60 minutes) The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that of many third-world countries. Frontline investigates the political and bureaucratic neglect which fuels ... (more)

Remember My Lai
(60 minutes) In 1968, American soldiers massacred over 500 adults and children in a Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai. Frontline explores the legacy of that savage day ... (more)

Israel: The Covert Connection
(60 minutes) The Iran-contra scandal revealed a glimpse of the US government's secret relationship with Israel. This program investigates America's strategic alliance with Israel since the 1950's ... (more)

Yellowstone Under Fire
(60 minutes) President Reagan's Interior secretaries, James Watt and Donald Hodel, may have altered the landscape of the Yellowstone Park area more dramatically than the fires that ... (more)

Extraordinary People
(60 minutes) Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed children because of a prescription drug called thalidomide. This program, anchored and ... (more)

The Shakespeare Mystery
(60 minutes) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, and Charlie Chaplin all doubted that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the true author of the ... (more)

Murder in the Amazon
(60 minutes) Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of seringueiros, Brazilian rubber tappers, who struggle to defend their forests from destruction by cattle ranchers and ... (more)

The Dallas Drug War
(60 minutes) Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles the struggle of one neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, to combat the drugs and violence that threaten the lives of ... (more)

Prescriptions for Profit
(60 minutes) Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates abuses in the fiercely competitive marketing and promotion of prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical manufacturers. The program explores the dangers ... (more)

Who Profits from Drugs
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates how the American economy uses the profits from the illegal drug trade. The program documents a network of lawyers, real estate developers, stock ... (more)

Children of the Night
(60 minutes) The story of Iain Brown, who at thirteen left the comfortable world of a middle-class family in Walnut Creek, CA, for the life of a ... (more)

Running with Jesse
(60 minutes) An inside look at the historic 1988 presidential campaign of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Frontline profiles the Jackson strategy, his relationship with the press and ... (more)

The Battle for Eastern Airlines
(60 minutes) Donald Trump's recent purchase of Eastern Airlines' shuttle focused national attention once again on the fight for this troubled airline. Frontline correspondent Robert Kuttner chronicles ... (more)

The Spy Who Broke the Code
(60 minutes) Was John Walker the spy of the century? Frontline investigates the Walker spy ring and how it sold secrets about American military codes to the ... (more)

The Real Life of Ronald Reagan
(90 minutes) Frontline correspondent Garry Wills profiles the career of Ronald Reagan, his legacy, and public life through the eyes of friends, top aides, biographers, and critics. ... (more)