previous reports: 2008

The Hugo Chávez Show
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE looks at Venezuela's controversial and outspoken president Hugo Chavez and the revolution he claims is turning his country into an anti-capitalist beacon for Latin America and ... (more)

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
(60 minutes) In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather ... (more)

The War Briefing
(60 minutes) The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances, ... (more)

HEAT
(120 minutes) For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental policy and stifled ... (more)

The Choice 2008
(120 minutes) This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to discover how they ... (more)

Young & Restless In China
(120 minutes) This spring, FRONTLINE explores the generation coming of age in China today. Shot over four years, the film follows a group of nine young Chinese ... (more)

Storm Over Everest
(120 minutes) As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast-moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The ... (more)

Sick Around The World
(60 minutes) Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about ... (more)

Bad Voodoo's War
(60 minutes) In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves "The Bad Voodoo Platoon" was ... (more)

Bush's War
(120 minutes) 9/11 and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, WMD and the Insurgency, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, and the Surge. For six years FRONTLINE has been revealing ... (more)

Rules of Engagement
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal the untold story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq -- where twenty-four of the town's residents ... (more)

A Dangerous Business Revisited
(60 minutes) Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the ... (more)

Growing Up Online
(60 minutes) MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Friendster. Nearly every teen in America is on the Internet every day, socializing with friends and strangers alike, "trying on" identities, and ... (more)

The Medicated Child
(60 minutes) Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today children as young as four ... (more)