Programs by Year: 2008

Nov. 25, 2008

The Hugo Chávez Show

(90 minutes) He believes he is destined to change Venezuela and the whole of Latin America. Who is Hugo Chávez, and where is he headed? (Web site »)

Nov. 11, 2008

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 of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed "the most evil man in America," but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare. (Web site »)

Oct. 28, 2008

The War Briefing

(60 minutes) Can the war in Afghanistan be won? A hard, inside look at the real policy choices facing Barack Obama... (Web site »)

Oct. 21, 2008

HEAT

(120 minutes) A far-reaching investigation into America's energy landscape and what can be done to save our planet - and what it will take. (Web site »)

Oct. 14, 2008

The Choice 2008

(120 minutes) The story of two unlikely presidential contenders and what they say about America. (Web site »)

Jun. 17, 2008

Young & Restless In China

(120 minutes) A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history. (Web site »)

May. 13, 2008

Storm Over Everest

(120 minutes) Renowned climber/filmmaker David Breashears returns to Everest's worst tragedy to tell the story as it's never before been told... (Web site »)

Apr. 15, 2008

Sick Around The World

(60 minutes) In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies? (Web site »)

Apr. 1, 2008

Bad Voodoo's War

(60 minutes) FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a "virtual embed" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq. (Web site »)

Mar. 24, 2008

Bush's War

(120 minutes) The inside story of the war that will define a presidency - a war that no one expected, and no one planned for. (Web site »)

Feb. 19, 2008

Rules of Engagement

(60 minutes) What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting. (Web site »)

Feb. 5, 2008

A Dangerous Business Revisited

(60 minutes) An updated report on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation by FRONTLINE, The New York Times and the CBC. (Web site »)

Jan. 22, 2008

Growing Up Online

(60 minutes) What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? (Web site »)

Jan. 8, 2008

The Medicated Child

(60 minutes) Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment? (Web site »)