previous reports: 1988

The Choice
(100 minutes) Frontline and Time magazine step back from the heat of the 1988 presidential campaign to examine, in-depth, the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the ... (more)

The Politics of Prosperity
(60 minutes) In the last weeks of the 1988 presidential campaign, correspondent William Greider explores the private but increasingly intense debate about what the next president should ... (more)

My Husband is Going to Kill Me
(60 minutes) In February 1987, 30 year-old Pamela Guenther turned to the police and the courts in a Denver suburb for protection from her violent husband. Three ... (more)

Indian Country
(60 minutes) The Quinault Indians of Washington State seem to have everything-strong leadership, a landmark court victory guaranteeing fishing rights, business deals with the Japanese, and a ... (more)

Our Forgotten War
(60 minutes) In Central America, while US attention has been dominated by the contra war in Nicaragua, the battle for El Salvador continues. The US government has ... (more)

Who Pays for AIDS?
(60 minutes) By 1991, health care for AIDS patients in the United States could cost an estimated $16 to $22 billion. Caring for AIDS victims is overwhelming ... (more)

Trouble in Paradise
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the US government's attempts to forge a military pact with the Pacific Island nation of Palau (population 15,000)-a campaign that has led to ... (more)

The Defense of Europe
(60 minutes) Frontline and Time magazine join forces to examine the new realitites for the NATO alliance following the American-Soviet nuclear arms treaty. How good are the ... (more)

Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
(60 minutes) A Frontline investigation examines the CIA's long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around the world and how the agency has defended ... (more)

Racism 101
(60 minutes) Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America's college compuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at ... (more)

American Game, Japanese Rules
(60 minutes) Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a ... (more)

Murder on the Rio San Juan
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that ... (more)

To a Safer Place
(60 minutes) When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her ... (more)

Poison and the Pentagon
(60 minutes) The military is America's largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon's poor record of cleaning up its pollution that contaminates ... (more)

Back in the USSR
(60 minutes) In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline ... (more)

Let My Daughter Die
(60 minutes) Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before ... (more)

Shakedown in Santa Fe
(60 minutes) Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to probe the contininuing ... (more)

The Man Who Shot John Lennon
(60 minutes) Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records paint the chilling ... (more)

Operation Urgent Fury
(60 minutes) Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan's greatest truimphs-the rescue of American students during the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Hersh's reporting reveals ... (more)

Praise the Lord
(60 minutes) Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption ... (more)