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Dec. 18, 1990
The Spirit of Crazy Horse
(60 minutes) One hundred years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, Milo Yellow Hair recounts the story of his people-from the lost battles for their land against ... (more)
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Dec. 11, 1990
The Struggle for South Africa
(90 minutes) As fear and violence mount, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk struggle to control the tumultuous course of change in South Africa. Correspondent David Dimbleby ... (more)
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Nov. 27, 1990
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
(60 minutes) Four years after the Iran-contra scandal broke, correspondent Bill Moyers examines-for the first time on television-the full record of this story, documenting the scale of ... (more)
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Nov. 20, 1990
Springfield Goes to War
(60 minutes) As the threat of war in the Gulf grows, a middle-sized American city grapples with the reason hundreds of thousands of US troops are being ... (more)
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Nov. 06, 1990
Betting on the Lottery
(60 minutes) 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 ... (more)
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Oct. 30, 1990
Broken Minds
(60 minutes) Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has ... (more)
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Oct. 23, 1990
The Hunt for Howard Marks
(60 minutes) For 20 years, one man - Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks - was responsible for running an international drug market that shipped marijuana into the US ... (more)
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Oct. 16, 1990
When Cops Go Bad
(60 minutes) The corrupting influence of drug money is now listed as the number one threat to the integrity of police forces. Frontline investigates this crisis in ... (more)
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Oct. 02, 1990
Global Dumping Ground: Frontline Special
(60 minutes) Correspondent Bill Moyers investigates America's shadowy new industry-the international export of toxic waste-revealing how shipping deadly wastes to third-world countries has become an enormous business ... (more)
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Sep. 21, 1990
Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
(60 minutes) The series concludes with the story of Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper whose murder in 1988 brought worldwide attention to the problem of Amazonian deforestation. ... (more)
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Sep. 20, 1990
Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
(60 minutes) Part III follows the gold rush of 200,000 illegal propectors who swarm over private gold reserves in the rain forest. As securtiy forces track the ... (more)
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Sep. 19, 1990
Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
(60 minutes) Part II follows the land wars which broke out as millions of poor farmers migrated to massive ranches in the Brazilian rain forest. As squatters, ... (more)
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Sep. 18, 1990
Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
(120 minutes) Adrian Cowell's epic, ten-year-long series begins with a tale reminiscent of the American Wild West. A Brazilian settler brings his family to live deep in ... (more)
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Sep. 11, 1990
The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special
(60 minutes) Frontline examines how Saddam Hussein built Iraq's massive arsenal of tanks, planes, missiles, and chemical weapons during the 1980's. Correspondent Hodding Carter invetigates the complicity ... (more)
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Jun. 12, 1990
Teacher, Teacher
(60 minutes) Frontline explores the hopes and frustrations of public school teachers in one midwestern town as they face the threat of funding cutbacks, the criticism of ... (more)
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May. 22, 1990
Inside the Cartel
(60 minutes) How serious is Colombia's war on drugs? Frontline investigates the drug cartels in Medellin and Cali and demonstrates how they've become part of the country's ... (more)
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May. 15, 1990
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
(60 minutes) The 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins by white youths in the Bensonhurst section of New York City set off a racial and political fire storm. ... (more)
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May. 08, 1990
Plunder!
(60 minutes) Frontline correspondent Carl Nagin investigates the looting of pre-Columbian tombs in Latin America and the trafficking of stolen artifacts, exposing a trail that leads to ... (more)
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May. 01, 1990
Other People's Money
(60 minutes) The savings and loan scandal is the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression and will cost US taxpayers an estimated $315 billion. Frontline investigates ... (more)
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Apr. 24, 1990
Hilary in Hiding
(60 minutes) In 1989, Dr. Elizabeth Morgan was freed from prison after serving the longest detention for civil contempt in American history-25 months. Dr. Morgan had refused ... (more)
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Apr. 17, 1990
New Harvest, Old Shame
(60 minutes) Thirty years after Edward R. Murrow's 'Harvest of Shame,' Frontline correspondent David Marash looks at the continuing plight of migrant farm workers and explores the ... (more)
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Apr. 03, 1990
Born in Africa
(90 minutes) Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer.musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989. But he died a national hero because he gave ... (more)
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Mar. 27, 1990
Poland - The Morning After
(60 minutes) In the summer of 1989, Poland astonished the world by starting the revolution which has swept Eastern Europe. Solidarity, the once-banned independent trade union, took ... (more)
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Mar. 20, 1990
Anatomy of an Oil Spill
(60 minutes) In the black, early morning hours of Good Friday, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez went aground on Bligh Reef, spilling millions of gallons of crude ... (more)
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Feb. 27, 1990
The Faces of Arafat
(60 minutes) In the wake of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat's historic declaration that he has rejected terrorism and now recognizes Israel's right to exist, correspondent Marie Colvin ... (more)
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Feb. 13, 1990
Throwaway People
(60 minutes) Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates the economic and social roots of the black underclass, focusing on the struggle of young black men in one neighborhood in ... (more)
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Feb. 06, 1990
Miss USSR
(60 minutes) Frontline goes behind the scenes at the Soviet Union's first national beauty pageant with an intimate, bitterweet examination of the status and struggles of women ... (more)
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Jan. 30, 1990
The Noriega Connection
(60 minutes) In the wake of the US invasion of Panama, Frontline tracks the rise and fall of General Manuel Noriega and investigates the confusion and duplicity ... (more)
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Jan. 23, 1990
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
(60 minutes) Frontline profiles the efforts of the surviving families of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, ... (more)
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