previous reports: 1996

Secret Daughter
(150 minutes) FRONTLINE producer June Cross tells the intricate story of her own family through the prism of the changing face of race relations in America. Cross, ... (more)

Loose Nukes
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigates the new nuclear nightmare of the post-Cold War era. While the fear of nuclear annihilation has faded, the security of 1,400 tons of ... (more)

Why America Hates the Press
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE offers a tough, insider's examination of the culture and tactics of the national press corps. With public respect for the press at an all-time ... (more)

The Navy Blues
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE examines the Navy after Tailhook, an investigation of seismic shock caused by the sex scandal involving naval aviators five years ago and its continuing ... (more)

The Choice '96
(120 minutes) FRONTLINE opens its fifteenth season on PBS with a dual biography of the 1996 presidential candidates, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Interweaving their ... (more)

The Gate of Heavenly Peace
(150 minutes) In the spring of 1989, students and workers occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the world watched as China struggled with this wrenching upheaval in the ... (more)

Does America Still Work?
(60 minutes) At the height of the Rust Belt primaries, FRONTLINE goes to Wisconsin where presidential candidates tap the deep-seated anxiety and insecurity that fuels tensions between ... (more)

The Kevorkian Verdict
(60 minutes) As Dr. Jack Kevorkian faces his third criminal trial for assisting in the suicide of his desperate patients, FRONTLINE examines the improbable saga of 'Dr. ... (more)

The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
(90 minutes) Through five decades, Jesse Jackson has been trying to realize the promise of his own potential he first embraced as a boy in segregated Greenville, ... (more)

Shtetl
(180 minutes) To commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Week, FRONTLINE travels back in time to a family shtetl, a small village in Bransk, Poland, with producer Marian Marzynski. ... (more)

Angel on Death Row
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE takes on the death penalty debate with a personal profile of the woman behind the highly acclaimed motion picture Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen ... (more)

Smoke in the Eye
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigates the war between network news and the tobacco industry in the wake of the $10 billion libel suit against ABC and the controversial ... (more)

Breast Implants on Trial
(90 minutes) More than 400,000 women are part of a proposed global settlement against U.S. breast-implant manufacturers in the largest lawsuit in history. Many claim they ... (more)

Murder on 'Abortion Row'
(120 minutes) Airing as his trial begins, FRONTLINE follows the intersecting lives of twenty-two-year-old antiabortionist, John Salvi III, charged with murder in the armed attacks on two ... (more)

So You Want to Buy a President?
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE investigates the expected $500 million flowing into the 1996 presidential campaign. Correspondent Robert Krulwich scrutinizes the generosity of prominent campaign donors whose interests ... (more)

The Long March of Newt Gingrich
(60 minutes) One year into the Republican revolution, FRONTLINE presents an investigative biography of House Speaker Newt Gingrich. FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer, the New Yorker ... (more)

The Gulf War
(120 minutes) Marking the fifth anniversary of the war with Iraq, FRONTLINE investigates what really happened during the invasion of Kuwait, the months of diplomatic maneuvering, the ... (more)