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Previous Reports: 1998


BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE

Nov. 03, 1998

Fat
(60 minutes) Despite the appeals of the multi-billion dollar diet and exercise industries, the United States is getting fatter. The media bombards us with images of ... (more)

Oct. 27, 1998

The Child Terror
(60 minutes) In the midst of a sudden willingness to believe that children were being ritually abused in day-care centers during the 1980s, parents, police, prosecutors, and ... (more)

Oct. 13, 1998

Plague War
(60 minutes) Today, there are at least ten nations in the world with the ability to produce biological weapons. Cheap and now technologically possible to produce ... (more)

Oct. 06, 1998

Washington's Other Scandal
(60 minutes) The 1996 presidential campaign was the most expensive in history and the most corrupt since Richard Nixonís 1974 re-election. Janet Reno has now renewed ... (more)

Sep. 29, 1998

Ambush in Mogadishu
(90 minutes) With U.S. special forces now participating in a ground war in Afghanistan, FRONTLINE updates this 1998 investigation of a United Nations peacekeeping mission gone awry. ... (more)

Sep. 21, 1998

The Farmer's Wife
(390 minutes) Filmmaker David Sutherland takes us deep inside the passionate, yet troubled, marriage of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young farm couple in rural Nebraska facing ... (more)

Jun. 02, 1998

Fooling With Nature
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE examines new evidence in the controversy over the danger of manmade chemicals to human health and the environment, thirty-five years after Rachel Carson first ... (more)

May. 26, 1998

The World's Most Wanted Man
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE examines the dramatic hunt for Radovan Karadzic, the notorious Bosnian Serb leader indicted for atrocities by the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, but ... (more)

May. 19, 1998

Secrets of an Independent Counsel
(60 minutes) In a rare in-depth television interview given by a sitting independent counsel, Donald Smaltz takes FRONTLINE inside his investigation of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. ... (more)

May. 12, 1998

Inside the Tobacco Deal
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE goes inside the tobacco deal,telling the intriguing tale of how a group of small-town lawyers from the nation's poorest state brought Big Tobacco to ... (more)

Apr. 28, 1998

Busted: America's War on Marijuana
(60 minutes) The United States government spends nearly $2.5 billion each year to process arrests related to marijuana production and sales, which often carry severe penalties. ... (more)

Apr. 14, 1998

The High Price of Health
(60 minutes) Today, providing health care is a profit-driven enterprise which is subject to the forces of the marketplace and operated by administrators with their eyes on ... (more)

Apr. 06, 1998

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
(120 minutes) FRONTLINE presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence, the series transports the viewer back ... (more)

Feb. 10, 1998

The Two Nations of Black America
(60 minutes) Today, America has the largest black middle class in its history, yet half of all black children are born into poverty. Have the walls of ... (more)

Feb. 03, 1998

My Retirement Dreams
(60 minutes) 'I began my journey as a voyeur in the landscape of old age, but when it was over I was an insider,' says FRONTLINE producer ... (more)

Jan. 20, 1998

Last Battle of the Gulf War
(60 minutes) In the years following the return home of the last U.S. troops who participated in ground war in the Persian Gulf, attention has turned from ... (more)