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Nov. 13, 2003

Dangerous Prescription
(60 minutes) As medications play an ever-increasing role in modern health care, the importance of FDA approval to consumers, it would seem, has never been greater. ... (more)

Oct. 09, 2003

Truth, War, and Consequences
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE traces the roots of the Iraqi war back to the days immediately following September 11, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the creation of ... (more)

Apr. 03, 2003

Blair's War
(60 minutes) For the past few months, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been fighting the biggest political battle of his career. Caught in the center ... (more)

Feb. 20, 2003

The War Behind Closed Doors
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE examines the hidden story of what is really driving the Bush administration to war with Iraq. The investigation asks whether the publicly reported reasons--fear ... (more)

Oct. 10, 2002

Missile Wars
(60 minutes) Following America's withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, FRONTLINE examines the reason why: the Bush administration's determination to deploy an antimissile system. Supporters ... (more)

Oct. 03, 2002

The Man Who Knew
(90 minutes) As an FBI agent who specialized in counter-terrorism, John P. O'Neill investigated the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole ... (more)

Sep. 08, 2002

Campaign Against Terror
(120 minutes) In this two-hour special, FRONTLINE recounts for the first time on television the behind-the-scenes story of the U.S. and world response to the September 11 ... (more)

Mar. 28, 2002

Testing Our Schools
(60 minutes) President Bush's proposal for mandatory public school testing in grades three through eight signals the beginning of a new era in public education, one marked ... (more)

May. 15, 2001

LAPD Blues
(60 minutes) All is not well inside the Los Angeles Police Department. The worst corruption scandal in the force's history has devastated a police department once ... (more)

Jan. 16, 2001

The Clinton Years
(120 minutes) He was a masterful campaigner - a skilled politician whose command of the issues and ability to connect with an audience impressed seasoned politicos and ... (more)

Nov. 11, 2000

Real Justice
(180 minutes) Homicides, drug arrests, car theft, assault and battery...it's all in a day's work for the prosecutors of Boston's criminal courts, where 50,000 cases are decided ... (more)

Oct. 09, 2000

Drug Wars
(240 minutes) In 1968, the federal drug enforcement budget was $60 million. By the end of fiscal year 1999, that same budget had exploded to more than ... (more)

Oct. 02, 2000

The Choice 2000
(120 minutes) As Americans prepare for the first presidential election of the 21st century, FRONTLINE opens its nineteenth season with a dual biography of the two men ... (more)

Apr. 18, 2000

What's Up With the Weather?
(120 minutes) Since the late 1980s, rising temperatures and dramatic weather-from heat waves and hurricanes to melting glaciers-have fueled a global political and scientific debate about whether ... (more)

Jan. 11, 2000

The Case For Innocence
(90 minutes) Fifteen years ago, DNA analysis was nonexistent. Today, more than seventy inmates accused of rape and murder have been freed because DNA tests proved ... (more)

Nov. 23, 1999

Justice For Sale
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE and Bill Moyers investigate how campaign cash is corrupting America's courts. In the thirty-nine states where judges are elected, special interest money is pouring ... (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)

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)

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)

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