reports Foreign Affairs / Defense / Military

War and Peace in Panama
(60 minutes) Before Operation Desert Storm, there was Operation Just Cause, the 1989 invasion of Panama. Frontline examines the planning and execution of the Bush administration's first ... (more)

Black America's War
(60 minutes) Nearly thirty percent of all US soldiers in the Gulf War were black Americans. But blacks were much more skeptical than whites about the decision ... (more)

The Mind of Hussein
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the personal and political history of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Through interviews with Hussein's former neighbors, members of his government, military leaders, journalists, and ... (more)

Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev
(60 minutes) Correspondent Hedrick Smith, best-selling author of The New Russians, looks at the causes of recent violence in the USSR and explores the ramifications for future ... (more)

The Man Who Made the Supergun
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the career of one of the world's most brilliant designers of weaponry, Gerald Bull, who designed long-range artillery used by Iraq during the ... (more)

Cuba and Cocaine
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the long history of Castro's connection to the drug trade. Despite Cuban government denials, this report uncovers evidence that drug smuggling was an ... (more)

To the Brink of War
(60 minutes) On January 15, 1991, the United Nations resolution that allowed the use of force against Saddam Hussein took effect. Frontline correspondent Hodding Carter examined the ... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Death of a Terrorist
(60 minutes) Mairead Farrell was one of three Irish Republican Army terrorists gunned down by British security forces on Gibraltar in March 1988. Frontline examines her 17 ... (more)

Remember My Lai
(60 minutes) In 1968, American soldiers massacred over 500 adults and children in a Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai. Frontline explores the legacy of that savage day ... (more)

Israel: The Covert Connection
(60 minutes) The Iran-contra scandal revealed a glimpse of the US government's secret relationship with Israel. This program investigates America's strategic alliance with Israel since the 1950's ... (more)