reports Business / Economy / Financial Crisis

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)

Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?
(90 minutes) In the last forty years, Rupert Murdoch has gone from publisher of a marginal newspaper in Adelaide, Australia, to chairman of one of the world's ... (more)

High Stakes in Cyberspace
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE boldly goes where no one has gone before--tracking the new land rush to stake claims in cyberspace and asking hard questions about the optimistic ... (more)

How to Steal $500 Million
(60 minutes) Michael 'Mickey' Monus, the flamboyant co-founder and president of Phar-Mor, awaits criminal trial to decide if he was responsible for one of the largest corporate ... (more)

Hot Money
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates a financial revolution--the movement of most of the world's money to huge off-shore banking centers, many located on the tiny islands of the ... (more)

The Diamond Empire
(90 minutes) Second only to Christmas, Valentine's Day is the holiday when diamonds are most often given as the ultimate token of love. Central to the ... (more)

The Heartbeat of America
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE opens its twelfth season with the story of General Motors--the world's largest industrial company and the symbol of corporate America's once golden age of ... (more)

Your Loan Is Denied
(60 minutes) Peter and Dolores Green, African-American professionals, are suing a Chicago-area bank for refusing to finance their purchase of the home they have lived in for ... (more)

The Bank of Crooks and Criminals
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the global banking scandal surrounding the Bank of Credit & Commerce International by tracking the aggressive investigation of the case by New York ... (more)

Coming from Japan
(60 minutes) The Matsushita Electric Company is one of the largest corporations in the world, with a controversial history in the US stretching back more than 30 ... (more)

Losing the War with Japan
(90 minutes) Frontline looks at the challenge Japanese-style capitalism poses to the US market. The program examines three industries-automobile, video games, and flat panel displays used in ... (more)

The Great American Bailout
(60 minutes) The biggest financial disaster in US history continues. Four years into the process of selling off failed savings and loan assets, the Resolution Trust Corporation, ... (more)

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)

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)

Prescriptions for Profit
(60 minutes) Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates abuses in the fiercely competitive marketing and promotion of prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical manufacturers. The program explores the dangers ... (more)

The Battle for Eastern Airlines
(60 minutes) Donald Trump's recent purchase of Eastern Airlines' shuttle focused national attention once again on the fight for this troubled airline. Frontline correspondent Robert Kuttner chronicles ... (more)

American Game, Japanese Rules
(60 minutes) Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a ... (more)

Hollywood Dreams
(60 minutes) Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the American ... (more)

Breaking the Bank
(60 minutes) In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the ... (more)

You Are in the Computer
(60 minutes) You go to rent an apartment and are turned down without any obvious reason. Then you find out your name is in a computer file ... (more)