Who's Running this War?
(60 minutes) Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and asked questions about the role of the ... (more)

Russia-Love it or Leave it
(60 minutes) A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russian tour. ... (more)

Hostage in Iran
(90 minutes) While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of their release, ... (more)

Memory of the Camps
(60 minutes) Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the ... (more)

The American Way of War
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Sal.
(60 minutes) Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 3: Revol. in Nicrgua.
(60 minutes) In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge
(60 minutes) The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of ... (more)

Crisis in Central American Pt.1: Yankee Years
(60 minutes) From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at ... (more)

Buying the Bomb
(60 minutes) Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakistani ... (more)

Retreat from Beirut
(60 minutes) They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire. One year after the pullout of American Marines from ... (more)

Vietnam Under Communism
(60 minutes) Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their ... (more)

Red Star Over Khyber
(60 minutes) In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan, examining the ... (more)

Cry, Ethiopia, Cry
(60 minutes) In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In desert camps described ... (more)

The Arab and the Israeli
(60 minutes) Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk shows and interviews, they ... (more)

Return of the Great White Fleet
(60 minutes) Frontline profiles Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multibillion dollar fleet which critics say may not ... (more)

Captive in El Salvador
(60 minutes) Much of the debate over the role of the U.S. in Central America focuses on this tiny nation about which filmaker Ofra Bikel says 'we ... (more)

The Old Man and the Gun
(60 minutes) Frontline looks at the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Frontline cameras ... (more)

Klaus Barbie: The American Connection
(60 minutes) Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he would ... (more)

Crossfire in El Salvador
(60 minutes) In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and truth remains elusive. ... (more)