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REPORTS BY SUBJECT Jan. 23, 1990
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)
Jun. 13, 1989
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)
May. 23, 1989
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)
May. 16, 1989
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)
Jun. 14, 1988
Our Forgotten War
(60 minutes) In Central America, while US attention has been dominated by the contra war in Nicaragua, the battle for El Salvador continues. The US government has ... (more)
May. 31, 1988
Trouble in Paradise
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the US government's attempts to forge a military pact with the Pacific Island nation of Palau (population 15,000)-a campaign that has led to ... (more)
May. 24, 1988
The Defense of Europe
(60 minutes) Frontline and Time magazine join forces to examine the new realitites for the NATO alliance following the American-Soviet nuclear arms treaty. How good are the ... (more)
May. 17, 1988
Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
(60 minutes) A Frontline investigation examines the CIA's long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around the world and how the agency has defended ... (more)
Apr. 26, 1988
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)
Apr. 19, 1988
Murder on the Rio San Juan
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that ... (more)
Mar. 29, 1988
Back in the USSR
(60 minutes) In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline ... (more)
Dec. 16, 1987
Apartheid Part 5: 1987
(60 minutes) Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa's future. Two years before the release of Nelson Mandela, dissident white Afrikaners ... (more)
Dec. 15, 1987
Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
(60 minutes) When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must 'adapt or die.' ... (more)
Dec. 15, 1987
Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
(60 minutes) 'Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on how the white government found African ... (more)
Dec. 14, 1987
Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
(60 minutes) Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had lived for generations, and ... (more)
Dec. 14, 1987
Apartheid Part 1: 1652-1948
(60 minutes) Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before the first tiny ... (more)
Jun. 02, 1987
Israel: The Price of Victory
(60 minutes) The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war's twentieth anniversary, Frontline ... (more)
May. 26, 1987
In Search of the Marcos Millions
(60 minutes) The day Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986, they left with $8.9 million in jewelry, cash, and bonds. But the Philippine government ... (more)
Apr. 21, 1987
War on Nicaragua
(60 minutes) As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement ... (more)
Feb. 24, 1987
The Nazi Connection
(60 minutes) German scientists were responsible for putting the first American on the moon. Now, 15 years later, government investigators are asking whether some of them were ... (more)
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