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)

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)

The Russians Are Here
(60 minutes) During the previous decade, 100,000 Russians came to America to live. Here they found a more difficult freedom than Americans might imagine. Frontline's ... (more)

Israel: Between the River and the Sea
(60 minutes) For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli Television. This ... (more)

Looking for Mao
(60 minutes) Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and social relaxation. ... (more)

Crisis in Zimbabwe
(60 minutes) Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the end of ... (more)

A Journey to Russia
(60 minutes) Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. They encounter young, articulate Russians whose ... (more)

God's Banker
(60 minutes) In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest bank ... (more)

A Chinese Affair
(60 minutes) For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. ... (more)