reports Social Issues / Race / Religion

Medicating Kids
(60 minutes) Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modifying drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Adderall. But are these medications really necessary-and safe-for ... (more)

The Merchants of Cool
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE journeys into the world of the marketers of popular culture to teenagers. They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. ... (more)

Hackers
(60 minutes) Designed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas, the Internet has become home to confidential-even classified-information from virtually every nation in the world. Financial information, ... (more)

Juvenile Justice
(90 minutes) Should teenagers who commit serious crimes be tried as juveniles or adults? What happens to young offenders who reach the 'end of the line' ... (more)

Drug Wars
(240 minutes) In 1968, the federal drug enforcement budget was $60 million. By the end of fiscal year 1999, that same budget had exploded to more than ... (more)

The Battle Over School Choice
(60 minutes) With more students than ever enrolled in kindergarten through high school, education is now a top voter concern. What's needed to improve our public ... (more)

Jefferson's Blood
(90 minutes) For years there existed a rumor that Thomas Jefferson had a long-standing relationship and several children by Sally Hemings, a woman who was his slave. ... (more)

Assault on Gay America
(60 minutes) On February 19, 1999, in Sylacauga, Alabama, 39-year-old computer programmer Billy Jack Gaither was murdered - the victim of a violent hate crime. One ... (more)

The Killer at Thurston High
(90 minutes) In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, fifteen-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston ... (more)

Apocalypse!
(120 minutes) From Waco and Littleton to Y2K and global warming, as the millennium approaches, we are bombarded by visions of the apocalypse. From the team that ... (more)

The Lost Children of Rockdale County
(90 minutes) Conyers, Georgia is a prosperous bedroom community just outside Atlanta. FRONTLINE examines the link between an outbreak of syphilis among a group of its teenagers ... (more)

Secrets of the SAT
(60 minutes) How fair are standardized tests? What do they measure? And what's their impact on racial diversity on America's college campuses? FRONTLINE examines the debate ... (more)

John Paul II: The Millennial Pope
(150 minutes) FRONTLINE presents a comprehensive biography on the world leader who has emerged as a man at war with the twentieth century itself. In the ... (more)

The Execution
(90 minutes) FRONTLINE looks into the mind and soul of a death row killer and the effect of his execution on all who had a stake in ... (more)

The Farmer's Wife
(390 minutes) Filmmaker David Sutherland takes us deep inside the passionate, yet troubled, marriage of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young farm couple in rural Nebraska facing ... (more)

Inside the Tobacco Deal
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE goes inside the tobacco deal,telling the intriguing tale of how a group of small-town lawyers from the nation's poorest state brought Big Tobacco to ... (more)

Busted: America's War on Marijuana
(60 minutes) The United States government spends nearly $2.5 billion each year to process arrests related to marijuana production and sales, which often carry severe penalties. ... (more)

The High Price of Health
(60 minutes) Today, providing health care is a profit-driven enterprise which is subject to the forces of the marketplace and operated by administrators with their eyes on ... (more)

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
(240 minutes) FRONTLINE presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence, the series transports the viewer back ... (more)

The Two Nations of Black America
(60 minutes) Today, America has the largest black middle class in its history, yet half of all black children are born into poverty. Have the walls of ... (more)