reports Social Issues / Race / Religion

LA Is Burning: 5 Reports from a Divided City
(90 minutes) One year after Los Angeles' three days and nights of beatings, looting, and burning, how well do we understand what happened there-and why? Frontline revisits ... (more)

In Our Children's Food
(60 minutes) Frontline traces the 30 year history of US pesticide use, regulation and scientific study and explores what is and is not known about the risks ... (more)

Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special
(120 minutes) In the Netherlands, euthanasia has been openly practiced for twenty years. Through the personal accounts of doctors, patients, and families in Holland, this program explores ... (more)

What Happened to the Drug War?
(60 minutes) The federal government's multibillion dollar war on drugs is an issue Bill Clinton largely ignored during his presidential campaign but will now have to confront. ... (more)

In Search of Our Fathers
(60 minutes) Marco Williams was 24 years old when he learned his father's name. It was the first of many things he would discover about himself and ... (more)

Monsters Among Us
(60 minutes) Wesley Allan Dodd's 1989 arrest in Washington State for the murder of 3 young boys ended his 15 year career of violent sex crimes. Through ... (more)

Thomas and Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain
(60 minutes) Frontline expolores how Clarence Thomas's bitter Supreme Court nomination hearing, replete with charges of sexual harassment, reached deep into the psyche of black America. Through ... (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)

A Kid Kills
(60 minutes) When 15 year old Damien Bynoe and two friends took a gun and went to settle a dispute, 15 year old Korey Grant and 11 ... (more)

Who Cares About Children?
(60 minutes) With 410,000 children in foster-care and over half a million expected by 1995, child advocates across the country say nearly every state is in, or ... (more)

The Death of Nancy Cruzan
(90 minutes) In 1984, a near-fatal automobile accident left Nancy Cruzan in a 'persistent vegetative state.' To permit the removal of Nancy's life support, the Cruzan family ... (more)

The Resurrection of Reverend Moon
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who after serving 13 months in prison in the early 1980s for conspiracy and false tax returns, has ... (more)

Who Killed Adam Mann?
(60 minutes) On March 5, 1990, in New York City, five year-old Adam Mann was beaten to death for eating a piece of cake. The autopsy indicated ... (more)

My Doctor, My Lover
(90 minutes) Dr. Jason Richter, a psychiatrist, had a sexual affair with his patient Melissa Roberts-Henry. She later sued him for sexual abuse. Frontline examines the history ... (more)

The Color of Your Skin
(60 minutes) An intimate journey into America's great racial divide, reported by David Maraniss. For 16 weeks, behind a two-way mirror in a small room at the ... (more)

Innocence Lost
(120 minutes) What has happened to the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, now that its most prestigious day-care has been closed down because of charges of ... (more)

Who Pays for Mom and Dad?
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the crisis facing middle-class Americans seeking long-term nursing home care for elderly parents. The report focuses on the tremendous financial difficulties faced by ... (more)

Black America's War
(60 minutes) Nearly thirty percent of all US soldiers in the Gulf War were black Americans. But blacks were much more skeptical than whites about the decision ... (more)

The Spirit of Crazy Horse
(60 minutes) One hundred years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, Milo Yellow Hair recounts the story of his people-from the lost battles for their land against ... (more)

Betting on the Lottery
(60 minutes) Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state ... (more)