Frontline traces rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in Bakker empire.
Eight years after most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to penitentiary in New Mexico to probe continuing struggle between inmates and guards, wardens and reformers.
The military is America's largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates Pentagon's poor record of cleaning up its pollution contaminates ground water in communities across country.
When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her.
A Frontline investigation examines CIA's long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around world and how agency has defended its alliances with drug dealers under cloak of 'national security.
One of the most memorable presidential races in decades pits the iconoclast John McCain against the newcomer Barack Obama; a heroic former prisoner of war against the first African-American major party nominee. The 20th anniversary broadcast of "The Choice" examines the personal and political biographies of these men and goes behind headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their very different candidacies say about America.
