Frontline goes behind scenes at Soviet Union's first national beauty pageant with an intimate, bittersweet examination of status and struggles of women in USSR.
In wake of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat's historic declaration that he has rejected terrorism and now recognizes Israel's right to exist, correspondent Marie Colvin profiles Palestinian leader, follows his peace initiatives,.
A sequel to Edward R. Murrow's famous Harvest of Shame documentary, showing the deplorable conditions of migrant farm workers in 1960, found little has changed in 30 years.
The murder of a sixteen-year old boy in Brooklyn triggers a frenzy that engulfs New York City; the film looks at the days that follow to find the dynamics of racial politics and guilt.
The series concludes with story of Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper whose murder in 1988 brought worldwide attention to problem of Amazonian deforestation.
Correspondent Bill Moyers investigates America's shadowy new industry-international export of toxic waste-revealing how shipping deadly wastes to third-world countries has become an enormous business in US.
For 20 years, one man - Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks - was responsible for running an international drug market shipped marijuana into US by ton.
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 lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, 'Who really wins and who loses?'
