Episode list

Frontline

The Bombing of Pan Am 103
Frontline profiles efforts of surviving families of 270 people killed in terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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Miss USSR

Mon, Feb 05, 1990
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.
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Throwaway People
Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates economic and social roots of black underclass.
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The Faces of Arafat
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,.
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Born in Africa

Mon, Apr 02, 1990
Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989.
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New Harvest, Old Shame
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.
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Hilary in Hiding
In 1989, Dr Elizabeth Morgan was freed from prison after serving longest detention for civil contempt in American history-25 months.
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Plunder!

Mon, May 07, 1990
Frontline correspondent Carl Nagin investigates looting of pre-Columbian tombs in Latin America and trafficking of stolen artifacts.
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Seven Days in Bensonhurst
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.
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Inside the Cartel
How serious is Colombia's war on drugs? Frontline investigates drug cartels in Medellin and Cali.
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Teacher, Teacher
Frontline explores hopes and frustrations of public school teachers in one mid-western town.
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Global Dumping Ground: Frontline Special
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.
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When Cops Go Bad
The corrupting influence of drug money is now listed as number one threat to integrity of police forces.
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The Hunt for Howard Marks
For 20 years, one man - Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks - was responsible for running an international drug market shipped marijuana into US by ton.
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Broken Minds

Mon, Oct 29, 1990
A look the science and societal struggles behind schizophrenia, a disease that affects millions of Americans.
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Betting on the Lottery
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?'
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Springfield Goes to War
As threat of war in Gulf grows, a middle-sized American city grapples with reason hundreds of thousands of US troops are being sent to Saudi Arabia.
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