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Frontline Season 11 Episodes
Season 11 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1993 - 1993
Episode 1
Clinton Takes Over
Tue, Jan 19, 1993
After campaign rhetoric subsides, a new president has only eleven weeks to establish form and substance of his administration.
Episode 2
Journey to the Occupied Lands
Tue, Jan 26, 1993
As Arab-Israeli peace talks enter their 17th round of negotiations, Frontline examines issue.
Episode 3
What Happened to the Drug War?
Tue, Feb 2, 1993
The federal government's multi-billion dollar war on drugs is an issue Bill Clinton largely ignored.
Episode 4
The Secret File of J. Edgar Hoover
Thu, Sep 2, 1993
For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades.
Episode 4
The Secret File of J. Edgar Hoover
Tue, Feb 9, 1993
For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades.
Episode 5
The Arming of Saudi Arabia
Tue, Feb 16, 199353 mins
Get an inside account of efforts to bring about change in the Saudi kingdom. With on-the-ground reporting, the film examines Saudi Arabia today.
Episode 6
Apartheid's Last Stand
Tue, Mar 2, 1993
Three years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, talks between Mandela's African National Congress and government of President FW DE Klerk show signs of reaching an agreement will end apartheid.
Episode 7
Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special
Tue, Mar 23, 1993
In Netherlands, euthanasia has been openly practiced for twenty years. Through personal accounts of doctors, patients, and families in Holland.
Episode 8
In Our Children's Food
Tue, Mar 30, 1993
Frontline traces 30 year history of US pesticide use, regulation and scientific study.
Episode 9
The Trouble with Baseball
Tue, Apr 6, 1993
As 1993 baseball season begins, Frontline looks at power struggle between owners and players for economic control of Major League baseball and how that battle has led national pastime to brink of disaster.
Episode 10
Iran and the Bomb
Tue, Apr 13, 1993
With headlines focused on United Nation's search and destroy missions inside Iraq, Frontline investigates how Iran is quietly rebuilding its national arsenal of weapons.
Episode 11
L.A. Is Burning: 5 Reports from a Divided City
Tue, Apr 27, 199390 mins
A 90-minute, prime-time special featuring analysis of the Los Angeles riots by prominent observers from the African-American, Caucasian, Asian-American and Latino communities.
Episode 12
Ashes of the Cold War
Tue, May 4, 1993
Three hundred thousand defense jobs have been lost since cutbacks began in 1989 and 1.
Episode 13
The Health Care Gamble
Tue, May 25, 1993
Frontline, in association with The Health Quarterly, presents a behind-the-scenes report on Bill Clinton's savvy campaigning and hard bargaining for health care reform.
Episode 14
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts I and II
Tue, Jul 20, 1993
Bizarre accusations of abuse surround a prominent daycare in Edenton, North Carolina. Frontline's 3-part investigation "Innocence Lost" chronicles how a disagreement between two friends snowballed into a sexual abuse hysteria.
Episode 15
Innocence Lost: The Verdict Parts III and IV
Wed, Jul 21, 1993
The Innocent Lost series continues, focusing on testimony of twelve children who took stand, questioning by prosecutors and defense attorneys, and jurors' decisions on what they heard.
Episode 16
The Heartbeat of America
Tue, Oct 12, 1993
FRONTLINE opens its twelfth season with story of General Motors--world's largest industrial company and symbol of corporate America's once golden age of optimism.
Episode 17
Prisoners of Silence
Tue, Oct 19, 199360 mins
Facilitated communication has been heralded as a breakthrough technique for nonverbal people with autism.
Episode 18
Secrets of a Bomb Factory
Tue, Oct 26, 1993
Wes McKinley didn't know what he was getting into when, in 1990, he was chosen as foreman of a special grand jury investigating potential crimes at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado.
Episode 19
Showdown in Haiti
Tue, Nov 9, 1993
FRONTLINE examines escalating confrontation between Haitian military government and Clinton administration.
Episode 20
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Tue, Nov 9, 1993180 mins
At heart of mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy lies puzzle of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Episode 21
AIDS, Blood and Politics
Tue, Nov 30, 1993
Since outbreak of AIDS more than a decade ago, an estimated 30,000 Americans have become infected after receiving HIV-contaminated blood or blood products.
Episode 22
Behind the Badge
Tue, Dec 14, 1993
In a year in which national attention has focused on police brutality trials in cities like Los Angeles, Detroit, and Miami, FRONTLINE crosses 'blue line' to examine police culture and to ask what do cops think of us?