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Frontline Season 14 Episodes
Season 14 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
The Gulf War: Part I
Tue, Jan 9, 1996120 mins
FRONTLINE's "The Gulf War" is a comprehensive and critical analysis of the 1990-1991 war in which more than one million troops faced off against each other in the deserts of the Gulf states. From the Allied coalition's air war, to the ground assault, to the liberation of Kuwait, and the fallout of Saddam Hussein's retaining power, "The Gulf War" deconstructs what really happened, how it happened and why.
Episode 2
The Gulf War: Part 2
Wed, Jan 10, 1996
One year into Republican revolution, FRONTLINE presents an investigative biography of House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Episode 3
The Long March of Newt Gingrich
Tue, Jan 16, 199660 mins
An investigative biography examining the rise of the controversial politician who led the "Republican Revolution" of 1996 and became Speaker of the House before facing resistance and an ethics probe.
Episode 4
So You Want to Buy a President?
Tue, Jan 30, 199690 mins
FRONTLINE investigates expected $500 million flowing into 1996 presidential campaign.
Episode 5
Murder on 'Abortion Row'
120 mins
Airing as his trial begins, FRONTLINE follows intersecting lives of twenty-two-year-old antiabortionist, John Salvi III, charged with murder in armed attacks on two Massachusetts health clinics, and his victims
Episode 6
Breast Implants on Trial
Tue, Feb 27, 1996
More than 400,000 women are part of a proposed global settlement against US breast-implant manufacturers in largest lawsuit in history.
Episode 7
Smoke in the Eye
Tue, Apr 2, 199660 mins
Mike Wallace, Lowell Bergman and Jeffrey Wigand are interviewed about the controversy when CBS lawyers, citing a little-used legal concept, blocked the airing of Wigand's interview on 60 Minutes.
Episode 8
Angel on Death Row
Tue, Apr 9, 199660 mins
To commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Week, FRONTLINE travels back in time to a family shtetl.
Episode 9
Shtetl
Wed, Apr 17, 1996173 mins
The Polish people and the Holocaust.
Episode 10
The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
Tue, Apr 30, 199690 mins
Through five decades, Jesse Jackson has been trying to realize promise of his own potential he first embraced as a boy in segregated Greenville, South Carolina.
Episode 11
The Kevorkian Verdict
Tue, May 21, 199660 mins
As Dr Jack Kevorkian faces his third criminal trial for assisting in suicide of his desperate patients, FRONTLINE examines improbable saga of 'Dr Death'.
Episode 12
Does America Still Work?
Tue, May 21, 199660 mins
At height of Rust Belt primaries, FRONTLINE goes to Wisconsin where presidential candidates tap deep-seated anxiety and insecurity fuels tensions between American businesses and their employees.
Episode 13
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
180 mins
A Frontline documentary about the events that took place in Tianamen square in 1989.
Episode 14
The Choice '96
Tue, Oct 8, 1996120 mins
FRONTLINE opens its fifteenth season on PBS with a dual biography of 1996 presidential candidates, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
Episode 15
The Navy Blues
Tue, Oct 15, 199660 mins
FRONTLINE examines Navy after Tailhook, an investigation of seismic shock caused by sex scandal involving naval aviators five years ago and its continuing impact on Navy.
Episode 16
Why America Hates the Press
Tue, Oct 22, 199660 mins
An investigation of TV talk-show pundits and the elite Washington, DC, press corps.
Episode 17
Loose Nukes
Tue, Nov 19, 199660 mins
While fear of nuclear annihilation has faded, security of 1,400 tons of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium----enough nuclear material to make roughly 100,000 weapons----is vulnerable to theft in former Soviet Union.
Episode 18
Secret Daughter
Tue, Nov 26, 1996117 mins
The story of June Cross, 'secret' daughter of a white woman and a black man, and her efforts to understand her family background.