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Frontline Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
29 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
Tue, Jan 23, 1990
Frontline profiles efforts of surviving families of 270 people killed in terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Episode 2
The Noriega Connection
Tue, Jan 30, 1990
In wake of US invasion of Panama, Frontline tracks rise and fall of General Manuel Noriega.
Episode 3
Miss USSR
Tue, Feb 6, 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.
Episode 4
Throwaway People
Tue, Feb 13, 1990
Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates economic and social roots of black underclass.
Episode 5
The Faces of Arafat
Tue, Feb 27, 1990
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,.
Episode 6
Anatomy of an Oil Spill
Tue, Mar 20, 1990
In black, early morning hours of Good Friday, 1989, supertanker Exxon Valdez went aground on Bligh Reef.
Episode 7
Poland: The Morning After
Tue, Mar 27, 1990
In summer of 1989, Poland astonished world by starting revolution which has swept Eastern Europe.
Episode 8
Born in Africa
Tue, Apr 3, 199088 mins
Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989.
Episode 9
New Harvest, Old Shame
Tue, Apr 17, 199057 mins
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.
Episode 10
Hilary in Hiding
Tue, Apr 24, 1990
In 1989, Dr Elizabeth Morgan was freed from prison after serving longest detention for civil contempt in American history-25 months.
Episode 11
Other People's Money
Tue, May 1, 1990
The savings and loan scandal is worst financial disaster since Great Depression.
Episode 12
Plunder!
Tue, May 8, 1990
Frontline correspondent Carl Nagin investigates looting of pre-Columbian tombs in Latin America and trafficking of stolen artifacts.
Episode 13
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Tue, May 15, 199060 mins
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.
Episode 14
Inside the Cartel
Tue, May 22, 1990
How serious is Colombia's war on drugs? Frontline investigates drug cartels in Medellin and Cali.
Episode 15
Teacher, Teacher
Tue, Jun 12, 1990
Frontline explores hopes and frustrations of public school teachers in one mid-western town.
Episode 16
The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special
Tue, Sep 11, 1990
Frontline examines how Saddam Hussein built Iraq's massive arsenal of tanks, planes, missiles, and chemical weapons.
Episode 17
Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest
Tue, Sep 18, 1990
Adrian Cowell's epic, ten-year-long series begins with a tale reminiscent of American Wild West.
Episode 18
Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land
Wed, Sep 19, 1990
Part II follows land wars which broke out as millions of poor farmers migrated to massive ranches in Brazilian rain forest.
Episode 19
Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold
Thu, Sep 20, 1990
Part III follows gold rush of 200,000 illegal prospectors who swarm over private gold reserves in rain forest.
Episode 20
Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes
Fri, Sep 21, 1990
The series concludes with story of Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper whose murder in 1988 brought worldwide attention to problem of Amazonian deforestation.
Episode 21
Global Dumping Ground: Frontline Special
Tue, Oct 2, 1990
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.
Episode 22
When Cops Go Bad
Tue, Oct 16, 1990
The corrupting influence of drug money is now listed as number one threat to integrity of police forces.
Episode 23
The Hunt for Howard Marks
Tue, Oct 23, 1990
For 20 years, one man - Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks - was responsible for running an international drug market shipped marijuana into US by ton.
Episode 24
Broken Minds
Tue, Oct 30, 1990
A look the science and societal struggles behind schizophrenia, a disease that affects millions of Americans.
Episode 25
Betting on the Lottery
Tue, Nov 6, 1990
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?'
Episode 26
Springfield Goes to War
Tue, Nov 20, 1990
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.
Episode 27
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Tue, Nov 27, 1990
Four years after Iran-contra scandal broke, correspondent Bill Moyers examines-for first time on television-full record of this story.
Episode 28
The Struggle for South Africa
Tue, Dec 11, 1990
As fear and violence mount, Nelson Mandela and FW DE Klerk struggle to control tumultuous course of change in South Africa.
Episode 29
The Spirit of Crazy Horse
Tue, Dec 18, 199060 mins
One hundred years after massacre at Wounded Knee