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Frontline Season 1990

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1990x01 The Bombing of Pan Am 103 aired Jan 23, 1990

Frontline profiles the efforts of the surviving families of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in ... read more

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1990x02 The Noriega Connection aired Jan 30, 1990

In the wake of the US invasion of Panama, Frontline tracks the rise and fall of General Manuel Noriega and investigates the confusion and duplicity in the US... read more

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1990x03 Miss USSR aired Feb 06, 1990

Frontline goes behind the scenes at the Soviet Union's first national beauty pageant with an intimate, bittersweet examination of the status and struggles of... read more

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1990x04 Throwaway People aired Feb 13, 1990

Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates the economic and social roots of the black underclass, focusing on the struggle of young black men in one neighborho... read more

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1990x05 The Faces of Arafat aired Feb 27, 1990

In the wake of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat's historic declaration that he has rejected terrorism and now recognizes Israel's right to exist, correspondent Mari... read more

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1990x06 Anatomy of an Oil Spill aired Mar 20, 1990

In the black, early morning hours of Good Friday, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez went aground on Bligh Reef, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil in... read more

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1990x07 Poland - The Morning After aired Mar 27, 1990

In the summer of 1989, Poland astonished the world by starting the revolution which has swept Eastern Europe. Solidarity, the once-banned independent trade u... read more

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1990x08 Born in Africa aired Apr 03, 1990

Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989. But he died a national hero because he gave his natio... read more

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1990x09 New Harvest, Old Shame aired Apr 17, 1990

Thirty years after Edward R. Murrow's 'Harvest of Shame,' Frontline correspondent David Marash looks at the continuing plight of migrant farm workers and exp... read more

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1990x10 Hilary in Hiding aired Apr 24, 1990

In 1989, Dr. Elizabeth Morgan was freed from prison after serving the longest detention for civil contempt in American history-25 months. Dr. Morgan had refu... read more

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1990x11 Other People's Money aired May 01, 1990

The savings and loan scandal is the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression and will cost US taxpayers an estimated $315 billion. Frontline inves... read more

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1990x12 Plunder! aired May 08, 1990

Frontline correspondent Carl Nagin investigates the looting of pre-Columbian tombs in Latin America and the trafficking of stolen artifacts, exposing a trail... read more

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1990x13 Seven Days in Bensonhurst aired May 15, 1990

The 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins by white youths in the Bensonhurst section of New York City set off a racial and political fire storm. On the eve of the fir... read more

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1990x14 Inside the Cartel aired May 22, 1990

How serious is Colombia's war on drugs? Frontline investigates the drug cartels in Medellin and Cali and demonstrates how they've become part of the country'... read more

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1990x15 Teacher, Teacher aired Jun 12, 1990

Frontline explores the hopes and frustrations of public school teachers in one mid-western town as they face the threat of funding cutbacks, the criticism of... read more

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1990x16 The Arming of Iraq aired Sep 11, 1990

Frontline examines how Saddam Hussein built Iraq's massive arsenal of tanks, planes, missiles, and chemical weapons during the 1980's. Correspondent Hodding ... read more

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1990x17 Decade of Destruction Part 1: Ashes of Forest aired Sep 18, 1990

Adrian Cowell's epic, ten-year-long series begins with a tale reminiscent of the American Wild West. A Brazilian settler brings his family to live deep in th... read more

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1990x18 Decade of Destruction Part 2: Killing for Land aired Sep 19, 1990

Part II follows the land wars which broke out as millions of poor farmers migrated to massive ranches in the Brazilian rain forest. As squatters, they begin ... read more

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1990x19 Decade of Destruction Part 3: Mts. of Gold aired Sep 20, 1990

Part III follows the gold rush of 200,000 illegal prospectors who swarm over private gold reserves in the rain forest. As security forces track the prospecto... read more

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1990x20 Decade of Destruction Part 4: Chico Mendes aired Sep 21, 1990

The series concludes with the story of Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper whose murder in 1988 brought worldwide attention to the problem of Amazonian deforestati... read more

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1990x21 Global Dumping Ground aired Oct 02, 1990

Correspondent Bill Moyers investigates America's shadowy new industry-the international export of toxic waste-revealing how shipping deadly wastes to third-w... read more

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1990x22 When Cops Go Bad aired Oct 16, 1990

The corrupting influence of drug money is now listed as the number one threat to the integrity of police forces. Frontline investigates this crisis in three ... read more

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1990x23 The Hunt for Howard Marks aired Oct 23, 1990

For 20 years, one man - Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks - was responsible for running an international drug market that shipped marijuana into the US by ... read more

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1990x24 Broken Minds aired Oct 30, 1990

Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease t... read more

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1990x25 Betting on the Lottery aired Nov 06, 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... read more

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1990x26 Springfield Goes to War aired Nov 20, 1990

As the threat of war in the Gulf grows, a middle-sized American city grapples with the reason hundreds of thousands of US troops are being sent to Saudi Arab... read more

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1990x27 High Crimes and Misdemeanors aired Nov 27, 1990

Four years after the Iran-contra scandal broke, correspondent Bill Moyers examines-for the first time on television-the full record of this story, documentin... read more

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1990x28 The Struggle for South Africa aired Dec 11, 1990

As fear and violence mount, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk struggle to control the tumultuous course of change in South Africa. Correspondent David Dimbleby ... read more

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1990x29 The Spirit of Crazy Horse aired Dec 18, 1990

One hundred years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, Milo Yellow Hair recounts the story of his people-from the lost battles for their land against the inva... read more

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