Frontline
Frontline: Season 9

Air Date

September 11, 1990

Episodes

28 episodes

Frontline

Season 9

Episodes

1. The Arming of Iraq: Frontline Special

September 11, 1990

7. When Cops Go Bad

October 16, 1990

8. The Hunt for Howard Marks

October 23, 1990

9. Broken Minds

October 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 that has shattered families and left tens of thousands on the nation’s streets.

2. Decade of Destruction (1): Ashes of Forest

September 18, 1990

3. Decade of Destruction (2): Killing for Land

September 19, 1990

4. Decade of Destruction (3): Mountains of Gold

September 20, 1990

5. Decade of Destruction (4): Chico Mende

September 21, 1990

6. Global Dumping Ground

October 2, 1990
The Spirit of Crazy Horse

14. The Spirit of Crazy Horse

December 18, 1990

11. Springfield Goes to War

November 20, 1990

12. High Crimes and Misdemeanors

November 27, 1990

13. The Struggle for South Africa

December 11, 1990

15. To the Brink of War

January 15, 1991

16. Cuba and Cocaine

February 5, 1991

17. The Man Who Made the Supergun

February 12, 1991

18. Guns, Tanks, and Gorbachev

February 19, 1991

19. The Mind of Hussein

February 26, 1991

20. Black America's War

April 2, 1991

21. War and Peace in Panama

April 9, 1991

22. The Election Held Hostage

April 16, 1991

23. Who Pays for Mom and Dad?

April 30, 1991

24. Innocence Lost

May 7, 1991

25. The Spy Hunter

May 14, 1991

26. To the Last Fish

May 21, 1991

27. The Color of Your Skin

June 11, 1991

28. The Gates Nomination

July 15, 1991

10. Betting on the Lottery

November 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?’