Season 26 · Episode 1 — Cheney's Law
For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.
Season 26 episodes
E1For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in…
E2As the U.S. and Iran compete for influence across the Middle East, FRONTLINE examines how U.S. efforts to install democracy in Iraq have se…
E3The world vowed “never again” after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRO…
E4Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?
E5What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Out…
E6Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous in…
E7What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting. This report received a 2009 Emmy no…
E8On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast.
E9The inside story of the war that will define a presidency -- a war that no one expected, and no one planned for.
E10FRONTLINE captures the realities of war through a "virtual embed" with a National Guard platoon serving in Iraq.
E11In the debate over health care, what might the U.S. learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies?
E12As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Eve…
E13A remarkably intimate look into the lives of nine young Chinese coming of age in a society changing as fast as any in history.
E14This two-hour program examines the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama and goes behind the headlines to…
E15For years, big business -- from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers -- have resisted change to environmental…
E16The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched…
E17In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwat…
E18FRONTLINE looks at Venezuela's controversial and outspoken president Hugo Chavez and the revolution he claims is turning his country into a…