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Subject: Legal Issues
 
Burden of Innocence
Series: Frontline
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
In BURDEN OF INNOCENCE, acclaimed FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel -- whose unparalleled work on America's criminal justice system has helped exonerate 11 individuals and has won numerous awards, tracks ...

 

A Crime of Insanity
Series: Frontline
Subject: Legal Issues
Category: Current Issues
In 1994, Ralph Tortorici, a 26-year-old New York psychology student, took a college class hostage. A paranoid schizophrenic convinced the government had planted tracking devices in his body, he was ch...

 

Monkey Trials
Series: American Experience
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the twentieth century, a debate over free speech ...

 

Spying on the Home Front
Series: Frontline
Subject: Legal Issues, Ethical Issues
Category: Current Issues
9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrut...

 

Watergate Plus 30
Subject: Legal Issues, Government & Politics
Category: Current Issues , American History
What lessons has America learned from Watergate? Three decades after an infamous break-in helped topple President Richard Nixon, all the facts are still not in. But as this documentary shows, Watergat...