Season 3, Episode 13 - July 27, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Examine the nation's historic shift to the Right because of one leader, who, with a generous spirit and oratorical mastery, was able to move a country in a new direction. Speechwriter Peggy Noonan and others are interviewed in this examination of Ronald Reagan, the man who led the nation's historic shift to the right.

Season 1, Episode 4 June 21, 1997 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Police brutality in the Rodney King case and the riot following the verdict. Riot! In homes across America, there were images of unimaginable violence: four white police officers viciously beat a man on the ground. Years of accusations of police brutality suddenly became flesh and blood in a man named Rodney King.

Season 2, Episode 23 August 3, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) U.S. military disasters, including Pearl Harbor, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, arise from political constraints. The politics and the high cost of not understanding the application of military power.

Season 1 Episode 48 February 5, 1996 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Gang expert Malcolm Klein is interviewed in this examination of the street wars and drive-by shootings happening across America. Gangs have been around as long as there have been cities and towns, but in the late 20th century there was an explosion of gang growth and not just in big cities.

Season 6, Episode 1 February 21, 2002 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) President Richard Nixon's trip to China and the Watergate break-in News footage that captures the fateful events of Nixon's presidency, including excerpts from the Watergate hearings.

Season 3, Episode 22 September 2, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) New evidence suggests Sen. Joseph McCarthy's fears may have been justified. The infamous and long-controversial cases of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and the role of the American Communist Party in spying for the Soviet Union, and the dramatic rise and fall of Joe McCarthy.

Season 2, Episode 43 September 21, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) The way changes in weaponry have affected the way people wage war, focusing on guided weapons, stealth and anti-missile systems. Future wars will be won or lost because of the technology and information available to military commanders.

Season 2, Episode 27 August 17, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Disclosures of covert arms sales to Iran rock the Regan administration; Oliver North; George Schultz. In 1986 Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular Presidents in American history. But all that was suddenly shattered by a series of startling disclosures.

Season 3 Episode 25 Oct 4, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber" who terrorized New York in the 1950s, and others who used bombs to advance their own agendas. A look into lone madmen and political activists who used bombs to terrorize the American public, and the difficulty law enforcement had tracking down these bombers who became more sophisticated and dangerous.

Season 3, Episode 10 July 12, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) The massacre of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 by members of the Palestine Liberation Organization set off a new wave of hostage taking for publicity that peaked in the 1970's and 1980's.

Season 2, Episode 32 August 26, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Examines the anti-communist movement that began in the 1950's and how it created an atmosphere of fear and distrust among the people of the United States.

Season 2, Episode 8 May 9, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) A new breed of hate agents are more vocal, organized, and potentially deadly. Examines the modern history of hate crimes in America, going back to the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. Traces the spread of hate crimes and groups beyond their traditional strongholds in the South and looks at the new face of hate: more polished, more seductive, disruptive and dangerous. Shows why such groups have turned away from attacking individuals to focus their attention on the federal government.

Season 3, Episode 1 January 4, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect)

Season 4, Episode 22, November 14, 2000 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Saddam Hussein's biochemical weapons threat is greater than the Allies realize at the time of the Persian Gulf War.

Season 4, Episode 9 May 4, 2000 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Division over the Vietnam War intensified at the Kent State University campus in Ohio, when the National Guard opened fire on student protesters. Mike Wallace hosts an examination of the late 1960s anti-war movement and the events and legacy of Kent State University, where Ohio National Guardsmen fired on student protestors on May 4, 1970, killing four

Season 3, Episode 14 July 28, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Celebrity murders and the worldwide commotion they cause are inspected. Included: a look at the killings of Phil Hartman; John Lennon; Gianni Versace; Biggie Smalls; Selena; Sal Mineo; Rebecca Schaeffer; and Tupac Shakur.

April 22, 1998 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) The numerous computer-related crimes being committed by spies, hackers and terrorists and the great damage they can cause.

Season 3, Episode 18, August 16, 1999 (season, episode and date may be incorrect) Kidnapping in the United States and the laws designed to protect children, beginning with the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son.

1996

1996 The first episode discusses the Israel-Arab War of 1967 and the raid on the terminal at Entebbe airport in Uganda to free hostages of a plane hijacking. This episode has Battlefield Detectives examining the Israel-Arab War of 1967. Despite being completely out-manned and out-gunned, Israel was able to prevail over the unified forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq after Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to any ship flying the degel Israel

1996 This episode concerns President Lyndon Johnson's decision not seek re-election and the resignation of President Nixon.