Other Programs

In addition to creating original programming, Hedrick Smith has also served as the correspondent on over half a dozen PBS programs, including Frontline and the News Hour with Jim Leher. They include:

The Power Game (1989) -
A four hour PBS mini-series developed from Hedrick Smith's best-selling book, The Power Game: How Washington Works, with in-depth looks at the Presidency, The Congress, the Pentagon and the Unelected (staff, lobbyists and media) during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

Inside Gorbachev's USSR (1990) -
A four-hour PBS series on Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, with Russian-speaking correspondent Hedrick Smith, telling the remarkable story of the changes in Soviet politics, economics, glasnost in the media, and the Kremlin's confronting nationalist tensions in Armenia, Uzbekistan, and the Baltic Republics.

Soviets (1991) -
Hedrick Smith served as PBS host and analyst for a five-hour Russian-produced series on the enormous changes taking place in Soviet society.

Baltic Requiem -
Hedrick Smith hosted a two-hour special on the Soviet occupation of the Baltic Republics, the new burst for freedom under perestroika and Soviet repression in Lithuania and Latvia.

Frontline/Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev (1992) -
a one-hour Frontline documentary on the push for independence in Soviet Georgia and the battle with Russian forces and policies.

Frontline/After Gorbachev's USSR (1992) -
A one-hour Frontline program revisiting some of the characters and stories from Inside Gorbachev' USSR to see the changes that have taken place at the grass roots over the past two years.

Frontline/Inside the Terror Network (2002) -
A one hour Frontline program exploring the lives and motives of three of the four hijacker pilots who led the Sept. 11 attack and examining several moments when Western intelligence and law enforcement could have foiled the plot.