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A Florida jury ordered the country's five biggest tobacco companies to pay nearly $145 billion to Florida smokers who have developed health problems because of cigarettes. ABC News takes a closer look at the landmark decision. Airdate: 7/14/2000When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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On the night she broke up with her boyfriend, a Florida deputy sheriff, Michelle OConnell was found dead from a gunshot in the mouth. Next to her was her boyfriends semi-automatic service pistol. The sheriffs office called it suicide, but was it? FRONTLINE and The New York Times investigate this death, and what can go wrong when the police are faced with domestic violence allegations within their own ranks.

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It was one of those magical movie moments, a homeless boy bonds with a 5-ton orca in the film "Free Willy" and helps the killer whale escape from unscrupulous keepers and return to the wild. But that ending was Hollywood fiction. When audiences, including millions of children, learned that the animal that played Willy was an orca named Keiko who was confined to a shallow pool in Mexico, they started a campaign to free him. And that, say some experts, was taking Hollywood too far. As the public began to campaign for Keiko's release, the movie studio hired Dave Phillips, a marine mammal activist, to monitor Keiko's rehabilitation and spearhead the effort to return the whale to the wild. No one had ever undertaken such a project, but Phillips said he knew he had to give it a shot. When Phillips saw Keiko in his pool in Mexico, the orca was underweight and suffering from papilloma virus. Keiko was moved to a specially built tank in Oregon where he swam in sea water for the first time since infancy. Within a year and a half, he'd gained 2,000 pounds and his skin virus had disappeared. Phillips and his colleagues knew how unprepared Keiko was for life in the wild. He didn't even know how to catch a live fish. Still, the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation carried on and hired an Air Force cargo plane to take the whale to yet another custom-made location in Iceland. It cost some $200,000 a month to maintain Keiko in his million-dollar pen and to reintroduce him to the waters where he was b...

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The immigrant experience has inspired one of the richest strands in American literature. The writers in this collection of conversations from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" discuss how that experience has influenced their writing. Authors include Frank McCourt, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Oscar Hijuelos, Jeffrey Eugenides, and historian Carlos Eire.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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FRONTLINE travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska, home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world for a living, the mining companies who are pushing to extract enormous amounts of mineral deposits, estimated to be worth some $300 billion, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.

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How do you define race? Is it the color of your skin, the type of hair, or the way you live your life? Is your race defined by society or by scientists or by how you see yourself? ABC News follows one man's experience grappling with the fundamental question of identity. Wayne Nelson is a man who has lived the black experience and has written about the black experience. He has raised his son and daughter to be proud of their black heritage, a heritage he has been proud of himself. So he was intrigued after a seeing a story about a company that offered Ancestry by DNA, a test to find out just how much of him was African. The results were not what he expected at all and it made him readdress the age old question: "Who am I?" The question of race in America is the one that still defines us in a way that no other question does.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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Inside the Obama administrations struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria. With interviews from key military and diplomatic leaders, Obama at War examines the hard choices facing the president as he tries to defeat the Islamic State without dragging America into a prolonged regional conflict.