Frontline
Synopsis
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
Season 1 Episodes
EP 1
In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football and the w…
EP 2
On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, Nor…
EP 3
Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent blac…
EP 4
For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland…
EP 5
In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest bank and …
EP 6
Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chas…
EP 7
Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, and the s…
EP 8
Kojo Odo, a 42 year-old single black man, took in his first child a decade ago-a 7 year old boy with his arm missing. No one wanted the you…
EP 9
Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. They enco…
EP 10
Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline follows her through al…
EP 11
Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from des…
EP 12
For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most personal decisions a wo…
EP 13
Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the end of t…
EP 14
Frontline investigates the frightening aftermath of one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history-the June 9, 1982 crash of Pan Am flight …
EP 15
Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and social r…
EP 16
For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli Televisi…
EP 17
Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathing in it.…
EP 18
Frontline tells the story of five days in the fall of 1982 when more than 150,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the dedication of …
EP 19
When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applauded the project. But Fro…
EP 20
EP 21
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. …
EP 22
In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and truth remain…
EP 23
Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight of the people who seek…
EP 24
Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers, Brazil and Mexico,are…
EP 25
Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he would reve…
