Frontline

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1983

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Episodes

EP 2: We Are Driven

As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate enviro...

EP 3: The Old Man and the Gun

Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Pro...

EP 4: Give Me That Big Time Religion

Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goe...

EP 5: The Campaign for Page One

On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behi...

EP 6: The Mind of a Murderer (1)

Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, a...

EP 7: The Mind of a Murderer (2)

Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker....

EP 8: The Struggle for Birmingham

A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent...

EP 9: Captive in El Salvador

Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador -- a tiny Central America nation about which we know so much, and yet ...

EP 10: Chasing the Basketball Dream

Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education...

EP 11: The Other Side of the Track

An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing,...

EP 12: Return of the Great White Fleet

Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet wh...

EP 13: Warning from Gangland

Explores what Los Angeles is trying to do about its gang problem. It's the worst in the nation, killing more than 1,000 people ove...

EP 14: Bread, Butter and Politics

Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which...

EP 15: Man's Best Friends

Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some an...

EP 16: So You Want to Be President

Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on televisi...

EP 17: Welcome to America

The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, f...

EP 18: Not One of the Boys

As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through t...

EP 19: Living Below the Line

It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28 years at the same job, he was laid off-a victim o...

EP 20: The Arab and the Israeli

Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television ...

EP 21: Better Off Dead?

Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with...

EP 22: Cry, Ethiopia, Cry

In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia....

EP 23: Red Star Over Khyber

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves re...

EP 24: Marshall High Fights Back

Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperat...

Overview

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.

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Episodes >>

Crisis at General Hospital

Episode 1

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We Are Driven

Episode 2

As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing wo...

The Old Man and the Gun

Episode 3

Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who...

Give Me That Big Time Religion

Episode 4

Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals...

The Campaign for Page One

Episode 5

On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national electio...

The Mind of a Murderer (1)

Episode 6

Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of ...

The Mind of a Murderer (2)

Episode 7

Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth B...

The Struggle for Birmingham

Episode 8

A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefie...

Captive in El Salvador

Episode 9

Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador -- a tiny Central Am...

Chasing the Basketball Dream

Episode 10

Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who...

The Other Side of the Track

Episode 11

An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, wher...

Return of the Great White Fleet

Episode 12

Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy esta...

Warning from Gangland

Episode 13

Explores what Los Angeles is trying to do about its gang problem. It's the worst...

Bread, Butter and Politics

Episode 14

Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy gr...

Man's Best Friends

Episode 15

Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laborator...

So You Want to Be President

Episode 16

Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential pol...

Welcome to America

Episode 17

The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland...

Not One of the Boys

Episode 18

As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Wood...

Living Below the Line

Episode 19

It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28...

The Arab and the Israeli

Episode 20

Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to Ameri...

Better Off Dead?

Episode 21

Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parent...

Cry, Ethiopia, Cry

Episode 22

In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline prese...

Red Star Over Khyber

Episode 23

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the i...

Marshall High Fights Back

Episode 24

Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and econ...