Frontline
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 4 Episodes
While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fi…
For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpr…
The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them…
A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully ma…
Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspon…
Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profile…
Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private ai…
Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he…
Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed …
For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wi…
For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, a…
Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been cal…
Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contain…
Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as pa…
A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they…
Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway hou…
Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and…
England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, …
The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hir…
Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League mem…
For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, w…
Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is dif…
Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50…
Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosqu…
Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thou…
Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they f…
Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting near…
For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline ca…
The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through the…
Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state e…
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