Frontline
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Frontline

6.9/10 1983 45 Seasons 852 Episodes Returning Series

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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Season 6 Episodes

E1
Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948
1987

Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Afric…

E2
Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
1987

Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where m…

E3
Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
1987

Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 …

E4
Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
1987

When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that aparth…

E5
Apartheid Part 5: 1987
1987

Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa’s future. Two years before the release of Nels…

E6
Praise the Lord
1988

Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agenci…

E7
Operation Urgent Fury
1988

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of Americ…

E8
The Man Who Shot John Lennon
1988

Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired re…

E9
Your Flight is Cancelled
1988

Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This fi…

E10
Shakedown in Santa Fe
1988

Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New M…

E11
Let My Daughter Die
1988

Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keep…

E12
Back in the USSR
1988

In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignm…

E13
Poison and the Pentagon
1988

The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’s…

E14
To a Safer Place
1988

When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable …

E15
Murder on the Rio San Juan
1988

Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eig…

E16
American Game, Japanese Rules
1988

Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball pl…

E17
Racism 101
1988

Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitudes…

E18
Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
1988

An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Con…

E19
The Defense of Europe
1988
E20
The Choice
1988

Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic cand…

E21
Who Pays for AIDS?
1988
E22
Our Forgotten War
1988
E23
Indian Country
1988
E24
My Husband is Going to Kill Me
1988

Cast

Will Lyman
Will Lyman
Self - Narrator (voice)

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