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Frontline (1983) is a documentary, news web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Frontline online in HD.

Frontline — Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: David Fanning
• Starring: Will Lyman

Frontline — Series Details

Frontline — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: An Unauthorized History of the NFL (1983-01-17) — In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL–the secret connections between professional football and the world of sports gambling and organized cri
• E2: 88 Seconds in Greensboro (1983-01-24) — On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina. Correspondent James Reston,
• E3: In the Shadow of the Capitol (1983-01-31) — Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is ru
• E4: A Chinese Affair (1983-02-07) — 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 China. Now they want to know much more,
• E5: God's Banker (1983-02-14) — 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 chief advisor to the Vatican's bank. Repo
• E6: Pentagon, Inc. (1983-02-21) — Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themselves chasing Pentagon dollars for the jobs those d
• E7: Gunfight USA (1983-02-28) — Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, and the sharpest minds on both sides, Frontline ex
• E8: Children of Pride (1983-03-07) — 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 youngster. Each of Odo's 21 children came to
• E9: A Journey to Russia (1983-03-21) — Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. They encounter young, articulate Russians whose wo
• E10: Daisy – Story of a Facelift (1983-03-28) — Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline follows her through all the procedures, but the heart of the st
• E11: Space – The Race for High Ground (1983-04-11) — Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to
• E12: Abortion Clinic (1983-04-18) — For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most personal decisions a woman can make. By focusing not only on the
• E13: Crisis in Zimbabwe (1983-04-25) — Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the end of the guerilla war may not mean an end to fi
• E14: Air Crash (1983-05-02) — 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 759 at the New Orleans airport. The repor
• E15: Looking for Mao (1983-05-09) — Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and social relaxation. Frontline explores what has be
• E16: Israel: Between the River and the Sea (1983-05-16) — For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli Television. This is Rafik's story-a story in whic
• E17: In Our Water (1983-05-23) — Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathing in it. Frontline chronicles Kaler's six-year ba
• E18: Vietnam Memorial (1983-05-30) — 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 the Vietnam Memorial. Parents, friends, a
• E19: For the Good of All (1983-06-06) — When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applauded the project. But Frontline found that park policies of condem
• E20: The Russians are Here (1983-06-13)
• E21: Who Decides Disability? (1983-06-20) — Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship an
• E22: Crossfire in El Salvador (1983-06-27) — In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and truth remains elusive. Frontline interviews governmen
• E23: Sanctuary (1983-07-04) — Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight of the people who seek refuge from governments allied to the Un
• E24: Moneylenders (1983-07-11) — Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers, Brazil and Mexico,are struggling even to repay the interest. C
• E25: Klaus Barbie: the American Connection (1983-07-18) — Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he would reveal embarrassing evidence about French col

Season 2

• E1: Crisis at General Hospital (1984-01-16) — Investor-owned for-profit hospital chains are aggressively marketing themselves to treat only the insured or wealthy patient. But most Americans assume government and charity progr
• E2: We Are Driven (1984-01-23) — As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate environment, Frontline looks at the darker side of Japan
• E3: The Old Man and the Gun (1984-02-06) — Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Profiles Michael Flannery, Grand Marshal of New York
• E4: Give Me That Big Time Religion (1984-02-13) — Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goes more to doing God's work or to keeping the preac
• E5: The Campaign for Page One (1984-02-27) — On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behind the scenes at the presidential candidates and t
• E6: The Mind of a Murderer (1) (1984-03-19) — Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, almost escaped punishment for these crimes because
• E7: The Mind of a Murderer (2) (1984-03-26) — Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker.
• E8: The Struggle for Birmingham (1984-04-02) — A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama — famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves examines black political power tod
• E9: Captive in El Salvador (1984-04-16) — Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador — a tiny Central America nation about which we know so much, and yet so little — to examine the politics and the peopl
• E10: Chasing the Basketball Dream (1984-04-23) — Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education in exchange for play, but 75% of players never ob
• E11: The Other Side of the Track (1984-05-07) — An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachusetts where in
• E12: Return of the Great White Fleet (1984-05-14) — Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet which critics warn may not be suited to the kind of
• E13: Warning from Gangland (1984-05-21) — 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 over the past three years — the majority of whom wer
• E14: Bread, Butter and Politics (1984-06-04) — Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which they capture the human story as well as the polit
• E15: Man's Best Friends (1984-06-18) — Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some animal rights groups break into labs to 'liberate' r
• E16: So You Want to Be President (1984-10-09) — Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on television — from the early days of lonely ambition, thro
• E17: Welcome to America (1984-10-16) — The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, fail, fight, love, laugh, and confront an America u
• E18: Not One of the Boys (1984-10-23) — As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through the eyes of accomplished women like UN Ambassador J
• E19: Living Below the Line (1984-10-30) — 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 of the recession. Now he's broke, afraid, and at th
• E20: The Arab and the Israeli (1984-11-13) — Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk shows and interviews, they try to project a m
• E21: Better Off Dead? (1984-11-20) — Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for infants born so physically
• E22: Cry, Ethiopia, Cry (1984-11-27) — In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In desert camps described as 'the closest thing t
• E23: Red Star Over Khyber (1984-12-11) — In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan, examining the
• E24: Marshall High Fights Back (1984-12-18) — Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperately to upgrade academic standards and to make a di

Season 3

• E1: Vietnam Under Communism (1985-01-15) — Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their victory, the countryside remains scar
• E2: Shootout on Imperial Highway (1) (1985-01-22) — Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting gang members who live ac
• E3: Shootout on Imperial Highway (2) (1985-01-29) — The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside the housing project where they live in the Watts sec
• E4: The Lifer and the Lady (1985-02-05) — He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way through the prison system to parole
• E5: The Child Savers (1985-02-12) — Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and the figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from the Emergency Children's Service of Ne
• E6: Down for the Count (1985-02-19) — Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, promoters, and fans who love the
• E7: Retreat from Beirut (1985-02-26) — They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
• E8: Buying the Bomb (1985-03-05) — Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakis
• E9: A Class Divided (1985-03-26) — One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discri
• E10: Potomac Fever (1985-04-02) — Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the nation's capital on the shores of the Potomac riv
• E11: Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years (1985-04-09) — From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years
• E12: Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge (1985-04-10) — The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of the revolution, Fidel Castro's rise
• E13: Crisis in Central America 3: Revolution in Nicaragua (1985-04-11) — In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the US first tried to prevent, then t
• E14: Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Salvador (1985-04-12) — Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part 4 traces the evolution of El Salvador's civil w
• E15: Men Who Molest (1985-04-16) — Experts estimate there are at least four million child sexual abusers in the US, and they do not fit our stereotypes. Almost half of those guilty of incest also molest children out
• E16: Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred? (1985-04-23) — One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Ca
• E17: The American Way of War (1985-04-30) — Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's role in fighti
• E18: Memory of the Camps (1985-05-07) — Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the world
• E19: You Are in the Computer (1985-05-14) — You go to rent an apartment and are turned down without any obvious reason. Then you find out your name is in a computer file of undesirable tenants and every other landlord in the
• E20: What About Mom and Dad? (1985-05-21)
• E21: Breaking the Bank (1985-05-28) — In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest banks that failed, Penn Sq

Season 4

• E1: Hostage in Iran (1986-01-21) — While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of their release, using never-before-seen fo
• E2: Sue the Doctor? (1986-01-28) — For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice suit. Frontline takes an inside look at the fierce ba
• E3: Growing Up Poor (1986-02-04) — The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them live below the poverty line. Frontline follows them through
• E4: Russia-Love It or Leave It (1986-02-11) — A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russian tour. They elude their government guides and s
• E5: Tobacco on Trial (1986-02-18) — Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspondent Judy Woodruff takes an inside look at the preparation o
• E6: Divorce Wars (1986-02-25) — Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profiles the couples, the lawyers, the judges, and most poignantly,
• E7: Who's Running this War? (1986-03-18) — Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and asked questions about the role of the White House and
• E8: AIDS: a National Inquiry (1986-03-25) — Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS. In a special broadcast, Frontline first f
• E9: Standoff in Mexico (1986-04-01) — Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed elections, corruption, violence, and the widening gap betwee
• E10: Inside the Jury Room (1986-04-08) — For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wisconsin criminal trial. The results yield a view of 12 Ameri
• E11: Taxes Behind Closed Doors (1986-04-15) — For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, and politics of tax reform. Correspondent William Greider inv
• E12: The Disillusionment of David Stockman (1986-04-20) — Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been called 'the greatest free lunch fiscal policy' in modern times.
• E13: Visions of Star Wars (1986-04-22) — Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contains the most comprehensive information on Star Wars ever produ
• E14: Hollywood Dreams (1986-05-13) — Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the American dream. In the real world of agents, casti
• E15: The Bloods of 'Nam (1986-05-20) — A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the highest casualties. But these young men say they we
• E16: A Matter of the Mind (1986-05-27) — Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. Paul, Minnesota, Frontline examines mental illness
• E17: Holy War, Holy Terror (1986-06-03) — Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and reveals why Iran's war with Iraq is an important step in sp
• E18: Will There Always Be an England? (1986-06-10) — England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, power, privilege prevail. Ofra Bikel explores Britain's soci
• E19: Assault on Affirmative Action (1986-06-17) — The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hiring of fellow firefighters in 1984. As a result, the Justice
• E20: Comrades I: The Education of Rita (1986-07-01) — Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League member in Moscow are depicted as she completes her education at
• E21: Comrades II: Hunter and Son (1986-07-08) — For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, where they hunt on horseback for sable and other valuable fur
• E22: Comrades III: All that Jazz (1986-07-15) — Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is difficult to control. Made without the permission of Soviet aut
• E23: Comrades IV: The Trial of Tamara Russo (1986-07-22) — Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old hospital orderly on trial for theft in Soviet Mold
• E24: Comrades V: Master of Samarkand (1986-07-29) — Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosques in Samarkand. Frontline examines daily life in a Muslim c
• E25: Comrades VI: Pacific Outpost (1986-08-05) — Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thousand miles and seven time zones from Moscow. Here, Frontline
• E26: Comrades VII: Steel Mill Soccer (1986-08-12) — Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for the town championship.
• E27: Comrades VIII: Doctor in Moscow (1986-08-19) — Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness has made him famous. He lives like a superstar w
• E28: Comrades IX: Baltic Chic (1986-08-26)
• E29: Comrades X: Soldier Boy (1986-08-26) — For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and bor
• E30: Comrades XI: October Harvest (1986-09-02) — The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through their daily lives during harvest time and takes a close look at
• E31: Comrades XII: Leningrad Movie (1986-09-09) — Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state expects firm control over all productions. Dinara Asanova, on

Season 5

• E1: The Real Stuff (1987-01-27) — One year after the Challenger disaster, Frontline examined the all-too-human side of the space program as seen through the eyes of the astronauts and engineers responsible for maki
• E2: The Earthquake Is Coming (1987-02-03) — Frontline examines the startling implications of what will happen when the big earthquake hits California, detailing the awesome effects as systems rupture and the entire nation's
• E3: Stopping Drugs (1) (1987-02-10) — A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs
• E4: Stopping Drugs (2) (1987-02-17) — A two-part special examining efforts to stamp out drugs. Part 1 examines the personal struggles of addicts trying to kick the habit and the effectiveness of drug treatment programs
• E5: The Nazi Connection (1987-02-24) — German scientists were responsible for putting the first American on the moon. Now, 15 years later, government investigators are asking whether some of them were also responsible f
• E6: Desperately Seeking Baby (1987-03-03) — Two million American couples desperately want babies and can’t have them. They are turning to private adoption deals brokered by lawyers and counselors. Sometimes they get a new ba
• E7: Street Cop (1987-03-31) — Frontline takes a gritty look at street cops. In Boston’s busiest, most violent police district, they confront the never-ending calls for help and the never-ending chase after drug
• E8: The Secret File (1987-04-14) — How could an ordinary citizen be considered a national security risk? Penn Kimball, a university professor, former New York Times editor, Rhodes scholar, and Eagle Scout, was stunn
• E9: War on Nicaragua (1987-04-21) — As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement there
• E10: The Bombing of West Philly (1987-05-05) — ‘I could hear the bullets all around me, hitting all around the house. I was forced back by gunfire,’ says Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor of MOVE, a small, violent, urban c
• E11: In Search of the Marcos Millions (1987-05-26) — The day Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986, they left with $8.9 million in jewelry, cash, and bonds. But the Philippine government claims they took much more,
• E12: Israel: the Price of Victory (1987-06-02) — The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war’s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling wit
• E13: Death of a Porn Queen (1987-06-09) — She was from Minnesota. Young, pretty, and fresh. She went to Hollywood in search of a dream and found herself in X-rated movies, on drugs, and estranged from her family and friend
• E14: Keeping the Faith (1987-06-16) — The black church was once the soul of its community. It was a rallying point and a force for change. Now, as the black middle class grows and the church evolves, correspondent Roge
• E15: The Politics of Greed (1987-06-23) — As corruption scandals rock New York City, the careers of dozens of high officials are being destroyed. Frontline takes an inside look at the seamy side of urban politics and asks

Season 6

• E1: Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948 (1987-12-14) — Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before the first tiny Dutch settlement in 1652. Part 1 ref
• E2: Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963 (1987-12-14) — Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had lived for generations, and establishing separate and
• E3: Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977 (1987-12-15) — Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on how the white government found African leaders to
• E4: Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986 (1987-12-15) — When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must ‘adapt or die.’ Part 4 explores the reforms underta
• E5: Apartheid Part 5: 1987 (1987-12-16) — Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa’s future. Two years before the release of Nelson Mandela, dissident white Afrikaners met with black leader
• E6: Praise the Lord (1988-01-26) — Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in
• E7: Operation Urgent Fury (1988-02-02) — Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of American students during the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Hersh’s rep
• E8: The Man Who Shot John Lennon (1988-02-09) — Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records paint the chilling portrait of a celebrity stalker who
• E9: Your Flight is Cancelled (1988-02-16) — Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This film probes the air traffic dilemma inside America's busiest a
• E10: Shakedown in Santa Fe (1988-02-23) — Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to probe the contininuing struggle between the inmates
• E11: Let My Daughter Die (1988-03-01) — Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before it became the US Suprem
• E12: Back in the USSR (1988-03-29) — In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline returned with the
• E13: Poison and the Pentagon (1988-04-05) — The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’s poor record of cleaning up its pollution that contaminates
• E14: To a Safer Place (1988-04-12) — When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other
• E15: Murder on the Rio San Juan (1988-04-19) — Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that night o
• E16: American Game, Japanese Rules (1988-04-26) — Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a
• E17: Racism 101 (1988-05-10) — Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at s
• E18: Guns, Drugs, and the CIA (1988-05-17) — An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
• E19: The Defense of Europe (1988-05-24)
• E20: The Choice (1988-10-24) — Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis.
• E21: Who Pays for AIDS? (1988-06-07)
• E22: Our Forgotten War (1988-06-14)
• E23: Indian Country (1988-06-21)
• E24: My Husband is Going to Kill Me (1988-06-28)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Frontline have? 45 season(s) with 857 episodes.

Who created Frontline? David Fanning.

Where can I watch Frontline? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.