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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Air Date: 1983-01-17
In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professio...
Air Date: 1983-01-24
On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party memb...
Air Date: 1983-01-31
Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, sev...
Air Date: 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...
Air Date: 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 Ita...
Air Date: 1983-02-21
Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politician...
Air Date: 1983-02-28
Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims o...
Air Date: 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....
Air Date: 1983-03-21
Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city de...
Air Date: 1983-03-28
Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline ...
Air Date: 1983-04-11
Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet U...
Air Date: 1983-04-18
For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most p...
Air Date: 1983-04-25
Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule....
Air Date: 1983-05-02
Frontline investigates the frightening aftermath of one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history-the June 9, 1982 c...
Air Date: 1983-05-09
Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of ...
Air Date: 1983-05-16
For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew secti...
Air Date: 1983-05-23
Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesion...
Air Date: 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. ...
Air Date: 1983-06-06
When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applaude...
Air Date: 1983-06-13
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Air Date: 1983-06-20
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Secur...
Air Date: 1983-06-27
In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disa...
Air Date: 1983-07-04
Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight ...
Air Date: 1983-07-11
Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers,...
Air Date: 1983-07-18
Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worr...