Frontline - Season 3 / Year 1985

Frontline - Season 3 / Year 1985

Season 3 / Year 1985

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DatesJan 15, 1985 - May 28, 1985
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Episodes

Vietnam Under Communism
Year 1985Episode 160 min

Vietnam Under Communism

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 scarred and war-torn. Frontline examines the legacies of the longest and most unpopular war in American history on the country where it was fought.
Jan 15, 1985
Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)
Year 1985Episode 260 min

Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)

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 across Imperial Highway. It's a war being fought on the streets and in the courtroom between gang members and the Hawkins family.
Jan 22, 1985
Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)
Year 1985Episode 360 min

Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)

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 section of Los Angeles, gang members talk about gangs and why they form, and the threat they pose to ordinary citizens.
Jan 29, 1985
The Lifer and the Lady
Year 1985Episode 460 min

The Lifer and the Lady

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 from a life sentence, and Lesley Earl, the woman who wants to help him go straight.
Feb 5, 1985
The Child Savers
Year 1985Episode 560 min

The Child Savers

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 New York into homes where they confront violent parents and battered children.
Feb 12, 1985
Down for the Count
Year 1985Episode 660 min

Down for the Count

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 sport-and critics who say it should be banned.
Feb 19, 1985
Retreat from Beirut
Year 1985Episode 760 min

Retreat from Beirut

They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
Feb 26, 1985
Buying the Bomb
Year 1985Episode 860 min

Buying the Bomb

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 Pakistani businessman who tried to ship electrical devices which can be used as nuclear bomb triggers out of the US to Pakistan.
Mar 5, 1985
A Class Divided
Year 1985Episode 960 min

A Class Divided

The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.

Mar 26, 1985
Potomac Fever
Year 1985Episode 1060 min

Potomac Fever

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 river. Frontline follows two newly elected representatives from their homes to Washington where they experience the rewards-and the frustrations-of making the transition from citizen to congressman.
Apr 2, 1985
Crisis in Central America: Yankee Years (1)
Year 1985Episode 1160 min

Crisis in Central America: Yankee Years (1)

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 that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region.
Apr 9, 1985
Crisis in Central America: Castro's Challenge (2)
Year 1985Episode 1260 min

Crisis in Central America: Castro's Challenge (2)

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 to power, the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas, the support for his revolution abroad, and Cuba's troubled history with the United States.
Apr 10, 1985
Crisis in Central America: Revolution in Nicaragua (3)
Year 1985Episode 1360 min

Crisis in Central America: Revolution in Nicaragua (3)

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 tried to court, and later tried to undermine. Part 3 traces the evolution of US involvement in Nicaragua and the struggle for control of the revolution.
Apr 11, 1985
Crisis in Central America: Battle for El Salvador (4)
Year 1985Episode 1460 min

Crisis in Central America: Battle for El Salvador (4)

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 war and the US policy toward El Salvador.
Apr 12, 1985
Men Who Molest
Year 1985Episode 1560 min

Men Who Molest

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 outside the family. Many also commit adult rape-and they come from every social background. Should they be treated, punished, or both? Frontline examines a controversial Seattle, Washington, program aimed at treating child sexual abusers.
Apr 16, 1985
Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
Year 1985Episode 1660 min

Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?

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 Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with the Vatican.
Apr 23, 1985
The American Way of War
Year 1985Episode 1760 min

The American Way of War

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 fighting modern wars.
Apr 30, 1985
Memory of the Camps
Year 1985Episode 1860 min

Memory of the Camps

Seventy 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 broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on FRONTLINE.

May 7, 1985
You Are in the Computer
Year 1985Episode 1960 min

You Are in the Computer

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 city has access to the information. Correspondent Robert Krulwich investigates computerized information systems and the issues of privacy they raise.
May 14, 1985
What About Mom and Dad?
Year 1985Episode 2060 min

What About Mom and Dad?

May 21, 1985
Breaking the Bank
Year 1985Episode 2160 min

Breaking the Bank

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 Square in Oklahoma City, and another which nearly failed, Continental Illinois in Chicago, to examine the implications on the nation's banking system.
May 28, 1985

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