Frontline: Season 3

Vietnam Under Communism

Jan 15, 1985

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

Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)

Jan 22, 1985

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

Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)

Jan 29, 1985

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

The Lifer and the Lady

Feb 5, 1985

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

The Child Savers

Feb 12, 1985

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

Down for the Count

Feb 19, 1985

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

Retreat from Beirut

Feb 26, 1985

They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.

Buying the Bomb

Mar 5, 1985

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

A Class Divided

Mar 26, 1985

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

Potomac Fever

Apr 2, 1985

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

Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years

Apr 9, 1985

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

Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge

Apr 10, 1985

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

Crisis in Central America 3: Revolution in Nicaragua

Apr 11, 1985

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

Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Salvador

Apr 12, 1985

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

Men Who Molest

Apr 16, 1985

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

Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?

Apr 23, 1985

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

The American Way of War

Apr 30, 1985

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

Memory of the Camps

May 7, 1985

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

You Are in the Computer

May 14, 1985

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

What About Mom and Dad?

May 21, 1985

Breaking the Bank

May 28, 1985

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