Frontline - Season 6

24 episodes

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S15 S16 S17 S18 S19 S20 S21 S22 S23 S24 S25 S26 S27 S28 S29 S30 S31 S32 S33 S34 S35 S36 S37 S38 S39 S40 S41 S42 S43 S44 S45
Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948
Episode 1
Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948
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 refutes this claim and
Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
Episode 2
Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
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 unequal schooling f
Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
Episode 3
Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
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 collaborate with th
Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
Episode 4
Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
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 undertaken by Botha to main
Apartheid Part 5: 1987
Episode 5
Apartheid Part 5: 1987
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 leaders from the outlawed
Praise the Lord
Episode 6
Praise the Lord
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 the Bakker empire.
Operation Urgent Fury
Episode 7
Operation Urgent Fury
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 reporting reveals an in
The Man Who Shot John Lennon
Episode 8
The Man Who Shot John Lennon
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 meticulously planne
Your Flight is Cancelled
Episode 9
Your Flight is Cancelled
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 airport -- in the con
Shakedown in Santa Fe
Episode 10
Shakedown in Santa Fe
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 and the guards, the
Let My Daughter Die
Episode 11
Let My Daughter Die
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 Supreme Court’s first righ
Back in the USSR
Episode 12
Back in the USSR
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 Schecter family to t
Poison and the Pentagon
Episode 13
Poison and the Pentagon
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 the ground water in
To a Safer Place
Episode 14
To a Safer Place
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 adults who failed to
Murder on the Rio San Juan
Episode 15
Murder on the Rio San Juan
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 on the border between
American Game, Japanese Rules
Episode 16
American Game, Japanese Rules
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 society that looks W
Racism 101
Episode 17
Racism 101
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 some of the country’s
Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
Episode 18
Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
The Defense of Europe
Episode 19
The Defense of Europe
The Choice
Episode 20
The Choice
Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis.
Who Pays for AIDS?
Episode 21
Who Pays for AIDS?
Our Forgotten War
Episode 22
Our Forgotten War
Indian Country
Episode 23
Indian Country
My Husband is Going to Kill Me
Episode 24
My Husband is Going to Kill Me