Season 2 · Episode 4 — Give Me That Big Time Religion
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 preachers on TV. Should the government regulate religious fundraising?
Season 2 episodes
E1Investor-owned for-profit hospital chains are aggressively marketing themselves to treat only the insured or wealthy patient. But most Amer…
E2As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate environment, Fr…
E3Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Profiles Mic…
E4Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goes more to…
E5On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behind the sc…
E6Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, almost esc…
E7Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker.
E8A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent Richard…
E9Filmmaker 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…
E10Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education in excha…
E11An 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 G…
E12Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet which criti…
E13Explores 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 pas…
E14Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which they cap…
E15Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some animal righ…
E16Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on television -- fro…
E17The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, fail, figh…
E18As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through the eyes o…
E19It 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 rec…
E20Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk show…
E21Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical…
E22In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In deser…
E23In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports fro…
E24Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperately to up…