Frontline (1983)

While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth anniversary of…

For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice suit. Frontl…

The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them live below the pov…

A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russian tour.…

Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspondent Judy Woodruff…

Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profiles the couples, the…

Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and asked questi…

Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS.…

Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed elections, corrupti…

For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wisconsin criminal tr…

For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, and politics of tax…

Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been called 'the greatest f…

Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contains the most comprehe…

Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the American…

A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the highest ca…

Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. Paul, Min…

Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and reveals why Iran's…

England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, power, privilege pr…

The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hiring of fellow firef…

Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League member in Moscow are d…

For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, where they hunt on h…

Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is difficult to control.…

Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old hospital…

Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosques in Samarkand. Fr…

Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thousand miles and seve…

Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for the town c…

Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness has mad…

For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera…

The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through their daily lives duri…

Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state expects firm control…