Episode guide
Frontline: Season 3
21 episodes · premiered Jan 14, 1985
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- Episode 1: 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 scarred and…
- Episode 2: 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 across…
- Episode 3: 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 section of…
- Episode 4: 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 from a…
- Episode 5: 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 New York…
- Episode 6: 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…
- Episode 7: Retreat from Beirut Feb 26, 1985 They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
- Episode 8: 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 Pakistani…
- Episode 9: A Class Divided Mar 26, 1985 · 53m 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…
- Episode 10: 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 river…
- Episode 11: 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 that…
- Episode 12: 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 to…
- Episode 13: 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 tried to…
- Episode 14: 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 war and…
- Episode 15: 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 outside the…
- Episode 16: 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 Catholic…
- Episode 17: 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 fighting…
- Episode 18: Memory of the Camps May 7, 1985 · 57m 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…
- Episode 19: 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 city…
- Episode 20: What About Mom and Dad? May 21, 1985
- Episode 21: 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 Square in…