Episode guide
Frontline: Season 6
24 episodes · premiered Dec 14, 1987
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- Episode 1: Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948 Dec 14, 1987 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…
- Episode 2: Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963 Dec 14, 1987 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…
- Episode 3: Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977 Dec 15, 1987 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…
- Episode 4: Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986 Dec 15, 1987 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…
- Episode 5: Apartheid Part 5: 1987 Dec 16, 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…
- Episode 6: Praise the Lord Jan 26, 1988 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…
- Episode 7: Operation Urgent Fury Feb 2, 1988 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…
- Episode 8: The Man Who Shot John Lennon Feb 9, 1988 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…
- Episode 9: Your Flight is Cancelled Feb 16, 1988 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…
- Episode 10: Shakedown in Santa Fe Feb 23, 1988 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…
- Episode 11: Let My Daughter Die Mar 1, 1988 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…
- Episode 12: Back in the USSR Mar 29, 1988 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…
- Episode 13: Poison and the Pentagon Apr 5, 1988 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…
- Episode 14: To a Safer Place Apr 12, 1988 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…
- Episode 15: Murder on the Rio San Juan Apr 19, 1988 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…
- Episode 16: American Game, Japanese Rules Apr 26, 1988 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…
- Episode 17: Racism 101 May 10, 1988 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…
- Episode 18: Guns, Drugs, and the CIA May 17, 1988 An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
- Episode 19: The Defense of Europe May 24, 1988
- Episode 20: The Choice Oct 24, 1988 Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis.
- Episode 21: Who Pays for AIDS? Jun 7, 1988
- Episode 22: Our Forgotten War Jun 14, 1988
- Episode 23: Indian Country Jun 21, 1988
- Episode 24: My Husband is Going to Kill Me Jun 28, 1988