January 17, 1983
In its premiere broadcast, Frontline investigates the underbelly of the NFL--the secret connections between professional football ...Read more
January 24, 1983
On the morning of November 3,1979, five civil rights demonstrators were killed by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greens...Read more
January 31, 1983
Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five per...Read more
February 7, 1983
For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of...Read more
February 14, 1983
In 1982,a man was discovered hanging from a bridge over the Thames River in London. He was Roberto Calvi, head of Italy's largest ...Read more
February 21, 1983
Frontline investigates the power of the Pentagon as a business and economic force in the domestic economy. Politicians find themse...Read more
February 28, 1983
Frontline looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes in the debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, ...Read more
March 7, 1983
Kojo Odo, a 42 year-old single black man, took in his first child a decade ago-a 7 year old boy with his arm missing. No one wante...Read more
March 21, 1983
Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to the Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour. ...Read more
March 28, 1983
Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From the moment of her decision, Frontline follows her t...Read more
April 11, 1983
Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone...Read more
April 18, 1983 • 57m
For the first time on American television, Frontline's cameras record the most intimate details and one of the most personal decis...Read more
April 25, 1983
Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule. However, the...Read more
May 2, 1983
Frontline investigates the frightening aftermath of one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history-the June 9, 1982 crash of Pan A...Read more
May 9, 1983
Only seven years after Mao's death, it is clear that China is undergoing another revolution. This is a revolution of political and...Read more
May 16, 1983
For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered the West Bank and Gaza strip-the only Arab reporter working in the Hebrew section of Israeli...Read more
May 23, 1983
Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathi...Read more
May 30, 1983
Frontline tells the story of five days in the fall of 1982 when more than 150,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for the dedic...Read more
June 6, 1983
When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974, everyone applauded the project...Read more
June 13, 1983
Episode 20 of Season 1 premiered on June 13, 1983
June 20, 1983
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disabilit...Read more
June 27, 1983
In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence, a place where loved ones disappear and tru...Read more
July 4, 1983
Frontline follows the journey of a Guatemalan family through the 'new underground railroad' and considers the plight of the people...Read more
July 11, 1983
Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks. Some of the biggest borrowers, Brazil and M...Read more
July 18, 1983
Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice. But some Frenchmen were worried that he w...Read more