January 16, 1984 • 58m
Investor-owned for-profit hospital chains are aggressively marketing themselves to treat only the insured or wealthy patient. But ...Read more
January 23, 1984 • 58m
As American corporations begin to adopt a Japanese management style stressing worker involvement in a family-like corporate enviro...Read more
February 6, 1984
Viewing the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Pro...Read more
February 13, 1984
Investigating whether the tens of millions of dollars raised through the appeals of television evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart goe...Read more
February 27, 1984 • 58m
On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves looks behi...Read more
March 19, 1984
Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler murderers in Los Angeles, a...Read more
March 26, 1984
Amid questionable use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings, Kenneth Bianchi is revealed to be an accomplished faker.
April 2, 1984
A special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama -- famously a battlefield for black civil rights. Frontline correspondent...Read more
April 16, 1984 • 58m
Filmmaker Ofra Bikel takes us into the heart of El Salvador -- a tiny Central America nation about which we know so much, and yet ...Read more
April 23, 1984
Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education...Read more
May 7, 1984
An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing,...Read more
May 14, 1984 • 58m
Profiling Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multi-billion-dollar fleet wh...Read more
May 21, 1984
Explores what Los Angeles is trying to do about its gang problem. It's the worst in the nation, killing more than 1,000 people ove...Read more
June 4, 1984
Examines findings from a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups on hunger in America, and the extent to which...Read more
June 18, 1984 • 58m
Examining ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. While some an...Read more
October 9, 1984 • 1h 39m
Following the 1984 presidential campaign of Gary Hart to reveal presidential politics as it has never before been seen on televisi...Read more
October 16, 1984
The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, f...Read more
October 23, 1984 • 58m
As more women are voting and running for elected office, correspondent Judy Woodruff looks at women and politics in 1984 through t...Read more
October 30, 1984
It 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 o...Read more
November 13, 1984
Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television ...Read more
November 20, 1984
Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with...Read more
November 27, 1984
In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia....Read more
December 11, 1984
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves re...Read more
December 18, 1984
Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperat...Read more