January 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 cel...Read more
January 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 Ang...Read more
January 29, 1985
The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside th...Read more
February 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 t...Read more
February 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 w...Read more
February 19, 1985
Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the w...Read more
February 26, 1985
They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
March 5, 1985
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six m...Read more
March 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-e...Read more
April 2, 1985
Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the...Read more
April 9, 1985
From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully...Read more
April 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...Read more
April 11, 1985
In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was ...Read more
April 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. Pa...Read more
April 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 ...Read more
April 23, 1985
One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Front...Read more
April 30, 1985
Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in...Read more
May 7, 1985 • 57m
Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt th...Read more
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 u...Read more
May 21, 1985
Episode 20 of Season 3 premiered on May 21, 1985
May 28, 1985
In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investig...Read more