January 21, 1986
While the whole world watched, 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran by Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days. On the fifth annive...Read more
January 28, 1986
For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice sui...Read more
February 4, 1986
The children of Chester, Pennsylvania are plagued by poor health, malnutrition, drugs, and family problems. Half of them live belo...Read more
February 11, 1986
A unique look at the Soviet Union through the eyes of Americans as they attempt to escape the confines of a carefully managed Russ...Read more
February 18, 1986
Life-long smokers who say their health has been destroyed by cigarettes are suing tobacco companies. Frontline correspondent Judy ...Read more
February 25, 1986
Half of all American marriages end in divorce. Using unique access to mediation and court proceedings, Frontline profiles the coup...Read more
March 18, 1986
Eight months before the Iran-contra scandal broke, Frontline investigated the contras, probed the legality of private aid, and ask...Read more
March 25, 1986
Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he h...Read more
April 1, 1986
Political violence is breaking out in northern Mexico. Frontline documents the growing unrest in Mexico caused by fixed elections,...Read more
April 8, 1986
For the first time on American television, Frontline cameras move inside a jury room to record the deliberations in a Wisconsin cr...Read more
April 15, 1986
For more than a year, Frontline has been behind the scenes with congressmen and lobbyists covering the deals, dollars, and politic...Read more
April 20, 1986
Former budget director David Stockman gives an exclusive interview to correspondent William Greider on what has been called 'the g...Read more
April 22, 1986
Frontline and Nova combine resources for the first time to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The program contains the most...Read more
May 13, 1986
Hollywood is called an industry, a place, a state of mind. But making it in Hollywood, and making movies, persists as part of the ...Read more
May 20, 1986
A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the h...Read more
May 27, 1986
Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. ...Read more
June 3, 1986
Frontline correspondent John Laurence examines the background of the Islamic Revolution, the roots of radical Shiism and reveals w...Read more
June 10, 1986
England is a country divided. One in five workers in northern England is unemployed, while in the south of the country, power, pri...Read more
June 17, 1986
The Supreme Court ruled against a Memphis firefighter who successfully fought for an affirmative action plan for the hiring of fel...Read more
July 1, 1986
Rita Tikhonova, 21, is a model Russian citizen. The lifestyle and ambitions of an outstanding Young Communist League member in Mos...Read more
July 8, 1986
For four months every year, Mikhail Kuzakov and his son, Yuri, leave the comforts of home for the Siberian wilderness, where they ...Read more
July 15, 1986
Sergei Kuryokhin is a popular Russian jazz and rock musician who is disapproved of by the state because his music is difficult to ...Read more
July 22, 1986
Frontline examines the differences in Soviet and Western justice systems as it contrasts the lives of Tamara Russo, a 50-year-old ...Read more
July 29, 1986
Abdugaffar Khakkulov is a master craftsman of Uzbek heritage who for 35 years has been restoring the great Islamic mosques in Sama...Read more
August 5, 1986
Frontline gained unique access in filming the inner workings of the local government system in Nakhodka, a town six thousand miles...Read more
August 12, 1986
Frontline profiles the lives of players on a factory soccer team in the southern Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as they fight for t...Read more
August 19, 1986
Svyatoslav Nilolaevich Fyodorov is an outspoken and provocative eye surgeon whose surgical technique for correcting nearsightednes...Read more
August 26, 1986
Episode 28 of Season 4 premiered on August 26, 1986
August 26, 1986
For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras foll...Read more
September 2, 1986
The Kulinich family lives and works on a collective farm in southern Russia. Frontline follows the Kulinichs through their daily l...Read more
September 9, 1986
Soviet film directors have one advantage over Westerners: the state takes care of the budget. But in return, the state expects fir...Read more