December 14, 1987
Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before t...Read more
December 14, 1987
Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had li...Read more
December 15, 1987
Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on...Read more
December 15, 1987
When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must ‘...Read more
December 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...Read more
January 26, 1988
Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed ...Read more
February 2, 1988
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of American student...Read more
February 9, 1988
Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records pain...Read more
February 16, 1988
Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This film probes ...Read more
February 23, 1988
Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to p...Read more
March 1, 1988
Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her aliv...Read more
March 29, 1988
In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Ti...Read more
April 5, 1988
The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’s poor reco...Read more
April 12, 1988
When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey ba...Read more
April 19, 1988
Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people,...Read more
April 26, 1988
Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, bus...Read more
May 10, 1988
Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitudes of black ...Read more
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.
May 24, 1988
Episode 19 of Season 6 premiered on May 24, 1988
October 24, 1988
Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, Ge...Read more
June 7, 1988
Episode 21 of Season 6 premiered on June 7, 1988
June 14, 1988
Episode 22 of Season 6 premiered on June 14, 1988
June 21, 1988
Episode 23 of Season 6 premiered on June 21, 1988
June 28, 1988
Episode 24 of Season 6 premiered on June 28, 1988