Marshall High Fights Back
(60 minutes) Marshall High School is one of the poorest in Chicago-both academically and economically. But it is fighting back, trying desperately to upgrade academic standards and ... (more)

Red Star Over Khyber
(60 minutes) In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan, examining the ... (more)

Cry, Ethiopia, Cry
(60 minutes) In one of the first comprehensive reports broadcast in the U.S., Frontline presents the searing reality of the famine in Ethiopia. In desert camps described ... (more)

Better Off Dead?
(60 minutes) Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for ... (more)

The Arab and the Israeli
(60 minutes) Two men, a Palestinian and an Israeli, born thirty miles apart, journey to America. In synagogues and universities, on television talk shows and interviews, they ... (more)

Living Below the Line
(60 minutes) 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 ... (more)

Not One of the Boys
(60 minutes) As more women are voting and running for elected office, have the changed the face of American politics? Through the eyes of women as different ... (more)

Welcome to America
(60 minutes) The bittersweet story of four unforgettable people who flee repression in Poland to find a better life in Chicago. They succeed, fail, fight, love, ... (more)

So You Want to Be President
(120 minutes) From the lonely, early days of presidential ambition, through the months of promise, to the day of denial, Frontline follows the 1984 presidential campaign of ... (more)

Man's Best Friends
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the ethical arguments over the use of animal testing in American laboratories, hospitals, and medical schools. Some animal rights groups have even broken ... (more)

Bread, Butter and Politics
(60 minutes) National attention has focused on hunger in America after a presidential commission and several private advocacy groups reported new findings. Frontline looks at what ... (more)

Warning from Gangland
(60 minutes) In 1984, Los Angeles had the worst gang problem in the nation, and more than 1,000 people were killed in gang violence during the previous ... (more)

Return of the Great White Fleet
(60 minutes) Frontline profiles Navy Secretary John Lehman and the growing debate inside the Navy establishment to build a multibillion dollar fleet which critics say may not ... (more)

The Other Side of the Track
(60 minutes) Horseracing is American's number one spectator sport. In 1982, more that 77 million people wagered almost $12 billion at the nation's racetracks. Frontline gives an ... (more)

Chasing the Basketball Dream
(60 minutes) Many young men, especially many poor blacks in the nation's cities, dream of making it big by playing basketball. Charlie Cobb looks at some who ... (more)

Captive in El Salvador
(60 minutes) Much of the debate over the role of the U.S. in Central America focuses on this tiny nation about which filmaker Ofra Bikel says 'we ... (more)

The Struggle for Birmingham
(60 minutes) This special election report focuses on Birmingham, Alabama, which was a key battlefield in the black struggle for civil rights in the 1960's. Now, 20 ... (more)

The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2
(60 minutes) Part 2 raises serious questions about the use of psychiatric evidence in criminal proceedings. Kenneth Bianchi convinced experts that he had multiple personalities and ... (more)

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The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1
(60 minutes) A terrifying look into the mind of mass murderer Kenneth Bianchi, who killed two women in Bellingham, Washington, and was one of the Hillside Strangler ... (more)

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The Campaign for Page One
(60 minutes) On the eve of the 1984 New Hampshire primary, Frontline presents the first of four national election reports. Correspondent Richard Reeves takes a behind-the-scenes ... (more)

Give Me that Big Time Religion
(60 minutes) Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's weekly ministry was seen by over two million people in big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada.But of ... (more)

The Old Man and the Gun
(60 minutes) Frontline looks at the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of Irish Americans who support the IRA and its strategy of violence. Frontline cameras ... (more)

We Are Driven
(60 minutes) The industrial might of Japan has taken the U.S. by storm as American corporations begin to adopt the Japanese style of management, stressing worker involvement ... (more)

Crisis at General Hospital
(60 minutes) Most Americans regard health care as a social responsibility undertaken for the common good. We assume government and charity programs will allow for everyone ... (more)