previous reports: 1985

Breaking the Bank
(60 minutes) In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the ... (more)

What About Mom and Dad?
(60 minutes) Americans over the age of 75 are the fastest growing segment of the nation's population. Many have spent all their lives planning carefully for retirement. ... (more)

You Are in the Computer
(60 minutes) 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 ... (more)

Memory of the Camps
(60 minutes) Forty years ago, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world's conscience. Frontline presents the ... (more)

The American Way of War
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's ... (more)

Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
(60 minutes) One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within ... (more)

Men Who Molest
(60 minutes) Experts estimate there are at least four million child sexual abusers in the US, and they do not fit our stereotypes. Almost half of those ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Sal.
(60 minutes) Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 3: Revol. in Nicrgua.
(60 minutes) In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the ... (more)

Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge
(60 minutes) The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of ... (more)

Crisis in Central American Pt.1: Yankee Years
(60 minutes) From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at ... (more)

Potomac Fever
(60 minutes) Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the nation's capital on the ... (more)

A Class Divided
(60 minutes) Almost 20 years ago, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom ... (more)

Buying the Bomb
(60 minutes) Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakistani ... (more)

Retreat from Beirut
(60 minutes) They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire. One year after the pullout of American Marines from ... (more)

Down for the Count
(60 minutes) Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, ... (more)

The Child Savers
(60 minutes) Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and the figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from the ... (more)

The Lifer and the Lady
(90 minutes) He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work ... (more)

Shootout on Imperial Highway: Part 2
(60 minutes) The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside the housing project where they live ... (more)

Shootout on Imperial Highway: Part 1
(60 minutes) Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting ... (more)

Vietnam Under Communism
(60 minutes) Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their ... (more)