reports Social Issues / Race / Religion
REPORTS BY SUBJECT May. 16, 1995
The Vanishing Father
(60 minutes) In less than two generations, a seismic shift has occurred in the makeup of the American family. Today,fatherlessness has become the norm for about ... (more)
Apr. 11, 1995
Divided Memories Part 2
(120 minutes) Part 2 looks at the effects that remembered abuse has had on the families involved and explores how we distinguish real memories from those which ... (more)
Apr. 04, 1995
Divided Memories Part 1
(120 minutes) Today, a raging debate over the validity of repressed memory about sexual abuse divides the therapeutic community, the women's movement, and thousands of accusers and ... (more)
Feb. 28, 1995
Rush Limbaugh's America
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE explores the phenomenon of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Three hours each day, five days a week, Limbaugh is heard on more ... (more)
Feb. 21, 1995
The Begging Game
(60 minutes) Each day, thousands of panhandlers work the streets and subways of cities all across America. Are the hard luck stories they tell believable? ... (more)
Jan. 10, 1995
Does TV Kill?
(90 minutes) Before the average American child leaves elementary school, researchers estimate that he or she will have witnessed more than eight thousand murders on television. ... (more)
Jan. 03, 1995
The Nicotine War
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE tells the story of Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler's bold attempt to regulate tobacco--an industry which has defied regulation for more than ... (more)
Nov. 15, 1994
Hillary's Class
(60 minutes) In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time ... (more)
Oct. 18, 1994
School Colors
(150 minutes) Integration. It was called the greatest social experiment of our generation. But 40 years after Brown v. Bd of Ed, many of our ... (more)
Jun. 21, 1994
The Trouble with Evan
(90 minutes) What makes 11 year-old Evan lie, fight and steal? And what leads his parents to heap verbal abuse on their son, to tell him, 'I ... (more)
Jun. 07, 1994
Go Back to Mexico!
(60 minutes) America continues to wage a battle against the stream of undocumented immigrants entering the country. An estimated three million undocumented immigrants currently reside in the ... (more)
Apr. 05, 1994
The Kevorkian File
(60 minutes) Just a few years ago, nobody had ever heard of Jack Kevorkian. Today, he is the most famous doctor in America--and the most controversial. ... (more)
Mar. 29, 1994
In the Game
(60 minutes) 'We just know this is our season--we want it all! So there's nothing that's going to get in our way,' says Trisha Stevens, one ... (more)
Jan. 18, 1994
A Place for Madness
(60 minutes) In the last quarter century, many of the mentally ill in this country were discharged from hopitals with no coherent provision for follow-up care. ... (more)
Dec. 14, 1993
Behind the Badge
(60 minutes) In a year in which national attention has focused on police brutality trials in cities like Los Angeles, Detroit, and Miami, FRONTLINE crosses 'the blue ... (more)
Nov. 30, 1993
AIDS, Blood and Politics
(60 minutes) Since the outbreak of AIDS more than a decade ago, an estimated 30,000 Americans have become infected after receiving HIV-contaminated blood or blood products. ... (more)
Oct. 19, 1993
Prisoners of Silence
(60 minutes) Facilitated communication (FC) has been heralded as a breakthrough technique for nonverbal people with autism. The method uses a helper to control the involuntary ... (more)
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