reports Social Issues / Race / Religion
REPORTS BY SUBJECT Oct. 30, 1990
Broken Minds
(60 minutes) Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has ... (more)
Jun. 12, 1990
Teacher, Teacher
(60 minutes) Frontline explores the hopes and frustrations of public school teachers in one midwestern town as they face the threat of funding cutbacks, the criticism of ... (more)
May. 15, 1990
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
(60 minutes) The 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins by white youths in the Bensonhurst section of New York City set off a racial and political fire storm. ... (more)
Apr. 24, 1990
Hilary in Hiding
(60 minutes) In 1989, Dr. Elizabeth Morgan was freed from prison after serving the longest detention for civil contempt in American history-25 months. Dr. Morgan had refused ... (more)
Apr. 17, 1990
New Harvest, Old Shame
(60 minutes) Thirty years after Edward R. Murrow's 'Harvest of Shame,' Frontline correspondent David Marash looks at the continuing plight of migrant farm workers and explores the ... (more)
Feb. 13, 1990
Throwaway People
(60 minutes) Correspondent Roger Wilkins investigates the economic and social roots of the black underclass, focusing on the struggle of young black men in one neighborhood in ... (more)
Dec. 13, 1989
The Right to Die?
(120 minutes) Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine the complex legal and moral issues involved in the US Supreme Court's first ... (more)
May. 23, 1989
Babies at Risk
(60 minutes) The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that of many third-world countries. Frontline investigates the political and bureaucratic neglect which fuels ... (more)
May. 02, 1989
Extraordinary People
(60 minutes) Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed children because of a prescription drug called thalidomide. This program, anchored and ... (more)
Apr. 04, 1989
The Dallas Drug War
(60 minutes) Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles the struggle of one neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, to combat the drugs and violence that threaten the lives of ... (more)
Feb. 21, 1989
Who Profits from Drugs
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates how the American economy uses the profits from the illegal drug trade. The program documents a network of lawyers, real estate developers, stock ... (more)
Feb. 14, 1989
Children of the Night
(60 minutes) The story of Iain Brown, who at thirteen left the comfortable world of a middle-class family in Walnut Creek, CA, for the life of a ... (more)
Feb. 07, 1989
Running with Jesse
(60 minutes) An inside look at the historic 1988 presidential campaign of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Frontline profiles the Jackson strategy, his relationship with the press and ... (more)
Oct. 10, 1988
The Politics of Prosperity
(60 minutes) In the last weeks of the 1988 presidential campaign, correspondent William Greider explores the private but increasingly intense debate about what the next president should ... (more)
Jun. 28, 1988
My Husband is Going to Kill Me
(60 minutes) In February 1987, 30 year-old Pamela Guenther turned to the police and the courts in a Denver suburb for protection from her violent husband. Three ... (more)
Jun. 21, 1988
Indian Country
(60 minutes) The Quinault Indians of Washington State seem to have everything-strong leadership, a landmark court victory guaranteeing fishing rights, business deals with the Japanese, and a ... (more)
Jun. 07, 1988
Who Pays for AIDS?
(60 minutes) By 1991, health care for AIDS patients in the United States could cost an estimated $16 to $22 billion. Caring for AIDS victims is overwhelming ... (more)
May. 10, 1988
Racism 101
(60 minutes) Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America's college compuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at ... (more)
Apr. 12, 1988
To a Safer Place
(60 minutes) When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her ... (more)
Mar. 01, 1988
Let My Daughter Die
(60 minutes) Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before ... (more)
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