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Frontline Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Vietnam Under Communism
Tue, Jan 15, 1985
Frontline takes a rare look inside new Vietnam, 10 years after fall of Saigon and US pullout.
Episode 2
Shootout on Imperial Highway: Part 1
Tue, Jan 22, 1985
Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp.
Episode 3
Shootout on Imperial Highway: Part 2
Tue, Jan 29, 1985
The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report.
Episode 4
The Lifer and the Lady
Tue, Feb 5, 1985
He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows story of Ron Cooney.
Episode 5
The Child Savers
Tue, Feb 12, 1985
Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from Emergency Children's Service of New York into homes.
Episode 6
Down for the Count
Tue, Feb 19, 1985
Professional boxing is most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal.
Episode 7
Retreat from Beirut
Tue, Feb 26, 1985
They went to keep peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
Episode 8
Buying the Bomb
Tue, Mar 5, 1985
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline.
Episode 9
A Class Divided
Tue, Mar 26, 198560 mins
An expanded edition of William Peters's classic study of the unique eye-color lesson in prejudice and discrimination taught by Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott. This new edition continues the story of Elliott and her sixteen third-graders of 1970, eleven of whom returned to their hometown in 1984 for a reunion with their former teacher. Peters reports on that meeting and its evidence that the long-ago lesson has had a profound and enduring effect on the students' lives and attitudes.
Episode 10
Potomac Fever
Tue, Apr 2, 1985
Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to nation's capital on shores of Potomac river.
Episode 11
Crisis in Central American Part 1: Yankee Years
Tue, Apr 9, 1985
From Spanish-American War in 1898 until 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and Caribbean was never successfully challenged.
Episode 12
Crisis in Central America Part 2: Castro's Challenge
Wed, Apr 10, 1985
The Cuban revolution of 1950's was first successful challenge to US preeminence in Western hemisphere.
Episode 13
Crisis in Central America Part 3: Revolution in Nicaragua
Thu, Apr 11, 1985
In 1979, Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years.
Episode 14
Crisis in Central America Part 4: Battle for El Salvador
Fri, Apr 12, 1985
Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now focus of American policy in Central America.
Episode 15
Men Who Molest: Children Who Survive
Tue, Apr 16, 1985
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 guilty of incest also molest children outside the family. Many also commit adult rape-and they come from every social background. Should they be treated, punished, or both? Frontline examines a controversial Seattle, Washington, program aimed at treating child sexual abusers.
Episode 15
Men Who Molest: Children Who Survive
Tue, Apr 16, 1985
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 guilty of incest also molest children outside the family. Many also commit adult rape-and they come from every social background. Should they be treated, punished, or both? Frontline examines a controversial Seattle, Washington, program aimed at treating child sexual abusers.
Episode 16
Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
Tue, Apr 23, 1985
One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church.
Episode 17
The American Way of War
Tue, Apr 30, 1985
Frontline examines complex relationship between US Army, its fighting doctrine, American people, and government to understand army's role in fighting modern wars.
Episode 18
Memory of the Camps
Tue, May 7, 198556 mins
In 1945, camera crews went with the American and British armies in the nazis death camps and filmed the horror they found there. A group of directors among whom was Alfred Hichcock developed a script to present these horrors and be sure that people remember. Forty-eight years later it came out from the cave of the Imperial War Museum and was edited as forecast.
Episode 19
You Are in the Computer
Tue, May 14, 1985
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 of undesirable tenants and every other landlord in city has access to information.
Episode 20
What About Mom and Dad?
Tue, May 21, 1985
Americans over age of 75 are fastest growing segment of nation's population. Many have spent all their lives planning carefully for retirement.
Episode 21
Breaking the Bank
Tue, May 28, 1985
The year 1984 had more bank failures in the US than any other time since the Great Depression. Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest bank failures (Penn Square in Oklahoma City) and a near bank failure (Continental Illinois in Chicago) in an effort to shed some light on the nation's banking system.