Frontline Season 7 Episodes

Episode 1

The Real Life of Ronald Reagan

Wed, Jan 18, 1989

Frontline correspondent Garry Wills profiles career of Ronald Reagan, his legacy, and public life.

Episode 2

The Spy Who Broke the Code

Tue, Jan 24, 1989

Was John Walker spy of century? Frontline investigates Walker spy ring and how it sold secrets about American military codes to Soviets.

Episode 3

The Battle for Eastern Airlines

Tue, Jan 31, 1989

Donald Trump's recent purchase of Eastern Airlines' shuttle focused national attention once again on fight for this troubled airline.

Episode 4

Running with Jesse

Tue, Feb 7, 1989

An inside look at historic 1988 presidential campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson. Frontline profiles Jackson strategy.

Episode 5

Children of the Night

Tue, Feb 14, 1989

Episode 6

Who Profits from Drugs

Tue, Feb 21, 1989

Frontline investigates how American economy uses profits from illegal drug trade. The program documents a network of lawyers, real estate developers, stock brokers, and bankers who launder drug proceeds.

Episode 7

Prescriptions for Profit

Tue, Mar 28, 198953 mins

An investigation into the billions spent on housing the poor, and why so few get the help they need. With NPR, the film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis.

Episode 8

The Dallas Drug War

Tue, Apr 4, 1989

Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles struggle of one neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, to combat drugs and violence threaten lives of its citizens and future of community.

Episode 9

Murder in the Amazon

Tue, Apr 11, 1989

Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of seringueiros, Brazilian rubber tappers.

Episode 10

The Shakespeare Mystery

60 mins

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, and Charlie Chaplin all doubted William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was true author of dramatic masterpieces that bear his name.

Episode 11

Extraordinary People

Tue, May 2, 1989

Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed children because of a prescription drug called thalidomide.

Episode 12

Yellowstone Under Fire

Tue, May 9, 1989

President Reagan's Interior secretaries, James Watt and Donald Hodel, may have altered landscape of Yellowstone Park area more dramatically than fires ravaged it in summer of 1988.

Episode 13

Israel: The Covert Connection

Tue, May 16, 1989

The Iran-contra scandal revealed a glimpse of US government's secret relationship with Israel.

Episode 14

Remember My Lai

60 mins

In 1968, American soldiers massacred over 500 adults and children in a Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai.

Episode 15

Babies at Risk

Tue, May 23, 1989

The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that of many third-world countries.

Episode 16

Death of a Terrorist

Sun, Feb 5, 1989

This was a controversial documentary about the life and death of an IRA woman, Mairead Farrell, by the British SAS in Gibraltar. The centre-piece of the documentary is about Farrell's life and how circumstances drove her to embrace Irish Republican violence that inevitably was to lead to her death and, in some quarters, martyrdom.

Episode 17

Who's Killing Calvert City?

Tue, Jun 20, 1989

Calvert City, Kentucky, is at war with itself over legacy of pollution and toxic waste from chemical plants are heart of its economy.

Episode 18

Tracking the Pan Am Bombers

Tue, Nov 28, 1989

A Frontline special report investigates bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Episode 19

The Right to Die?

Wed, Dec 13, 1989

Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine complex legal and moral issues involved in US Supreme Court's first right-to-die case, Cruzan vs.