Frontline· Season 1985

Frontline — Season 1985

All 21 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

01
January 15, 1985 · 1h
Vietnam Under Communism
02
January 22, 1985 · 1h
Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)
03
January 29, 1985 · 1h
Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)
04
February 5, 1985 · 1h
The Lifer and the Lady
05
February 12, 1985 · 1h
The Child Savers
06
February 19, 1985 · 1h
Down for the Count
07
February 26, 1985 · 1h
Retreat from Beirut
08
March 5, 1985 · 1h
Buying the Bomb
09
March 26, 1985 · 1h
A Class Divided
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.
10
April 2, 1985 · 1h
Potomac Fever
11
April 9, 1985 · 1h
Crisis in Central America: Yankee Years (1)
12
April 10, 1985 · 1h
Crisis in Central America: Castro's Challenge (2)
13
April 11, 1985 · 1h
Crisis in Central America: Revolution in Nicaragua (3)
14
April 12, 1985 · 1h
Crisis in Central America: Battle for El Salvador (4)
15
April 16, 1985 · 1h
Men Who Molest
16
April 23, 1985 · 1h
Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
17
April 30, 1985 · 1h
The American Way of War
18
May 7, 1985 · 1h
Memory of the Camps
Seventy 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 world broadcast of a 1945 film made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. The film was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on FRONTLINE.
19
May 14, 1985 · 1h
You Are in the Computer
20
May 21, 1985 · 1h
What About Mom and Dad?
21
May 28, 1985 · 1h
Breaking the Bank