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Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting gang members who live across Imperial Highway. It's a war being fought on the streets and in the courtroom between gang members and the Hawkins family.
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Episode 2 - Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)
Episode 1 - Vietnam Under Communism Episode 2 - Shootout on Imperial Highway (1) Episode 3 - Shootout on Imperial Highway (2) Episode 4 - The Lifer and the Lady Episode 5 - The Child Savers Episode 6 - Down for the Count Episode 7 - Retreat from Beirut Episode 8 - Buying the Bomb Episode 9 - A Class Divided Episode 10 - Potomac Fever Episode 11 - Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years Episode 12 - Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge Episode 13 - Crisis in Central America 3: Revolution in Nicaragua Episode 14 - Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Salvador Episode 15 - Men Who Molest Episode 16 - Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred? Episode 17 - The American Way of War Episode 18 - Memory of the Camps Episode 19 - You Are in the Computer Episode 20 - What About Mom and Dad? Episode 21 - Breaking the Bank
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S3 • E1
Vietnam Under Communism
Frontline takes a rare look inside the new Vietnam, 10 years after the fall of Saigon and the US pullout. While the Vietnamese celebrate their victory, the countryside remains scarred and war-torn. Frontline examines the legacies of the longest and most unpopular war in American history on the country where it was fought.
1985-01-15
S3 • E2
Shootout on Imperial Highway (1)
Seventy-two year-old James Hawkins,Sr. has turned his home and business into an armed camp. Living in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Hawkins is fighting gang members who live across Imperial Highway. It's a war being fought on the streets and in the courtroom between gang members and the Hawkins family.
1985-01-22
S3 • E3
Shootout on Imperial Highway (2)
The trial of gang members accused of conspiracy concludes this special two-part report. Through interviews in prison and inside the housing project where they live in the Watts section of Los Angeles, gang members talk about gangs and why they form, and the threat they pose to ordinary citizens.
1985-01-29
S3 • E4
The Lifer and the Lady
He was a convicted murderer. She was a prison volunteer. They fell in love. Frontline follows the story of Ron Cooney, who tries to work his way through the prison system to parole from a life sentence, and Lesley Earl, the woman who wants to help him go straight.
1985-02-05
S3 • E5
The Child Savers
Over a million cases of child abuse were reported in 1984-and the figure is growing. Frontline follows a dedicated group of case workers from the Emergency Children's Service of New York into homes where they confront violent parents and battered children.
1985-02-12
S3 • E6
Down for the Count
Professional boxing is one of the most popular and profitable sports in America. It can also be fatal. Frontline goes inside the world of fighters, promoters, and fans who love the sport-and critics who say it should be banned.
1985-02-19
S3 • E7
Retreat from Beirut
They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire.
1985-02-26
S3 • E8
Buying the Bomb
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh presents his first television investigation for Frontline. After six months of work, Hersh uncovers the story of a Pakistani businessman who tried to ship electrical devices which can be used as nuclear bomb triggers out of the US to Pakistan.
1985-03-05
S3 • E9
A Class Divided
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later.
1985-03-26
S3 • E10
Potomac Fever
Every two years, a desire to represent their home districts in Washington brings a group of first-time freshmen congressmen to the nation's capital on the shores of the Potomac river. Frontline follows two newly elected representatives from their homes to Washington where they experience the rewards-and the frustrations-of making the transition from citizen to congressman.
1985-04-02
S3 • E11
Crisis in Central America 1: Yankee Years
From the Spanish-American War in 1898 until the 1950's, US preeminence in Central America and the Caribbean was never successfully challenged. Part 1 looks at these turbulent years that set the stage for today's crises-from the glory days of building the Panama Canal, through the early US Marine occupation of Nicaragua, to the Cold War crisis in Guatemala in 1954, which resulted in the CIA's first 'covert' war in the region.
1985-04-09
S3 • E12
Crisis in Central America 2: Castro's Challenge
The Cuban revolution of the 1950's was the first successful challenge to US preeminence in the Western hemisphere. Part 2 looks at the roots of the revolution, Fidel Castro's rise to power, the establishment of the first Communist state in the Americas, the support for his revolution abroad, and Cuba's troubled history with the United States.
1985-04-10
S3 • E13
Crisis in Central America 3: Revolution in Nicaragua
In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. It was a revolution the US first tried to prevent, then tried to court, and later tried to undermine. Part 3 traces the evolution of US involvement in Nicaragua and the struggle for control of the revolution.
1985-04-11
S3 • E14
Crisis in Central America 4: Battle for El Salvador
Many Americans had never heard of El Salvador until a few years ago. It is now the focus of American policy in Central America. Part 4 traces the evolution of El Salvador's civil war and the US policy toward El Salvador.
1985-04-12
S3 • E15
Men Who Molest
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.
1985-04-16
S3 • E16
Catholics in America: Is Nothing Sacred?
One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with the Vatican.
1985-04-23
S3 • E17
The American Way of War
Frontline examines the complex relationship between the US Army, its fighting doctrine, the American people, and the government in an effort to understand the army's role in fighting modern wars.
1985-04-30
S3 • E18
Memory of the Camps
Forty 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 is broadcast for the first time in its entirety on Frontline.
1985-05-07
S3 • E19
You Are in the Computer
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 the city has access to the information. Correspondent Robert Krulwich investigates computerized information systems and the issues of privacy they raise.
1985-05-14
S3 • E20
What About Mom and Dad?
1985-05-21
S3 • E21
Breaking the Bank
In 1984, there were more bank failures in the US than at any time since the Great Depression. Correspondent Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest banks that failed, Penn Square in Oklahoma City, and another which nearly failed, Continental Illinois in Chicago, to examine the implications on the nation's banking system.
1985-05-28