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A look at the connections between organized crime, gambling and professional football in the United States.
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James Reston investigates the role of a police informant in the 1979 murder of five civil rights demonstrators by a group of Klan and Nazi Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see.
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For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in wake of Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China.
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A probing documentary probing ties between Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker, found hanging from a London bridge and Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican bank.
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Frontline investigates power of Pentagon as a business and economic force in domestic economy.
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Frontline looks beyond cliches and stereotypes in debate over gun control. Visiting prison inmates, victims of gun crime, and sharpest minds on both sides, Frontline explores underlying fears make gun control such an emotional issue.
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Kojo Odo, a 42 year-old single black man, took in his first child a decade ago-a 7 year old boy with his arm missing.
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Before Gorbachev and glasnost, three young Americans journey to Soviet Union on a whirlwind two-week, six-city debating tour.
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Daisy is 55 and terrified of growing old. She feels she needs a facelift. From moment of her decision, Frontline follows her.
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This episode included a story about The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The opening sequence shows Jessica Savitch seated next to a laser that she used to destroy a model of a communication satellite. The demonstration was perhaps the first televised use of a weapons grade laser. No theatrical effects were used. The model was actually destroyed by the heat from the laser. The model and the laser were provided by Marc Palumbo, a High Tech Romantic artist from the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
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Abortion Clinic tells the stories of four young women who are confronted by unplanned pregnancies. Two of them decide to carry their pregnancies to term; two chose to have abortions performed at a local clinic.
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Rhodesia, a symbol of white racism, has become Zimbabwe and white minority rule has given way to black majority rule.
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Frontline investigates frightening aftermath of worst air disasters in US history-June 9, 1982 crash of Pan Am flight 759 at New Orleans airport.
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This documentary film is a search for the cultural and political legacy of Mao Tse-tung six years after his death. Filmed in Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha and Shaoshan, this film is described by Arthur Unger of Christian Science Monitor as "one of the best documentaries in the Frontline series" and an "incisive quest for the truth."
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For eight years, Rafik Halabi covered West Bank and Gaza strip-only Arab reporter working in Hebrew section of Israeli Television.
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Frank Kaler's story begins simply enough when he requests a water test. Why? Because his children develop skin lesions after bathing in it.
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Frontline tells story of five days in fall of 1982 when more than 150,000 people gathered in Washington DC for dedication of Vietnam Memorial.
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When a national recreation site between Cleveland and Akron was first mandated by Congress in 1974.
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During previous decade, 100,000 Russians came to America to live. Here they found a more difficult freedom than Americans might imagine.
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Frontline investigates Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from Social Security disability rolls.
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In 1983, El Salvador was a nation where murder and torture were an everyday occurrence.
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Frontline follows journey of a Guatemalan family through 'new underground railroad'.
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Developing countries have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from Western banks.
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Klaus Barbie, a hated Nazi war criminal, was returned to France in 1983 to face justice.
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