Season 6 poster

Season 6

(1987)

Cast

Will Lyman as Self - Narrator (voice)
Will Lyman

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Episodes

Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948 poster

Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948 0.0

December 14, 1987

Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Afri…

Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963 poster

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December 14, 1987

Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where …

Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977 poster

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December 15, 1987

Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3…

Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986 poster

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December 15, 1987

When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apart…

Apartheid Part 5: 1987 poster

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December 16, 1987

Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa’s future. Two years before the release of Nel…

Praise the Lord poster

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January 26, 1988

Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agenc…

Operation Urgent Fury poster

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February 2, 1988

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of Ameri…

The Man Who Shot John Lennon poster

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February 9, 1988

Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired r…

Your Flight is Cancelled poster

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February 16, 1988

Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This f…

Shakedown in Santa Fe poster

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February 23, 1988

Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New …

Let My Daughter Die poster

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March 1, 1988

Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that kee…

Back in the USSR poster

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March 29, 1988

In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assign…

Poison and the Pentagon poster

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April 5, 1988

The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’…

To a Safer Place poster

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April 12, 1988

When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable…

Murder on the Rio San Juan poster

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April 19, 1988

Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Ei…

American Game, Japanese Rules poster

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April 26, 1988

Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball p…

Racism 101 poster

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May 10, 1988

Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitude…

Guns, Drugs, and the CIA poster

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May 17, 1988

An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Co…

The Defense of Europe poster

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May 24, 1988

The Choice poster

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October 24, 1988

Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic can…

Who Pays for AIDS? poster

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June 7, 1988

Our Forgotten War poster

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June 14, 1988

Indian Country poster

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June 21, 1988

My Husband is Going to Kill Me poster

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June 28, 1988