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The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 6

Every episode of Frontline Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Frontline Season 6!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Frontline Season 6 Episode 1 - Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948
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    #1 - Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948

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    Many white South Africans claim that the entire country is theirs by right. No black man, they say, occupied South Africa before the first tiny Dutch settlement in 1652. Part 1 refutes this claim and traces the country’s colonial history, the emergence early in the 20th century of the African National Congress, the rise to power of Afrikaner nationalists, and the formal policy of apartheid.

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  2. Frontline Season 6 Episode 2 - Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963
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    #2 - Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963

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    Part 2 details the new policy which included classifying all South Africans by race, removing blacks from cities where many had lived for generations, and establishing separate and unequal schooling for blacks. Frontline focuses on the increasing black resistance in the 1950s and the rise of resistance leader Nelson Mandela.

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  3. Frontline Season 6 Episode 3 - Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977
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    #3 - Apartheid Part 3: 1963-1977

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    Independent homelands' for blacks was the centerpiece of Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd's vision of apartheid. Part 3 focuses on how the white government found African leaders to collaborate with them in a plan to make foreigners of black South African citizens by deporting them to independent homelands in rural areas of the country. The program looks at the increased resistance to the homeland policy as seen through the first nationwide attack by young black South Africans in the Soweto ghetto in 1976.

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  4. Frontline Season 6 Episode 4 - Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986
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    #4 - Apartheid Part 4: 1978-1986

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    When PW Botha became prime minister of South Africa two years after the Soweto uprising in 1976, he realized that apartheid must ‘adapt or die.’ Part 4 explores the reforms undertaken by Botha to maintain white supremacy, changes that have deeply divided Afrikaners and have provoked explosive reactions from many blacks.

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  5. Frontline Season 6 Episode 5 - Apartheid Part 5: 1987
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    #5 - Apartheid Part 5: 1987

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    Part 5 looks at an unprecedented meeting in the struggle for South Africa’s future. Two years before the release of Nelson Mandela, dissident white Afrikaners met with black leaders from the outlawed African National Congress in Dakar, Senagal, to discuss strategies for change in South Africa, presaging the reforms that would come later.

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  6. Frontline Season 6 Episode 6 - Praise the Lord
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    #6 - Praise the Lord

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    Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in the Bakker empire.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Frontline Season 6 Episode 7 - Operation Urgent Fury
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    #7 - Operation Urgent Fury

    S6:E7

    Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh investigates one of Ronald Reagan’s greatest truimphs-the rescue of American students during the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Hersh’s reporting reveals an inept US military operation and questions whether the students needed rescuing at all.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Frontline Season 6 Episode 8 - The Man Who Shot John Lennon
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    #8 - The Man Who Shot John Lennon

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    Frontline goes inside the mind of Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980. Newly acquired records paint the chilling portrait of a celebrity stalker who meticulously planned the murder, believing it would make him famous.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Frontline Season 6 Episode 9 - Your Flight is Cancelled
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    #9 - Your Flight is Cancelled

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    Since deregulation, America's airline industry has become a nightmare of delays, cancellations, and near misses. This film probes the air traffic dilemma inside America's busiest airport -- in the control tower and behind the ticket counter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Frontline Season 6 Episode 10 - Shakedown in Santa Fe
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    #10 - Shakedown in Santa Fe

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    Eight years after one of the most violent prison uprisings in US history, Frontline returns to the penitentiary in New Mexico to probe the contininuing struggle between the inmates and the guards, the wardens and the reformers, for control of one of our most dangerous prisons.

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  11. Frontline Season 6 Episode 11 - Let My Daughter Die
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    #11 - Let My Daughter Die

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    Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before it became the US Supreme Court’s first right-to-die case, Frontline explored the complex legal and moral issues of this Missouri couple’s battle to allow their daughter to die.

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  12. Frontline Season 6 Episode 12 - Back in the USSR
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #12 - Back in the USSR

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    In 1968, American journalist Jerry Schecter, accompanied by his wife and five young children, moved to Moscow on assignment for Time magazine. In 1987, Frontline returned with the Schecter family to the Soviet Union as they renewed old friendships and explored Russia under glasnost.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Frontline Season 6 Episode 13 - Poison and the Pentagon
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    #13 - Poison and the Pentagon

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    The military is America’s largest producer of toxic waste. Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates the Pentagon’s poor record of cleaning up its pollution that contaminates the ground water in communities across the country.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Frontline Season 6 Episode 14 - To a Safer Place
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    #14 - To a Safer Place

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    When Shirley Turcotte was a child, she was sexually abused by her father. After years of therapy she takes a remarkable journey back into her past-confronting her mother and other adults who failed to protect her, reuniting with her brothers and sister who were also brutally abused, and trying to make peace with the horror story that was her childhood.

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  15. Frontline Season 6 Episode 15 - Murder on the Rio San Juan
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    #15 - Murder on the Rio San Juan

    S6:E15

    Frontline investigates the unsolved 1984 terrorist bombing at a press conference held by contra leader Eden Pastora. Eight people, including an American reporter, died that night on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This report dissects the motives of possible conspirators and follows the trail of the man suspected of planting the bomb.

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  16. Frontline Season 6 Episode 16 - American Game, Japanese Rules
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    #16 - American Game, Japanese Rules

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    Can America succeed in Japan? Frontline paints an intimate portrait of Americans living and working in Japan-baseball players, businessmen, and an American bride-all confronting a society that looks Western, but operates by a very different set of rules.

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  17. Frontline Season 6 Episode 17 - Racism 101
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    #17 - Racism 101

    S6:E17

    Frontline explores the disturbing increase in racial incidents and violence on America’s college campuses. The attitudes of black and white students reveal increasing tensions at some of the country’s best universities where years after the civil rights struggle, full integration is still only a dream.

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  18. Frontline Season 6 Episode 18 - Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
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    #18 - Guns, Drugs, and the CIA

    S6:E18

    An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Frontline Season 6 Episode 19 - The Defense of Europe
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    #19 - The Defense of Europe

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Frontline Season 6 Episode 20 - The Choice
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    #20 - The Choice

    S6:E20

    Frontline examines in-depth the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Garry Willis

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  21. Frontline Season 6 Episode 21 - Who Pays for AIDS?
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    #21 - Who Pays for AIDS?

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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Frontline Season 6 Episode 22 - Our Forgotten War
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    #22 - Our Forgotten War

    S6:E22

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  23. Frontline Season 6 Episode 23 - Indian Country
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    #23 - Indian Country

    S6:E23

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  24. Frontline Season 6 Episode 24 - My Husband is Going to Kill Me
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    #24 - My Husband is Going to Kill Me

    S6:E24

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Apartheid Part I: 1652-1948" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 6. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/14/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Apartheid Part 2: 1948-1963".