Frontline

Season 7 Episode 7: Prescriptions for Profit

44 SeasonsFeb 14, 1989TV-PG53m8.6

An investigation into the billions spent on housing the poor, and why so few get the help they need. With NPR, the film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis.

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Season 7 Episodes:

Episode 4 Running with Jesse

4. Running with Jesse

Aired: Jan 24, 1989

An inside look at historic 1988 presidential campaign of Reverend Jesse Jacks...

Episode 8 The Dallas Drug War

8. The Dallas Drug War

Aired: Feb 21, 1989

Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles struggle of one neighborhood...

Episode 9 Murder in the Amazon

9. Murder in the Amazon

Aired: Mar 28, 1989

Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of seringueiros, Brazilian ...

Episode 11 Extraordinary People

11. Extraordinary People

Aired: Apr 11, 1989

Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed chi...

Episode 14 Remember My Lai

14. Remember My Lai

Aired: May 9, 1989

In 1968, American soldiers massacred over 500 adults and children in a Vietna...

Episode 15 Babies at Risk

15. Babies at Risk

Aired: May 23, 1989

The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that o...

Episode 16 Death of a Terrorist

16. Death of a Terrorist

Aired: May 16, 1989

Mairead Farrell was three Irish Republican Army terrorists gunned down by Bri...

Episode 19 The Right to Die?

19. The Right to Die?

Aired: Jun 20, 1989

Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine...


Info about Frontline

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary, News