Frontline
Season 4 Episode 29 - Comrades X: Soldier Boy
7.3 ?
1983
Documentary, News
For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and boredom of basic training in the military and focuses on his parents, who worry that in the next two years he may be fighting in Afghanistan.
Episodes in Season 4
1
Hostage in Iran
2
Sue the Doctor?
3
Growing Up Poor
4
Russia-Love It or Leave It
5
Tobacco on Trial
6
Divorce Wars
7
Who's Running this War?
8
AIDS: a National Inquiry
9
Standoff in Mexico
10
Inside the Jury Room
11
Taxes Behind Closed Doors
12
The Disillusionment of David Stockman
13
Visions of Star Wars
14
Hollywood Dreams
15
The Bloods of 'Nam
16
A Matter of the Mind
17
Holy War, Holy Terror
18
Will There Always Be an England?
19
Assault on Affirmative Action
20
Comrades I: The Education of Rita
21
Comrades II: Hunter and Son
22
Comrades III: All that Jazz
23
Comrades IV: The Trial of Tamara Russo
24
Comrades V: Master of Samarkand
25
Comrades VI: Pacific Outpost
26
Comrades VII: Steel Mill Soccer
27
Comrades VIII: Doctor in Moscow
28
Comrades IX: Baltic Chic
29
Comrades X: Soldier Boy
NOW PLAYING
30
Comrades XI: October Harvest
31
