Season
Frontline: Season 18
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Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 18
- Air date
- 1999-09-27
- Episodes
- 16 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: John Paul II: the Millennial Pope
Episode 2: Secrets of the SAT
Episode 3: Mafia Power Play
Episode 4: The Lost Children of Rockdale County
Conyers, Georgia is a prosperous bedroom community just outside Atlanta. FRONTLINE examines the link between an outbreak of syphilis among a group of its teenagers and the well-off community in which they live. The film reveals a parent's worst nightmare--children as young as fourteen naming scores of sexual partners; others telling of binge drinking, drugs and sex parties. In a series of intertwining profiles, FRONTLINE uncovers the roots of the Conyers syphilis epidemic and reveals the turbulent psychology of America's suburban teenagers.
Episode 5: Apocalypse! (2)
Episode 6: Justice for Sale
Episode 7: The Case for Innocence
Episode 8: The Killer at Thurston High
FRONTLINE explores what led Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old Oregon boy, to kill his parents and two classmates, and shoot and injure 25 others at his high school.
Episode 9: The Survival of Saddam
Episode 10: Assault on Gay America
Episode 11: War in Europe
Episode 12: Dr Solomon's Dilemma
Episode 13: What's Up With the Weather?
Episode 14: Jefferson's Blood
In "Jefferson's Blood," FRONTLINE correspondent Shelby Steele and producer Tom Lennon re-examine Jefferson's life, and piece together the little that can be known about Sally Hemings. Steele and Lennon also explore the repercussions of the Jefferson-Hemings relationship for the couple's modern-day descendants, many of whom are still attempting to find their place along America's blurred color line. "[Jefferson] spawned two lines of descendants--one legitimate, one not," Steele says in the documentary. "And this bastardized part of his family would be driven by a sense of incompleteness."
Episode 15: Return of the Czar
Episode 16: The Battle Over School Choice
During the election year of 2000, George Bush and Al Gore battled over issues regarding education. This program explores the heated political debate over the reform of public education and investigates the spectrum of "school choice" options, from vouchers to charter schools to for-profit academies