Frontline

Season 17

1998 · 19 episodes · 5h 8m in all

Episodes

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   1. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)

   21 Sept 1998

   The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."

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   2. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)

   22 Sept 1998

   The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."

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   3. The Farmer's Wife, Part 3

   23 Sept 1998 · 141 min

   In the concluding episode of "The Farmer's Wife," Darrel finally harvests the bumper crop he had dreamt about his whole life. But Darrel has to go to work for another farmer to make enough money to feed his family, and the stress and exhaustion cause him to explode. In December, Juanita takes the girls and leaves for a week--it has a deep and profound effect on Darrel. Two months later, the marriage that had seemed almost doomed is miraculously transformed. Through counseling, Darrel learns to deal with his anger and undergoes extraordinary personal growth. Now he is the at-home parent, farming and caring for his three daughters. Juanita, who has earned a college degree, works at a respected crop insurance company in town, helping other farmers. In the end, through faith, hope, and hard work, the Buschkoetters save their farm and rediscover the love that holds them together.

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   4. Ambush in Mogadishu

   29 Sept 1998

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   5. Washington's Other Scandal

   6 Oct 1998 · 56 min

   "Washington's Other Scandal" reveals the heart of a Washington where money - not sex - is the obsession. In this special report by Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE shows how both political parties, cynically and shamelessly, contrived to bend and break campaign laws in the '96 election.

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   6. Plague War

   13 Oct 1998

   FRONTLINE's "Plague War" investigates the ever-increasing threat of biological weapons in today's world, focusing on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union's enormous covert bio-weapons program which went undetected for almost two decades.

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   7. The Child Terror

   27 Oct 1998

   In "The Child Terror," FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer travels to Dade County, Florida to explore the impassioned roots and controversial consequences of the nation's 15-year legal battle against child sexual abuse. During the 1980s, Miami became ground zero in the crusade to prosecute child molesters. Many high-profile cases were prosecuted by the office of then-chief prosecutor Janet Reno who pioneered a national effort to bring child molesters to justice. Now, however, some of these cases are unraveling. In this report, FRONTLINE deconstructs two of the them, probing what went wrong.

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   8. Fat

   3 Nov 1998

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   9. Snitch

   12 Jan 1999

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    10. The Triumph of Evil

    26 Jan 1999

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    11. The Execution

    9 Feb 1999

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    12. Russian Roulette

    23 Feb 1999

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    13. Hunting Bin Laden

    13 Apr 1999

    For years this one man has taunted, threatened and frustrated the United States. But who is he? The U.S. government has tried to link him to nearly every act of Islamic terrorism against Americans in the 90s: from the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, to the bombings of U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa.

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    14. Spying on Saddam

    27 Apr 1999

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    15. Give War a Chance

    11 May 1999

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    16. The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

    25 May 1999 · 111 min

    An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.

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    17. Making Babies

    1 Jun 1999

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    18. Pop

    22 Jun 1999

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    19. The Crash

    29 Jun 1999