Frontline

Season 18

1999 · 16 episodes · 2h 22m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

   28 Sept 1999

2. 2

   2. Secrets of the SAT

   5 Oct 1999

3. 3

   3. Mafia Power Play

   12 Oct 1999

4. 4

   4. The Lost Children of Rockdale County

   19 Oct 1999

   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.

5. 5

   5. Apocalypse! (2)

   22 Nov 1999

6. 6

   6. Justice for Sale

   23 Nov 1999

7. 7

   7. The Case for Innocence

   11 Jan 2000

8. 

   8. The Killer at Thurston High

   18 Jan 2000 · 56 min

   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.

9. 9

   9. The Survival of Saddam

   25 Jan 2000

10. 10

    10. Assault on Gay America

    15 Feb 2000

11. 11

    11. War in Europe

    22 Feb 2000

12. 12

    12. Dr Solomon's Dilemma

    4 Apr 2000

13. 13

    13. What's Up With the Weather?

    18 Apr 2000

14. 14

    14. Jefferson's Blood

    2 May 2000 · 86 min

    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."

15. 15

    15. Return of the Czar

    9 May 2000

16. 16

    16. The Battle Over School Choice

    23 May 2000

    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