Frontline

Season 23

2004 · 16 episodes · 2h 45m in all · 9.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Sacred Ground

   17 Sept 2004

2. 

   2. The Choice 2004

   12 Oct 2004

3. 

   3. Rumsfeld's War

   26 Oct 2004 · 10.0/10

4. 

   4. The Persuaders

   9 Nov 2004

   FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public.

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   5. Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

   16 Nov 2004

   FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home. https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-wal-mart-good-america/

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   6. Secret History of the Credit Card

   23 Nov 2004

   The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.

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   7. Al Qaeda's New Front

   25 Jan 2005 · 56 min · 10.0/10

   Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda.

8. 

   8. House of Saud

   8 Feb 2005 · 7.0/10

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   9. A Company of Soldiers

   22 Feb 2005

10. 

    10. The Soldier's Heart

    1 Mar 2005 · 55 min

    The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the psychological cost of those who fight it.

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    11. Israel's Next War?

    5 Apr 2005 · 9.0/10

    A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.

12. 

    12. Karl Rove -- the Architect

    12 Apr 2005

13. 

    13. Death of a Princess (Updated)

    19 Apr 2005

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    14. The New Asylums

    10 May 2005 · 54 min

    A report on the new reality for the mentally ill in America: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. How did we get here, and are we doing anything to help them?

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    15. A Jew Among the Germans

    31 May 2005

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    16. Private Warriors

    21 Jun 2005