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Frontline Season 18

Frontline

Season 18

September 27, 1999 16 episodes

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John Paul II: the Millennial Pope
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E1. John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

Sep 28, 1999
Secrets of the SAT
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E2. Secrets of the SAT

Oct 5, 1999
Mafia Power Play
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E3. Mafia Power Play

Oct 12, 1999
The Lost Children of Rockdale County
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E4. The Lost Children of Rockdale County

Oct 19, 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.

Apocalypse! (2)
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E5. Apocalypse! (2)

Nov 22, 1999
Justice for Sale
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E6. Justice for Sale

Nov 23, 1999
The Case for Innocence
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E7. The Case for Innocence

Jan 11, 2000
The Killer at Thurston High
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E8. The Killer at Thurston High

56m Jan 18, 2000

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.

The Survival of Saddam
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E9. The Survival of Saddam

Jan 25, 2000
Assault on Gay America
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E10. Assault on Gay America

Feb 15, 2000
War in Europe
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E11. War in Europe

Feb 22, 2000
Dr Solomon's Dilemma
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E12. Dr Solomon's Dilemma

Apr 4, 2000
What's Up With the Weather?
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E13. What's Up With the Weather?

Apr 18, 2000
Jefferson's Blood
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E14. Jefferson's Blood

86m May 2, 2000

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."

Return of the Czar
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E15. Return of the Czar

May 9, 2000
The Battle Over School Choice
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E16. The Battle Over School Choice

May 23, 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

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