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Frontline

Season 18

16 episodes · premiered Sep 27, 1999

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  1. E1 John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

    Sep 28, 1999

  2. E2 Secrets of the SAT

    Oct 5, 1999

  3. E3 Mafia Power Play

    Oct 12, 1999

  4. 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.

  5. E5 Apocalypse! (2)

    Nov 22, 1999

  6. E6 Justice for Sale

    Nov 23, 1999

  7. E7 The Case for Innocence

    Jan 11, 2000

  8. E8 The Killer at Thurston High

    Jan 18, 2000 · 56m

    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. E9 The Survival of Saddam

    Jan 25, 2000

  10. E10 Assault on Gay America

    Feb 15, 2000

  11. E11 War in Europe

    Feb 22, 2000

  12. E12 Dr Solomon's Dilemma

    Apr 4, 2000

  13. E13 What's Up With the Weather?

    Apr 18, 2000

  14. E14 Jefferson's Blood

    May 2, 2000 · 1h 26m

    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. E15 Return of the Czar

    May 9, 2000

  16. 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