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Season 18

1999 · 16 episodes

  1. 1. John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

    1999-09-28

  2. 2. Secrets of the SAT

    1999-10-05

  3. 3. Mafia Power Play

    1999-10-12

  4. 4. The Lost Children of Rockdale County

    1999-10-19

    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. Apocalypse! (2)

    1999-11-22

  6. 6. Justice for Sale

    1999-11-23

  7. 7. The Case for Innocence

    2000-01-11

  8. 8. The Killer at Thurston High

    2000-01-18 · 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. 9. The Survival of Saddam

    2000-01-25

  10. 10. Assault on Gay America

    2000-02-15

  11. 11. War in Europe

    2000-02-22

  12. 12. Dr Solomon's Dilemma

    2000-04-04

  13. 13. What's Up With the Weather?

    2000-04-18

  14. 14. Jefferson's Blood

    2000-05-02 · 86m

    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. Return of the Czar

    2000-05-09

  16. 16. The Battle Over School Choice

    2000-05-23

    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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