Frontline: Season 18 (1999)

Episodes

1. 

   Episode 1 · September 28, 1999

   John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

2. 

   Episode 2 · October 5, 1999

   Secrets of the SAT

3. 

   Episode 3 · October 12, 1999

   Mafia Power Play

4. 

   Episode 4 · October 19, 1999

   The Lost Children of Rockdale County

   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. 

   Episode 5 · November 22, 1999

   Apocalypse! (2)

6. 

   Episode 6 · November 23, 1999

   Justice for Sale

7. 

   Episode 7 · January 11, 2000

   The Case for Innocence

8. 

   Episode 8 · January 18, 2000 · 56m

   The Killer at Thurston High

   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. 

   Episode 9 · January 25, 2000

   The Survival of Saddam

10. 

    Episode 10 · February 15, 2000

    Assault on Gay America

11. 

    Episode 11 · February 22, 2000

    War in Europe

12. 

    Episode 12 · April 4, 2000

    Dr Solomon's Dilemma

13. 

    Episode 13 · April 18, 2000

    What's Up With the Weather?

14. 

    Episode 14 · May 2, 2000 · 1h 26m

    Jefferson's Blood

    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. 

    Episode 15 · May 9, 2000

    Return of the Czar

16. 

    Episode 16 · May 23, 2000

    The Battle Over School Choice

    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