Frontline (1983)
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
- Neil Docherty
- Ric Esther Bienstock
- David Fanning
Stars:
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Episode 1 - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)
Release Date: 1998-09-21The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
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Episode 2 - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)
Release Date: 1998-09-22The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
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Episode 3 - The Farmer's Wife, Part 3
Release Date: 1998-09-23In the concluding episode of "The Farmer's Wife," Darrel finally harvests the bumper crop he had dreamt about his whole life. But Darrel has to go to work for another farmer to make enough money to feed his family, and the stress and exhaustion cause him to explode. In December, Juanita takes the girls and leaves for a week--it has a deep and profound effect on Darrel. Two months later, the marriage that had seemed almost doomed is miraculously transformed. Through counseling, Darrel learns to deal with his anger and undergoes extraordinary personal growth. Now he is the at-home parent, farming and caring for his three daughters. Juanita, who has earned a college degree, works at a respected crop insurance company in town, helping other farmers. In the end, through faith, hope, and hard work, the Buschkoetters save their farm and rediscover the love that holds them together.
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Episode 4 - Ambush in Mogadishu
Release Date: 1998-09-29 -
Episode 5 - Washington's Other Scandal
Release Date: 1998-10-06"Washington's Other Scandal" reveals the heart of a Washington where money - not sex - is the obsession. In this special report by Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE shows how both political parties, cynically and shamelessly, contrived to bend and break campaign laws in the '96 election.
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Episode 6 - Plague War
Release Date: 1998-10-13FRONTLINE's "Plague War" investigates the ever-increasing threat of biological weapons in today's world, focusing on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union's enormous covert bio-weapons program which went undetected for almost two decades.
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Episode 7 - The Child Terror
Release Date: 1998-10-27In "The Child Terror," FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer travels to Dade County, Florida to explore the impassioned roots and controversial consequences of the nation's 15-year legal battle against child sexual abuse. During the 1980s, Miami became ground zero in the crusade to prosecute child molesters. Many high-profile cases were prosecuted by the office of then-chief prosecutor Janet Reno who pioneered a national effort to bring child molesters to justice. Now, however, some of these cases are unraveling. In this report, FRONTLINE deconstructs two of the them, probing what went wrong.
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Episode 8 - Fat
Release Date: 1998-11-03 -
Episode 9 - Snitch
Release Date: 1999-01-12 -
Episode 10 - The Triumph of Evil
Release Date: 1999-01-26 -
Episode 11 - The Execution
Release Date: 1999-02-09 -
Episode 12 - Russian Roulette
Release Date: 1999-02-23 -
Episode 13 - Hunting Bin Laden
Release Date: 1999-04-13For years this one man has taunted, threatened and frustrated the United States. But who is he? The U.S. government has tried to link him to nearly every act of Islamic terrorism against Americans in the 90s: from the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, to the bombings of U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa.
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Episode 14 - Spying on Saddam
Release Date: 1999-04-27 -
Episode 15 - Give War a Chance
Release Date: 1999-05-11 -
Episode 16 - The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
Release Date: 1999-05-25An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.
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Episode 17 - Making Babies
Release Date: 1999-06-01 -
Episode 18 - Pop
Release Date: 1999-06-22 -
Episode 19 - The Crash
Release Date: 1999-06-29