Frontline - Season 18
1 - John Paul II: the Millennial Pope
Air Date: September 28, 1999
2 - Secrets of the SAT
Air Date: October 5, 1999
3 - Mafia Power Play
Air Date: October 12, 1999
4 - The Lost Children of Rockdale County
Air Date: October 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 - Apocalypse! (2)
Air Date: November 22, 1999
6 - Justice for Sale
Air Date: November 23, 1999
7 - The Case for Innocence
Air Date: January 11, 2000
8 - The Killer at Thurston High
Air Date: January 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.
9 - The Survival of Saddam
Air Date: January 25, 2000
10 - Assault on Gay America
Air Date: February 15, 2000
11 - War in Europe
Air Date: February 22, 2000
12 - Dr Solomon's Dilemma
Air Date: April 4, 2000
13 - What's Up With the Weather?
Air Date: April 18, 2000
14 - Jefferson's Blood
Air Date: 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."
15 - Return of the Czar
Air Date: May 9, 2000
16 - The Battle Over School Choice
Air Date: 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