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Season 18

16 episodes · 1999

  1. 1

    John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

    Sep 28, 199990 min

  2. 2

    Secrets of the SAT

    Oct 5, 199986 min★ 8.0

  3. 3

    Mafia Power Play

    Oct 12, 199960 min

  4. 4

    The Lost Children of Rockdale County

    Oct 19, 199960 min

    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)

    Nov 22, 1999

  6. 6

    Justice for Sale

    Nov 23, 199960 min

  7. 7

    The Case for Innocence

    Jan 11, 2000114 min

  8. 8

    The Killer at Thurston High

    Jan 18, 200056 min

    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

    Jan 25, 2000

  10. 10

    Assault on Gay America

    Feb 15, 200060 min

  11. 11

    War in Europe

    Feb 22, 2000120 min

  12. 12

    Dr Solomon's Dilemma

    Apr 4, 2000120 min★ 8.6

  13. 13

    What's Up With the Weather?

    Apr 18, 2000120 min★ 8.5

  14. 14

    Jefferson's Blood

    May 2, 200086 min

    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

    May 9, 2000180 min

  16. 16

    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