Frontline
Frontline: Season 17

Air Date

September 20, 1998

Episodes

19 episodes

Frontline

Season 17

Episodes

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)

1. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)

September 21, 1998

The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)

2. From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)

September 22, 1998

The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."

3. The Farmer's Wife, Part 3

September 23, 1998
141 min

In 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.

4. Ambush in Mogadishu

September 29, 1998

5. Washington's Other Scandal

October 6, 1998
56 min

"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.

6. Plague War

October 13, 1998

FRONTLINE'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.

7. The Child Terror

October 27, 1998

In "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.

8. Fat

November 3, 1998

9. Snitch

January 12, 1999

10. The Triumph of Evil

January 26, 1999

11. The Execution

February 9, 1999

12. Russian Roulette

February 23, 1999

13. Hunting Bin Laden

April 13, 1999

For 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.

14. Spying on Saddam

April 27, 1999

15. Give War a Chance

May 11, 1999
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

16. The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

May 25, 1999
111 min

An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.

17. Making Babies

June 1, 1999

18. Pop

June 22, 1999

19. The Crash

June 29, 1999