Frontline
Frontline: Season 18

Air Date

September 27, 1999

Episodes

16 episodes

Frontline

Season 18

Episodes

1. John Paul II: the Millennial Pope

September 28, 1999

2. Secrets of the SAT

October 5, 1999

3. Mafia Power Play

October 12, 1999

4. The Lost Children of Rockdale County

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)

November 22, 1999

6. Justice for Sale

November 23, 1999

7. The Case for Innocence

January 11, 2000
The Killer at Thurston High

8. The Killer at Thurston High

January 18, 2000
56 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. The Survival of Saddam

January 25, 2000

10. Assault on Gay America

February 15, 2000

11. War in Europe

February 22, 2000

12. Dr Solomon's Dilemma

April 4, 2000

13. What's Up With the Weather?

April 18, 2000

14. Jefferson's Blood

May 2, 2000
86 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. Return of the Czar

May 9, 2000

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