Season 17

FrontlineSeason 17

1998
19 Episodes

Episodes

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)
S17E01

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

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."

21 Sept 1998
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)
S17E02

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

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."

22 Sept 1998
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S17E03

The Farmer's Wife, Part 3

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.

23 Sept 1998141m
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Ambush in Mogadishu

29 Sept 1998
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S17E05

Washington's Other Scandal

"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.

06 Oct 199856m
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S17E06

Plague War

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.

13 Oct 1998
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S17E07

The Child Terror

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.

27 Oct 1998
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S17E08

Fat

03 Nov 1998
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S17E09

Snitch

12 Jan 1999
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S17E10

The Triumph of Evil

26 Jan 1999
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S17E11

The Execution

09 Feb 1999
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S17E12

Russian Roulette

23 Feb 1999
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Hunting Bin Laden

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.

13 Apr 1999
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Spying on Saddam

27 Apr 1999
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S17E15

Give War a Chance

11 May 1999
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
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The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

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

25 May 1999111m
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S17E17

Making Babies

01 Jun 1999
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S17E18

Pop

22 Jun 1999
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S17E19

The Crash

29 Jun 1999