Frontline (Season 20)

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

  • Poster for Hunting Bin Laden

    Hunting Bin Laden (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2001-09-13

    Overview: 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. [This is a post-9/11 update of an episode that originally aired on 4/13/1999.]

  • Poster for Target America

    Target America (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2001-10-04

  • Poster for Looking for Answers

    Looking for Answers (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2001-10-09

    Overview: Sunday night, as U.S. bombers and cruise missiles attack targets in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden released a videotape calling on Muslims worldwide to join his war on America. Next to bin Laden was his close association, an Egyptian named Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man who is certainly as important to the terror network as bin Laden himself. Tonight on FRONTLINE, the full story of these two men, the story of how the seeds of their hatred for America were sown not in Afghanistan but in two of the U.S.'s greatest allies in the Islamic world, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the story of how they joined forces to pursue a common enemy.

  • Poster for Dangerous Straits

    Dangerous Straits (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2001-10-18

  • Poster for Trail of a Terrorist

    Trail of a Terrorist (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2001-10-25

  • Poster for Gunning for Saddam

    Gunning for Saddam (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2001-11-08

  • Poster for Saudi Time Bomb?

    Saudi Time Bomb? (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2001-11-15

  • Poster for The Monster That Ate Hollywood

    The Monster That Ate Hollywood (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2001-11-22

  • Poster for An Ordinary Crime

    An Ordinary Crime (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2002-01-10

  • Poster for Inside the Terror Network

    Inside the Terror Network (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2002-01-17

  • Poster for Dot Con

    Dot Con (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2002-01-24

    Runtime: 57 min

    Overview: In "Dot Con," award-winning FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith takes an inside look at the precipitous rise and fall of the Internet economy -- and examines the allegations that brokers at some of Wall Street's most prestigious firms manipulated the hot IPO market of the late 1990s. Wall Street, of course, would prefer to forget the past. But investors and investigators want to know: During the headiest days of the Internet bubble, did investment banks and venture capitalists betray the public's trust? Did "irrational exuberance" give way to fraud?

  • Poster for Inside the Teenage Brain

    Inside the Teenage Brain (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2002-01-31

  • Poster for American Porn

    American Porn (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2002-02-07

    Overview: Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry’s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?

  • Poster for Roll Over: the Hidden History of the SUV

    Roll Over: the Hidden History of the SUV (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2002-02-21

  • Poster for Testing Our Schools

    Testing Our Schools (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2002-03-28

  • Poster for Battle for the Holy Land

    Battle for the Holy Land (Episode 16)

    Air date: 2002-04-04

  • Poster for Requiem for Frank Lee Smith

    Requiem for Frank Lee Smith (Episode 17)

    Air date: 2002-04-11

  • Poster for Modern Meat

    Modern Meat (Episode 18)

    Air date: 2002-04-18

  • Poster for Did Daddy Do It?

    Did Daddy Do It? (Episode 19)

    Air date: 2002-04-25

  • Poster for Terror and Tehran

    Terror and Tehran (Episode 20)

    Air date: 2002-05-02

  • Poster for Muslims

    Muslims (Episode 21)

    Air date: 2002-05-09

    Runtime: 114 min

    Overview: Muslims account for one-fifth of the world's population, but most Americans know little about their faith, Islam, which continues to be one of the fastest growing religions in the United States and around the world. What does it mean to be a Muslim today? Does Islam deserve its reputation as a patriarchal, authoritarian, and anti-Western religion? What is the role of Islam in movements for political and social change? FRONTLINE explores these and other questions in "Muslims," a special two-hour film examining the different faces of Islam's worldwide resurgence and the fundamental tenets of the faith. Reporting from Iran, Nigeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Turkey, and the United States, and drawing on the perspectives of leading scholars of Islam, this program tells the stories of Muslims struggling to define how Islam will shape their lives and societies.

  • Poster for The Siege of Bethlehem

    The Siege of Bethlehem (Episode 22)

    Air date: 2002-06-13

  • Poster for Bigger Than Enron

    Bigger Than Enron (Episode 23)

    Air date: 2002-06-20

    Runtime: 57 min

    Overview: In "Bigger Than Enron," FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith shines a spotlight on how the corporate watchdogs -- the bankers, lawyers, regulators, politicians, and above all, the accountants -- failed to prevent Enron and other scandals from happening. Through interviews with current and former SEC officials (including SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt and his predecessor, Arthur Levitt), Arthur Andersen executives (including former Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino), members of Congress (including Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut), investor advocates, and others, the report explores how the system of controls was eroded by conflicts of interest, as well as by congressional intervention that blocked efforts at protecting investors.

  • Poster for Shattered Dreams

    Shattered Dreams (Episode 24)

    Air date: 2002-06-27

    Runtime: 117 min

    Overview: How the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed.

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