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Frontline Season 20 Episodes
Season 20 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2002 - 2002
Episode 1
An Ordinary Crime
Thu, Jan 10, 200290 mins
A bizarre case of possible injustice where an innocent man is sent to prison.
Episode 2
Inside the Terror Network
Thu, Jan 17, 200260 mins
The hijackers of September 11 led such outwardly ordinary lives that they moved through Europe and America virtually unnoticed.
Episode 3
Dot Con
Thu, Jan 24, 200260 mins
An examination of the evidence for stock market manipulation during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Episode 4
Inside the Teenage Brain
Thu, Jan 31, 200260 mins
It's mystery of mysteries-especially to parents. Now experts are exploring recesses of brain.
Episode 5
American Porn
Thu, Feb 7, 200260 mins
FRONTLINE investigates American Porn and the pending political battle that will soon engulf the multi-billion dollar business and its distribution partners - some of America's best known corporations.
Episode 6
Rollover: The Hidden History of the SUV
Thu, Feb 21, 200260 mins
From industrial hauler to America's new station wagon, SUV has been a spectacular success story.
Episode 7
Testing Our Schools
Thu, Mar 28, 200260 mins
President Bush's proposal for mandatory public school testing in grades three through eight signals beginning of a new era in public education
Episode 8
Battle for the Holy Land
Thu, Apr 4, 200260 mins
As Israelis and Palestinians prepare for possible all-out war, FRONTLINE investigates how combatants pursue deadly conflict on ground.
Episode 9
Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
Thu, Apr 11, 200260 mins
In December 2000, after spending fourteen years on Floridaís Death Row, Frank Lee Smith was finally cleared of rape and murder of eight-year-old Shandra Whitehead.
Episode 10
Modern Meat
Thu, Apr 18, 2002
Frontline investigates modern meat safety, focusing on the process, politics, and hazards of ground beef manufacturing.
Episode 11
Did Daddy Do It?
Thu, Apr 25, 200260 mins
In 1984, Cuban immigrant Frank Fuster was living American dream. He had a new house in suburbs.
Episode 12
Terror in Teheran
Thu, May 2, 200260 mins
FRONTLINE investigates terror threat from Iran and challenges facing US policymakers.
Episode 13
Muslims
Wed, May 1, 2002120 mins
The events of Sept. 11 left many Americans questioning how such atrocities could be perpetrated in name of religion: specifically, religion of Islam.
Episode 14
The Siege of Bethlehem
Thu, Jun 13, 200260 mins
On April 2, as Israeli tanks rolled into Bethlehem, some 200 Palestinians - many of them armed - stormed into fabled Church of Nativity.
Episode 15
Bigger Than Enron
Thu, Jun 20, 200260 mins
The meteoric rise and stunning collapse of Enron caused many to question why watchdog system was supposed to protect investors failed to sound any alarms about company's dubious financial underpinnings.
Episode 16
Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road from Oslo
Thu, Jun 27, 2002120 mins
In the early 2000's, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators nearly reached a peace agreement. Within weeks, the opportunity vanished. Frontline examines the faltering quest for peace in "Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road from Oslo" - a film by Charles Enderlin, a Franco-Israeli journalist, specializing in the Middle East and Israel - beginning with the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The two-and-a-half-hour documentary traces the peace process through years of negotiations, with new footage of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and interviews with key figures on both sides.
Episode 17
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
Tue, Sep 3, 2002120 mins
Ground Zero in Manhattan has become a site of pilgrimage. Thousands of people visit site.
Episode 18
Campaign Against Terror
Thu, Aug 8, 2002120 mins
In this two-hour special, FRONTLINE recounts for first time on television behind-the-scenes story of US and world response to September 11 terrorist attacks on America.
Episode 19
The Man Who Knew
Thu, Oct 3, 200290 mins
As an FBI agent who specialized in counter-terrorism, John P. O'Neill investigated the bombing of the American embassies in Africa, the USS Cole in Yemen, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, and the first attack on the World Trade Center. O'Neill came to believe America should kill Osama bin Laden before Al Qaeda launched a devastating attack, but his was often a lonely voice. A controversial figure inside the buttoned-down world of the FBI, he was forced out of the job he loved and entered the private sector as director of security for the World Trade Center.
Episode 20
Missile Wars
Thu, Oct 10, 200260 mins
Following America's withdrawal from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, FRONTLINE examines reason why: Bush administration's determination to deploy an antimissile system.
Episode 21
A Crime of Insanity
60 mins
When a paranoid schizophrenic committed a violent crime, the legal and psychiatric worlds collided.
Episode 22
Let's Get Married
Thu, Nov 14, 200260 mins
Marriage is in trouble. The past half-century has witnessed staggering changes in makeup of American family as number of single-parent households and children born out of wedlock has skyrocketed.
Episode 23
In Search of Al Qaeda
60 mins
Within three months of September 11, War on Terror had succeeded in crushing Taliban.