About this season
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.
Episodes (16)
1. Sacred Ground
Aired 17 September 2004
2. The Choice 2004
Aired 12 October 2004
3. Rumsfeld's War
10.0Aired 26 October 2004
4. The Persuaders
Aired 9 November 2004
FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives. Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public.
5. Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Aired 16 November 2004
FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home. https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-wal-mart-good-america/
6. Secret History of the Credit Card
Aired 23 November 2004
The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.
7. Al Qaeda's New Front
10.0Aired 25 January 2005 • 56 min
Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda.
8. House of Saud
7.0Aired 8 February 2005
9. A Company of Soldiers
Aired 22 February 2005
10. The Soldier's Heart
Aired 1 March 2005 • 55 min
The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the psychological cost of those who fight it.
11. Israel's Next War?
9.0Aired 5 April 2005
A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.
12. Karl Rove -- the Architect
Aired 12 April 2005
13. Death of a Princess (Updated)
Aired 19 April 2005
14. The New Asylums
Aired 10 May 2005 • 54 min
A report on the new reality for the mentally ill in America: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. How did we get here, and are we doing anything to help them?
15. A Jew Among the Germans
Aired 31 May 2005
16. Private Warriors
Aired 21 June 2005