
Season 20 (2001)
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Episodes 24
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. [This is a post-9/11 update of an episode that originally aired on 4/13/1999.]
Read MoreTarget America
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Looking for Answers
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.
Read MoreDangerous Straits
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Trail of a Terrorist
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Gunning for Saddam
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Saudi Time Bomb?
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The Monster That Ate Hollywood
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An Ordinary Crime
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Inside the Terror Network
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Dot Con
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?
Read MoreInside the Teenage Brain
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American Porn
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?
Read MoreRoll Over: the Hidden History of the SUV
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Testing Our Schools
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Battle for the Holy Land
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Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
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Modern Meat
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Did Daddy Do It?
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Terror and Tehran
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Muslims
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.
Read MoreThe Siege of Bethlehem
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Bigger Than Enron
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Shattered Dreams
How the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed.
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