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Season 23
September 16, 2004

Season 23

01. Sacred Ground

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September 17, 2004

02. The Choice 2004

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October 12, 2004

03. Rumsfeld's War

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October 26, 2004

04. The Persuaders

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.

November 9, 2004

05. Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

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/

November 16, 2004

06. Secret History of the Credit Card

The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.

November 23, 2004

07. Al Qaeda's New Front

Al-Qaeda's New Front is PBS documentary on Islamic terrorist network in Europe and its relationship to Islam and Al-Qaeda.

56min
January 25, 2005

08. House of Saud

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February 8, 2005

09. A Company of Soldiers

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February 22, 2005

10. The Soldier's Heart

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.

55min
March 1, 2005

11. Israel's Next War?

A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.

April 5, 2005

12. Karl Rove -- the Architect

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April 12, 2005

13. Death of a Princess (Updated)

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April 19, 2005

14. The New Asylums

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?

54min
May 10, 2005

15. A Jew Among the Germans

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May 31, 2005

16. Private Warriors

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June 21, 2005