Frontline: Season 17
Season 17 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Frontline Season 16.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 17 Progress Shield
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1)
Sep 21, 1998
The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 2)
Sep 22, 1998
The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."
The Farmer's Wife, Part 3
Sep 23, 1998 · 141 min
In the concluding episode of "The Farmer's Wife," Darrel finally harvests the bumper crop he had dreamt about his whole life. But Darrel has to go to work for another farmer to mak
Washington's Other Scandal
Oct 6, 1998 · 56 min
"Washington's Other Scandal" reveals the heart of a Washington where money - not sex - is the obsession. In this special report by Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE shows how both political p
Plague War
Oct 13, 1998
FRONTLINE's "Plague War" investigates the ever-increasing threat of biological weapons in today's world, focusing on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union's enormous covert bio-wea
The Child Terror
Oct 27, 1998
In "The Child Terror," FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer travels to Dade County, Florida to explore the impassioned roots and controversial consequences of the nation's 15-yea
Hunting Bin Laden
Apr 13, 1999
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 a
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
May 25, 1999 · 111 min
An intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.