Frontline: Season 23
Season 23 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 22.
- 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 23 Progress Shield
The Persuaders
Nov 9, 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 the
Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Nov 16, 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 ris
Secret History of the Credit Card
Nov 23, 2004
The surprising history and clever tactics of an industry few Americans fully understand.
Al Qaeda's New Front
Jan 25, 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.
The Soldier's Heart
Mar 1, 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 psy
Israel's Next War?
Apr 5, 2005
A shocking documentary about the growing number of Jewish extremists in Israel.
The New Asylums
May 10, 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?