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The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 13

Every episode of Frontline Season 13 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Frontline Season 13!

The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 13

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...

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  1. 8.1/10(11 votes)

    #1 - How to Steal $500 Million

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  2. 7.8/10(34 votes)

    #2 - When the Bough Breaks

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    FRONTLINE explores the bond between parents and children and the profound implications for children’s behavior later in life if that attachment is hampered. These characteristics may include overly aggressive behavior, serious learning problems, and delinquency. The program uses surveillance cameras in the homes of three middle-class families who are struggling with troubled children between the ages of sixteen months and three years and observes the behavior and interactions of the children and their parents. ‘Even before they can speak, children give out signals,’ says producer Neil Docherty. ‘What are those signals? And what happens when they are misread or missed entirely?’

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  3. 7.4/10(16 votes)

    #3 - The Vanishing Father

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    In less than two generations, a seismic shift has occurred in the makeup of the American family. Today,fatherlessness has become the norm for about forty percent of American children and, some experts believe, contributes to some of our most urgent social problems. FRONTLINE explores this dramatic change in the American family and the startling findings of sociologists that, despite economic status, children from single parent homes are twice as likely to drop out of high school, to become teen-age mothers, and to spend time in jail.

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  4. 5.9/10(14 votes)

    #4 - The Nicotine War

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    #5 - School Colors

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    #6 - Is This Any Way to Run a Government?

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    #7 - Hot Money

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    #8 - Hillary's Class

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    In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women. But what about her classmates who left college believing they could do anything? In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women.

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    #9 - Does TV Kill?

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    #10 - What Happened to Bill Clinton?

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    #11 - The Godfather of Cocaine

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    FRONTLINE travels to Colombia for an investigative biography of the rise and fall of the richest and most violent cocaine drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Before Colombian police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency hunted him down and killed him, Escobar built an estimated $4 billion fortune through international cocaine smuggling alliances and the violent repression of his enemies.

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    #12 - The Begging Game

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    Each day, thousands of panhandlers work the streets and subways of cities all across America. Are the hard luck stories they tell believable? What are their lives really like off the street? Correspondent Deborah Amos explores the hidden world of panhandlers in New York City, gaining access to the intimate details of the their lives, investigating the real story of why they beg, and examining the impact of New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani’s crackdown on panhandlers.

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    #13 - Rush Limbaugh's America

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    #14 - Divided Memories (1)

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    #15 - Divided Memories (2)

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    #16 - The Homecoming

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    #17 - The Confessions of Rosa Lee

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    #18 - Welcome to Happy Valley

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    Prozac is the most prescribed antidepressant drug in America. FRONTLINE travels to the prozac capital of the world, Wenatchee, Washington, and talks to the ‘Pied Piper of Prozac,’ Dr. Jim Goodwin, a clinical psychologist who says Prozac is ‘probably less toxic than salt’ and has had it prescribed for all his seven hundred patients. Psychiatrist Peter Breggin and members of the Prozac Survivors Support Group, however, question the use of the drug.

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    #19 - Currents of Fear

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Season 13 Ratings Summary

"How to Steal $500 Million" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 13. It scored 8.1/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/8/1994. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "When the Bough Breaks".