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The Best Episodes of Frontline Season 23

Every episode of Frontline Season 23 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Frontline Season 23!

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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Frontline Season 23 Episode 1 - Sacred Ground
    8.5/10(17 votes)

    #1 - Sacred Ground

    S23:E1

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Frontline Season 23 Episode 2 - The Choice 2004
    8.1/10(58 votes)

    #2 - The Choice 2004

    S23:E2

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Frontline Season 23 Episode 3 - Rumsfeld's War
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #3 - Rumsfeld's War

    S23:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Frontline Season 23 Episode 4 - The Persuaders
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #4 - The Persuaders

    S23:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Frontline Season 23 Episode 5 - Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #5 - Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

    S23:E5

    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/

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Frontline Season 23 Episode 6 - Secret History of the Credit Card
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #6 - Secret History of the Credit Card

    S23:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Frontline Season 23 Episode 7 - Al Qaeda's New Front
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Al Qaeda's New Front

    S23:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Frontline Season 23 Episode 8 - House of Saud
    7.8/10(26 votes)

    #8 - House of Saud

    S23:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Frontline Season 23 Episode 9 - A Company of Soldiers
    6.1/10(13 votes)

    #9 - A Company of Soldiers

    S23:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Frontline Season 23 Episode 10 - The Soldier's Heart
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #10 - The Soldier's Heart

    S23:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Frontline Season 23 Episode 11 - Israel's Next War?
    8.9/10(23 votes)

    #11 - Israel's Next War?

    S23:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Frontline Season 23 Episode 12 - Karl Rove -- the Architect
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Karl Rove -- the Architect

    S23:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Frontline Season 23 Episode 13 - Death of a Princess (Updated)
    8.4/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Death of a Princess (Updated)

    S23:E13

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Frontline Season 23 Episode 14 - The New Asylums
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    #14 - The New Asylums

    S23:E14

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Frontline Season 23 Episode 15 - A Jew Among the Germans
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - A Jew Among the Germans

    S23:E15

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Frontline Season 23 Episode 16 - Private Warriors
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Private Warriors

    S23:E16

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 23 Ratings Summary

"Sacred Ground" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 23. It scored 8.5/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/2004. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Choice 2004".