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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!

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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Season 23 Ratings Summary

"Sacred Ground" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 23. It scored 8.5/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/2004. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Choice 2004".

  • Sacred Ground
    8.5/10(16)

    #1 - Sacred Ground

    Season 23 Episode 1

    Aired 9/17/2004

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Choice 2004
    8.0/10(56)

    #2 - The Choice 2004

    Season 23 Episode 2

    Aired 10/12/2004

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rumsfeld's War
    8.0/10(16)

    #3 - Rumsfeld's War

    Season 23 Episode 3

    Aired 10/26/2004

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Persuaders
    7.4/10(10)

    #4 - The Persuaders

    Season 23 Episode 4

    Aired 11/9/2004

    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 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
    7.4/10(29)

    #5 - Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

    Season 23 Episode 5

    Aired 11/16/2004

    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 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Secret History of the Credit Card
    7.3/10(26)

    #6 - Secret History of the Credit Card

    Season 23 Episode 6

    Aired 11/23/2004

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Al Qaeda's New Front
    10.0/10(1)

    #7 - Al Qaeda's New Front

    Season 23 Episode 7

    Aired 1/25/2005

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • House of Saud
    7.7/10(24)

    #8 - House of Saud

    Season 23 Episode 8

    Aired 2/8/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Company of Soldiers
    6.2/10(13)

    #9 - A Company of Soldiers

    Season 23 Episode 9

    Aired 2/22/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Soldier's Heart
    7.9/10(11)

    #10 - The Soldier's Heart

    Season 23 Episode 10

    Aired 3/1/2005

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Israel's Next War?
    8.9/10(21)

    #11 - Israel's Next War?

    Season 23 Episode 11

    Aired 4/5/2005

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Karl Rove -- the Architect
    8.1/10(16)

    #12 - Karl Rove -- the Architect

    Season 23 Episode 12

    Aired 4/12/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death of a Princess (Updated)
    8.4/10(14)

    #13 - Death of a Princess (Updated)

    Season 23 Episode 13

    Aired 4/19/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The New Asylums
    8.5/10(21)

    #14 - The New Asylums

    Season 23 Episode 14

    Aired 5/10/2005

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Jew Among the Germans
    NaN/10(0)

    #15 - A Jew Among the Germans

    Season 23 Episode 15

    Aired 5/31/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Private Warriors
    NaN/10(0)

    #16 - Private Warriors

    Season 23 Episode 16

    Aired 6/21/2005

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A