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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!

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...
  1. Background image for Sacred Ground
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #1 - Sacred Ground

    S23:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Choice 2004
    8.0/10(56 votes)

    #2 - The Choice 2004

    S23:E2

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Rumsfeld's War
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #3 - Rumsfeld's War

    S23:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Persuaders
    7.4/10(10 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
    7.4/10(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/

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for House of Saud
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #8 - House of Saud

    S23:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for A Company of Soldiers
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    #9 - A Company of Soldiers

    S23:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Soldier's Heart
    7.9/10(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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Israel's Next War?
    8.9/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Israel's Next War?

    S23:E11

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Karl Rove -- the Architect
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Karl Rove -- the Architect

    S23:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Death of a Princess (Updated)
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Death of a Princess (Updated)

    S23:E13

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for 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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for A Jew Among the Germans
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    #15 - A Jew Among the Germans

    S23:E15

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Private Warriors
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    #16 - Private Warriors

    S23:E16

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    Director:Unknown
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Season 23 Ratings Summary

"Sacred Ground" is the best rated episode of "Frontline" season 23. It scored 8.3/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/2004. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Choice 2004".