Hunting Bin Laden

S20 E01 • Thursday, Sep 13, 2001 • Sep 13

For years this one man has taunted, threatened and frustrated the United States. But who is he? The U.S. government has tried to link him to nearly every act of Islamic terrorism against Americans in the 90s: from the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, to the bombings of U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. [This is a post-9/11 update of an episode that originally aired on 4/13/1999.]

Target America

S20 E02 • Thursday, Oct 4, 2001 • Oct 4

Looking for Answers

S20 E03 • Tuesday, Oct 9, 2001 • Oct 9

Sunday night, as U.S. bombers and cruise missiles attack targets in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden released a videotape calling on Muslims worldwide to join his war on America. Next to bin Laden was his close association, an Egyptian named Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man who is certainly as important to the terror network as bin Laden himself. Tonight on FRONTLINE, the full story of these two men, the story of how the seeds of their hatred for America were sown not in Afghanistan but in two of the U.S.'s greatest allies in the Islamic world, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the story of how they joined forces to pursue a common enemy.

Dangerous Straits

S20 E04 • Thursday, Oct 18, 2001 • Oct 18

Trail of a Terrorist

S20 E05 • Thursday, Oct 25, 2001 • Oct 25

Gunning for Saddam

S20 E06 • Thursday, Nov 8, 2001 • Nov 8

Saudi Time Bomb?

S20 E07 • Thursday, Nov 15, 2001 • Nov 15

The Monster That Ate Hollywood

S20 E08 • Thursday, Nov 22, 2001 • Nov 22

An Ordinary Crime

S20 E09 • Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 • Jan 10

Inside the Terror Network

S20 E10 • Thursday, Jan 17, 2002 • Jan 17

Dot Con

S20 E11 • Thursday, Jan 24, 2002 • Jan 24 • 57m

In "Dot Con," award-winning FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith takes an inside look at the precipitous rise and fall of the Internet economy -- and examines the allegations that brokers at some of Wall Street's most prestigious firms manipulated the hot IPO market of the late 1990s. Wall Street, of course, would prefer to forget the past. But investors and investigators want to know: During the headiest days of the Internet bubble, did investment banks and venture capitalists betray the public's trust? Did "irrational exuberance" give way to fraud?

Inside the Teenage Brain

S20 E12 • Thursday, Jan 31, 2002 • Jan 31

American Porn

S20 E13 • Thursday, Feb 7, 2002 • Feb 7

Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry’s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?

Roll Over: the Hidden History of the SUV

S20 E14 • Thursday, Feb 21, 2002 • Feb 21

Testing Our Schools

S20 E15 • Thursday, Mar 28, 2002 • Mar 28

Battle for the Holy Land

S20 E16 • Thursday, Apr 4, 2002 • Apr 4

Requiem for Frank Lee Smith

S20 E17 • Thursday, Apr 11, 2002 • Apr 11

Modern Meat

S20 E18 • Thursday, Apr 18, 2002 • Apr 18

Did Daddy Do It?

S20 E19 • Thursday, Apr 25, 2002 • Apr 25

Terror and Tehran

S20 E20 • Thursday, May 2, 2002 • May 2

Muslims

S20 E21 • Thursday, May 9, 2002 • May 9 • 1h 54m

Muslims account for one-fifth of the world's population, but most Americans know little about their faith, Islam, which continues to be one of the fastest growing religions in the United States and around the world. What does it mean to be a Muslim today? Does Islam deserve its reputation as a patriarchal, authoritarian, and anti-Western religion? What is the role of Islam in movements for political and social change? FRONTLINE explores these and other questions in "Muslims," a special two-hour film examining the different faces of Islam's worldwide resurgence and the fundamental tenets of the faith. Reporting from Iran, Nigeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Turkey, and the United States, and drawing on the perspectives of leading scholars of Islam, this program tells the stories of Muslims struggling to define how Islam will shape their lives and societies.

The Siege of Bethlehem

S20 E22 • Thursday, Jun 13, 2002 • Jun 13

Bigger Than Enron

S20 E23 • Thursday, Jun 20, 2002 • Jun 20 • 57m

In "Bigger Than Enron," FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith shines a spotlight on how the corporate watchdogs -- the bankers, lawyers, regulators, politicians, and above all, the accountants -- failed to prevent Enron and other scandals from happening. Through interviews with current and former SEC officials (including SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt and his predecessor, Arthur Levitt), Arthur Andersen executives (including former Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino), members of Congress (including Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut), investor advocates, and others, the report explores how the system of controls was eroded by conflicts of interest, as well as by congressional intervention that blocked efforts at protecting investors.

Shattered Dreams

S20 E24 • Thursday, Jun 27, 2002 • Jun 27 • 1h 57m

How the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed.