Season 21 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 21
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

Frontline Season 21 (2002-2003)

Frontline Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero 21x01 Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
“Where was God on Sept. 11?” This two-hour report explores that question, as well as the nature of evil and of religion in comments by some 30 observers. Speakers range from clergy ...
Sep. 03, 2002
Frontline Campaign Against Terror 21x02 Campaign Against Terror
“The Campaign Against Terror” chronicles the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Included: comments by Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza ...
Sep. 08, 2002
Frontline The Man Who Knew 21x03 The Man Who Knew
“The Man Who Knew” profiles John O'Neill, the FBI's former New York counterterrorism chief, who was perhaps the country's foremost Al Qaeda expert. However, his intensity and flamboyance ...
Oct. 03, 2002
Frontline Missile Wars 21x04 Missile Wars
A report that traces the recent history of antimissile defense, assesses its technological prospects and explores what producer Sherry Jones calls the “politics of the threat” of ...
Oct. 10, 2002
Frontline A Crime of Insanity 21x05 A Crime of Insanity
The case of a disturbed gunman who held a class hostage at SUNY-Albany in 1994 is examined. The report explores “questions that arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide,” ...
Oct. 17, 2002
Frontline Let's Get Married 21x06 Let's Get Married
Author Alex Kotlowitz looks at how the decline of marriage and the rise of divorce is affecting American families socially and economically. Kotlowitz visits Oklahoma (which has one ...
Nov. 14, 2002
Frontline In Search of Al Qaeda 21x07 In Search of Al Qaeda
Correspondent Martin Smith visits Pakistan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia to assess U.S. efforts to track down terrorists, and to evaluate Al Qaeda's appeal among the general populations in ...
Nov. 21, 2002
Frontline Much Ado About Something 21x08 Much Ado About Something
Australian filmmaker Michael Rubbo explores the enduring question of whether Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him. Rubbo is a partisan of Christopher Marlowe, and ...
Jan. 02, 2003
Frontline A Dangerous Business 21x09 A Dangerous Business
The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for articles written in conjunction with this 2003 workplace-safety report, which focuses on foundries operated by the McWane Corp. of Birmingham, ...
Jan. 09, 2003
Frontline Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr 21x10 Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr
Part 1 of a two-part probe of Maine's child-protective services explores reasons why a 5-year-old died in foster care in January 2001. Logan Marr and her younger sister Bailey were ...
Jan. 30, 2003
Frontline Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files 21x11 Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files
Following staffers in the Bangor office of Maine's Department of Human Services as they decide to move children from their homes into foster care. They must find “the proper balance ...
Feb. 06, 2003
Frontline China in the Red 21x12 China in the Red
An exploration of what narrator Will Lyman calls “the human cost” of the China's economic reforms, following 10 Chinese citizens between 1998 and 2001. Overall, the “cost” is ...
Feb. 13, 2003
Frontline The War Behind Closed Doors 21x13 The War Behind Closed Doors
A 1985 report that follows up on a 1970 experiment in which Iowa third-graders were encouraged to actively discriminate against one another for two days. Teacher Jane Elliott says that ...
Feb. 20, 2003
Frontline The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report 21x14 The Long Road to War: A FRONTLINE Special Report
Examining the history of U.S.-Iraqi relations in the Saddam Hussein era, as well as the actions and motivations of the Iraqi leader and his skill at survival. Also: the origins of the ...
Feb. 17, 2003
Frontline Blair's War 21x15 Blair's War
A look at what producer Eamonn Matthews calls the “tricky game” that the British Prime Minister has been trying to play during the Iraq crisis as he offers himself as “an Atlantic ...
Apr. 03, 2003
Frontline Kim's Nuclear Gamble 21x16 Kim's Nuclear Gamble
“Kim's Nuclear Gamble” traces “how we got into the mess we're in with North Korea,” says producer Martin Smith, who traces the crisis over Pyongyang's plutonium back to 1994, ...
Apr. 10, 2003
Frontline Cyber War! 21x17 Cyber War!
“Cyber War!” examines warfare by computer and assesses the probability of attacks on U.S. infrastructure on what producer Michael Kirk calls a “new kind of battlefield.” The ...
Apr. 24, 2003
Frontline Burden of Innocence 21x18 Burden of Innocence
“Burden of Innocence.” Filmmaker Ofra Bikel follows the cases of five men who did time for crimes they didn't commit. Bikel explores psychological and practical reasons why, after ...
May. 01, 2003
Frontline The Wall Street Fix 21x19 The Wall Street Fix
“The Wall Street Fix” traces the rise and fall of WorldCom stock and looks at what N.Y. Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer calls a “corrupt business model.” Correspondent: Hedrick Sm ...
May. 08, 2003
Frontline The Other Drug War 21x20 The Other Drug War
A report on prescription-drug pricing focuses on complaints from consumers about high prices and state-government efforts in Maine and Oregon to control drug costs. The hour also includes ...
Jun. 19, 2003
Frontline Public Schools, Inc. 21x21 Public Schools, Inc.
“Public Schools, Inc.” explores the career of Chris Whittle, founder of Edison Schools, the for-profit company that manages public schools around the country. The trouble is, Edison ...
Jul. 03, 2003

Season 21 Characters

Narrator voiced by Will Lyman
Himself played by Ted Kennedy
Faustus (in 'Dr. Faustus') played by Moray Treadwell
Touchstone (in 'As You Like It') played by A.T. Schiller
Skeres played by Richard Burnip
Shakespeare played by Scott Ainslie
Poley played by Andy Hawthorne
Mephostophilis (in 'Dr. Faustus') played by Richard Jacob
Marlowe in Italy played by Gionato Agisti
Marlowe in England played by Callum Coates
Horatio (in 'Hamlet') played by Nicholas Cassim
Herself played by Julie Rovner
Hamlet played by Dean Atkinson
Gravedigger (in 'Hamlet') played by Tony Barry
Frizer played by Daniel Hopkins (III)
Young Marlowe played by James Dunn (X)

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