Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1Episode 1 2016-02-16 · 30 min
Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks - if it weren't for the CIA. Le Cafe de Balzac: Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who drank 50 cups of coffee each day. Unreality Star: Patients with "The Truman Show delusion" believe their lives are being watched on TV. Cartoon by Roz Chast.
S1 · E2Episode 2 2016-02-16 · 30 min
The Ride of Their Lives: Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles two young people in the world's most dangerous sport - bull riding. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain: Writer Edwidge Danticat looks at racist violence in America through art. The Death and Life of Atlantic City: Writer Nick Paumgarten on the closure of the Revel casino. Cartoons by Roz Chast and Liana Finck.
S1 · E3Episode 3 2016-03-15 · 30 min
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S1 · E4Episode 4 2016-03-22 · 30 min
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S1 · E5Episode 5 2016-03-22 · 30 min
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S1 · E6Episode 6 2016-03-29 · 30 min
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S1 · E7Episode 7 2016-03-29 · 30 min
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S1 · E8Episode 8 2016-04-05 · 30 min
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S1 · E9Episode 9 2016-03-07 · 30 min
THE SILVER THIEF: Filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country; The Battered Bastards of Baseball) profile master thief Blane Nordahl. UP AND THEN DOWN: Writer Nick Paumgarten explains why life as we know it depends on elevators. TOM OF FINLAND: The artist called Tom of Finland changed the image of gay men forever. Is his work porn, or is it art? CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
S1 · E10Episode 10 2016-04-12 · 30 min
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S1 · E11Episode 11 2016-04-12 · 30 min
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