Episodes

  • BALCO: Steroids and Snake Oil | 1
    Sep 18 2018

    A college dropout with no background in science turns himself into an expert on performance enhancing drugs. Soon he attracts some of the world’s best athletes—along with the attention of a determined federal agent.


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    36 mins
  • New York State of Crime: Three Men in a Room | 1
    Oct 23 2018

    In 2006 Eliot Spitzer is elected governor on a promise to tackle corruption in the most dysfunctional state capital in the country--Albany, NY. He is quickly challenged by one of the most powerful men in the state. Will the governor change Albany or will Albany change him?


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    39 mins
  • Iran Contra: Bud | 1
    Nov 27 2018

    In July of 1985, the National Security Advisor to President Reagan, Robert “Bud” McFarlane puts a plan in motion that could change the course of history and turn the Reagan administration upside down.


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    47 mins
  • Exxon Valdez: Oil Meets Water | 1
    Jan 22 2019

    A supertanker carrying 53 million gallons of crude oil runs aground in Prince William Sound sparking the worst man-made ecological catastrophe in the country’s history at the time. As Exxon struggles to get the cleanup underway, fishermen worry that this is the end of life as they know it

    Links to recommended reading:

    Not One Drop by Riki Ott

    Out of the Channel by John Keeble

    The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster


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    37 mins
  • The Hare Krishna Murders: Go West, Old Man | 1
    Feb 26 2019

    An elderly swami from India captures the zeitgeist of 1960s counterculture in America with his message of peace and love. But his western disciples are hungry for power, and one of his most trusted devotees betrays him.

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    41 mins
  • Payola - The $50 Handshake | 1
    Apr 23 2019

    The delicate system of secret bribes and kickbacks used to transform a mediocre record into a hit -- that’s payola. And on the eve of rock ‘n’ roll, it’s consuming the music industry. As the public catches wind of the corruption, DJ Alan Freed and American Bandstand host Dick Clark will be caught in the crosshairs of the investigations.


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    40 mins
  • Tuskegee Syphilis Study - First, Do No Harm | 1
    Jun 11 2019

    In early 1930s America, segregation is the law of the land, and syphilis remains a grave public health concern. A handful of white government doctors aims to treat African Americans in a rural Alabama county where infection rates are especially high. But several officials conspire to alter the program’s goals, launching a decades-long program that will stain medical history.


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    39 mins
  • The Standoff at Wounded Knee - The Trail of Broken Treaties | 1
    Jul 16 2019

    In early 1973, the militant civil rights group the American Indian Movement (AIM) takes control of the town of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The action launches a 71-day standoff between Indians and federal forces. But before they make their stand at Wounded Knee, AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means are already on a collision course with the U.S. government — starting when they lead more than a thousand Indians from across the country to the steps of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington DC.


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    38 mins