Season 35 (2023)

The Lie Detector
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January 3, 2023 • 53m

Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extoll...Read more

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
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January 17, 2023 • 1h 52m

Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston collected ...Read more

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
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February 20, 2023 • 52m

Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth ...Read more

The Movement and the "Madman"
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March 28, 2023 • 1h 22m

Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the fil...Read more

The Sun Queen
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April 4, 2023 • 52m

Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleague...Read more

Casa Susanna
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June 27, 2023 • 1h 37m

In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills...Read more

The Busing Battleground
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September 11, 2023 • 1h 53m

The Busing Battleground viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Bo...Read more

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
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September 12, 2023 • 1h 47m

When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally me...Read more

The War on Disco
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October 30, 2023 • 51m

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979...Read more