Alex Gibney
Director
The New Yorker Presents (2016)
Season 1
A groundbreaking series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to the screen with documentaries, short narrative films, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons from the hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists.
Released Feb. 16, 2016
Episode 30 min
15+
Genres: Documentary
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Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Production Companies: Jigsaw Productions
Network: Prime Video
Country: United States
Languages:
English
8.0
S1E1 - Episode 1
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.
Feb. 16, 2016, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
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.
Feb. 16, 2016, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
None
March 15, 2016, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
None
March 22, 2016, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
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March 22, 2016, midnight
S1E6 - Episode 6
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March 29, 2016, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7
None
March 29, 2016, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
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April 5, 2016, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
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.
March 7, 2016, midnight
S1E10 - Episode 10
None
April 12, 2016, midnight
S1E11 - Episode 11
None
April 12, 2016, midnight
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30 min/ep
330 min
Feb. 16, 2016
April 12, 2016, midnight
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