- 8.0/101 votes
#1 - Fire
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/2016
With help from Aboriginal hunters and a barbecue pit master, Pollan shows how fire shaped human gastronomy, and weighs our duty to the animals we eat.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/107 votes
#2 - Optimal Play
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/2017
Axe considers buying an NFL franchise and develops a new ally. Chuck begins a last-ditch case against a banking titan by developing a low-level informant. Axe Cappers attend the annual Alpha Cup Charity Poker Tournament. Wendy makes a controversial appearance at the tournament by accompanying Axe's competitor as his performance coach. Lara launches her new business.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: Willie Reale
- 8.0/101 votes
#3 - Love Crazy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/21/1998
It's sweetly sentimental sometimes. But it is also snappy, scrappy, and sappy. Occasionally it's gender-bending; often it is touched by poignancy, not to mention tragedy. How do we love one another? Let us chart the many forms this fever takes. Films include: CITY LIGHTS, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, BRINGING UP BABY, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, WEST SIDE STORY, THE GRADUATE, TOOTSIE.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: Alex Gibney
- 8.0/101 votes
#4 - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2020
Part One presents an in-depth portrait of Russian troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, and explores the full story behind the 2016 Democratic National Committee email hack.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#5 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/2016
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.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: Alex Gibney
- 7.9/1015 votes
#6 - Now It Begins…
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2018
The chief of the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit, John O’Neill, invites rookie Muslim-American agent, Ali Soufan, onto his squad. Fighting to get information from the CIA, they soon realize their work is just beginning…as two American embassies are bombed.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votes
#7 - Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2020
Part Two explores the origins of the Steele dossier, the negotiations to build Trump Tower in Moscow, and Paul Manafort’s secret communications with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: N/A