Season 1

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  8.5/1022 votes

  Iraq: For Every Insect There is an Insecticide

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/26/2024

  Exploring the US's complicated relationship with Iraq, first supporting the country during the Iran-Iraq war but then turning against it after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

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  8.5/1018 votes

  Bosnia: Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/3/2024

  As the Balkans deteriorate into a series of bloody wars, President Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright must decide whether to use force to save innocent civilians from genocide.

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  8.7/1017 votes

  Rwanda – That Was a Local Thing

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2024

  Why did the world stand by in 1994 as nearly one million people were murdered over one hundred days of terror in Rwanda? American diplomats describe events on the ground.

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  8.2/1014 votes

  Kosovo – In the Name of Our Future

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2024

  Muslim separatists in the Kosovo region rekindle old conflicts, leading Clinton’s White House to consider Serbian President Milošević’s regime a threat to their own civilians.

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  8.3/1011 votes

  Darfur – Carrots for a War Criminal

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/2024

  In 2003, hundreds of thousands of Americans protested about ethnic cleansing in Sudan. Following Obama’s 2008 election success, could some of those people, now in office, make a difference?

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  8.4/1013 votes

  Libya – If You Break It You Own It

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2024

  When Gaddafi declared his intention to 'disinfect' Benghazi, Obama faced a dilemma, have previously told the younger Arab generation 'you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.

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  8.5/1012 votes

  Syria – The Risk of Doing Nothing

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/14/2024

  Obama did not want to be dragged into another war in the Middle East, but when the Syrian regime began to consider the use of chemical weapons, he warned them they would be crossing a red line.

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  8.7/1010 votes

  Syria – A Loop of Imperfection

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/21/2024

  America’s unwillingness to act after a chemical attack, causes Syrian rebels to despair. Obama concludes that there is no scenario where intervention in Syria would give a desired outcome.

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