All Episodes of The New Yorker Presents

Season 1

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  7.6/1047 votes

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  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

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  7.0/1023 votes

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  Episode 2

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2016

  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.

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  6.7/1019 votes

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  Episode 3

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2016

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  6.1/1021 votes

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  Episode 4

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2016

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  Director: Roger Ross Williams

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  6.8/1013 votes

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  Episode 5

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/22/2016

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  Director: Lucy Walker

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  6.5/1015 votes

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  Episode 6

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/29/2016

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  6.9/1015 votes

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  Episode 7

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/29/2016

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  6.7/1013 votes

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  Episode 8

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/5/2016

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  7.5/1016 votes

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  Episode 9

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/2016

  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.

  Director: Jyllian Gunther, Chapman Way, Maclain Way

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  7.4/1014 votes

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  Episode 10

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/12/2016

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  7.0/1014 votes

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  Episode 11

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/2016

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