7.6/1047 votes#1 - 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
7.0/1023 votes#2 - 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
#3 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2016
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- 6.1/1021 votes
#4 - 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
#5 - 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
#6 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/29/2016
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- 6.9/1014 votes
#7 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/29/2016
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- 6.7/1013 votes
#8 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/5/2016
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- 7.5/1016 votes
#9 - 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
#10 - Episode 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/12/2016
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- 7.0/1014 votes
#11 - Episode 11
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/2016
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The Best Episodes of The New Yorker Presents Season 1
Every episode of The New Yorker Presents Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The New Yorker Presents 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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Prime Video
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "The New Yorker Presents" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by Alex Gibney and written by Alex Gibney, it aired on 2/16/2016. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".