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The Best Episodes of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper

Every episode of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper!

A collection of unique and immersive single subject, one-hour episodes from CNN’s longform storytelling team. The recurring weekly series showcases character-driven stories, special interviews,...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Seeing Red: Running with the Bulls" is the best rated episode of "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/19/2023. This episode scored 0.7 points higher than the second highest rated, "Surviving Uvalde: Inside a School Shooting".

  • Seeing Red: Running with the Bulls
    10.0/101 votes
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    #1 - Seeing Red: Running with the Bulls

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/19/2023

    CNN Senior National Correspondent David Culver reports a nail-biting account of the world-renowned and controversial running of the bulls from the streets of Pamplona, Spain.

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  • Surviving Uvalde: Inside a School Shooting
    9.3/109 votes
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    #2 - Surviving Uvalde: Inside a School Shooting

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/21/2023

    A year after the shooting at Robb Elementary School, Shimon Prokupecz gives an inside look into the reality of a school shooting by bringing together students who survived, parents of victims, Mayor Don McLaughlin and more.

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  • Hostages: The Road Home
    8.7/107 votes
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    #3 - Hostages: The Road Home

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2024

    Six months after Hamas launched a terror attack on Israel, CNN's Bianna Golodryga speaks with families of the kidnap victims and to released hostages about their time in captivity and the emotional messages they have for those they left behind.

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  • The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America
    8.2/1018 votes
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    #4 - The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2023

    CNN's Nick Paton Walsh travels with thousands of migrants through the jungles of South and Central America and tells their story of danger, grit, and determination to make it to America.

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  • Weed 7: A Senior Moment
    8.0/1010 votes
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    #5 - Weed 7: A Senior Moment

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/6/2023

    Dr. Sanjay Gupta's duPont-Columbia Award-winning Emmy® nominated Weed series returns to explore the drug's risks and benefits in treating chronic issues such as pain, anxiety, and Alzheimer's disease in patients over 50.

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  • How to Unscrew a Planet
    7.8/1014 votes
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    #6 - How to Unscrew a Planet

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2023

    CNN's Bill Weir travels the globe to meet extraordinary people with extraordinary solutions to help save the planet.

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  • Indicted: The Case Against Trump
    7.8/107 votes
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    #7 - Indicted: The Case Against Trump

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/27/2023

    CNN looks into the charges that former president Trump faces and facts known about the case, as well as any additional need-to-know details about the investigation and how it could affect the presidential election.

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  • Restaurant Nation: What's Changed?
    7.7/108 votes
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    #8 - Restaurant Nation: What's Changed?

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/13/2023

    Celebrity chef Bobby Flay examines how the pandemic changed the restaurant industry and the unique ways chefs and restaurants across the country have adapted.

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  • Deadly Adventure: Trip to the Titanic
    7.6/107 votes
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    #9 - Deadly Adventure: Trip to the Titanic

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/11/2023

    CNN National Correspondent Randi Kaye investigates this story that has rapidly captured the world's attention. On June 18, 2023, five passengers on the Titan submersible dived 13,000 feet to view the Titanic on the ocean floor and perished in a "catastrophic implosion," authorities said Thursday, June 22. This bookended an astounding five-day international search operation near the site of the world's most famous shipwreck. Kaye unravels the timeline of events, starting with the Titan's initial descent and their last communication to the surface. As investigators continue to scour the ocean floor for debris trying to establish the circumstances of the Titan's fatal final voyage, Kaye breaks down everything we know now.

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  • Warning To The World: Australia's Climate Disasters
    7.5/107 votes
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    #10 - Warning To The World: Australia's Climate Disasters

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/2024

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  • Shaken: Baby Powder on Trial
    7.0/107 votes
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    #11 - Shaken: Baby Powder on Trial

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/2023

    Pamela Brown examines claims made by some of the thousands of women who say that Johnson & Johnson's now-discontinued talc baby powder is responsible for their cancers.

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  • Deep Dive: The Shark Wars
    6.6/106 votes
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    #12 - Deep Dive: The Shark Wars

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 6/30/2024

    CNN Anchor Boris Sanchez returns with a descent into the heightening conflict between an ancient predator and their modern-day competition for prey. Humans kill 100 million sharks worldwide each year, threatening one-third of shark species with extinction. Despite warnings that sharks are endangered globally, some fishermen say the shark population in the US is out of control, and the rate at which sharks are feasting on their catch is crippling the fishing industry. However, some scientists disagree, arguing that depredation may be due to overfishing and depleting prey sources. Sanchez speaks with parties on both sides of the issue, bringing their concerns to government regulators and even free dives with the sharks himself.

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  • What Happened to San Francisco
    6.3/1011 votes
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    #13 - What Happened to San Francisco

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2023

    Sara Sidner visits San Francisco and explores its struggles with homelessness, drugs and crime.

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  • The Reign Begins: Charles & Camilla
    5.2/1015 votes
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    #14 - The Reign Begins: Charles & Camilla

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2023

    CNN's Erica Hill examines the role of the Royal family in British society and around the world, in an eye-opening special ahead of the coronation of King Charles III.

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  • Magic Mushrooms: Can They Change Your Mind?
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    #15 - Magic Mushrooms: Can They Change Your Mind?

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/4/2023

    CNN Correspondent David Culver travels to Jamaica to explore the therapeutic benefits of medically supervised consumption of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms.

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  • Wired for Trouble
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    #16 - Wired for Trouble

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/18/2023

    CNN Anchor and podcast host Audie Cornish delves into the perils of social media and chronicles the journey of three separate families, united by their efforts to hold social media companies accountable for the content published on their platforms.

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  • The Gilgo Beach Killer
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    #17 - The Gilgo Beach Killer

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/23/2023

    CNN Correspondent Brynn Gingras dives deeply into the 13-year investigation into multiple murders of young women along Gilgo Beach and the man, Rex Heuermann, who has now been charged with these crimes. Last week, Heuermann was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the killings of three of the "Gilgo Four," a group of four women whose remains were found along a short stretch of Long Island's Gilgo Beach in 2010. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance and killing of the fourth woman but has yet to be charged in that case. The alleged killer had been living a double life in a village a short drive from where their remains were found, prosecutors said.

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  • What Happened in Georgia?: The Trump Investigation
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    #18 - What Happened in Georgia?: The Trump Investigation

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/30/2023

    CNN Political Correspondent Sara Murray examines the case against former President Donald Trump over claims of election fraud and interference in Georgia and the chances of him being indicted again.

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  • Trump and the Georgia Conspiracy
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    #19 - Trump and the Georgia Conspiracy

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/20/2023

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  • Without Roe: The New Abortion Landscape
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    #20 - Without Roe: The New Abortion Landscape

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/3/2023

    A network of pilots and organizers helps women travel to doctors nationwide to access legal abortion procedures. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, at least 21 states have banned or restricted abortions, forcing countless women to travel hundreds of miles to seek care. "Without Roe: The New Abortion Landscape" examines the ongoing state-by-state struggle over whether abortion should remain accessible in America, featuring advocates coming together to protect access to the procedure while opponents try to restrict it.

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  • Hard Hits: Can Football be Safe?
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    #21 - Hard Hits: Can Football be Safe?

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/10/2023

    CNN Sports Anchor and Correspondent Coy Wire marks the first week of the NFL season with an investigation into how new developments in the sport aim to make the game safer for players.

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  • Dancing in Defiance
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    #22 - Dancing in Defiance

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/17/2023

    CNN's Chief International Anchor, Christiane Amanpour, covers the remarkable story of Ukrainian ballet dancers who faced the wrenching decision to either leave their homes and show the world the face of Ukrainian culture or stay behind to continue performing in a war zone.

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  • Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe
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    #23 - Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/24/2023

    CNN Correspondent Donie O'Sullivan presents a chilling year-long investigation into the devoted followers of a fringe conspiracy theory rooted in QAnon ideology.

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  • Terror in Israel
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    #24 - Terror in Israel

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 10/15/2023

    CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper provides an in-depth look at the devastating attack on The Nova Festival near the Gaza-Israel border. The outdoor music festival was supposed to be an all-night dance party, celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The rockets began around 6:30 a.m. as Gaza militants fired at the hundreds of attendees. The Nova Festival was one of multiple locations hit last Saturday morning by the most sustained and coordinated assault inside Israel ever carried out by Hamas militants. At least 260 bodies would later be found at the festival site, and some attendees were taken hostage, seen in social media videos being seized by their armed captors. Featuring new interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses of the attack and family members of kidnapped victims, Cooper breaks down everything we know so far about the deadly assault and how this surprise attack escalated into war.

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  • Inside Hamas
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    #25 - Inside Hamas

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 10/22/2023

    CNN Anchor and Senior National Correspondent Sara Sidner provides a comprehensive overview of the extremist group Hamas. Sidner explores the origins and philosophy of Hamas, including their current military capabilities and how the organization just inflicted the deadliest attack in Israel's 75-year history, overwhelming the most powerful and advanced military in the Middle East. Featuring archival CNN reporting in the region and interviews with CNN experts, including Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, Senior International Correspondent Sam Kiley, and International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson, Sidner unravels the complicated history of Hamas and the catalysts that led to the terrorist attack on Israel.

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