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The New York Times Presents: Season 1
July 9, 2020
11 Episodes
~36 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
11
1
They Get Brave
Jul 10, 2020
36 min
3.8/5
As the coronavirus ravages more and more American cities, we look back to the place hit hardest: New York City. Doctors and nurses documented their lives, capturing awe‐inspiring resolve in the face of a breakdown in the health‐care system.
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2
Dominic Fike, At First
Aug 7, 2020
35 min
The making of a pop star in 2020: A young musician is plucked from obscurity -- jail, actually -- and given a multi-million dollar record deal. Meet Dominic Fike as he prepares for his first international tour and makes his debut album.
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3
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
Sep 4, 2020
58 min
A New York Times investigation examines what happened at 3003 Springfield Drive in Louisville, Kentucky, just after midnight on March 13, when police executed a warrant that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor.
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4
Hurricane of Fire
Sep 18, 2020
43 min
5.0/5
Perhaps a fitting start to 2020, Australia rang in the New Year with much of the country engulfed in flames. A few people decided to confront the blaze. Watch them stand face to face with one of the most ferocious infernos in history.
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5
The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter
Nov 20, 2020
42 min
0.5/5
Elon Musk. Bill Gates. Kanye West. Joe Biden. Barack Obama. They and dozens of others were being hacked recently, and Twitter appeared powerless to stop it. Who had brought the tech giant to its knees? A 17-year-old kid in Tampa.
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6
Framing Britney Spears
Feb 5, 2021
74 min
3.6/5
Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.
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7
Who Gets To Be an Influencer?
Jun 4, 2021
39 min
The New York Times follows the rise of Collab Crib, the first mainstream Black "creator mansion," exclusively documenting their whirlwind drive to achieve social media stardom in 90 days. The intimate, character-based film captures the influencers wrestling with a nagging, and profound, challenge: how can they succeed in a nascent industry that seems tilted to their disadvantage?
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8
Move Fast & Vape Things
Sep 17, 2021
66 min
Two Stanford graduate students had an inspired idea and an idealistic mission: create an e-cigarette that would help millions of people stop smoking. How did the founders of Juul lose their way and end up accused of addicting a whole new generation?
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9
Controlling Britney Spears
Sep 24, 2021
72 min
4.0/5
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her.” This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.
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10
Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
Nov 19, 2021
70 min
3.0/5
In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.
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11
To Live and Die in Alabama
Dec 3, 2021
70 min
Three police officers died in a shootout at a drug house in Alabama. One man was sentenced to death for the shootings, even though he was never accused of even touching the murder weapon. This is the story of Nathaniel Woods.
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