The New Yorker Presents - Season 1

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Episode 1

1 - Episode 1

Air Date: February 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.

Episode 2

2 - Episode 2

Air Date: February 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.

Episode 3

3 - Episode 3

Air Date: March 15, 2016

Episode 4

4 - Episode 4

Air Date: March 22, 2016

Episode 5

5 - Episode 5

Air Date: March 22, 2016

Episode 6

6 - Episode 6

Air Date: March 29, 2016

Episode 7

7 - Episode 7

Air Date: March 29, 2016

Episode 8

8 - Episode 8

Air Date: April 5, 2016

Episode 9

9 - Episode 9

Air Date: March 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.

Episode 10

10 - Episode 10

Air Date: April 12, 2016

Episode 11

11 - Episode 11

Air Date: April 12, 2016