238 Episodes

  1. 150: “La Madrina” of the South Bronx

    Published: 4/14/2022

  2. 149: W. Kamau Bell on "We Need to Talk About Cosby"

    Published: 2/24/2022

  3. 148: Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes on Disney’s Dark Side

    Published: 2/17/2022

  4. 147: Stanley Nelson on "Attica" and a Retrospective

    Published: 1/29/2022

  5. 146: Alex Pritz on “The Territory” at Sundance

    Published: 1/27/2022

  6. 145: Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” at Sundance

    Published: 1/25/2022

  7. 144: Ramin Bahrani on “2nd Chance” at Sundance

    Published: 1/23/2022

  8. 143: Isabel Castro on “Mija” at Sundance

    Published: 1/21/2022

  9. 142: Sara Dosa on “Fire of Love” at Sundance

    Published: 1/19/2022

  10. 141: Richard Rowley on “American Insurrection”

    Published: 1/6/2022

  11. 140: Ry Russo-Young on her “Nuclear Family”

    Published: 12/9/2021

  12. 139: Sonya Childress & Jesse Wente on Making Change

    Published: 9/2/2021

  13. 138: Nanfu Wang on “In the Same Breath”

    Published: 8/26/2021

  14. 137: Sonia Kennebeck on “Enemies of the State”

    Published: 8/11/2021

  15. 136: Fran Lebowitz on “Pretend It’s a City”

    Published: 6/16/2021

  16. 135: In Praise of Lewis Erskine @editorsavant

    Published: 6/9/2021

  17. 134: Astra Taylor on “You Are Not a Loan"

    Published: 5/20/2021

  18. 133: Remembering Leon Gast & “When We Were Kings”

    Published: 3/18/2021

  19. 132: Telling the Story of Fred Hampton

    Published: 3/4/2021

  20. 131: Alex Vitale on Rethinking True Crime

    Published: 2/26/2021

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