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The New Yorker Presents

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 from the hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists.

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 0h 30m

Release: 2016

Rating: 7.8

1 "Episode 1"

2016-02-16

"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."

2 "Episode 2"

2016-02-16

"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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2016-03-22

2016-03-29

2016-03-29

2016-04-05

2016-03-07

"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."