The New Yorker Presents

30min

Documentary

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.

Episodes

Cast

Episode 1

1. Episode 1

30min

16th Feb 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

30min

16th Feb 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

30min

15th Mar 2016

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

30min

22nd Mar 2016

Episode 5

5. Episode 5

30min

22nd Mar 2016

Episode 6

6. Episode 6

30min

29th Mar 2016

Episode 7

7. Episode 7

30min

29th Mar 2016

Episode 8

8. Episode 8

30min

5th Apr 2016

Episode 9

9. Episode 9

30min

7th Mar 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

30min

12th Apr 2016

Episode 11

11. Episode 11

30min

12th Apr 2016

First air date

16th Feb 2016

Last air date

12th Apr 2016

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks