Our America with Lisa Ling - Season 5

Our America with Lisa Ling - Season 5

Season 5

Network
DatesMai 29, 2014 - Juli 31, 2014
Previous Season

Episodes

Fighting Satan
Season 5Episode 160 min

Fighting Satan

Over 70% of Americans believe the devil is alive and well, and there's a growing movement in churches to fight him head on. Lisa Ling visits ministries that practice deliverance: calling upon the power of Christ to cast out demons from tortured souls.

Mai 29, 2014
Transgender Lives: 3 Years Later
Season 5Episode 260 min

Transgender Lives: 3 Years Later

Three years ago, Lisa Ling explored the very private worlds of four different transgender people across America. Now she revisits each of them on their journeys of transformation—from the sex they were born, to the one they feel they really are.

Juni 5, 2014
The ADHD Explosion
Season 5Episode 360 min

The ADHD Explosion

Lisa Ling explores ADHD, one of the most disputed and misunderstood medical conditions today. In addition to joining three families in their journeys of diagnosis and treatment, she finally has the courage to ask: Could she have it, too?

Juni 12, 2014
Criminal Informants
Season 5Episode 460 min

Criminal Informants

Lisa explores the world of criminal informants, untrained civilians who perform undercover operations for law enforcement. By targeting the vulnerable, are police coercing citizens into risking their lives despite uncertain and often deadly circumstances?

Juni 19, 2014
Black America's Silent Epidemic
Season 5Episode 560 min

Black America's Silent Epidemic

Lisa explores why the HIV rate is disproportionately high in black America by looking at the social and economic forces that drive the epidemic. She'll meet HIV-positive black men and women who are fighting both the stigma and the disease.

Juni 26, 2014
Children of the System
Season 5Episode 660 min

Children of the System

Los Angeles County's foster care system is the largest in the country. Lisa investigates what happens to a child after they've been removed from their family, the actions parents take hoping to reunify, and how the system is holding up under the strain.

Juli 3, 2014
Under the Gun
Season 5Episode 760 min

Under the Gun

Lisa Ling travels to Philadelphia, a city where 7 people are shot each day, to meet the crusaders who are determined to end gun violence on their streets. As these activists battle on, Philly's citizens hope and pray that together, they can find peace.

Juli 10, 2014
Labeled for Life: 18 Months Later
Season 5Episode 860 min

Labeled for Life: 18 Months Later

Lisa travels back to Texas to see how 18 months on the Sex Offender Registry has affected Travis Iosue, and finds him on the cusp of a major break in his case—one that could mean the end of parole and a reprieve from a lifetime on the registry.

Juli 17, 2014
Teen Mom Nation: 2 Years Later
Season 5Episode 960 min

Teen Mom Nation: 2 Years Later

In Season 2 of Our America, Lisa Ling met four very different pregnant teens, all forced to grow up too fast. Two years later we revisit Latanya and Sophie to see how their youthful decisions on motherhood have changed their lives.

Juli 24, 2014
The Missing
Season 5Episode 1060 min

The Missing

Each year in America, more than 600,000 people are reported missing. Some are doggedly searched for by friends and family members; others seem to simply disappear, unfound and unlooked for. In this episode, Lisa Ling meets women on both sides of the search: A woman who disappeared for two months as the victim of a notorious kidnapping, and a mother still searching for her daughter who went missing three years ago.

Juli 31, 2014

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