This American Life - Season 2

This American Life - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Episodes6
DatesMay 4, 2008 - Jun 8, 2008
Previous Season

Episodes

Escape
Season 2Episode 130 min

Escape

Two teenage boys in Philadelphia look for ways to impress girls; and a young man fights for his independence from his mother.
May 4, 2008
Two Wars
Season 2Episode 230 min

Two Wars

An Iraqi comes to America after leaving his war-torn country and sets out on a trip across America and lets the U.S. citizens ask questions about any subject; a Bulgarian man decides that an argument with his wife, about lawn upkeep, goes back more than 20 years.
May 11, 2008
Going Down in History
Season 2Episode 330 min

Going Down in History

Stories of people trying to make — and remake — history, while others go down in history in ways they never intended. Two Wisconsin convicts gain local fame for almost escaping prison using dental floss. High school students pose for smiley yearbook snapshots, which capture nothing of the dramas in their lives. And a man with a 30-year obsession with one particular bird unveils the grainy, Big Foot-style video evidence that he saw it.
May 18, 2008
Underdogs
Season 2Episode 430 min

Underdogs

A group of teenage boys, in New York City, learn how to fight back against bullies in an old fashioned way; two boxers from Tennessee who have known each other, since they were kids, must face each other in a fight that they can't lose.
May 25, 2008
Every Marriage is a Courthouse
Season 2Episode 530 min

Every Marriage is a Courthouse

Cartoonist Chris Ware animates a true story that demonstrates that every marriage—even the happiest—is a courtroom. But most of the episode is devoted to the slow-motion disintegration of one couple's marriage. The husband's obsession with a legal battle forces the most basic marital questions into the open: what do I need? And what can I put up with?
Jun 1, 2008
John Smith
Season 2Episode 630 min

John Smith

The story of one life, told through the lives of people from all over the country, all named John Smith. Baby John Smith is 11 weeks old, in South Carolina, and his parents are still reeling from the sonograms that all predicted he would be a girl. By the time he's 23, John Smith in Laramie, Wyoming, has made some mistakes and is appearing in front of a judge. At 46, he's in Texas, welcoming his oldest son back from Iraq. In-depth portraits of people growing up, growing old, and figuring out how to be fathers, husbands, and men in America today.
Jun 8, 2008

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