Truth and Power - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
#BlackLivesMatter
A group of young activists ignited a twenty-first century civil rights movement with Black Lives Matter and now the FBI, along with local law enforcement, is tracking their organization's every move.
Government-Sponsored Spyware
The lucrative and growing business of government-sponsored spyware is examined through the eyes of two young Moroccan activists and the team of innovative hackers who uncovered the source of their online surveillance.
The Stingray
Daniel Rigmaiden, a convicted felon turned whistleblower, discovers a secret government technology intercepting his personal information and publicly exposes the collection of unsuspecting Americans' private information.
Prisoners for Sale
Two former prisoners turned muckraking journalists explore the question: what happens when multi-billion dollar companies treat human beings as revenue streams?
Activists or Terrorists?
A journalist and a punk-rocker academic team up to use freedom of information laws to uncover a troubling link between the U.S. government and big agriculture, which target animal rights activists.
Shooting the Messenger
Equipped only with smart phones, citizen journalists expose controversial police tactics. They set out to effect change within law enforcement with their bold guerilla reporting and, along the way, forever change how the public gets information.
Hacking the Presidency
A Harvard professor ventures out of the Ivory Tower and leaps head first into the cutthroat race for the presidency with a bold goal: to completely overhaul the campaign finance system.
Data Vampires
A diverse group of civil liberties advocates come together to battle data vampires, little known corporate entities that gather and manipulate people's personal information in an effort to influence consumer behavior with startling specificity.
Camp Justice
A small chain of islands in the Indian Ocean was the site of closely guarded secrets from the War on Terror. The island's native inhabitants, and their advocates, fight to uncover the island's role in that war and regain access to their homeland.
Flying Robots
Drones already cloud America's skies, but will weaponized drones, already used by the military, become commonplace? A group of activists battle to regulate this Wild West of tech.
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The Proof Is Out There
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Providence Falls
In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Conner, a rogue and a thief, falls in love with Cora McLeod, a fiery but sheltered aristocrat's daughter, who is promised in marriage to a man she barely knows. Their plan to make a new life together in America is thwarted, and the consequences of Liam and Cora's unlikely love ripples through time, causing everyone to relive the events of the past. Now the Angels of Destiny need Liam's help to set things right and if he doesn't succeed, his very soul is on the line. They transport Liam to present day to help this incarnation of Cora fall in love with Finn, the man she was destined to marry in 1844. Liam would give anything to reunite with his beloved Cora but only he retains the memories of their past together. Now a cop in Providence Falls, Oregon, Cora feels an inexplicable connection to Liam, who is introduced as her new partner. And as they tackle a big case together, Liam sees the same passion and adventurous nature in Cora that he had fallen in love with. With everyone's lives at stake, Liam must overcome unexpected and otherworldly obstacles in his mission. Perhaps none as powerful as his own undying love for Cora.
The Chicken Sisters
The Chicken Sisters is a family drama dipped in southern charm and served up with a saucy side of romance. The setting is the fictional town of Merinac, where a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants – Mimi's and Frannie's – has left the founders' families fractured and the locals taking sides. When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.
