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Small Things Like These (2024) (Guest: Sean Patrick Donlan) (episode 57)
Apr 21, 2026
42m 28s
Syriana (2005): Special Commentary (Guest: Peggy McGuiness)
Apr 2, 2026
22m 12s
The Lives of Others (2006) (Guests: Mark Drumbl & Barbora Hola) (episode 56)
Mar 31, 2026
1h 05m 47s
The Killing Fields (1984) (Guest: Alexandra Meise) (episode 55)
Mar 10, 2026
1h 03m 40s
Conclave (2024) (Guest: Monsignor Raymond Kupke) (episode 54)
Feb 10, 2026
49m 47s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/21/26 | Small Things Like These (2024) (Guest: Sean Patrick Donlan) (episode 57)✨ | Irish historyMagdalene laundries+3 | Sean Patrick Donlan | Roman Catholic institutionsSmall Things Like These+1 | Ireland | Small Things Like TheseCillian Murphy+4 | — | 42m 28s | |
| 4/2/26 | Syriana (2005): Special Commentary (Guest: Peggy McGuiness)✨ | U.S. foreign policyoil+5 | Peggy McGuiness | Syriana | — | SyrianaPeggy McGuiness+7 | — | 22m 12s | |
| 3/31/26 | The Lives of Others (2006) (Guests: Mark Drumbl & Barbora Hola) (episode 56)✨ | surveillanceauthoritarian legality+3 | Mark DrumblBarbora Hola | German Democratic RepublicThe Lives of Others | — | The Lives of Otherssurveillance+5 | — | 1h 05m 47s | |
| 3/10/26 | The Killing Fields (1984) (Guest: Alexandra Meise) (episode 55)✨ | genocidejournalism+4 | Alexandra Meise | New York TimesKhmer Rouge+1 | — | The Killing FieldsKhmer Rouge+6 | — | 1h 03m 40s | |
| 2/10/26 | Conclave (2024) (Guest: Monsignor Raymond Kupke) (episode 54)✨ | papal conclavefilm analysis+4 | Monsignor Raymond Kupke | Edward BergerConclave+3 | — | Conclavepapal election+5 | — | 49m 47s | |
| 1/20/26 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) (Guest Renana Keydar) (episode 53)✨ | film analysisWorld War II+3 | Renana Keydar | Inglourious Basterds | — | Inglourious BasterdsQuentin Tarantino+3 | — | 48m 29s | |
| 12/16/25 | I'm Still Here (Brazil) (2024) (Guest: Isabela Amaral) (episode 52)✨ | enforced disappearancemilitary dictatorship+3 | Isabela Amaral | Walter Salles | BrazilRio de Janeiro | I'm Still HereRubens Paiva+7 | — | 55m 28s | |
| 11/25/25 | An Officer and a Spy (2019) (Guest: William Schabas) (episode 51)✨ | Dreyfus AffairRoman Polanski+3 | William Schabas | An Officer and a SpyJ’accuse | — | Dreyfus AffairAn Officer and a Spy+3 | — | 49m 21s | |
| 11/4/25 | Juror #2 (2024) (Guest: Frank Wohl) (episode 50)✨ | film analysislegal drama+4 | Frank Wohl | Juror #2 | — | Juror #2Clint Eastwood+4 | — | 47m 30s | |
| 10/13/25 | Vindication Swim (2024) (Guest: Elliot Hasler) (episode 49)✨ | swimmingEnglish Channel+3 | Elliot Hasler | Vindication Swim | — | Mercedes GleitzeEnglish Channel+3 | — | 31m 01s | |
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| 9/16/25 | ![]() The Godfather (1972) (Guest: Steve Koh) (episode 48) | Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling 1969 novel, The Godfather depicts the rise and legacy of the Corleone family, a fictional Italian-American organized crime family led by Vito Corleone and the transformation of his son Michael from a reluctant outsider to a ruthless mafia boss. The film, which features an ensemble cast of American film icons, including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan... | 1h 08m 01s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | ![]() No Other Land (2024) (Palestinian-Israeli) (Guests: Omer Bartov & Lisa Hajjar) (episode 47) | No Other Land (2024) is the Oscar-winning documentary that shows the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Recorded between 2019 to 2023, the film tells the story of Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, who has been protesting the Israeli army’s destruction of homes and eviction of villagers. Adra is assisted by Yuval Abraham, a Jewish Israeli journalist. (They are also two of the film’s four directors). To Adra and other Palestinians, the Israeli army ... | 51m 47s | ||||||
| 7/22/25 | ![]() The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) (France) (Guest: Joseph Dellapenna) (episode 46) | The Return of Martin Guerre is a 1982 French historical drama directed by Daniel Vigne and staring Gerard Depardieu. The film describes the historical case of Martin Guerre who leaves his young wife Bertrande (Nathalie Baye) in the small French village of Artigat to fight in a war and travel. Around eight years later, the false Martin (played by Depardieu) returns to the village to resume his life. The false Martin (whose real name is Arnaud du Tilh) persuades the people in the village that h... | 37m 44s | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | ![]() The Conformist (1970) (Guest: Aziz Huq) (episode 45) | This episode examines The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 political drama set in 1930s Italy. The film centers on Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a mid-level Fascist functionary who is ordered to assassinate his former professor, an anti-fascist dissident living in Paris. The film, which includes many flashbacks to Clerici’s early life and decision to join the secret police, provides powerful and chilling insights into the psychology of conformism and fascism The film, widel... | 1h 00m 06s | ||||||
| 6/10/25 | ![]() Dark Waters (2019) (Guest: Mark Templeton) (episode 44) | Dark Waters (2019), directed by Todd Haynes, tells the real-life story of how a lawyer, Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), waged a twenty-year battle to hold the DuPont corporation accountable for contaminating a local water supply with carcinogenic chemicals that poisoned tens of thousands of people. While Bilott is ultimately able to achieve some degree of compensation and justice for the victims, the film shows the challenges of litigating against a powerful company bent on denying responsibility ... | 1h 19m 00s | ||||||
| 5/20/25 | ![]() I Just Didn't Do It (2007) (Guest: Naoko Akimoto) (episode 43) | This episode examines I Just Didn’t Do It, a 2007 Japanese film written and directed by Masayuki Suo. In the film, 26-year-old Teppei Kaneko (played by Ryo Kase) is traveling to a job interview on a packed Tokyo commuter train when a 15-year-old school girl, who was standing in front of him on the train and whom Kaneko hardly noticed, wrongly accuses him of groping (chikan). Kaneko is arrested. He is advised by a lawyer to plead guilty and pay a small fine, after which he will be freed.... | 56m 02s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | ![]() On the Waterfront (1954) (Guest: Warren Scharf) (episode 42) | This episode looks at On the Waterfront, the celebrated 1954 American film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. The film stars Marlon Brando as the ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman Terry Malloy. Malloy struggles to stand up to mob-affiliated union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) after Malloy is lured into setting up a fellow dockworker whom Friendly has murdered to prevent him from testifying before the Waterfront Crime Commission about violence and corrupti... | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 4/8/25 | ![]() Ali (2001) (Guest: Dave Zirin) (episode 41) | Muhammad Ali is widely recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all-time and one of the most important figures of the 20th century. In addition to his long and celebrated career as a boxer and three-time heavyweight champion of the world, Ali changed the conversation about race, religion, and politics in America. Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War on religious grounds—a profound act of resistance that resulted not only in Ali’s three-plus-year exil... | 50m 16s | ||||||
| 3/18/25 | ![]() Syriana (2005) (Guest: Peggy McGuinness) (episode 40) | Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, based loosely on former CIA case officer Robert Baer’s memoir, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism. The film weaves together multiple storylines that involve a CIA agent, a U.S. energy analyst, a major transnational law firm, and an oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdom. It tackles complex themes of corruption, power, and terrorism from a distinctly post-9/11 vantage point. The fi... | 1h 08m 01s | ||||||
| 2/25/25 | ![]() The Goldman Case (2023) (Guest: Fred Davis) (episode 39) | The Goldman Case (Le Procès Goldman) (2023), is a French courtroom drama based on the real-life 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman, a far-left Jewish militant who was accused of multiple armed robberies and four murders during a holdup of a pharmacy in Paris. The film, which was directed by Cedric Kahn from screenplay by Kahn and Nathalie Hertzberg, stars Arieh Worthalter as Goldman and Arthur Harari as his lead lawyer, Georges Kiejiman. The film is not only a gripping account of this celebrated tr... | 44m 50s | ||||||
| 2/4/25 | ![]() Mr. Untouchable (2007) (Guest: Robert B. Fiske) (episode 38) | Mr. Untouchable, a 2007 documentary directed by Marc Levin, describes the rise and fall of former New York City drug kingpin, Leroy (“Nicky”) Barnes. In the early 1970s, Barnes formed “The Council,” an organized crime syndicate that controlled a significant part of the heroin trade in Harlem. Inspired by the Italian-American mafia, Barnes became one of the most powerful and notorious figures in New York City. A flashy and flamboyant fixture on the free-wheeling social scene of the period, Bar... | 42m 28s | ||||||
| 1/14/25 | ![]() First They Killed My Father (2017) and The Gate (2014) (Guest: Melanie O'Brien) (episode 37) | This episode looks at two films about the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s: First They Killed My Father (dir. Angelina Jolie), and The Gate (or Les Temps des Aveux) (dir. Régis Wargnier). First They Killed My Father is based on the memoir of Loung Ung, who was a five-year-old girl when the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975. Loung Ung was forced to flee Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, with her family. Loung Ung’s parents were killed, and Loung Ung was separated from her siblings; aft... | 1h 18m 15s | ||||||
| 12/23/24 | ![]() Matewan (1989) (Guest: Fred B. Jacob) (episode 36) | Matewan (written and directed by John Sayles) dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners’ strike in 1920 in a small town in the hills of West Virginia. In the film, Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), an ex-Wobbly organizer for the United Mine Workers (also known as the “Wobblies”), arrives in Matewan, to organize miners against the Stone Mountain Coal Company. Kenehan and his supporters must battle the company’s use of scabs and outright violence, resist the com... | 1h 05m 47s | ||||||
| 12/5/24 | ![]() Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) & Minamata (2020) (Guest: Darryl Flaherty) (episode 35) | This episode looks at two films that examine the environmental disaster in Minamata, Japan: Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s documentary, Minamata: The Victims and the World (1971), and Andre Levitas’s Minamata (2020), a Hollywood feature film that tells the story through the famous American photographer, W. Eugene Smith. From 1932 to 1968, the Chisso Corporation, a local petrochemical and plastics maker, dumped approximately 27 tons of mercury into Minamata bay, poisoning fish and, ultimately, the peopl... | 1h 07m 25s | ||||||
| 11/12/24 | ![]() Black Hawk Down (Guest: Greg Fox) (episode 34) | Black Hawk Down (2001) describes the plight of the U.S. crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that is shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu during the civil war in Somalia in October 1993. The battle resulted in the death of 18 American soldiers and hundreds of Somalis; it also prompted the U.S. withdrawal from Somalia after images of dead U.S. soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by enraged Somalis were broadcast on American television. Directed by Ridley Scott from a book by... | 58m 57s | ||||||
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