Slow Burn

In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burns Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history.

2020 HD TV-14 United States English

Leon Neyfakh

Documentary

political intrigue

S1E1 - Martha 2020-02-16

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixons attorney general John Mitchell, makes a discovery that changes her life and threatens to take down a sitting president. She will be the first of many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.

S1E2 - Losing Ground 2020-02-23

In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead to the White House. What follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse.

S1E3 - Suspicious Minds 2020-03-01

A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case. Mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Nixon’s bid for reelection.

S1E4 - The Hearings 2020-03-08

The first televised soap-opera debuts, but it’s Congressional hearings. As the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges, and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.

S1E5 - Smoking Gun 2020-03-15

Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.

S1E6 - Massacre 2020-03-22

Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.

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