S2013 E1 • Voyage of the Mobro 4000

The 1987 voyage of a barge loaded with New York garbage became a sensational fiasco, but it ended up fueling the modern recycling movement.

Première diffusion : 6 mai 2013

S2013 E2 • The Legacy of Tailhook

Military sexual assault is not a new phenomenon. A second look at the Tailhook scandal in 1991 reveals what happened then. And what it all means now.

Première diffusion : 13 mai 2013

S2013 E3 • Crack Babies: A Tale from the Drug Wars

In the 1980s, many government officials, scientists, and journalists warned that the country would be plagued by a generation of “crack babies.” They were wrong.

Première diffusion : 20 mai 2013

S2013 E4 • Y2K: Much Ado About Nothing

The Y2K bug threatened to wipe out computers and disrupt modern society at the end of the 20th century. We all remember the doomsday hype, but what really happened?

Première diffusion : 27 mai 2013

S2013 E5 • The Tawana Brawley Story

In 1988, the nation learned the truth about the alleged crimes against Tawana Brawley, but the shocking story was far from over.

Première diffusion : 3 juin 2013

S2013 E6 • Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey

With dreams of one day colonizing space, eight people sealed themselves inside a giant glass biosphere in the Arizona desert in 1991. By the time they emerged two years later, they had “suffocated, starved and went mad.”

Première diffusion : 10 juin 2013

S2013 E7 • Wild Horse Wars

The decades-long quest to save wild horses has run amok, creating a problem that even swooping helicopters, aging cowboys, camera-savvy activists, and millions of dollars can’t solve.

Première diffusion : 17 juin 2013

S2013 E8 • Test Tube Tomato

In the 1990s, a bunch of gene jockeys brought the first genetically engineered food to market. The business crashed but biotech science has flourished far beyond the produce aisle.

Première diffusion : 24 juin 2013

S2013 E9 • Summer of Fire

The lessons learned from the summer of 1988 when fires burned nearly one third of Yellowstone National Park continue to shape the way we fight wildfires raging across the West today.

Première diffusion : 2 septembre 2013

S2013 E10 • The Battle For Busing

A story of America’s school integration and what happened when the buses stopped rolling.

Première diffusion : 9 septembre 2013

S2013 E11 • Freeing Willy

In the wake of the 1993 hit movie Free Willy, activists and fans campaigned to release the movie’s star – a captive killer whale named Keiko — and launched a story Hollywood couldn’t invent.

Première diffusion : 16 septembre 2013

S2013 E12 • The Shadow of Thalidomide

In the 1950s, thalidomide cut a wide swath of destruction across the world, leaving behind thousands of deformed infants, but that was only the beginning of the story.

Première diffusion : 23 septembre 2013

S2013 E13 • Walter Reed: The Battle for Recovery

In 2007, the scandalous treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center shocked the nation. Today, after major reforms, what’s changed for America’s injured soldiers?

Première diffusion : 30 septembre 2013

S2013 E14 • Richard Jewell: The Wrong Man

The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta were rocked by a bomb that killed one and injured more than 100. In the rush to find the perpetrator, one man became a target. There was only one problem. He was innocent.

Première diffusion : 7 octobre 2013

S2013 E15 • Dolly the Sheep

In 1997, Scottish scientists announced they had cloned a sheep and named her Dolly, and sent waves of future shock around the world that continue to shape frontiers of science today.

Première diffusion : 14 octobre 2013

S2013 E16 • Taking the Lid Off the McDonald's Coffee Case

In 1992, Stella Liebeck spilled scalding McDonald’s coffee in her lap and later sued the company, attracting a flood of negative attention. It turns out, there’s more to the story.

Première diffusion : 21 octobre 2013

S2013 E17 • In the Shadow of Katrina

Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, and Louisiana’s troubled housing recovery has shaped the response to every major disaster since, including Hurricane Sandy.

Première diffusion : 28 octobre 2013

S2013 E18 • The Long War on Cancer

Forty-two years ago when President Richard Nixon vowed to make curing cancer a national crusade, many anticipated quick results.

Première diffusion : 4 novembre 2013

S2013 E19 • The Day the Lights Went Out

In 2003, a blackout crippled areas of the U.S. and Canada, leaving some 50 million people in the dark. Ten years later, we are still grappling with concerns over the vulnerability of our power grid.

Première diffusion : 11 novembre 2013

S2013 E20 • The Sleeper Cell That Wasn't

Six days after 9/11, the FBI’s raid on a Detroit sleeper cell signaled America’s resolve to fight terrorism. But, despite a celebrated conviction, there was one problem — they’d gotten it wrong.

Première diffusion : 18 novembre 2013

S2013 E21 • Love Canal: A Legacy of Doubt

In 1978, toxic chemicals leaking from an old landfill thrust an upstate New York community called “Love Canal” into the national headlines, and made it synonymous with “environmental disaster.”

Première diffusion : 25 novembre 2013

S2013 E22 • Crime and Punishment: Three Strikes and You're Out

After the 1993 murder of a California child, many states passed laws to lock up repeat offenders for life, but today those laws are raising new questions about how crime is handled in America.

Première diffusion : 2 décembre 2013

S2013 E23 • Exxon Valdez: In the Wake of Disaster

On a cold March night in 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Southern Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the waters of Prince William Sound and creating one of the worst oil spills in American history.

Première diffusion : 9 décembre 2013