The 20th Century on Film

America: Secrets and Lies of the Land of the Free (3x8)

Air date: Feb 10, 2018

Depicts the other side of the American ideal of a superpower. Hoover, the first director of the FBI, feared by presidents for his secret files; Hearst, the newspaper magnate who stirred up war with fake news; the Kennedy assassination, still the subject of conspiracy theories; the Vietnam War, where television coverage revealed the hidden reality of the battlefield; and the White House audio tapes, which exposed presidential lies. The Vietnam War, where television coverage revealed hidden battlefields; and the Watergate scandal, where audio tapes installed in the White House exposed the president's lies. This is another story of a free country shrouded in secrets and lies.