Serial

Serial

By Serial Productions & The New York TimesSociety & CultureNewsTrue Crime
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    45 min

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    67%

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Serial episodes

  • The Good Whale - Trailer

    After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. An epic tale that starts in Mexico and ends in Norway, the six-episode series follows Keiko as he’s transported from country to country, each time landing in the hands of well-intentioned people who believe they know what’s best for him – people who still disagree, decades later, about whether they did the right thing.

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    3 min
  • S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness

    The criminal case against the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is the one aspect of Guantánamo that would seem to make sense – until you start watching it.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers

    Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak? 

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    1 hr 1 min
  • S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter

    One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • S04 - Ep. 6: Part 2, Asymmetry

    After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

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    57 min
  • S04 - Ep. 5: The Big Chicken, Part 1

    A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?

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    55 min
  • S04 - Ep. 4: The Honeymooners

    The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.

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    51 min
  • S04 - Ep. 3: Ahmad the Iguana Feeder

    An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.

     

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Serial S04 - Ep. 2: The Special Project

    In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.

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    48 min
  • Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul

    Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.

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    43 min

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