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Lies We Tell
Luminary | Jigsaw Productions
12 episodes
9 months ago
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and former Radiolab executive producer Ellen Horne uncover basic truths about human nature — by untangling twisted true stories set in motion by lies.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and former Radiolab executive producer Ellen Horne uncover basic truths about human nature — by untangling twisted true stories set in motion by lies.
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Society & Culture
True Crime
Episodes (12/12)
Lies We Tell
Listen Now: Pull the Thread: The Wild Life
In the corrupt and deadly world of the illegal wildlife trade, criminals are responsible for the wholesale slaughter of animals, and the suffering of people, too. Justice is rarely found. Undeterred, one man set out to bring down one of the biggest wildlife trafficking syndicates on the African continent. His name is Wolf. And he’s a spy. Investigative journalist Runako Celina takes us through the bizarre and far-reaching web of the global illegal wildlife trade and those trying to dismantle it. From Luminary, Drake's DreamCrew Entertainment, Novel, and Thread Studios, this is Pull The Thread, Season 1: The Wild Life.
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1 year ago
2 minutes 45 seconds

Lies We Tell
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1 year ago

Lies We Tell
The Ethics of Lying: A Conversation with Sam Harris

When Alex Gibney began investigating the idea of this series, he turned to Sam Harris for insight. Host of the Making Sense with Sam Harris podcast, Sam is a best-selling author, philosopher and neuroscientist. He is also the author of the book Lying.



Originally published in April, 2020.

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1 year ago
1 hour 30 minutes 13 seconds

Lies We Tell
Truth on Trial
A suspicious death. A letter from the grave. A murder trial. Over two decades of legal battles. A look at the complicated case of a poisoned woman, and the lie of believing we can ever tell “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
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1 year ago
48 minutes 18 seconds

Lies We Tell
Self-Deception
When a school aide tried out a new communication technique with a non-verbal autistic girl, everyone involved had only the best intentions. This is the story of one woman’s journey to make amends for the damage she caused by coming to terms with her own self-deception.
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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes 29 seconds

Lies We Tell
Freedom to Lie
After two men lied, pretending to have served in the military to get out of jail, a Montana judge sentenced them to carry signs announcing “I am a liar” in some very unusual and detailed parole conditions. We examine the war between American values in cases of Stolen Valor.
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1 year ago
21 minutes 49 seconds

Lies We Tell
Artis Proficio
Syed Arbab starts a frat house hedge fund that begins to spiral out of control and brings his life crashing down. Why do hundreds around him buy into the lie, and how in his own heart does Syed deceive himself?
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1 year ago
37 minutes 31 seconds

Lies We Tell
Race Investigator
When one man’s obsession to hold long distance race cheaters to public account goes viral, there are tragic human consequences. Sometimes bringing the truth to light has profound implications. 
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1 year ago
36 minutes 8 seconds

Lies We Tell
Lying for a Living
What are the long-term effects of deception? Undercover cops put their own identity on the line for their work, the risks – and the value of this work – may itself also be hidden.
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1 year ago
34 minutes 52 seconds

Lies We Tell
The Chameleon
When one aspiring screenwriter stumbles into a web of lies, the scale of this elaborate scam reveals quite a production, and hundreds of victims.
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1 year ago
37 minutes 23 seconds

Lies We Tell
The Lie That Sparked This Series
Pulitzer-prize winning historian Joseph Ellis’ vivid storytelling about our national history earned him many fans, including Alex Gibney. But when the Boston Globe’s Walter Robinson looked into Ellis’ personal history, he found some darker truths.
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2 years ago
27 minutes 14 seconds

Lies We Tell
Introducing Lies We Tell
An anthology series that features character-driven puzzles, each with a central lie at the heart of the story. We’ll meet all kinds of liars, and we will look in the mirror at the ways we all tell ourselves things which are fundamentally untrue. This series, in hallmark Jigsaw Productions style, will investigate the powerful and bring new truths to light.
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2 years ago
1 minute 3 seconds

Lies We Tell
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and former Radiolab executive producer Ellen Horne uncover basic truths about human nature — by untangling twisted true stories set in motion by lies.