Truth and Power

2016 • Pivot
3.9
33 reviews
TV-14
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 #BlackLivesMatter
1/22/16
A group of young activists ignited a twenty-first century civil rights movement with Black Lives Matter and now the FBI, along with local law enforcement, is tracking their organization’s every move.
2 Government-Sponsored Spyware
1/29/16
The lucrative and growing business of government-sponsored spyware is examined through the eyes of two young Moroccan activists and the team of innovative hackers who uncovered the source of their online surveillance.
3 The Stingray
2/5/16
Daniel Rigmaiden, a convicted felon turned whistleblower, discovers a secret government technology intercepting his personal information and publicly exposes the collection of unsuspecting Americans’ private information.
4 Prisoners for Sale
2/12/16
Two former prisoners turned muckraking journalists explore the question: what happens when multi-billion dollar companies treat human beings as revenue streams?
5 Activists or Terrorists
2/19/16
A journalist and a punk-rocker academic team up to use freedom of information laws to uncover a troubling link between the U.S. government and big agriculture, which target animal rights activists.
6 Shooting the Messenger
2/26/16
Equipped only with smart phones, citizen journalists expose controversial police tactics. They set out to effect change within law enforcement with their bold guerilla reporting and, along the way, forever change how the public gets information.
7 Hacking the Presidency
3/4/16
A Harvard professor ventures out of the Ivory Tower and leaps head first into the cutthroat race for the presidency with a bold goal: to completely overhaul the campaign finance system.
8 Data Vampires
3/11/16
A diverse group of civil liberties advocates come together to battle data vampires, little known corporate entities that gather and manipulate people’s personal information in an effort to influence consumer behavior with startling specificity.
9 Camp Justice
3/18/16
A small chain of islands in the Indian Ocean was the site of closely guarded secrets from the War on Terror. The island’s native inhabitants, and their advocates, fight to uncover the island’s role in that war and regain access to their homeland.
10 Flying Robots
3/25/16
Drones already cloud America’s skies, but will weaponized drones, already used by the military, become commonplace? A group of activists battle to regulate this Wild West of tech.

About this show

Truth and Power is a documentary series that tells the stories of ordinary people who go to extraordinary lengths to uncover abuses of power by the government and private institutions.

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3.9
33 reviews
Christopher Soden
February 23, 2016
Okay so black kid is intoxicated out in public gets arrested then sent free becuase the black Americans feel he did nothing wrong. So they think it is okay to be drunk in public great. Then black Americans fight, run away from cops after getting caught but don't want to get arrested so they get taken down violently. Maybe u should have followed rules. They say not to attack that they r peacefull yet break into and stal from local busines way to help ur case.
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Anthony Davis
February 20, 2016
A documentary on a group of people who think their lives matter more than those of other races, deserve more rites, and preferential treatment from the authorities? Sounds riveting. I'll pass.
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Chad Ritchie
January 29, 2016
These people are nothen more then domestic terrorist that promote violance and murder.
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