America Undercover#Episodes

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America Undercover is a series of documentaries that aired on the cable television network HBO from 1983 through 2006.{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Rutenberg |title=Seamy or Serious, It's Now Center Stage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/movies/tv-notes-seamy-or-serious-it-s-now-center-stage.html |work=The New York Times |date= 2001-03-21 |access-date=2007-11-13 }} Within the series are several sub-series, such as Autopsy, Real Sex, and Taxicab Confessions.

History

The series began in 1983{{cite news |first= Robin |last= Finn |title=Want Pathos, Pain and Courage? Get Real |page= A1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/tv/cover-story-want-pathos-pain-and-courage-get-real.html |work= The New York Times |date= 2001-04-15 |access-date=2007-11-13 }} and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001,{{cite news |first= John |last= Dempsey |title= HBO set to strip 'Undercover'|url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-68913966.html|work= Variety |date= 2000-12-18 |access-date=2007-11-13 }}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} was later broadcast once per month.{{cite press release |title= New 'America Undercover' Weekly Documentary Series Scheduled for 11 Consecutive Sundays on HBO Beginning March 11|publisher= Time Warner |url= http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,668403,00.html|date= 2001-01-19 |access-date= 2007-11-13 }} In 2006, episodes began being rebroadcast on A&E Network.{{cite magazine |first= Michael|last= Schneider |title= A&E goes 'Undercover' |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5143/is_200602/ai_n18587954 |magazine= Variety |date= 2006-02-01 |access-date=2007-11-13 }}

Over the years, episodes have covered numerous subjects such as abortion,{{cite news |first= Lon |last= Grahnke |title= 'Abortion' examines the agony of choice |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB373AE85356453&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work= Chicago Sun-Times |date= 1992-05-05 |access-date=2007-11-13 }} organized crime,{{cite magazine|first=Rick|last=Marin|title= America Undercover Mob Stories|url= https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117900555.html?categoryid=32&cs=1 |magazine=Variety|date=1993-03-08|access-date=2007-11-13}} and pedophilia. The show won several awards for the 1998 production of Strippers: The Naked Stages.

Episodes

Hooker (1983) - Directed by Robert Niemack
When Women Kill (1983) - Directed by Lee Grant
The Nightmare of Cocaine (1984) - Directed by Fleming B. Fuller
Toxic Time Bomb: The Fight Against Deadly Pollution (1984) - Directed by August Cinquegrana
Acts of Violence (1985) - Directed by Imre Horvath
Soldiers in Hiding (1985) - Directed by Malcolm Clarke
UFO's: What's Going On? (1985) - Directed by Robert Guenette
The Gift of Life (1986) - Directed by Bill Couturié
And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986) - Directed by Louis Malle
Kids in Crisis (1986) - Directed by Robert Niemack
Kids in Sports: The Price of Glory (1986) - Directed by Dennis Lofgren
Surveillance: No Place to Hide (1986) - Directed by Joseph Angier
Drunk & Deadly: A Day on America's Highways (1987) - Directed by Robert Niemack
Murder or Mercy: Five American Families (1988) - Directed by Terry Dunn Meurer
Execution: Fourteen Days in May (1988) - Directed by Paul Hamann
Confessions of an Undercover Cop (1988) - Directed by Chris Jeans
Warning: Medicine May Be Hazardous to Your Health (1988) - Directed by Veronica L. Young
Why Did Johnny Kill? (1988) - Directed by Robert Niemack
Transplant (1988) - Directed by Vincent Stafford
Into Madness (1989) - Directed by Susan Raymond
Battered (1989) - Directed by Lee Grant
Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) - Directed by Jon Alpert
Convicts on the Street: One Year on Parole (1990) - Directed by Robert Niemack
Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991) - Directed by Alan Raymond
Rape: Cries from the Heartland (1991) - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
Attempted Murder: Confrontation (1991) - Directed by Tom Spain
Death on the Job (1991) - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992) - Directed by Arthur Ginsberg and Tom Spain
Suicide Notes (1992) - Directed by Robert Niemack
Asylum (1992) - Directed by Joan Churchill
Abortion: Desperate Choices (1992) - Directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, and Albert Maysles
My Mother's Murder (1992) - Directed by Charles C. Stuart
Never Say Die: The Search for Eternal Youth (1992) - Directed by Antony Thomas
Women on Trial (1992) - Directed by Lee Grant
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993){{Cite web| last1 = Silverman| first1 = Jeff| title = I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School| work = Variety| access-date = 2019-02-09| date = 1993-10-12| url = https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/i-am-a-promise-the-children-of-stanton-elementary-school-1200433668/}}
Gang War: Bangin' In Little Rock (1994)
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995) - Directed by Jon Alpert, Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell
The Celluloid Closet (1995)
Fetishes (1996) - Directed by Nick Broomfield
Dragtime (1997) - Directed by Patti Kaplan
Thug Life in DC (1999) - Directed by Marc Levin
Life Afterlife (2000) - Directed by Lisa F. Jackson
Bellevue: Inside Out (2001) - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
Blue Vinyl (2002)
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
Shelter Dogs (2003){{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/arts/television-review-life-and-death-decisions-about-four-legged-prisoners.html|title=TELEVISION REVIEW; Life-and-Death Decisions About Four-Legged Prisoners|first=James|last=Gorman|date=January 27, 2004|website=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528052709/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/arts/television-review-life-and-death-decisions-about-four-legged-prisoners.html|archive-date=May 28, 2015}}
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005)
Dealing Dogs (2006)

References

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{{IMDb title|tt0388574}}

Category:HBO original programming

Category:1983 American television series debuts

Category:2006 American television series endings

Category:1980s American documentary television series

Category:1990s American documentary television series

Category:2000s American documentary television series

Category:American English-language television shows