America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

Season 1

*Included with Prime until 10/31* This is a four-hour special investigation into Americaâ€™s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics from filmmaker Michael Kirk (The Choice 2016).

20202 episodes

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S1 E1 - Episode 1
January 12, 2020
1 h 53 min
TV-14
Episode 1 traces how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed as increasing racial, cultural and political divisions laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump.
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S1 E2 - Episode 2
January 13, 2020
1 h 53 min
TV-MA
Episode 2 examines how Donald Trump’s campaign exploited the country’s divisions and how his presidency has unleashed anger on both sides of the divide.
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