Name: America's Surveillance State
Released: 2015-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

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America's obsession with surveillance, wondering who is watching who, has made privacy a thing of the past. Cameras on every street corner and agencies devoted to espionage record the actions and interests of private citizens.

Documentary · 2015 · 27 min

Director Danny Schechter

EPISODE 1

The Surveillance Machine

With a countless number of cameras placed in the streets, and with much more invisible spying online and on the phone, America is turning into a surveillance state.

25 min · 31 Dec 2016
EPISODE 2

Inside the NSA: How Do They Spy?

The tightly guarded NSA Headquarters in Maryland covers more than 325 acres and has more than 30,000 employees with a vast number of buildings.

24 min · 31 Dec 2016
EPISODE 3

The Press Versus the NSA

In a country that describes itself as a democracy and the leader of the free world it's an enormous problem for the government to know more about the people than the people know about what the government's doing.

24 min · 31 Dec 2016
EPISODE 4

The Surveillance Industrial Complex

There is often an invisible but deep connection between high-tech government intelligence service and the corporate world, as well as tensions between the companies, their customers and the government.

24 min · 31 Dec 2016
EPISODE 5

Inside Threats

The NSA or National Security Agency was originally set up to keep America safe, but ironically it now seems obsessed with keeping itself safe.

25 min · 31 Dec 2016
EPISODE 6

The Future

The war on terror seems almost self-perpetuating along with its insatiable need for endless surveillance, even as the surveillance state is being challenged as never before.

24 min · 31 Dec 2016

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