Name: Slow Burn
Released: 2020-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Leon Neyfakh

TV Show · Documentary · History

"Slow Burn" is a docuseries based on the hit Slate podcast of the same name. From Nixon and Watergate to Clinton’s impeachment, host Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters involved in the downfall of a president—flashing back to politically tumultuous times not so far removed from today.

2020 · 57m

Starring Leon Neyfakh

EPISODE 1

Martha

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell, makes a discovery that changes her life and threatens to take down a sitting president. She will be the first of many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.

30m
EPISODE 2

Losing Ground

In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead to the White House. What follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse.

30m
EPISODE 3

Suspicious Minds

A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case. Mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Nixon’s bid for reelection.

30m
EPISODE 4

The Hearings

The first televised soap-opera debuts, but it’s Congressional hearings. As the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges, and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.

30m
EPISODE 5

Smoking Gun

Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.

30m
EPISODE 6

Massacre

Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.

30m

Leon Neyfakh

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