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Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

2024 - 2024

Iraq: For Every Insect There is an Insecticide

Episode 1

Exploring the US's complicated relationship with Iraq, first supporting the country during the Iran-Iraq war but then turning against it after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

Bosnia: Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers

Episode 2

As the Balkans deteriorate into a series of bloody wars, President Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright must decide whether to use force to save innocent civilians from genocide.

Rwanda – That Was a Local Thing

Episode 3

Why did the world stand by in 1994 as nearly one million people were murdered over one hundred days of terror in Rwanda? American diplomats describe events on the ground.

Kosovo – In the Name of Our Future

Episode 4

Muslim separatists in the Kosovo region rekindle old conflicts, leading Clinton’s White House to consider Serbian President Milošević’s regime a threat to their own civilians.

Darfur – Carrots for a War Criminal

Episode 5

In 2003, hundreds of thousands of Americans protested about ethnic cleansing in Sudan. Following Obama’s 2008 election success, could some of those people, now in office, make a difference?

Libya – If You Break It You Own It

7th August 2024

Episode 6

When Gaddafi declared his intention to 'disinfect' Benghazi, Obama faced a dilemma, have previously told the younger Arab generation 'you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.

Syria – The Risk of Doing Nothing

14th August 2024

Episode 7

Obama did not want to be dragged into another war in the Middle East, but when the Syrian regime began to consider the use of chemical weapons, he warned them they would be crossing a red line.

Syria – A Loop of Imperfection

21st August 2024

Episode 8

America’s unwillingness to act after a chemical attack, causes Syrian rebels to despair. Obama concludes that there is no scenario where intervention in Syria would give a desired outcome.

Top Cast

Director

Dror Moreh

Writer

Mark Danner

No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering - who has responsibility to act?

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Meryl Streep

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Dror Moreh

Director

Mark Danner

Writer

Dror Moreh

Writer

Mandy Chang

Executive Producer

Mark Danner

Executive Producer

Estelle Fialon

Executive Producer

Jo Lapping

Executive Producer

Dror Moreh

Producer

Eugene Levitas

Music

Tali Helter-Shenkar

Editor

Assaf Lapid

Editor

Jennie Amias

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Solomon Goodman

Producer

Beth Levison

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Vinnie Malhotra

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Alisa Lyudinshina

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