Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? - Season 1

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesAug. 6, 2024 - Aug. 6, 2024

Episodes

Iraq – For Every Insect There Is an Insecticide
Season 1Episode 157 min

Iraq – For Every Insect There Is an Insecticide

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.

Aug. 6, 2024
Bosnia – Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers
Season 1Episode 256 min

Bosnia – Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers

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.

Aug. 6, 2024
Rwanda – That Was a Local Thing
Season 1Episode 357 min

Rwanda – That Was a Local Thing

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.

Aug. 6, 2024
Kosovo – In the Name of Our Future
Season 1Episode 457 min

Kosovo – In the Name of Our Future

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.

Aug. 6, 2024
Darfur – Carrots for a War Criminal
Season 1Episode 557 min

Darfur – Carrots for a War Criminal

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?

Aug. 6, 2024
Libya – If You Break It You Own It
Season 1Episode 657 min

Libya – If You Break It You Own It

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'.

Aug. 6, 2024
Syria – The Risk of Doing Nothing
Season 1Episode 759 min

Syria – The Risk of Doing Nothing

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.

Aug. 6, 2024
Syria – A Loop of Imperfection
Season 1Episode 857 min

Syria – A Loop of Imperfection

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.

Aug. 6, 2024

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