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The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at the forefront of these changes, leading the way for many network, cable, and streaming services into the "post-network" era. Despite this, most scholarship has been dedicated to analyzing historical feature films and documentary films, leaving TV and the long-form drama hungry for coverage. Rebecca Weeks fills the gap in this area and defends the historiographic power of long-form dramas.

HBO documentaries keep us up at night, captivate our imaginations, and make us ask the big questions about what it means to be human. On HBO Docs Club, hosts Brittany Luse (For Colored Nerds) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Solvable) pull back the curtain on a wide variety of HBO Documentary Titles. Through in-depth conversations and interviews with filmmakers and experts, Brittany and Ronald unpack these stories with new context, exploring what they can teach us about the past, find out where these stories stand in the present, and how they may impact our future. 

In the companion podcast to the HBO Original documentary series Allen v. Farrow, award-winning filmmakers Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick and Amy Herdy reveal new details about the sexual abuse allegations against Woody Allen involving Dylan, his then 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow. Hosted by Ziering, the podcast offers an insider look at the filmmakers' investigation into one of Hollywood's most notorious scandals, new interviews with experts, family and friends, and exclusive material that wasn’t included in the documentary series. New episodes of Allen v. Farrow premiere Sundays on HBO Max.

The official podcast of the new HBO documentary series McMillion$, from Unrealistic Ideas and Fun Meter. Directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte take you even deeper into the story of a fraud ring that rigged the results of the McDonald’s Monopoly game, and how the FBI took it down. Each week, Lazarte and Hernandez recap the episodes and how they made them, reveal untold stories, and talk with some of the series’ main characters. McMillion$ airs Mondays at 10 PM on HBO. The McMillion$ Podcast is also available to stream on HBO NOW and HBO GO starting Monday, February 3 at 11 PM.