You Can See Everything
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You Can See Everything

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202625 min
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About a month before Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes went to prison for defrauding her investors, she and her partner Billy Evans invited a film crew to document their lives at home with their kids. And they didn't make a deal with a conventional filmmaking team. They connected with Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Fielder’s unusual nonfiction work blurs the lines between truth and artifice, so the resulting documentary, You Can See Everything, depicts Fielder's efforts to figure her out using some very unusual methods. Check out these episodes next: ‘Primetime’ sits you down with sleaze 'The...

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American journalist Austin Tice vanished in Syria over a decade ago. For years, we've been searching for him. And now, we finally have some answers. This is the prison that Austin was in.

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Oh my god, we found Austin's file. Listen to Where Is Austin Tice? From NPR's Embedded and BBC Radio 4 on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. About a month before, Fairness founder, Elizabeth Holmes, went to prison for defrauding her

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investors. She and her partner, Billy Evans, invited a film crew to document their lives at home with their kids. And they didn't make a deal with a conventional documentarian.

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