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Unfinished
Witness Docs presents Unfinished, an investigative anthology series digging into America's unfinished business. Season 1, Deep South, produced in collaboration with Market Road Films, brought us on a journey into the Arkansas Delta to investigate the lynching of Isadore Banks. Season 2, produced wit...
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Introducing: Sounds Gay
Stitcher Studios brings you a new documentary series, Sounds Gay! We call it a "mixtape" because every episode is its own self-contained story, but wi...
Ernie's Secret | E10 Exposed
The FBI’s abusive domestic surveillance is exposed and after years of keeping his identity as an informant secret, Bill Lawrence and Ernest must testi...
Ernie's Secret | E9 The Assassination
Dr. King returns to Memphis on April 3 to make good on his promise to lead a non-violent march. But first he has to get the militants on board. Ernest...
Ernie's Secret | E8 The Invaders
We begin the story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last eight days alive. A sanitation workers' strike brings King to Memphis - but by this time, March 19...
Ernie's Secret | E7 Harm / No Harm?
Ernest was an informant, but just how much damage did he actually cause? To what extent do the sins of the government fall on one man’s shoulders? Two...
Ernie's Secret | E6 Informants
The FBI launches a massive, illegal intelligence dragnet to gather information that could be used to disrupt, discredit and damage people and groups i...
Ernie's Secret | E5 On The Front Lines
Being on the front lines was dangerous - especially for a Black man with a camera. But Ernest puts himself at the center of the action. It’s easy to m...
Ernie's Secret | E4 Fayette County
Ernest’s relationship with the FBI blossoms in 1961 in Fayette County, Tennessee where Black sharecroppers are kicked off their land just for trying t...
Ernie's Secret | E3 Two Daughters
How did Ernest operate and why did he do it? Two daughters bring us as close as we can get to the minds of the men at the center of our story, Ernest...
Ernie's Secret | E2 License To Lie
The FBI has a license to lie and it takes a landmark lawsuit to force them to hand over a trove of secret records detailing Ernest’s years as an FBI i...
Ernie's Secret | E1 The Perfect Cover
Ernest Withers shot timeless photos covering the civil rights movement- Dr. King on that integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Emmett Till’s uncle po...
Introducing: Ernie's Secret
The story of Ernest C. Withers, an African-American journalist dubbed the "original civil rights photographer" -- who also happened to be an FBI info...
Introducing Toxic: The Britney Spears Story
Comedians Tess Barker and Babs Gray, who you might know from Lady to Lady or the now legendary Britney’s Gram podcast, are here to bring you a brand n...
Short Creek | Bonus AMA with Hosts Ash and Sarah
Hosts Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre sit down with senior producer Abigail Keel to respond to listeners' questions & comments about Unfinished: Short Cr...
Short Creek | E10 Hallelujah
In the season finale, a few final scenes from Short Creek. After all that's happened here, we look at what healing might look like for the people of S...
Short Creek | E9 Grassroots in the Desert
Ex-believers see an opportunity for democracy and work to bring the first free and fair election to Short Creek.
Short Creek | E8 Can I Get A Witness?
As divisions deepen in Short Creek, the Department of Justice puts the two towns on trial for religious discrimination... forcing the community to cha...
Short Creek | E7 This Land is Our Land
Ex-believers return to Short Creek and face discrimination from FLDS who still control the towns. In an attempt to reclaim the community, ex-believers...
Short Creek | E6 This One's for You, Gramsy
Warren Jeffs continues to control Short Creek from prison. As families are torn apart and the faithful are divided according to their "righteousness,"...
Short Creek | E5 Answer Them Nothing
Elissa Wall takes prophet Warren Jeffs to court, and his followers back in Short Creek are forced to reckon with his crimes—or not.
Short Creek | E4 The Kingdom of God or Nothing
In order to understand Short Creek now, you have to understand how it came to be. A determined group of fundamentalists create a community in order to...
Short Creek | E3 Keep Sweet, No Matter What
Warren Jeffs becomes prophet of the FLDS Church and kicks out his rivals. Others don’t like what's happening to their religion and make the challengin...
Short Creek | E2 Prophets and Losses
For decades , Short Creek is a pretty great place to live for the faithful. People farm together, worship together, and help build each other's homes....
Meet the Hosts of Season Two—Unfinished: Short Creek
Season two, Unfinished: Short Creek, is coming next week! In this bonus episode, Witness Docs senior producer Stephanie Kariuki sits down with the hos...
Deep South | E10 The Things We Haven’t Seen
Who lynched Isadore Banks? How does his story echo through the anger and activism of our current moment? And what does justice look like after 66 year...
Introducing Unfinished: Short Creek
In this season of Unfinished, we’ll take you to Short Creek, a community on the Utah-Arizona border that is home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus...
Deep South | E9 The Meeting
One meeting, three stories and a clue that leads to knowing more about what happened around the time Isadore was murdered.
Deep South | E8 Who Lynched Isadore Banks?
A former detective offers us some cold case advice, and we decide to go full frontal on the town of Marion with a 40-foot billboard that asks “Who Lyn...
Deep South | E7 The Stepdaughter
Isadore wasn’t the only victim of racial violence in Crittenden County. We track down a woman whose faded childhood memories could help solve two lync...
Deep South | E6 The Housepainter
The investigation takes a turn when we get the name of a new suspect -- and learn he may have been involved in a second lynching, nine years later.
Deep South | E5 A Very American Crime
Some people still refuse to call Isadore’s murder a lynching. So in this episode, we take a step back to ask: what, exactly, is a lynching? And why, i...
Deep South | E4 White Memories
The lynching of Isadore Banks was a catastrophe for the African American community of Marion, Arkansas, and it’s never been forgotten. But for white p...
Deep South | E3 Family Ties
Tracing back Isadore’s family helps understand his wealth. Isadore wasn’t an anomaly- many African Americans in the south had land, built wealth and...
Deep South | E2 The High Sheriff
A $7 million dollar fortune. A white supremacist sheriff. And a 66-year-old mystery: what happened to Isadore Banks’ land and wealth?
Deep South | E1 Isadore Banks
For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of the largest land-owners on the...
Introducing Unfinished: Deep South
Unfinished: Deep South tells the story of a wealthy African American farmer named Isadore Banks who was lynched in 1954. He owned more than 1,000 acre...