
Our America with Lisa Ling
Season 1
20117 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Faith Healers
2011-02-15 · 60m
Ling visits a faith healing revival in Fort Mill, S.C., run by controversial evangelist Todd Bentley. During the visit, Ling says she's challenged by what she thought she knew about faith.
- E2
Transgender Lives
1.02011-02-22 · 60m
Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.
- E3
State of Sex Offenders
2011-03-01 · 60m
Lisa Ling explores the challenges of living life on a list of registered sex offenders as she meets with ex-cons in Florida. "They're America's pariahs, pushed into the shadows," she says. Or, as one man living in a swampy campground with other offenders calls it, "the leper colony." Ling also meets a real-estate agent who finds more substantial housing for offenders who can afford it; and follows authorities as they arrest an ex-con accused of failing to register an address change.
- E4
Pray the Gay Away?
1.02011-03-08 · 60m
"Can prayer make you straight?" Host Lisa Ling explores that notion as she observes some 1100 participants at a Freedom Conference sponsored by the evangelical organization Exodus International, which offers advice on combating same-sex attractions. "I have chosen to live my life through the filter of my faith," says Exodus president Alan Chambers, "not through the filter of my sexuality.
- E5
Online Brides
2011-03-15 · 60m
A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.
- E6
Heroin in the Heartland
2011-03-22 · 60m
Lisa discusses the time she spent in a central Ohio town ravaged by heroin, and the connections that she made with the people along the way.
- E7
A Closer Look
2011-03-29 · 60m
Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.
