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Our America with Lisa Ling

Season 1 2011
TV-14

  • 2011-02-16T02:00:00Z on OWN
  • 1h
  • 7h (7 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Lisa Ling takes viewers along for an in-depth look at some of the most controversial and thought-provoking issues in the United States today, including religious movements, sex offenders, drug addiction and online brides. In each episode, Lisa immerses herself into the lives of the people she meets, offering compelling accounts of varied experiences and providing insight into some of our nation's most contentious issues. In sharing these stories, Lisa challenges viewers to understand different perspectives and even question what they themselves have always known to be true.

7 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-02-16T02:00:00Z

1x01 Faith Healers

Series Premiere

1x01 Faith Healers

  • 2011-02-16T02:00:00Z1h

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.

2011-02-23T02:00:00Z

1x02 Transgender Lives

1x02 Transgender Lives

  • 2011-02-23T02:00:00Z1h

Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.

2011-03-02T02:00:00Z

1x03 State of Sex Offenders

1x03 State of Sex Offenders

  • 2011-03-02T02:00:00Z1h

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.

2011-03-09T02:00:00Z

1x04 Pray the Gay Away?

1x04 Pray the Gay Away?

  • 2011-03-09T02:00:00Z1h

"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.

2011-03-16T01:00:00Z

1x05 Online Brides

1x05 Online Brides

  • 2011-03-16T01:00:00Z1h

A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.

2011-03-23T01:00:00Z

1x06 Heroin in the Heartland

1x06 Heroin in the Heartland

  • 2011-03-23T01:00:00Z1h

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.

Season Finale

2011-03-30T01:00:00Z

1x07 A Closer Look

Season Finale

1x07 A Closer Look

  • 2011-03-30T01:00:00Z1h

Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.

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