Episodes

  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Nov 4 2021
    In 1968, the Democratic Party fractured. Anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police outside of the Democratic National Convention Hall in Chicago. Tear gas seeped into the hotel where candidates were staying. Party bosses handed pro-war Vice President Hubert Humphrey - who had not won a single primary - the nomination. It was also the moment that sparked a freshman Senator from South Dakota to launch his own bid for the presidency, one that four years later would reshape the American political landscape. Of The People is the story of the longshot, insurgent campaign of George McGovern in 1972. It transformed the American political parties and ushered in our age of division. McGovern is remembered as one of history's great political losers after his landslide defeat to Richard Nixon. But before that, was an incredible "heist" of the Democratic nomination - a tale of assassination, betrayal, last-minute comebacks, political sabotage, and parliamentary procedure. And it speaks to our most pressing political question: How have we grown so polarized?
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  • Episode 1: 1968

    Episode 1: 1968
    Nov 4 2021
    The Democratic Party breaks apart over the Vietnam War. Amid a police riot, the largely unknown Senator George McGovern replaces the slain Robert Kennedy as a presidential candidate.
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    40 mins
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  • Episode 2: Long Shot

    Episode 2: Long Shot
    Nov 4 2021
    Democratic Party leaders look to regain the goodwill of their antiwar voters by appointing George McGovern to write new rules for choosing candidates. McGovern uses the rules to launch a long shot presidential bid.
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    33 mins
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  • Episode 3: A Contender

    Episode 3: A Contender
    Nov 4 2021
    McGovern escapes a near-death experience on a trip to Vietnam and then begins the 1972 primaries as a 50-1 longshot, against a dozen serious contenders.
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    32 mins
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  • Episode 4: The Other George

    Episode 4: The Other George
    Nov 4 2021
    While support for McGovern grows in the North, Alabama Governor George Wallace, a segregationist, leads his own conservative, populist campaign in the South.
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    40 mins
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  • Episode 5: Radical

    Episode 5: Radical
    Nov 4 2021
    The race narrows to McGovern against the 1968 Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey, his friend, neighbor and political mentor. In an ugly last-ditch battle in the California primary, Humphrey tags his protégé as a "radical."
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    31 mins
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  • Episode 6: Power Grab

    Episode 6: Power Grab
    Nov 4 2021
    Democratic party leaders make a last stand to deny McGovern the nomination, with a mind-bending procedural challenge that goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and winds up at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
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    37 mins
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  • Episode 7: Democrats for Nixon

    Episode 7: Democrats for Nixon
    Nov 4 2021
    McGovern scrambles to settle on a running mate, repair his divided party, and face a newly popular President Nixon.
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    43 mins
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