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Titan Sub Disaster | Cyclops | 2 Mar 31, 2026

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Driven by ambition and convinced that innovation justifies risk, entrepreneur Stockton Rush pushes forward with increasingly experimental submersible designs.

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Titan Sub Disaster | 12,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1 Mar 24, 2026

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In June 2023, the OceanGate submersible Titan vanishes during a dive to the wreck of Titanic, triggering a frantic multinational search involving ships, aircraft, and deep-sea robots.

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Twilight Zone Accident | Shoot to Kill | 5 Mar 17, 2026

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Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett Boman have always been fascinated by the stories that lie behind the big screen—the on-set dramas and untold disasters that befell some of Hollywood’s biggest movies on their journey into theaters. In 2019, they started their own podcast “What Went Wrong” to share those stories, and in this conversation with Lindsay, they discuss the notorious accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie—how it fit into a pattern of reckless behavior in Hollywood and whether the movie industry has really changed in the years since.

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Twilight Zone Accident | The Final Cut | 4 Mar 10, 2026

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After the fatal accident on the set at Indian Dunes, John Landis, George Folsey Jr. and others from the production team face a reckoning in court.

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Twilight Zone Accident | Night for Night | 3 Mar 03, 2026

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Production on John Landis’ segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie reaches its dramatic finale.

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Twilight Zone Accident | It's Going to be Big | 2 Feb 24, 2026

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After casting two children in vital roles, production on John Landis’ segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie moves onto its climactic Vietnam village sequence.

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Twilight Zone Accident | The Baby Mogul | 1 Feb 17, 2026

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A young John Landis fulfills his dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. But he’s eager to prove he can do more than just comedy, and when Steven Spielberg approaches him with a new project, he jumps at the opportunity to show what he can do.

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Lehman Brothers | Too Big, Still Failing | 5 Feb 10, 2026

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Like many Americans, the 2008 financial crisis left Anat Admati furious. A professor at Stanford, she became one of the country’s leading voices calling attention to how confusion, complexity and misleading claims allowed major banks to load up on dangerous amounts of debt. Today, she argues that little has changed. In this conversation, we discuss the faulty arguments bankers use to fight oversight, how corporate power has expanded in the years since the crisis, and what can be done to create a fairer and more stable economy.

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Lehman Brothers | The Reckoning | 4 Feb 03, 2026

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After Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is thrust into a financial war, knowing every decision he makes could tip the nation even deeper into chaos.

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Lehman Brothers | The Wolf at The Door | 3 Jan 27, 2026

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As Lehman Brothers teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson summons Wall Street’s most powerful figures for one fateful weekend—their last chance to save Lehman and prevent the collapse of the global financial system.

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