# America Undercover

America Undercover is a series of documentaries that aired on the cable television network HBO from 1983 through 2006. Within the series are several sub-series, such as Autopsy, Real Sex, and Taxicab Confessions.

## History

The series began in 1983 and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001, was later broadcast once per month. In 2006, episodes began being rebroadcast on A&E Network.
Over the years, episodes have covered numerous subjects such as abortion, organized crime, and pedophilia. The show won several awards for the 1998 production of Strippers: The Naked Stages.

## Episodes

* Hooker (1983) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* When Women Kill (1983) - Directed by Lee Grant
* The Nightmare of Cocaine (1984) - Directed by Fleming B. Fuller
* Toxic Time Bomb: The Fight Against Deadly Pollution (1984) - Directed by August Cinquegrana
* Acts of Violence (1985) - Directed by Imre Horvath
* Soldiers in Hiding (1985) - Directed by Malcolm Clarke
* UFO's: What's Going On? (1985) - Directed by Robert Guenette
* The Gift of Life (1986) - Directed by Bill Couturié
* And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986) - Directed by Louis Malle
* Kids in Crisis (1986) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* Kids in Sports: The Price of Glory (1986) - Directed by Dennis Lofgren
* Surveillance: No Place to Hide (1986) - Directed by Joseph Angier
* Drunk & Deadly: A Day on America's Highways (1987) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* Murder or Mercy: Five American Families (1988) - Directed by Terry Dunn Meurer
* Execution: Fourteen Days in May (1988) - Directed by Paul Hamann
* Confessions of an Undercover Cop (1988) - Directed by Chris Jeans
* Warning: Medicine May Be Hazardous to Your Health (1988) - Directed by Veronica L. Young
* Why Did Johnny Kill? (1988) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* Transplant (1988) - Directed by Vincent Stafford
* Into Madness (1989) - Directed by Susan Raymond
* Battered (1989) - Directed by Lee Grant
* Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
* One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) - Directed by Jon Alpert
* Convicts on the Street: One Year on Parole (1990) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991) - Directed by Alan Raymond
* Rape: Cries from the Heartland (1991) - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
* Attempted Murder: Confrontation (1991) - Directed by Tom Spain
* Death on the Job (1991) - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
* The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992) - Directed by Arthur Ginsberg and Tom Spain
* Suicide Notes (1992) - Directed by Robert Niemack
* Asylum (1992) - Directed by Joan Churchill
* Abortion: Desperate Choices (1992) - Directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, and Albert Maysles
* My Mother's Murder (1992) - Directed by Charles C. Stuart
* Never Say Die: The Search for Eternal Youth (1992) - Directed by Antony Thomas
* Women on Trial (1992) - Directed by Lee Grant
* I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993)
* Gang War: Bangin' In Little Rock (1994)
* High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995) - Directed by Jon Alpert, Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell
* The Celluloid Closet (1995)
* Fetishes (1996) - Directed by Nick Broomfield
* Dragtime (1997) - Directed by Patti Kaplan
* Thug Life in DC (1999) - Directed by Marc Levin
* Life Afterlife (2000) - Directed by Lisa F. Jackson
* Bellevue: Inside Out (2001) - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
* Blue Vinyl (2002)
* My Flesh and Blood (2003)
* Shelter Dogs (2003)
* Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005)
* Dealing Dogs (2006)