7.541 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestThanks to Seymour Hersh, Eric finally learns the truth -- but at a maddening cost. In room 1018A, Frank faces off with two mysterious men.
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
Direction
Morris's Interrotron stares into your soul
Acting
Peter Sarsgaard's haunted reenactments
Editing
Seamless docudrama fusion that destabilizes reality
Creator
Errol Morris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
MK-Ultra was so classified that most records were destroyed in 1973—this series exists in the deliberate gaps.
Eric Olson's basement archive became an accidental museum of American paranoia, preserved in real-time across decades.
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