This Is Life with Lisa Ling

Award-winning journalist and former co-host of The View Lisa Ling goes on a gritty, breathtaking journey to far corners of America.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:Lisa Ling , Jex Blackmore , Jonathan Peacy , Nick Isel , Shiva Honey , Anne McDaniels , Christopher Tardieu , Sam Conway , Allison Wier , Chandler Dean , Ari Nagel

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies

Sun, Sep 28, 2014

Lisa Ling dives into this world of youth, beauty, money, and sex. A host of websites have sprung up to match wealthy older men with young, attractive women. What are the true costs and benefits when sex, money, and power are on the line?

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Unholy Addiction

Sun, Oct 5, 2014

It's a community many might not associate with addiction - the Mormon Church. For years the Mormon Church has struggled to help those who are addicted to painkillers and other drugs.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Genius Experiment

Dec 2014

About the use of specific sperm will create a smarter child. From the theory of the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank from the mind of Richard K. Graham.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Filthy Rich

Sun, Oct 19, 2014

New life in the Dakotas. Working the oil rigs for a possible six figure salary. Women to men ratio is 1/100.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Jungle Fix

Sun, Oct 26, 2014

Lisa goes inside the hidden, mystical world of Ayahuasca, and investigates the popularity of this unregulated form of self-exploration, the power and consequences that can come along with its ingestion.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Road Strip

Sun, Nov 2, 2014

Strippers that travel from city to city chasing their dreams as well as money.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Gay Rodeo

Sun, Nov 9, 2014

Lisa will explore the world of the International Gay Rodeo Association, which has over 5,000 registered members. Here in Sante Fe, they are bucking stereotypes, proving that you don't have to be straight to rope, ride, and wrestle a steer.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Called to the Collar

Sun, Nov 16, 2014

Lisa Ling visits a predominately Roman Catholic town to uncover why a growing number of young men are drawn to the priesthood. The call to God includes a lifetime of celibacy and often public scrutiny due to papal controversy and scandals.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Children of the Prophet

Wed, Sep 30, 2015

A look into the FLDS church, headed by Warren Jeffs, and those who have escaped or been removed from the community in Colorado Springs.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Electronic Woodstock

Wed, Nov 4, 2015

Lisa relives her life as a 1990s raver, by embedding with a new generation of electronic music fans at a festival called Mysteryland.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Inside Mongol Nation

Wed, Oct 7, 2015

A look at life as a Mongol.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Fatherless Towns

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

In the Richmond City jail, thirteen inmates are preparing for an unprecedented event - the "Date with Dad" father/daughter dance.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Faces That Sell

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

The fashion world is a competitive one, with thousands of young, idealistic girls vying to become the next top model-but even if they're discovered, many soon find out that it's not always glitz and glamour.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ America's Busiest Coroners

Wed, Nov 11, 2015

Death. It comes knocking for all of us at some point and for the dedicated men and women at the LA County Coroner's Office, it's business as usual.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Seduction Game

Wed, Nov 18, 2015

A virgin attends a dating boot camp to improve his romantic prospects.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Satanists Next Door

Wed, Dec 2, 2015

Not really what you're thinking. This group of individuals don't worship satan as a god, all being, but more as an angel to look up too because of his decisions. Thery don't sacrifice animals, drink blood, or participate in those other stereotypes. They want a free for all religion or nothing at all.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Locked Angeles

Sun, Sep 25, 2016

Lisa Ling gains unprecedented access to the Los Angeles County Jail to understand what it takes to manage the country's busiest jail.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Women Who Fight

Sun, Oct 2, 2016

Lisa Ling steps into the cage with three female fighters who are turning the traditionally male sport of MMA on its head.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Black and White of Heroin

Sun, Oct 9, 2016

Lisa Ling goes to one of America's hardest hit cities,Chicago, to investigate whether a gentler approach to heroin use is being applied equally to the rich and poor, black and white.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ 21st Century Brothel

Sun, Oct 23, 2016

Lisa Ling travels to the most famous legal brothel, Dennis Hof's Moonlite BunnyRanch, to meet women who make a living off lust.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Silicon Savants

Sun, Nov 20, 2016

Silicon Savants is about teens in Silicon Valley who are working to change the world. It features Jackson Greathouse Fall, Abenezer Mamo, Make School, and CalHacks.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Wired Philly

Sun, Nov 13, 2016

In the City of Brotherly Love, Lisa Ling embeds with the Philadelphia Police Department to explore how new technology is changing what it means to be a 21st century cop in America.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Sins of the Father

Sun, Oct 30, 2016

Lisa Ling investigates sexual assault survivors who are fighting in court to deny the men that raped them, visitation with their child.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Prison Love

Sun, Nov 27, 2016

Lisa Ling investigates what drives women to seek a romantic companionship with a prison inmate.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Sexual Healing

Sun, Oct 1, 2017

Lisa Ling explores the practices of two very different types of sexual healing: tantra and surrogate partner therapy.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Chinese in America

Sun, Oct 15, 2017

Lisa explores the massive and economically diverse movement of immigration from China to the United States - and traces her own family roots, to find out what it means to be Chinese in America.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Age of Consent

Sun, Oct 22, 2017

In this episode, Lisa explores the legal and social consequences of convicting adolescents and young adults of sex offenses - when does teenage sexuality cross the line and become a crime?

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Patriot Movement

Sun, Oct 8, 2017

As the divide between right and left reaches new heights, one group is taking an extreme approach to politics: The Patriot Movement. Lisa embeds with a militia deep in the Arizona desert preparing for threats foreign and domestic and meets the family of a man who became a martyr for the movement.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ America's First Muslims

Sun, Oct 29, 2017

Contrary to what many might think, Islam is far from new to America. Lisa meets 3 very different African American Muslims and learns about the power of Islam to reshape lives in the black community, a community that can trace its connection to Islam back to the very first days of slavery.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Modern Love

Sun, Nov 5, 2017

Polygamy in America used to be known as something that's practiced solely in Mormon country, but thanks to a growing crop of unorthodox dating websites there's a new spin on multiple marriage, one that is spreading far beyond Utah. Lisa meets open minded singles, couples and throuples who believe that love doesn't always come in pairs.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Lost Vegas

Sun, Nov 19, 2017

Every year millions flock to Las Vegas trying to fulfill a dream and win big, but outside and even underground is another world that couldn't be more different. Lisa Ling investigates the dark, shocking and sometimes dangerous underbelly of Sin City that few get to see.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Transbeauty

Sun, Nov 26, 2017

In this episode, Lisa takes a revealing look inside the exciting, emotional competition that is the world's most prestigious transgender beauty pageant.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Episode #4.9

Sun, Oct 14, 2018

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1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Porn Ed

Sun, Sep 29, 2019

Lisa Ling takes on a topic most avoid: online pornography and how it is shaping a generation's perception on sex and intimacy.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ The Benzos Crisis

Sun, Oct 6, 2019

Lisa Ling delves into the world of benzodiazepine use and uncovers the troubling threat these drugs pose when used long term, and the challenges facing patients as they try to quit.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ A Few Good Women

Sun, Oct 13, 2019

Lisa Ling gets a rare look inside the Marines' initiative to integrate the men and women in combat training, where they learn to fight and kill.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Mississippi Gangland

Tue, Aug 20, 2019

Lisa Ling explores the inner workings of Mississippi's fastest growing gang, the Simon City Royals, and how some members are walking away from the brotherhood and turning their lives around.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Twinning

Sun, Oct 27, 2019

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7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ When Women Kill

Sun, Nov 3, 2019

The vast majority of murders are committed by men: Only 11% of convicted murderers are women. What accounts for this gender divide? Is there something innate and deep in our natures that allows us to kill, or are we products of circumstance? And what should we make of women who break the mold - and commit the worst of all crimes? Lisa will meet women convicted of murder, from a new mother who suffocated her infant daughter to a survivor of domestic violence who killed her abuser. Over the course of the hour, Lisa will come to see how female murderers are different from the sensationalized "black widow" "scorned lover" or "gold digger" personas we see portrayed by the media. And through that journey, she may discover that the people society deems most evil are in fact not that different from the rest of us.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ Fighting Terror

Sun, Nov 17, 2019

In the weeks leading up to New Year's Eve, Lisa Ling embeds the NYPD to find out what it takes to keep NYC safe from terror threats.