Bill Moyers, PBS. "“The Truth About Lies” examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind. Exploring deception in childhood and the family, the program examines the common roots of lies in the living room and lies in the oval office. Why do trusted people in life lie to us and to themselves? Can a society die from too many lies? Do our institutions demand loyalty at the expense of truth? The program explores such events as Watergate, the war in Vietnam, and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, and reveals the pressures that led to the denial of truth and the distortion of reality.

Interviewed are John Dean, former Counsel to President Nixon; Sam Dash, former Chief Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School; Psychologist Daniel Goleman and Paul Ekman; Roger Boisjoly, former Morton Thiokol engineer who wanted to postpone the launch of the Challenger; Dr. Larry Berman, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis; and Robert Hotz, former Editor-In-Chief of Aviation Week and Space Technology and member of the Presidential Commission that investigated the Challenger disaster.