08.04.2026

What Is the American Dream? Director Explores Her Father’s Life in New Doc

Journalist Karla Murthy's father left India for the U.S. in search of a better life. Through a series of phone calls recorded over two decades, Murthy's father shared his experiences as a first-generation American caught between two worlds. Now, these recordings have led to Murthy's directorial debut. She joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about retracing her father's steps and what it taught her.

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Scott Galloway
Kenneth Stern
Leah Litman
Stanley McChrystal
Ken Martin

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Christiane Amanpour
Hari Sreenivasan
Michel Martin
Walter Isaacson


About the Program

PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, launched the new one-hour late-night public affairs series Amanpour and Company on Monday, September 10 on PBS (check local listings).
The new series features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports.  Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Endowment, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, the Straus Family Foundation, The Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Charles Rosenblum, Monique Schoen Warshaw, Koo and Patricia Yuen and Barbara Hope Zuckerberg.