Documentary Special

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“Documentary Special”
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 0
Written by William Couturie and Eli Attie & Felicia Wilson (interview material)
Directed by William Couturie
Production no. 227223
Original airdate April 24, 2002
Season 3 episodes
  1. Manchester Part I
  2. Manchester Part II
  3. Ways and Means
  4. On the Day Before
  5. War Crimes
  6. Gone Quiet
  7. The Indians in the Lobby
  8. The Women of Qumar
  9. Bartlet for America
  10. H. Con-172
  11. 100,000 Airplanes
  12. The Two Bartlets
  13. Night Five
  14. Hartsfield's Landing
  15. Dead Irish Writers
  16. The U.S. Poet Laureate
  17. Stirred
  18. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
  19. The Black Vera Wang
  20. We Killed Yamamoto
  21. Posse Comitatus
List of The West Wing episodes

"Documentary Special" is a special episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

"The West Wing" blends drama with reality in this groundbreaking documentary episode that includes interviews with former Presidents and White House figures. Paying tribute to the real-life counterparts of the show's fictional Bartlet administration, the installment features U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, White House staffers David Gergen, Dee Dee Myers and Leon Panetta and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Highlights from the first three seasons of the show are interspersed throughout. Thomas Schlamme -- executive producer, Aaron Sorkin -- executive producer, John Wells -- executive producer, Kevin Falls -- co-executive producer, Michael Hissrich -- producer, Anne Sandkuhler -- producer, Llewellyn Wells -- line producer, Bill Zarchy -- director of photography, Terry Schwartz -- film editor. "The West Wing Documentary Special" won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program in 2003.

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