Walt Disney: The Man Behind The Mouse

Walt Disney built the most trusted brand in the world, and he built it on top of a story the company has spent eighty years hoping you would never hear. Behind the castle, the cardigan, and the warm Missouri voice was a workplace that tore itself apart, a founder who treated a fair-pay dispute as a foreign conspiracy, and a man whose grudges ended up wired into the machinery of the Red Scare.

 This episode strips off the sanitized image and looks at the documented record of Walter Elias Disney as the complicated, contradictory figure he actually was.W...