خلاصه داستان : داستان اولین کودتای انجام شده توسط سیا - ایران در سال 1953. این برنامه به بررسی ضربه‌ای از این رویداد مهم و همچنین تأثیرات ماندگار کودتا بر روابط کنونی آمریکا و ایران می‌پردازد.

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coup's lingering effects on the present US-Iranian relationship. Includes a segment on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis and its relation to the 1953 coup. Concludes with a section on the recent Iranian presidential election. Contains interviews with noted Middle East experts and historians and prominent public figures such as Stephen Kinzer (author, All The Shah's Men), Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Trita Parsi, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ted Koppel and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. With Iranian cinematography by James Longley.

خلاصه داستان : داستان درباره مستند بلند تئاتری با ماجرای عملیات آژاکس ، کودتای CIA / MI6 در سال ۱۹۵۳ در ایران که سرنگون نخست وزیر مصدق شد....

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.