from "icarus," filmmaker bryan fogel.eaturing the 8g band with roy mayorga. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: welcome to "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] we're so happy to have you here and we want to get started. we want to have a fun show. but we also wanted to take a moment to address what happened this weekend. on saturday there was yet another terror attack on american soil. this one was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist named james field against a group of protesters in charlottesville, virginia. he drove his car into a crowd and killed a woman named heather heyer. it was a horrifying incident that left most of the country stunned and terrified. but on saturday, you didn't hear her name or the terrorist's name or even the word terrorist from our president. what you heard instead was this. >> we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious dis

>> rose: joining me director kathryn bigelow, director bryan fogel, producer dan cogan. welcome. some of you i saw previous occasions at this table. tell me how this came to be. >> this writer next to me whose work is extraordinary came to me with a story set against the "detroit" riots, detroit uprising in 1967, a true story of a true crime set in the middle of it in the algiers motel, and it was, simply put, an execution, and a portrait of police brutality and racial injustice that was extremely moving, very timely and topical and about the same time he told me this story, the decision not to indict the officer involved in the michael brown shooting had taken place. so i felt that the story needed to be told. >> rose: because it has lessons for today? >> because it has lessons for today. exactly. >> rose: had you been thinking about this? how long had you sort of been thinking, this is a story that we talked about it internally for a little while, and what really pushed it over into an actual script was a meeting i had up in detroit with one of the survivors who hadn't told his

from "icarus," filmmaker bryan fogel.o "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] we're so happy to have you here and we want to get started. we want to have a fun show. but we also wanted to take a moment to address what happened this weekend. on saturday there was yet another terror attack on american soil. this one was allegedly perpetrated by a white

. >> reporter: film maker and amateur cyclist bryan fogel said he initially set out to understand howrong had managed to get clean drug tests for years, despite his doping. >> going to do an injection. exciting. >> reporter: so fogel decided to make himself the guinea pig. he would take enhancing drugs and see if he could pass the drug test. filming every step along the way. >> i was very interested to see if it was still possible to evade detection. >> reporter: for help with his project, he was referred to dr. grigory rodchenkov. at the time, he ran russia's anti-doping lab. explosive revelations. >> it's worse than we thought. >> reporter: at what point did you know that your story's way bigger. >> putin appears on state television, and not only does he deny everything. he says that there was no state-sponsored doping in russia. and about 12 hours after that statement, gregory is on call to me, and he has two kgb agents living in his home protecting him, and he tells me that they're going to kill him. >> reporter: fogel says he immediately bought him a flight out of moscow to the u