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Directed : Unknown

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Stars : Tom Brokaw Chet Huntley Lloyd Dobyns Frank McGee

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 19, 2022

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : NBC News

Summary News documentary series focusing on a variety of topics. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 19, 2022

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : NBC News

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Nov 28, 1960
The U-2 Affair
Dec 19, 1960
Sit-In
News documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South, focusing on Nashville, Tennessee.
Jan 27, 1961
Battle of Newburgh
Feb 13, 1961
Panama - Danger Zone
Mar 13, 1961
Man in the Middle: The State Legislator
Apr 15, 1961
Anatomy of a Hospital
May 22, 1961
Railroads: The End of the Line?
Sep 18, 1961
Angola: Journey to a War
Dec 25, 1961
Khrushchev & Berlin
Feb 24, 1962
Red China
In "Red China", host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party. Courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon, gives viewers a look at China as it industrializes and strives to become a world power.It's starts out with footage of Chinese men pulling a boat upriver, communist soldiers marching during the 10th Anniversary celebration, and Fernand Gigon.Then "Red China" host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party then gives an inside look at the country following the slowing (or collapse) of the "Great Leap Forward" courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon. It then shift focuses on the footage Gigon captured during his 1961 visit and begins with Chet Huntley addressing the camera. Then cuts to a Chinese delegation in Canada walking with Canadian officials. Footage shows rural China from the window of a train. Gigon sits on a bed in what appears to be a hotel room and discusses filming in China and how he had to smuggle his film out of the country.
Mar 24, 1962
Arms and the State
Jan 26, 1963
The Death of Stalin
Feb 02, 1963
The Rise of Khrushchev
This documentary made by NBC, talks about the rise of Nikita Khrushchev to power in Soviet union, and his struggle to stay in power until his fall in 1960.
Apr 27, 1963
The Business of Gambling
Feb 03, 1964
Episode dated 4 February 1964
Two critical junctures in the relations between the U.S. and Castro's Cuba were turned into excellent documentaries in a two part presentation. The first was a report on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.in April 1961.
Feb 08, 1964
Episode dated 9 February 1964
The second part was the story of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in which the American strategy proved to be successful.
Jan 04, 1965
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
J Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this rare NBC News documentary. Originally produced two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this presentation features new insight from NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss.
Feb 08, 1965
Oswald and the Law
This documentary briefly used the Oswald case as a symbol of a widespread failure to protect the rights of persons in police custody.
Apr 05, 1965
Terror in the Streets
Sep 06, 1965
United States Foreign Policy
Sep 18, 1965
Decision to Surrender
Segment covers the finale of the war against Japan, capped by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki death blows.
May 28, 1966
The Age of Kennedy, Part I: The Early Years
Jun 05, 1966
The Age of Kennedy, Part II: The Presidency
Aug 24, 1966
Organized Crime
Apr 14, 1969
Confrontation
A calm and studious confronting of the issues behind the turmoil at San Francisco State College, told from several points of view.
Aug 23, 1970
Trip to Nowhere
Nov 15, 1971
Migrant
Dec 20, 1971
Vietnam Hindsight, Part I: How It Began
First of a two-part examination of U.S. involvement in Vietnam a decade ago.
Dec 21, 1971
Vietnam Hindsight: Part II:: Death of Diem
Jan 10, 1972
Suffer the Little Children
Northern Ireland, plagued by the violence between Catholics and Protestants, also of the fighting occurs between IRA and British troops, the victims who seem to suffer the most are the children.
Jun 26, 1972
The Blue Collar Trap
Extensive interviews with four young blue collar workers at the Ford Pinto Plant in Milpitas, California.
Dec 31, 1969
If Japan Can... Why Can't We?
Apr 22, 1981
Reagan: The First 100 Days
Jan 23, 1982
Nothing to Fear
Sep 20, 1982
The Man Who Shot the Pope - A Study in Terrorism
An enlightening look at the international terrorism, focusing on the attempted assassination of the Pope John Paul II in 1981.
Dec 04, 1982
Bataan, the Forgotten Hell
This documentary looks at the opening days of World War II in the Philippines, where American and Filipino soldiers, using World War I weapons and ammunition, held out in vicious fighting against the Japanese for 81 days. On April 8, 1942, report not focuses on the battle, but on the durability of the human spirit in the face of man's inhumanity to man; of the Bataan death march, Japanese prison camps and the hell ships that took some to Japan into slavery. Only 43% of the American POWs survived. Some of those survivors, meeting in reunion in the Philippines, told their stories on camera and voice over photos, film and sketches of those days of starvation, sickness, death, and incredible brutality.
Dec 31, 1969
Japan vs. USA: The High-Tech Shoot Out
Reviews Japan's successful penetration of the semi-conductor market in the early 1980's.
Dec 31, 1969
Banking on the Brink
This program looks at the changes in banking over the last 25 years and how they affect the general public.
Dec 31, 1969
The Popes and Their Art: The Vatican Collections
Apr 26, 1985
Vietnam: Lessons of a Lost War
Jan 04, 1987
To Be a Teacher
Mar 07, 1989
To Be an American
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