Lista de episodios

News documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South, focusing on Nashville, Tennessee.

Program examines the debate over U.S. control of the Panama Canal. Highlights include: films of 1959 anti-American demonstrations; Gen. W.A. Kotter of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asserting the canal's strategic importance; and a history of the canal that includes Theodore Roosevelt's initiatives, and the relationship of Panamanians and Americans. Representative Daniel J. Flood (Democrat - PA) asserts the U.S. right to control the Canal Zone. Closes with a look at the influence of Castro and Communism on Latin America and America's "Operation Friendship."

This program examines the growing revolutionary war in Angola through the firsthand reports of two NBC correspondents who present opposing views. Narrator Chet Huntley provides background information on the colonial history of Angola as well as on current Angolan-Portuguese relations.

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.

A four-part documentary examining communism. Part one analyzes the struggle for power among the Soviet leadership upon the death of Joseph Stalin.

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.

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.

The second part was the story of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in which the American strategy proved to be successful.

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.

This documentary briefly used the Oswald case as a symbol of a widespread failure to protect the rights of persons in police custody.

Segment covers the finale of the war against Japan, capped by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki death blows.

Part one of this two-part documentary on John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life from the early days through the presidency.

Part two of this two-part documentary on John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life from the early days through the presidency, includes an excerpt from Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for Kennedy.

A calm and studious confronting of the issues behind the turmoil at San Francisco State College, told from several points of view.

First of a two-part examination of U.S. involvement in Vietnam a decade ago.

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.

Extensive interviews with four young blue collar workers at the Ford Pinto Plant in Milpitas, California.

America is dependent on Middle East oil, but what risks is it willing to take to keep the pipeline open? That question underlines this two-hour survey of the region. The Iranian revolution is seen, in part, as a U.S. "foreign-policy failure" that cost this country its "policeman" in the Persian Gulf and precipitated an energy crisis.This program examines the impact of "wealth and Westernization" in Arab nations; Israel and the Palestinians; Soviet influence in South Ye-men; and the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz. Interviewed: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Henry Kissinger and William Sullivan, who was ambassador to Iran.

The office of the President, according to this report, may not be as powerful as many Americans assume. This documentary notes the significant changes wrought by Chief Executives like Franklin Roosevelt (with his New Deal) and Lyndon Johnson (with his Great Society), and the clout Presidents have with the media. But it also maintains that, in recent years, the ability of the White House to govern has been diminished by Vietnam and Watergate and by the lumbering Federal bureaucracy, the growing influence of lobbyists, the contrariness of Congress and the tendency among Presidents to rely on a loyal, cloistered handful of aides. Interviews and comments by Mr. and Mrs.Gerald Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, White House press secretary Jody Powell, President Nixon's domestic-affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

This program examines America's economic productivity and compares the results to Japan's own economic development, noting Japanese automated industrial plants as well as the Japanese emphasis on strict quality control methods and the importance of good labor-management relations.

The political developments in Central America and the Caribbean and their links to Cuba and the rule of Fidel Castro are examined in this program.

Reviews Japan's successful penetration of the semi-conductor market in the early 1980's.

An enlightening look at the international terrorism, focusing on the attempted assassination of the Pope John Paul II in 1981.

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.

This program looks at the changes in banking over the last 25 years and how they affect the general public.

This program includes interviews with retired Navy Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, retired Navy Captain John J. Herrick, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Colonel Harry Summers of the Army War College, Indochina specialist Douglas Pike, journalist Peter Braestrup, political science professor Larry Berman, and former Deputy Secretary of State George Ball. Also included are clips of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, General William Westmoreland, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and others; and a discussion about the Vietnam War, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Tet Offensive, and other topics