Mon, Dec 19, 1960
News documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South, focusing on Nashville, Tennessee.
Sat, Feb 2, 1963
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.
Mon, Feb 3, 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.
Sat, Feb 8, 1964
The second part was the story of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in which the American strategy proved to be successful.
Top-rated
Mon, Jan 4, 1965
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.
Mon, Feb 8, 1965
This documentary briefly used the Oswald case as a symbol of a widespread failure to protect the rights of persons in police custody.
Sat, Sep 18, 1965
Segment covers the finale of the war against Japan, capped by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki death blows.
Mon, Apr 14, 1969
A calm and studious confronting of the issues behind the turmoil at San Francisco State College, told from several points of view.
Mon, Dec 20, 1971
First of a two-part examination of U.S. involvement in Vietnam a decade ago.
Mon, Jan 10, 1972
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.
Mon, Jun 26, 1972
Extensive interviews with four young blue collar workers at the Ford Pinto Plant in Milpitas, California.
Mon, Sep 20, 1982
An enlightening look at the international terrorism, focusing on the attempted assassination of the Pope John Paul II in 1981.
Top-rated
Sat, Dec 4, 1982
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.
1982
Reviews Japan's successful penetration of the semi-conductor market in the early 1980's.
1983
This program looks at the changes in banking over the last 25 years and how they affect the general public.