Walter Cronkite

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this...

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while working,...

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)...

A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center in front of 50...

Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to...

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and...

More than a history of computing, this program shows how the mecca of computer technology caused a fundamental shift in American society. Walter...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an...

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the...

The life and career of conservative icon Barry Goldwater is recounted from his days as an Arizona businessman to his five-term Senate career and his...

A special highlighting fifty years in the history of television. Includes tributes to Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Jackie Gleason,...

It was a plot device worthy of any film noir thriller. A shadowy figure, keeper of the secrets to a national crime, reveals snippets of information...

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward changed American history through their dogged pursuit of the truth in uncovering the story of Watergate. Starting...

A documentary about the days immediately before and after the assassination of JFK. It is comprised of historical interviews with people who were...

Documentary that delves deep into the history of abortion law, revealing the contradictory ways in which women's bodies have been used to further...

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film...

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of...

The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.

Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.

A special recounting the riveting story of the reporting from Dallas and the New York CBS Newsroom from the moment President Kennedy was shot until...

Created for the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy, this is a unique, moment-by-moment view of the events in Dallas, Texas on...

A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican...

This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as...

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

The story of Silent Night, Holy Night is retold by Walter Cronkite and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square to thousands of...

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day," and the valiant battle against terminal cancer...

Music, myth, and memory mix as one of the last great untold World War II stories unfolds against an Irish landscape. Three hundred thousand American...

Four part documentary about JFK's murder, and who had reasons and means to do it, and to escape. - Part 1: History is written by the winners. Part 2:...

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign...

McCARTHY YEARS turns back the clock to the Fifties, a time when the country lurched into a murky period of blacklists and witch-hunts for alleged...

Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA's first landing on the moon, and using this brand-new evidence, former astronauts and...

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to...

John F Kennedy was one of America's greatest presidents. He was the voice of the people who was a natural public speaker and a cool calm figure in...

Caitlyn Jenner's unlikely path to Olympic glory was inspirational. But her more challenging road to embracing her true self proved even more...

CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Released by Boo-Hooray as part of their exhibit on...

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.

It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and...

Modern forensic science re-examines the evidence. Walter Cronkite narrates. Definitive investigation. Written, directed and produced by Robert...

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use...

Relive humankind's incredible accomplishment of walking on the moon in this program that presents highlights of Walter Cronkite and the CBS News...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

Our planet, our home, our future… From the chill of the Arctic, to the depths of the ocean and the thrill of the jungle, experience our fragile...

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Legendary TV news anchor Walter Cronkite takes ecstatic Disneyland tourist Robin through the process of Disney's hand drawn animation and makes...

The Sixth Floor museum at Dealey Plaza presents a group of six short films about the life, death and enduring legacy of John F. Kennedy that are...

This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a...

Short Subject vieo produced by Dave Bell and Amateur Radio outlining Ham Radio and its role in emergency communications in the years after the 9/11...

Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look...

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes,...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many...

Walter Cronkite anchors a CBS news report on the Apollo 11 moon landing, during which astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set...

This film is about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the modernization of the Turkish Republic.

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Lee Groberg, the producer/director of PBS documentaries such as, "An American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith", and "Trail of Hope: The Story of...

Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners,...

A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s....

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.

An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."

Hosted by legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite, this program follows the step-by-step process of rehabilitating the outdated shuttle and...

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly...

Concordia College's 75th Christmas Concert is celebrated on this recording. Walter Cronkite narrates the introduction. The 2001 Christmas Concert, O...

The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three”...

A short film that extolled the value of the contributions of women to America’s Armed Forces. Footage was shown of women in service throughout...

A sequel to SS United States: Lady in Waiting (2008), "Made In America" updates the progress on saving and plans for the ship. It includes incredible...

Designed to be a secret weapon in the cold war disguised as a luxurious passenger liner, the SS United States was the pride of America during her...

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the...

A documentary about Genie, who spent the first thirteen years of her life imprisoned in her bedroom by her father, with her arms and legs immobilized.

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases...

How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times'...

For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively...

A look into what has shaped President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden, where they came from and how they lead.

The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims....

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard...

Details the successful launch and execution of the Marshall Plan - America's expansive commitment to re-build Europe at the end of the war. Walter...

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.

NASA mounts a rescue operation after an explosion tears through the hull of the Apollo 13 spacecraft while it is in flight to the moon.

Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of...

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...

The story of Leonardo da Vinci: his life, his thoughts, his times, his art and inventions and the individuals who had an influence on his life.

Around the world, journalists are increasingly being killed. They die in the crossfire. They die at the hand of criminals and corrupt governments....

Documentary of the US-Canadian-Russian joint expedition to Titanic

Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles,...

In a investigation into the pernicious origins of Stockholm Syndrome, a thrilling family story intersects with a dramatic bank robbery in Sweden...

Looking back over 40 years television and print journalists recall their stories and memories of reporting the murder of President Kennedy and how it...

The battle of the Huertgen Forest was one of the bloodiest of World War II. This is the true story of a battlefield reunion of American and German...

An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent living in...

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy,...

The Beatles First US Visit uniquely chronicles the inside story of the two remarkable weeks when Beatlemania first ignited America. The pioneering...

Produced by CBS News and distributed by Carousel Films, the film begins with a brief introduction from Walter Cronkite, then follows reporter Ed...

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

With the release of new documents in 2025, this gripping exploration revisits the JFK assassination, featuring expert insights and theories that...

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the...

The Korean conflict is often called "The Forgotten War," but it has never been forgotten by the men and women who experienced it. These veterans...

Exploring the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of...

The story of how, in 1970, the social activism of young UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis led her to become involved in a failed kidnapping...

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during...

An undercover investigative documentary on illegal bookmaking in Boston, using concealed-camera footage to expose institutional corruption and...

To explore the world of Orwell's dystopian novel, '1984', and compare it with the real article set to dawn seven months hence, Walter Cronkite...

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United...

Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power...

Join Apollo 11 on its historic journey. The film seamlessly blends mission audio featuring conversations among Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and...