Movies: Walter Cronkite

A documentary about the days immediately before and after the assassination of JFK. It is comprised of historical interviews with people who were present, involved, and invested in those days....

How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist ...

Around the world, journalists are increasingly being killed. They die in the crossfire. They die at the hand of criminals and corrupt governments. They die in tragic accidents. These are some of their stories....

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....

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 planet and its changing environments from a whole new perspective. Produced in partnership with the World ...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many African-Americans advocated a non-violent resistance. Williams took a different tack, urging the oppressed to tak...

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy....

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 grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travel...

More than a history of computing, this program shows how the mecca of computer technology caused a fundamental shift in American society. Walter Cronkite is the host for this fascinating film featuring the stories of Hewlett and Packard, Intel, Apple...

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

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 new footage of the ship, both in her heyday and in her current state, as well as interviews with for...

Hosted by legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite, this program follows the step-by-step process of rehabilitating the outdated shuttle and documents the extensive training the new crew endured during their preparation. Witness the launch of f...

Relive humankind's incredible accomplishment of walking on the moon in this program that presents highlights of Walter Cronkite and the CBS News Team's comprehensive coverage of the thrilling nine-day Apollo 11 mission. Then, Cronkite reports on the ...

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 Heliczer and The Dead Language Press. Features the earliest known footage of The Velvet Underground. Shot...

Concordia College's 75th Christmas Concert is celebrated on this recording. Walter Cronkite narrates the introduction. The 2001 Christmas Concert, O Holy Night, comes to your living room!...

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 flawless service career from 1952 to 1969. The brainchild of United States Lines president, John M. Fran...

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 Cronkite traces the complex and changing relationship between the United States and England and explore...

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 Communists, all led by a young senator named Joseph McCarthy. Revered for his bravery and incorruptibili...

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 the Mormon Trail", has turned his focus to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Walter Cronkite narrates, tell...

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 food on the lunar surface....