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CBS Reports

Name: CBS Reports
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959-10-27
Rating: 7

Documentary~60 min

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First aired

1959-10-27

Last aired

1960-01-14

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7.0 / 10

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CBS Reports is a long-form documentary television series launched by CBS News in 1959, designed as a platform for in-depth investigative reporting and international documentary journalism. Distinct from later programs of the same name, the original series presented feature-length nonfiction reports on Cold War geopolitics, science and technology, war, social change, and global political systems, using on-location filming and extended narrative structures rather than studio news formats. It established a model for serious broadcast documentary journalism that influenced subsequent public-affairs and investigative television programming.