CBS Reports

• 1959 –1964
• •
• Returning series

• Documentary

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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.

Seasons

8

Episodes

6

Episode length

~1h

First aired

Oct 27, 1959

Original language

English

Origin

United States