CNN Presents()
Documentary
First Air Date: N/A
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 5.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 75
CNN Presents is an American documentary program on CNN weekends. The program used to be replaced with CNN Special Investigations Unit, which features the same documentary format, but differs from it in a number of ways and is shorter in length. The program was originally a regular weekly series that looks in-depth in the important news stories of the times. More recently, it became a "special event" documentary that airs every time a larger, more long-term special report went into making. Notably, the program has been a winner of a number of different awards, including the International Documentary Association Best Documentary Series award. Previous to his departure from CNN, Presents was hosted and narrated by Aaron Brown. While CNN Presents was broadcast on the network, a specialized CNN Presents logo was shown in the corner without the news ticker on the screen. CNN Presents has been revived since its presentation of God's Warriors by Christiane Amanpour in August 2007, and later with Planet in Peril, Black in America, and Latino in America, all of which have received follow-up documentaries later on. In July 2011, the format of CNN Presents changed to a series of three investigative reports aired together in a one hour documentary, instead of a documentary about a single topic.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 2001
Episodes: 26E01
The First 100 Days
Air Date: 2001-04-29
The administration of President George W. Bush in substance and style.
E02
A Dream Deferred
Air Date: 2001-05-06
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has struck Africa with horrific force -- more 3.8 million people infected in 2000. Many of thes...
E03
Terminal Count
Air Date: 2001-05-13
CNN Space Correspondent Miles O'Brien takes a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make the space shuttle fly.
E04
Downsizing.com
Air Date: 2001-05-20
In 1999, CNN took a look at some of the people of California's Silicon Valley participating in and benefiting from th...
E05
Asylum in America
Air Date: 2001-05-27
Thousands of people seek asylum in America each year, fleeing racial, religious, political or other types of persecut...
E06
Exodus from Africa
Air Date: 2001-06-03
African journalist Sorious Samura fled the violence in his country in search of a better life and later returned to d...
E07
Proving Ground
Air Date: 2001-06-10
The annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race is a great Australian tradition -- a days-long event across dangerous, often s...
E08
Killing Pablo
Air Date: 2001-06-17
CNN's Mike Boettcher takes a close look at the top-secret the United States played in the manhunt for the Colombian d...
E09
Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace
Air Date: 2001-06-24
Three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland have left more than 3,000 people dead, pitted Catholic against Protesta...
E10
America's Best: Artists and Entertainers
Air Date: 2001-07-01
Admire them or envy them, there's something deeply fascinating about the small group of people who are simply the bes...
E11
Gridlock
Air Date: 2001-07-08
With U.S. air travel rife with delays and congestion, CNN's Leon Harris takes a look at how the air traffic system w...
E12
Urban Combat
Air Date: 2001-07-22
The U.S. Army believes the wars of the future are likely to be fought in cities. CNN Presents takes a look at soldier...
E13
America's Best: Science and Medicine
Air Date: 2001-08-12
In the second installment of America's Best, CNN and TIME looked at the brilliant individuals, combining passion and ...
E14
Wasted
Air Date: 2001-08-19
Most people who drink alcohol imbibe without a problem. But at least 8 million American adults meet the clinical defi...
E15
Beneath the Veil
Air Date: 2001-08-26
Since the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, the group has imposed its harsh version of Islamic law...
E16
America's Best: Society and Culture
Air Date: 2001-09-09
A CNN-Time collaboration identifying the people who are simply the best in America.
E17
The Struggle for Islam
Air Date: 2001-10-13
With international attention focused on Osama bin Laden, an Islamic extremist who thinks he can rid the Muslim world ...
E18
Investigating Terror
Air Date: 2001-10-21
How could the 19 suspected hijackers -- and whoever may have helped them -- hide in plain sight in the weeks and mont...
E19
Somalia: Black Hawk Down
Air Date: 2001-10-27
In the early 1990s, the United States became part of a multi-national military force that aimed to get humanitarian a...
E20
Air Insecurity
Air Date: 2001-11-03
How safe are U.S. skies?
E21
Dying to Tell the Story
Air Date: 2001-11-17
A picture is worth a thousand words. Is it worth a single life?
E22
Soldiers of God
Air Date: 2001-11-10
Afganistan's battle against Soviet occupation.
E23
Unholy War
Air Date: 2001-11-17
Months before September 11, Saira Shah traveled to Afghanistan to record the impact of the Taliban's harsh rule for h...
E24
Babies on the Brink
Air Date: 2001-11-22
About one out of every nine babies in the United States is born prematurely. Cutting-edge technology is giving doctor...
E25
Return to Freetown
Air Date: 2001-11-23
In the award-winning "Cry Freetown," African journalist Sorious Samura documented the horrific suffering that a bruta...
E26
Are We Ready?
Air Date: 2001-11-24
Every American is now vividly aware of the threat of terrorism. As the U.S. government struggles to close the securit...
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