The Great Depression - PBS | Blackside, Inc.

This seven-hour series exemplified excellence in historical programming, illuminating the great political and social changes of an era through little-known stories of the time.

60 Minutes: Semipalatinsk | CBS News

Until 1989, the Soviet government deliberately exploded more than 500 nuclear bombs in Semipalatinsk in Northeastern Kazakhstan, with an astounding impact on the population. "60 Minutes" once again broke an important, original story and presented it with compelling pictures, detail and understanding.

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Charles Kuralt - Sunday Morning on CBS

Even before he anchored the first edition of "Sunday Morning" more than 15 years ago, Charles Kuralt was the biographer of our national idiosyncrasies and the poet of network news. Against the backdrop of world headlines, Kuralt found the quiet voices in the American crowd and the humor on our ways.

Coverage of the Moscow Uprising - CNN

During two tense days in October 1993, when conservatives led by Alexander Rutskoi tried to take over the Russian Parliament and destabilize Boris Yeltsin, CNN was on the air live with cameras and correspondents on both sides of the battle line.

Coverage of Rwanda - Michael Skoler and NPR

When civil war erupted in Rwanda in spring 1994, NPR’s Africa correspondent Michael Skoler filed some of the first and most chilling reports from the scene. Working alone, without any sound technicians, he made his way around the country, talking to many who had taken part in massacres and some who survived them.

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Coverage of South Africa | NPR

National Public Radio stood alone in the breadth, quantity and quality of its reporting on South Africa’s revolutionary election in June 1994. In spot news, in-depth profiles, through historical backgrounders, and insightful commentary NPR made an outstanding contribution to America’s understanding of events in South Africa.

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Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo - Frontline on PBS

The story of two young lovers -a Muslim girl and a Serbian boy - gunned down by snipers as they tried to flee Sarajevo made headlines around the world. Only "Frontline" returned to their lives in compelling detail.

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School - HBO

Filmed over the course of an entire school year, this 90-minute cinema verite' documentary brought new insight to a now familiar problem of inner city schools.

Missing the Beat - WCCO-TV, Minneapolis,

WCCO-TV spent four months looking into a special police street patrol working in a troubled downtown area to control crime and violence. Veteran police beat reporter Caroline Lowe and the station’s investigative team tracked the cops’ actions, or inaction, as it turned out, during the course of many shifts.

Innocence Lost: The Verdict - Frontline on PBS

This four-hour documentary, revisited the story of charges of child sexual abuse against several workers at Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton, N.C. For three years, Producer Ofra Bikel documented how the allegations of sexual abuse destroyed the tranquillity of Edenton.

My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story - PBS | Wisconsin Public Television

The production team followed Bernice Cooper, a single mother no welfare, for a year. The result is an unsentimental portrait of one woman’s escape from crime and drugs in Chicago for the relative security of Madison, Wisconsin.

The Last Hit: Children and Violence - WTVS-TV, Detroit

This half-hour program assembled uninterrupted cameos of children, ages 10 to 12, who recounted their experience with and thoughts about violence. They show create an eloquent composite portrayal of childhood in distress.

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