CBS Reports
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.
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S6 E3 • 11/11/1964
The United States and the Two Chinas
An examination of Communist and Nationalist Chinese relations with the West. Exclusive films, recently taken on the Chinese mainland, focus on advances in farming and industry. In filmed interviews, world leaders comment on the issues of Red China's admission to the UN and her recent detonation of an A bomb. Among those interviewed: Prime Minister Harold Wilson (England), Prime Minister Shastri (India), former premiere Edgar Faure (France), President and Mme. Chiang kai-shek (Nationalist China), Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya), and former U.S. representative Walter Judd (R., Minn.)
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