| Airing September 9 |
AMERICA'S BEST
In the third installment of America's Best, CNN and TIME profile 16 individuals whose creativity and passion define American culture and society. |
| September 2 |
GRIDLOCK
With delays common in the U.S. air travel system, CNN Presents examines why getting from point A to point B on time has become so difficult and what can be done to alleviate the congestion in U.S. skies and airports.
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| August 26 |
BENEATH THE VEIL
Journalist Saira Shah traveled to Afghanistan to see the effects of the Taliban's rule on her father's homeland.
She discovered public executions, allegations of human rights violations and a place where women are forced to beg because they are prevented from working. |
| August 19 |
WASTED
Most people who drink alcohol imbibe without a problem. But at least 8 million American adults meet the clinical definition of alcoholism and millions more abuse alcohol or occasionally engage in risky drinking, inflicting damage upon society and themselves. |
| August 12 |
AMERICA'S BEST
In the second installment of America's Best, CNN and TIME looked at the brilliant individuals, combining passion and obsession, who are still pushing the boundaries of of science and medicine, often by questioning or ignoring the conventional wisdom. CNN Presents profiled pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, AIDS researcher Anthony Fauci, neurobiologist Patricia Goldman-Rakic, paleontologist Andrew Knoll and climatologist Lonnie Thompson. |
| August 5 |
PROVING GROUND
This special goes inside one of the world's great ocean yacht races, the Sydney to Hobart, that turned deadly in 1998, killing six. The sailors and rescuers share the terror and truth of what really happened during their days at sea. This documentary airs in conjunction with the publication of a book on the same subject, "The Proving Ground," published by Little, Brown and Company, and written by journalist Bruce Knecht. |
| July 29 |
THE HUNT FOR ERIC RUDOLPH
Five years after the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park, the accused bomber, Eric Rudolph, remains a fugitive. CNN Presents looks at his life and the scaled-back search for him in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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| July 22 |
URBAN COMBAT
The U.S. Army says the battlefield of the future is likely to be in a city, where casualty rates are higher and high-tech weapons aren't as effective. CNN Presents profiles soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne as they train to fight on an urban battleground. |
| July 8 |
GRIDLOCK
With delays common in the U.S. air travel system, CNN Presents examines why getting from point A to point B on time has become so difficult and what can be done to alleviate the congestion in U.S. skies and airports.
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| July 1 |
AMERICA'S BEST
CNN and TIME have joined forces to examine the small group of people who are simply the best at what they do. The collaboration, titled "America's Best," is a five-part series with the first segment focusing on 21 artists and entertainers. CNN Presents profiles film director Ang Lee, Broadway director Susan Stroman and songwriter Lucinda Williams.
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| June 24 |
NORTHERN IRELAND: DYING FOR PEACE
CNN's Nic Robertson examines the Northern Ireland peace process by looking at Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander turned peacemaker. But partisans on both sides of the long-time conflict between Catholics and Protestants have doubts about McGuinness' attempts to switch from IRA commander to Sinn Fein politician.
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| June 17 |
KILLING PABLO
Based on the Philadelphia Inquirer series by reporter Mark Bowden, the program goes inside the manhunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar that ended with his death. The United States supported the manhunt with training and technology but was the U.S. aid inadvertently helping a vigilante terror group also seeking Escobar's capture? |
| June 10 |
The Proving Ground
This special goes inside one of the world's great ocean yacht races, the Sydney to Hobart, that turned deadly in 1998, killing six. The sailors and rescuers share the terror and truth of what really happened during their days at sea. This documentary airs in conjunction with the publication of a book on the same subject, "The Proving Ground," published by Little, Brown and Company, and written by journalist Bruce Knecht. |
| June 3 |
Exodus from Africa ... with Sorious Samura
Peabody Award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura follows African exiles as they attempt to make their way across the Sahara and the Straight of Gibraltar to the "promised land" of Europe. |
| May 27 |
Asylum in America
CNN goes behind the locked doors of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to observe the stories of the asylum seekers, and those who decide their fate. |
| May 20 |
Downsizing.com
In a follow-up to a 1999 award-winning CNN documentary that captured a moment in Silicon Valley when hope and optimism abounded, CNN revisits the Valley to see how our Internet entrepreneurs are faring after the bubble has burst. |
| May 13 |
Terminal Count: What it Takes to Make the Space Shuttle Fly
CNN's Miles O'Brien goes behind the scenes of the space shuttle Discovery to explore the little-known details of NASA's hardest working space vehicle and the men and women that make it fly. |
| May 6 |
A Dream Deferred
CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on the AIDS pandemic in Africa and the harsh effect it is having on the continent working to join the developed world. |
| April 29 |
The First 100 Days
CNN takes an in-depth look at the first 100 days of the administration of President George W. Bush in substance and style. |
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