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An encore presentation of two National Headliner Award winners. 'The Forgotten War: Fighting Terror in the Philippines,' and 'A Silent War, A Violent Peace: Uganda's Child Soldiers'
A National Headliner Award Winner. A Look Back to the remote jungles of the Philippines where American Special Forces quietly support the mission against a reputed Al-Qaeda affiliate.
A National Headliner Award Winner. Examine how the decades-long civil war in Uganda has brutalized children, who are often kidnapped and forced to fight as mercenaries.
Emmy win for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine. A hidden camera captures human traffickers nearly completed a purchase to acquire ten women for about $400.00 US dollars apiece.
Emmy Win for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine. New information about a money laundering scandal where western banks helped Iran acquire billions for its weapons program.
Emmy Win for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine. A Chinese man tries to penetrate the U.S. drug chain with enormous quantities of counterfeit prescription medication.
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine. An investigation into claims that women were forced to put babies up for adoption with the support of Catholic Charities.
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine. An update into the investigation of claims by women that they were forced to put their babies up for adoption.
Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine. An in-depth look at the deep challenges facing Detroit Public Schools from a fierce battle with the district.
Emmy Win for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine. An update to the story of businessman Kevin Xu, who tried to penetrate the U.S. drug supply chain.
Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine. An update to the heartbreaking story of a student trying to succeed in Detroit Public Schools.
Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine. The number of foreclosures could top 4 million this year and efforts to stave off the process through HAMP.
Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Editing - Quick Turnaround. Portraits of life for the survivors of Haiti's earthquake.
Emmy Nominated for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine. As the President announced a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, Dan Rather traveled to the Afghan province where battle tactics are already changing.
Emmy Win for Video Journalism. From a small town in Kenya come most of the world's greatest marathon runners. Why they can run so fast, so far.
Emmy Nomination for Business and Financial. Did the US play a part in a modern day land grab when an American company bought a massive copper mine from the government of Congo.
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story. A look at American soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and how their lives are forever changed.
The American economy survives because of a highly efficient transportation system that relies on trucks. But the drivers of those trucks are working longer hours and making less money than ever.
The Catholic Church faces hundreds of lawsuits in the wake of the sex abuse scandal. Also, a look at the fight for millions of federal dollars, all over rum.
The Dominican Republic supplies more MLB talent than any country except the U.S.; the lure of big money is so strong, thousands of boys give up everything, including an education, for a shot.
Americans are so over-medicated with antibiotics that drugs once used to save lives are no longer effective. Plus we travel to Norway, a country that makes it difficult to obtain antibiotics.
American high-tech companies have been laying off thousands of workers in Silicon Valley but they're hiring like mad in India.
Scientists are worried lionfish are now a threat to wipe out native fish populations in the Atlantic; micro loans.
Honor killings are on the rise in Great Britain. Analysis of the situation in Egypt with a Muslim advisor to President Obama.
Despite unrest in the region, a previously little-known U.S. program that has produced calm in the West Bank and fostered unprecedented cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.
Is the White House jobs plan less than advertised? Brazilian immigrants to the U.S. returning home and NY Times statistician Nate Silver on the 2012 presidential race.
A new generation of nuclear power generators is on the horizon. Plus, "corrective rape" in South Africa and an electronic voting machines update.
The Supreme Court hears arguments in the largest class action case ever; Betty Dukes vs. Wal-Mart is about gender discrimination and the nation's largest employer.
How Christians can opt-out of mandatory health care coverage. Scientist Eric Lander. And cleaning up trash in the Pacific.
A Look Back about Mexico's bloody U.S.-backed war on drug trafficking.
The last U.S. television interview with Chinese activist Ai Weiwei before he was arrested by Chinese authorities.
No place on the US-Mexico border better exemplifies the problem with illegal immigration than an open gate in the Arizona desert. A Look Back to 2013 and the San Miguel Gate.
A look back at Hurricane Katrina and all the trash; an investigation into the noxious threat from post-Katrina clean-up.
After hunting down Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky on Pedophile charges , American justice extends to countries like Cambodia, where American pedophiles travel to score underage sex.
Flash back to Biloxi, Miss., in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; death and destruction is everywhere, wiping out virtually everything but people's individual determination to overcome the tragedy.
A look at the role of the United States military's Special Operations Command in the hunt for Osama bin Laden; the revolution the Syrian government doesn't want the world to see; the Chinese government tries to control information on the Internet.
Copper about to be mined in Afghanistan by a Chinese company accused of massive bribery. Also, Kenneth Feinberg and paying the victims of the Gulf oil spill.
It is pirating season off the coast of Somalia where a warship patrols dangerous waters.
Argentina's brutal military regime kidnapped thousands of men and women in the '70's and '80's, almost all were executed. But many of their children were spared and stolen by military officials.
Chinese workers say that making iPhones makes them sick. It may make you think about your gadgets a little differently.
Just as NASA shuts down its shuttle, private companies are in a rush to make space more accessible to scientists and thrill-seekers; they inch closer to providing relatively affordable space travel to the general public.
A look into a true eyewitness to history. 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dan Rather remembers the dark days in Dallas.
Decades after the United States was launched into World War II, Dan Rather returns to Hawaii to explore the day that will live in infamy and how its meaning has changed with the passage of time.
Hundreds of thousands are now getting high on medicinal marijuana legally, and they are on the roads. We put some users' driving skills to the test.
Venture back with Dan Rather for an in-depth conversation with music legend Willie Nelson, along with other rising stars from 2012, about the current state of the music industry.
Take A Look Back to 2012 and the once crowded Syrian camps on the Jordanian border where families showed us the horrors happening just miles from their safe haven.
Before lead was found in Flint, Mich., school water in 2016, a former Marine Corps drill sergeant believes toxic chemicals in the water supply at Camp Lejeune, N.C., led to the death of his daughter.
Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed on May 2nd 2011. Take A Look Back on the ground in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the town where Osama bin Laden was hiding for years. Did the locals know?
A special edition showcasing the long-awaited re-opening of the Statue of Liberty, a celebration of a special American flag that once flew near Ground Zero.
33 Chilean miners endured a horrible torture for 69 days, but were saved in a dramatic rescue that began on 10/13/2010 and captured the hearts of people around the world.
A return to Mississippi to look at the recovery and rebuilding one year after the devastation Hurricane Katrina left behind.
An investigation into the voting machine industry that reveals problems with the latest touch screen technology.
A special Veteran's Day look at the wounds of war.
Follow a family of immigrants as they make the dangerous journey from Mexico into the U.S.
Are school shootings the new normal for children. We examine how they happen and what is being done to prevent future attacks.
We travel to Detroit for the Super Bowl to take a look at the insidious side of marketing counterfeit sports memorabilia. Millions of dollars of illegal profits go beyond common criminals; and potentially into the hands of terrorists.
Pornography… the days of dark seedy theaters are over! The trends in the adult film industry are exposed.
Putin gets what he wants. Many are describing Russia as 'post-democratic;' that while there are elections and the surfeit of democracy, one man really controls everything. Take a look back for a revealing look into the present.
The bloody war in Mexico spills over the border into the American Southwest is waged by drug cartels and is fought with American guns. Tens of thousands flow south in what is called the 'Iron River.'
Step back as Dan Rather interviews Russian expert Steve Cohen.
A look at the highly successful Israeli missile defense system known as Iron Dome. Also, what country banned assault weapons after a mass killing?
A telephone scam is targeting American seniors and bilking them out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Our investigation leads to Jamaica where con artists have built a thriving crime network.
An American engineer was convicted of espionage after selling stealth secrets to China. But were they really secrets? An investigation of American technology transfer to countries around the world.
When a woman is sexually assaulted, she is asked to submit to a so-called "rape kit," a highly invasive and laborious process that aims to extract DNA. Thousands sit on shelves, untouched, untested.
A look back on a harrowing journey with three North Korean refugees; after escaping their country's brutal regime, they are sold into virtual slavery, and must attempt a dangerous escape for freedom.
A Look Back to 2010 and an investigation into American kids recruited to fight with a fundamentalist Islamic terror group. Is this still happening today?
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are returning from war with Traumatic Brain Injury - many with little hope of returning to normal lives. Why has the U.S. Army resisted a promising new treatment?
Las Vegas has seen a boom in new gun ranges where you can rent any firearm imaginable.
We visit an island in Japan that has the longest living people in the world. What's the secret?
A Look Back to 2010 and the debut of Airport body scanners. Have they made traveling safer?
A look back to a report on football and dementia. The topic was and is still a major area of concern. Has the National Football League taken enough aggressive action since this report in 2010?.
A Look Back to Zack Lystedt, a young football player disabled by multiple concussions. His goal? To walk across the stage at his high school graduation. Are kids any safer today?
A Look Back to the final journey of an American flag rescued from Ground Zero.
A Look Back to 2012, the one one-year anniversary of Muammar Gaddafi's death and the investigation into the strange circumstances surrounding Libya's longtime ruler.
A Veterans Day salute to a sailor who was on board the USS Arizona. Also, A Look Back to 2012 and a conversation with General Martin Dempsey, on the future of the military and veteran concerns.
Dan Rather returns to Hawaii in 2011 to explore the day that will live in infamy and how its meaning has changed with the passage of time.
A look back to 2013 and the nation’s infrastructure, particularly our bridges. Not enough money coming from Washington has left local authorities overwhelmed. Has anything changed?
New state restrictions on abortions have had consequences for the health care of thousands of low income women, as many clinics that provide services beyond pregnancy termination have closed.
For centuries, explorers dreamed of a Northwest Passage. As the Arctic melts, that dream is becoming a reality. But is the world ready?
One mans quest to document how Asian appetite for shark fin soup is decimating the ocean's shark populations.