On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech that would change history. Before a crowd of 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial, with millions more watching on television, King offered a powerful vision of racial equality and...
No other murder in history has produced as much speculation as the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Forty years later more than 80% of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill the Pre...
Obesity is fast on its way to becoming the nation’s largest and most costly public health problem. While much of the public debate about obesity has focused on personal responsibility, Peter Jennings Reporting – How To Get Fat Without Re...
The rise of Ecstasy is a major event in drug history. In the 1990s Ecstasy seemed to come out of nowhere to join marijuana, cocaine and heroin as one of the four most widely used illegal drugs in the country. No other drug has ever sprea...
What do we really know about the last days of the life of Jesus Christ and the development of Christianity? Peter Jennings Reporting – Jesus and Paul: The Word and The Witness, a three hour documentary, three years in the making, examin...
Peter Jennings Reporting – LAPD looks at what happens when the nation’s most famous police officer takes over the nation’s most infamous police department. The result is a complex tale about the struggle for power—from the top brass to t...
In another of his primetime investigative documentaries, Peter Jennings reports on one of the most controversial features of America’s war on terror – the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Tobacco is still the number one killer in our nation. But as Peter Jennings reveals in this critical examination of the ‘tobacco wars,’ not just tobacco companies are responsible – but also the government and prominent public health advo...
We are headed toward a surveillance society. Today, technology allows for all our daily transactions to be tracked and all the intimate details of our lives to be electronically monitored. Artificial intelligence programs can sift throug...
Today in the United States there are an estimated 46 million people—that is almost one in six Americans—who don’t have health insurance. The numbers continue to grow as health insurance costs rise and more Americans find health insurance...
America in Primetime premieres this Sunday at 10 pm on MSNBC!The special four-part series showcases the expansive world of modern television, with in-depth interviews with the creators, writers and actors who give life to c...
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World has been selected by The Television Academy for the 10th Annual Television Academy Honors, which recognizes “six exceptional programs available on var...
