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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Status	Returning Series
Original Name	CBS Reports
First Air Date	October 27, 1959
Last Air Date	January 14, 1960
Seasons	8
Episodes	5
Episode Runtime	1h 0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United States of America
Production Companies	CBS
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S06E03

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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