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This documentary made by NBC, talks about the rise of Nikita Khrushchev to power in Soviet union, and his struggle to stay in power until his fall in 1960.

News documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South, focusing on Nashville, Tennessee.

An enlightening look at the international terrorism, focusing on the attempted assassination of the Pope John Paul II in 1981.

This program looks at the changes in banking over the last 25 years and how they affect the general public.

This documentary looks at the opening days of World War II in the Philippines, where American and Filipino soldiers, using World War I weapons and ammunition, held out in vicious fighting against the Japanese for 81 days. On April 8, 1942, report not focuses on the battle, but on the durability of the human spirit in the face of man's inhumanity to man; of the Bataan death march, Japanese prison camps and the hell ships that took some to Japan into slavery. Only 43% of the American POWs survived. Some of those survivors, meeting in reunion in the Philippines, told their stories on camera and voice over photos, film and sketches of those days of starvation, sickness, death, and incredible brutality.

Reviews Japan's successful penetration of the semi-conductor market in the early 1980's.

In "Red China", host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party. Courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon, gives viewers a look at China as it industrializes and strives to become a world power.It's starts out with footage of Chinese men pulling a boat upriver, communist soldiers marching during the 10th Anniversary celebration, and Fernand Gigon.Then "Red China" host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party then gives an inside look at the country following the slowing (or collapse) of the "Great Leap Forward" courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon. It then shift focuses on the footage Gigon captured during his 1961 visit and begins with Chet Huntley addressing the camera. Then cuts to a Chinese delegation in Canada walking with Canadian officials. Footage shows rural China from the window of a train. Gigon sits on a bed in what appears to be a hotel room and discusses filming in China and how he had to smuggle his film out of the country.