CNN Special Report
Season 37
The CNN Documentary Unit tackles the most compelling, current, and complex stories of our time. Startling events. Pressing issues. Extraordinary journeys.
Where to Watch Season 37
5 Episodes
- We Got Him: Obama, Bin Laden, and the War on TerrorE5
We Got Him: Obama, Bin Laden, and the War on TerrorOn Monday, May 2nd, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, CNN’s Peter Bergen sits down with President Barack Obama to talk about the bin Laden raid and the state of the war on terror five years later. - War in Space: The Next BattlefieldE11
War in Space: The Next BattlefieldThe one-hour documentary explores the belief by many in the military and civilian experts that war in space is inevitable. The American way of life depends on satellites in space, such as daily commutes, to withdrawing money from a bank, to the soldiers and intelligence agencies defending the U.S. abroad and at home. U.S. adversaries, like China and Russia, are pushing an arms race in space, taking aim at America with a dizzying array of weapons seemingly borrowed from science fiction, from lasers to kamikaze and kidnapper satellites. - The Legacy of Barack ObamaE12
The Legacy of Barack ObamaZakaria examines the successes and failures of Obama’s presidency, looking at both his ambition and the way that led him to try to put new policies into place. Too often, Zakaria said in an interview, “we focus on the sensational and the daily scamper. What we are trying to do is ask what will this presidency look like when the history books are written?”