I spent a week in Mali, traveling to various communities — including Timbuktu — to look at how the NGO Trickle Up! is helping people living on less than $1 a day take their first steps out of poverty through a unique microenterprise development program. I shot and field produced this; Lisa Zeff put it together when …
In the three years after September 11, 2001, how much safer do you feel? In this Discovery Spotlight presentation, produced in association with the New York Times, we explore the ways federal, state and local governments have worked to make us safer, and learn from experts what things still need to be done. From the …
How does the press cover a presidential candidate? How does a candidate get his/her message out through the “filter” of the media? Follow along on the campaign trail as we turn cameras on the press to explore the quadrennial political dance of politics and the media. Hosted by political satirist Andy Borowitz. This Campaign Essentials Documentary …
In June 2003, I ventured to Baghdad, Iraq, where I shot elements for an hour-long documentary called “Hunting Saddam.” The program — which I co-produced with Mary Dore at New York Times Television — chronicles the attempts to assassinate and otherwise remove Saddam Hussein from power. Among the stories in the hour are the two …
The summer of 2002 brought one of the most intense fire seasons in fifty years. Drought and overgrown forests led to huge conflagrations that raged hot and wild. Three states saw their biggest fires in a century. Tackling these blazes are thousands of firefighters and personnel, confronting the flames like an enemy on the battlefield. …
In the air war over Afghanistan, the War Birds of the US Armed Forces, quickly commanded the skies. Among these thundering jets: the B-52 bomber, which recently celebrated its fiftieth year of flight, and the F-14 Tomcat, arguably the world’s most recognized fighter jet. This program takes the audience into the cockpit for a rare …
A week in the life of the carrier USS John C. Stennis at it first arrives for duty in Operation Enduring Freedom. With full access to the carrier during wartime operations, the audience is allowed inside this “city at sea,” with 5,000 sailors and aviators keeping it ship shape and battle-ready. This hour of explanatory …
DECIPHERING THE ICE In a special cooperative venture between CNN and TIME Magazine, this program profiles some of America’s best in the areas of Science and Medicine. Craig produced a segment about Ohio State University professor and paleo-climatologist Dr. Lonnie Thompson, whose work to document the world’s receding glaciers has proved to be a veritable …
The Mexican gray wolf (a subspecies of its gray wolf cousin in the north) was considered a nuisance to early settlers of the American West, and the US government put a bounty on its head. By the 1960s, the animals were virtually extinct in the wild. This film chronicles the work of US Fish and …
Covering three continents, the four compelling stories in this hour-long show highlight novel ways that people in developing countries are using technology to move forward—from the use of hand cranked radios in Africa to an Information Technology boom in India to a small village in the hills of the Dominican Republic where people have taken …
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