CBS Reports — Season 1, Episode 1: Biography of a Missile
Documentary • 60 min • 8 seasons, 5 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
A Cold War–era documentary report on the development and military significance of U.S. missile technology.
About 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.