Walter Cronkite Filmography

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Actors: John Lennon, Stew Albert, Tariq Ait Ben Ali, Carl Bernstein, Robin Blackburn, Chris Charlesworth

Synopsis: Filmmakers David Leaf and John Scheinfeld offer a compelling look at the efforts of the United States government to silence one of rock & roll's most outspoken war critics in this documentary detailing the Vietnam-era struggle between the Richard Nixon administration and iconic peace activist John Lennon Read More

Toots

Actors: Frank Gifford, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Gay Talese, Yogi Berra

Synopsis: Between 1939 and 1959, Toots Shor ran what was debatably the most famous saloon in America. The son of a poor family in South Philadelphia, Shor was a blustery, larger-than-life character who came to New York City in 1930 and soon landed a job as a bouncer in a mob-run speakeasy. Shor had smarts Read More

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

Actors: Barry Goldwater, Bob Goldwater, Joanne Goldwater

Synopsis: Barry Goldwater was among the most controversial figures in American politics in the 1960s. A hard-line fiscal conservative and an outspoken supporter of the war in Vietnam, Goldwater was elected to the U.S. Congress as a senator from Arizona in 1952, and he helped galvanize the Republican party Read More

The American Ruling Class

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Actors: Douglas Cheek

Synopsis: While the Fox News cable network has promoted itself as a "fair and balanced" news outlet -- so much so that they've even trademarked the phrase -- not everyone believes that they're living up to their slogan, and this activist documentary by filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a close look at the Read More

Dream to Fly: Howard Hughes and the Flying Boat

Synopsis: Dream to Fly: Howard Hughes and the Flying Boat documents how the famed aviator created the first airplane that was able to land on and take off from a body of water. The film utilizes archival materials interspersed with interviews. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Modern Marvels: Frontline Reporting

Actors: Walter Cronkite, Bernard Shaw

Synopsis: The contentious nexus of war and journalism serves as the focus of this documentary exploring the evolution of war reportage in the era of a free press and spreading democracy. From Caesar's accounts of Rome's wars in Gaul to the firsthand accounts of Napoleon and Winston Churchill, it was soldier Read More

America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:

Synopsis: This program takes a look at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, one of the most well-known choirs on Earth and one that was dubbed by President Reagan as "America's Choir." From its humble beginnings to its modern day renown, this documentary chronicles the life of this institution. ~ Cammila Albertson Read More

Avoiding Armageddon, Episode 4: Confronting Terrorism - Turning the Tide

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Heroes of World War II [Documentary Series]

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Avoiding Armageddon [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Synopsis: This four-part, eight-hour PBS miniseries was the first production of the Ted Turner Foundation's documentary division. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the series focused on weapons of mass destruction: how they came to be developed, who has them, who might first use them, how the average person can Read More

Avoiding Armageddon, Episode 3: The New Face of Terror - Upping the Ante

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Avoiding Armageddon, Episode 2: Nuclear Nightmares - Losing Control

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Avoiding Armageddon, Episode 1: Silent Killers - Poisons and Plagues

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Television: The First 50 Years

Jim McKay: My World in My Words

Actors: Jim McKay, Margaret Dempsey McManus, Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Don Ohlmeyer

Synopsis: A veteran of more than 40 years in broadcasting, Jim McKay is much, much more than the "voice" of ABC's Wide World of Sports, as proven by this ambitious made-for-cable documentary. Born Jim McManus, McKay laboriously worked his way up the local-market mill to join ABC at a time when the perennial Read More

SOS Planet

Synopsis: Swim the deepest oceans and soar through the heart of the jungle with this awe-inspiring look at the plight of planet Earth that uses cutting-edge, 3-D animation to explore the environment as never before. Everyone has heard that our environment is in danger, but few have witnessed the damage Read More

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Silent Night, Holy Night - With Walter Cronkite

Liberty's Kids [Animated Series]

Actors: Reo Jones, Christine Lundquist, Kathleen Barr, D. Kevin Williams, Annette Bening

Synopsis: Coproduced by the DIC animation firm and PBS, Liberty's Kids was a half-hour historical cartoon series set during the American Revolution. The principal characters were Sarah Phillips and James Hiller, apprentices both to the multifaceted Benjamin Franklin. The fact that Sarah was loyal to the Read More

On Common Ground: An American-German WWII Reunion

Synopsis: Over a half a century after the last shots were fired at the Huertgen, German and American soldiers agreed to reunite on the battlefield to reconcile the pains of the past, recount their wartime memories, and look beneath the surface to address the questions that have haunted soldiers on both Read More

Korean War Stories

Actors: Walter Cronkite

Synopsis: This video presents the personal accounts and recollections of Korean War veterans, both the famous and the ordinary. The Korean War, the first skirmish of the cold war in the 1950s, took a deadly on American and U.N. troops and the Korean forces, which included the Chinese. Yet it is known as the Read More

The American President: The Heroic Posture

Synopsis: Because the presidency symbolizes the highest leadership in the nation, Americans want to view the president as a heroic individual who is much larger than life. In the past, military leaders have been drawn to the office, in part because the president is also known as the commander in chief of Read More

The Century in Review: Invention

Synopsis: This program is part of a series, narrated by Walter Cronkite, that chronicles some of the most outstanding events and people of the 20th century. Archival film footage, photographs, personal recollections, interviews, and commentary by journalists and scholars. This episode looks at some of the Read More

The Century in Review: Disaster

Synopsis: This program is part of a series, narrated by Walter Cronkite, that chronicles some of the most outstanding events and people of the 20th century. Archival film footage, photographs, personal recollections, interviews, and commentary by historians and journalists are used to present the stories. Read More

The Century in Review: Fame

Synopsis: This program is part of a series, narrated by Walter Cronkite, that chronicles some of the most outstanding events and people of the 20th century. Archival film footage, photographs, personal recollections, interviews, and commentary by historians and journalists are used to present the stories. Read More

The Century in Review: War

Synopsis: This program is part of a series, narrated by Walter Cronkite, that chronicles some of the most outstanding events and people of the 20th century. Archival film footage, photographs, personal recollections, interviews, and commentary by historians and journalists are used to present the stories. Read More

Ape Man, Vol. 4: Science and Fiction

Synopsis: This video is part of the Ape Man series, which investigates the mysteries of human evolution. In this fourth episode, host Walter Cronkite investigates the arc of human evolution. Viewers examine the past of human evolution and are exposed to the debates that rage over human origins. Later, the Read More

Cancer: Increasing Your Odds for Survival - Dealing with Cancer

Synopsis: This educational documentary is part of a four-part, four-hour series devoted to increasing your odds for survival against cancer. The latest medical advances and leading cancer experts are profiled. This video includes the basic information one needs to know about the disease: terms, statistics Read More

Ape Man, Vol. 3: All in the Mind

Synopsis: This video is part of the Ape Man series, which investigates the mysteries of human evolution. In this third episode, host Walter Cronkite investigates the physical differences between apes and men, most notably in the constructions of their brains. The video also delineates what those differences Read More

Ape Man, Vol. 1: The Human Puzzle

Synopsis: This video is part of the Ape Man series, which investigates the mysteries of human evolution. In this first episode, host Walter Cronkite travels to the plains of Africa, regarded by many as the cradle of human civilization. Here, the video examines the archeological evidence left behind by our Read More

Ape Man, Vol. 2: Giant Strides

Synopsis: This video is part of the Ape Man series, which investigates the mysteries of human evolution. In this second episode, host Walter Cronkite leads viewers through speculation on what drove humanity's ancestors to first exhibit such human behavior as walking upright and creating tools and fire. The Read More

War & Civilization [TV Documentary Series]

American Presidents: The Most Powerful Man on Earth

Synopsis: In American Presidents: The Most Powerful Man on Earth, host Walter Cronkite presents a history of the highest office in the nation. Illustrated with newsreel footage and historic material from the National Archives, Cronkite guides the viewer through a look at past presidents from the Depression Read More

Cancer: Increasing Your Odds for Survival - Mind/Body Therapies

Synopsis: This educational documentary is part of a four-part, four-hour series devoted to increasing your odds for survival against cancer. The latest medical advances and leading cancer experts are profiled. The video includes the basic information one needs to know about neuroimmuno modulation (NIM). NIM Read More

Cancer: Increasing Your Odds for Survival - Treatment Interventions

Synopsis: This educational documentary is part of a four-part, four-hour series devoted to increasing your odds for survival against cancer. The latest medical advances and leading cancer experts are profiled. The video includes the basic information one needs to know about mainstream treatments Read More

Silicon Valley: Center of a Modern Renaissance - 1890s-1970

Cancer: Increasing Your Odds for Survival - Spirituality and Mortality

Synopsis: This educational documentary is part of a four-part, four-hour series devoted to increasing your odds for survival against cancer. The latest medical advances and leading cancer experts are profiled. The video explores more of the personal and spiritual aspects of dealing with a terminal disease Read More

4 Little Girls

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee made his first feature-length documentary with this powerful story of the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, AL, in 1963, which took the lives of four girls, ages 11 through 14. The shocking incident received national press attention and became a rallying point Read More

Murphy Brown: And That's the Way It Was

Synopsis: Corky (Faith Ford) lets slip that Walter Cronkite responded with an enigmatic grunt when asked about Murphy (Candice Bergen). As as result, Murphy drives herself crazier than usual trying to figure out what Cronkite really meant by that grunt. Among those offering aid and support (but not much Read More

Walter Cronkite Remembers the 20th Century, Vol. 3: Space Race & Dreams of Glory

Synopsis: This program is a volume in a series featuring renowned journalist Walter Cronkite, who takes the viewer on a walk through some of the momentous events of the 20th century. In this episode, Cronkite covers the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two countries were locked Read More

Walter Cronkite Remembers the 20th Century, Vol. 1: Television, Politics & JFK

Synopsis: This program is part of a series featuring renowned journalist Walter Cronkite, who takes the viewer on a walk through some of the momentous events of the 20th century. In this episode, Cronkite examines how the new medium of television was used to advantage by then Presidential candidate John F. Read More

Walter Cronkite Remembers the 20th Century, Vol. 2: World War II

Synopsis: This program is a volume in a series featuring renowned journalist Walter Cronkite who takes the viewer on a walk through some of the momentous events of the 20th century. In this episode, Cronkite recalls the war years, when World War II required sacrifice on both the battlefield and the home Read More

Signal to Noise: Life With TV - TV Reality?

Cronkite Remembers

Synopsis: Cronkite Remembers is a tribute to premier broadcast journalist and "The Most Trusted Man in America," Walter Cronkite. Originally produced as a series of eight one-hour segments for The Discovery Channel, this program is a 120-minute CBS News Special that chronicles Cronkite's most significant Read More

The Cronkite Reports: The Drug Dilemma - War or Peace

The Cronkite Reports: Outer Space - Can We Afford to Go?

The Cronkite Reports: The Faltering Dream

The Cronkite Reports: Where We Fight

The Cronkite Reports: The Uninvited - Immigrants at The Gate

The Cronkite Reports: Help Unwanted

The Cronkite Reports: Christianity Reborn - Prayer and Politics

Every Breath You Take

Synopsis: This video presents an early look at lung disease. Hosted by television news correspondent and anchorman Walter Cronkite and television personality Joan Lunden, the program looks at the debilitating symptoms of some common lung diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, emphysema Read More

The Cronkite Reports: Legal Gambling - The Dice Are Loaded

Synopsis: Venerable news anchorman Walter Cronkite hosts this in-depth look at the pervasiveness and effects of legal gambling on American culture. Cronkite explores questions like, is the lure of "easy money" replacing a strong work ethic in the attitudes of American youth, and is the funding of state and Read More

The Cronkite Reports: Headlines and Soundbites - Is That the Way it Is?

The Cronkite Reports: Family Matters - Or Does It?

The Cronkite Reports: Environment Beware - Here Comes the Counter-Revolution

The Search for Clean Air

Veillées d'armes: Histoire du journalisme en temps de guerre

Actors: Marcel Ophüls, Philippe Noiret, John Simpson, John F. Burns, Martha Gellhorn

Synopsis: This highly intellectual European documentary examines the benefits and moral basis for war reporting in the 20th century. It is done in two separate films that are part of a three-part project. The acclaimed documentarian Max Ophüls is featured in both films. Included is archival footage, movie Read More

Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland

Synopsis: The British Isles were a crucial base for Allied forces in World War II, providing both an unsinkable aircraft carrier and troop ship. Between 1942 and 1945, Northern Ireland was a temporary home for almost half a million American sailors, soldiers, and airmen. This documentary follows a group of Read More

Making Welfare Work

The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions

Synopsis: Respected newsman Walter Cronkite chronicles the most important aspects of the Holocaust from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. This Discovery Channel film combines historical records, original footage, and personal photographs in an effort to help viewers understand Read More

Murphy Brown: Ship of Phil's

Synopsis: The "FYI" gang gathers for its annual poker marathon, held aboard the houseboat owned by their favorite tavernkeeper Phil (Pat Corley). The stakes grow higher and higher as the event progresses, reaching a peak as Murphy (Candice Bergen) wages her Porsche against Phil's boat. Meanwhile, Miles Read More

What's Ailing Medicine

Synopsis: In this program, the nation's health care reform system is scrutinized not only by patients, but by physicians, the insurance industry, and political figures. The frustration experienced by patients is brought into focus, balanced by the dilemma of health care providers, who speak of volumes of Read More

Our Families, Our Future

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Actors: John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Jay Leno, Rene LeVant

Synopsis: In this animated children's film from Amblin Entertainment, a group of four dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops, a hadrosaur, and a pterodactyl, are brought forward in time to New York City to entertain and befriend the children. However, when the dinosaurs are threatened by an Read More

Dinosaur!: Birth of a Legend - Tale of an Egg

Dinosaur!: Giant Birds of the Air - Tale of a Feather

Dinosaur!: The First Clue - Tale of a Tooth

Dinosaur!: The Fossil Rush - Tale of a Bone

Dinosaur! [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: This educational video looks at the discovery of dinosaurs from the first archeological find to current data. A book, written by paleontologist David Norman is available. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Edward R. Murrow: The McCarthy Years

Synopsis: Edward R. Murrow, in his career as a journalist, set high standards of integrity and truthfulness that even today are difficult to match. Perhaps these qualities were most evident during the Red Scare when a man named Joseph McCarthy waved an alarmist flag and kept a nation petrified. Almost no Read More

Sail to Win

Synopsis: This three-part show explores the world of sailboat racing. Hosted by Walter Cronkite. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Borderline Medicine

Synopsis: Although the United States is considered one of the world's wealthier nations, many of its residents do not have an adequate health care plan. Of those who do, some feel that their plan does not give enough coverage in certain areas, and they fear that a serious illness will cause hardship. Large Read More

Murphy Brown: Roasted

Synopsis: Walter Cronkite makes his second sitcom guest appearance, while fellow TV journalist Irving R. Levine (bowtie and all!) makes his first, in this memorable episode. Murphy (Candice Bergen) eagerly looks forward to the surprise "roast" she has planned for co-anchor Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough) to Read More

Celebrate Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite

Synopsis: Thirty-two hours of original CBS coverage of the 1969 moonwalk are condensed into this 60-minute commemorative video, which first aired on the 20th anniversary of the historic event. The program features interviews with Walter Cronkite as well as the three astronauts involved. ~ Michael Hastings Read More

Pointless Pollution: America's Water Crisis

America's Cup 1987: The Walter Cronkite Report

Synopsis: Television news journalist Walter Cronkite provides the commentary for this documentary of the 1987 America's Cup race. The American racers, led by Captain Dennis Conner, recapture yacht racing's most coveted prize from the Australians. The video includes an interview with Captain Conner, and Read More

Children of Apartheid

Synopsis: This documentary video shows the dramatic difference between black and white children in South Africa. Host Walter Cronkite shows the contrast in the lives of the children of South African President, P.W. Botha and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Remembering Life

The Dream is Alive

Synopsis: This video presents a look at the space shuttle, from its design and construction to life onboard the craft. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the program traces the human effort to realize the dream of space exploration. The video goes behind the scenes for an intimate look at daily activities of Read More

Vietnam: Chronicle of a War

Synopsis: Vietnam: Chronicle of a War is a documentary which maps the stages of the United States' military involvement in the Vietnam War. Produced by CBS News, the program features historic wartime footage and interviews with key political players. Walter Cronkite narrates. News legends Charles Collingwood Read More

A Private Battle

Synopsis: A Private Battle was adapted by the ubiquitous John Gay from the posthumously published memoirs of historical author Cornelius Ryan. At the height of his fame, Ryan (Jack Warden) is stricken with prostate cancer. During his last four deteriorating years, Ryan keeps a secret record of the events Read More

You Are There [TV Series]

Actors: Walter Cronkite

It's News to Me

Synopsis: Before his days as a television news correspondent and anchorman, Walter Cronkite made his television debut on a quiz show. This video presents clips from It's News to Me, hosted by Cronkite. The quirky production aired from 1951 through 1954 on CBS. Every Thursday evening, Cronkite, joined by Read More