Season 1

1. Cast the First Stone

1960-09-27

2. Paradise in Chains

1960-10-13

3. What's the Proposition?

1960-11-03

4. The Money Raisers

1960-11-25

5. Yanki No!

1960-12-07

Tracing anti-U.S. sentiment as it builds in Latin America, Yanki No! juxtaposes the candid humanity of life in a Caracas slum with the actions of diplomats and political figures, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro addressing a rally of one million people.

6. Featherbedding?

1960-12-09

7. The Red and the Black

1961-01-22

8. X-Pilot

1961-02-06

A pilot risks his life in the final test flight of the X-15 rocket-powered plane.

9. The Children Were Watching

1961-03-06

Six-year-old Yolanda Gabrielle, escorted by her mother, becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school, one of the few white children to continue attending after four African-American students were admitted to her first-grade class. Tessie Prevost, also 6, receives the protection of U.S. Marshals to enter and leave the nearly empty school, as do the other three African-American children. The ugly crowd swarms the Gabrielle’s home after school, and Yolanda’s father comes home only to tell his wife that he’s been provoked by angry co-workers to quit his job.

10. Adventures on the New Frontier

1961-03-28

A portrait of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and early days in office offers an unprecedented look inside the workings of the White House.

11. I Remember

1961-04-14

12. 90 Miles to Communism

1961-04-18

13. C'est la Guerre

1961-04-27

14. Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 1)

1961-05-09

15. Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 2)

1961-05-16

16. The Flabby American

1961-05-30

17. The Troubled Land

1961-06-13

18. Our Durable Diplomats

1961-06-22