April 2, 1999

Televising the Cold War: the Problems and Promise of Video Documentary

By THOMAS DOHERTY

In scope, ambition, and cost, CNN's 24-part Cold War may be the most formidable documentary series ever screened on television. Bankrolled by Time Warner and produced by a team of veteran filmmakers from Thames Television and the BBC, the project aspires to become the definitive visual record of the bipolar postwar world, the chronicle of choice on the great twilight struggle between capitalism and Communism, the individual and the

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