He won a 2002 Emmy Award as a producer for the CBS documentary 9/11.

Who remembers, for example, an ambitious four-part CBS documentary called "The Warren Report," broadcast just 25 years ago?

Mr. Spelling became interested in making a film about crack when he saw a CBS documentary on the subject.

Recruiting poster or not, however, the one-hour CBS documentary, on Channel 2 at 8 o'clock tonight, is done with great style.

While there, he received word of his Emmy nomination for producing the CBS documentary "9/11," which was made as the World Trade Center towers collapsed.

Ms. Povich, who is 47 years old, also developed several television programs from articles in Newsweek, including "Charlie Company," a CBS documentary on Vietnam veterans.

Besides showing the photograph, the CBS documentary did not reveal anything new.

Conditions have improved for the nation's one million farm workers since Edward R. Murrow's shocking 1960 CBS documentary "Harvest of Shame."

The war in Afghanistan, Dan Rather said on a recent CBS documentary about that country, is "the story the Soviet Union most wants suppressed."

The CBS documentary, Mr. Rather said, is likely to be "the last serious documentary to come out of Afghanistan for some time."