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5/10 TV Country of origin United States Original network CNN First episode date 1993 Awards Peabody Award | 3.7/10 IMDb Starring Varies Running time 60 minutes Original release January 2007 Genre Documentary film | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Executive producers Peter Bergen, Ken Shiffman, Dave Timko Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Similar CNN Special Investigat, Anderson Cooper 360°, Amanpour, NewsNight with Aaron Brown, 20/20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CNN Presents is an American documentary program on CNN weekends. The program used to be replaced with CNN Special Investigations Unit, which features the same documentary format, but differs from it in a number of ways and is shorter in length.
The program was originally a regular weekly series that looks in-depth in the important news stories of the times. More recently, it became a "special event" documentary that airs every time a larger, more long-term special report went into making. Notably, the program has been a winner of a number of different awards, including the International Documentary Association Best Documentary Series award.
Previous to his departure from CNN, Presents was hosted and narrated by Aaron Brown.
CNN Presents has been revived since its presentation of God's Warriors by Christiane Amanpour in August 2007, and later with Planet in Peril, Black in America, and Latino in America, all of which have received follow-up documentaries later on.
In July 2011, the format of CNN Presents changed to a series of three investigative reports aired together in a one-hour documentary, instead of a documentary about a single topic.