CNN Presents (2025)

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. While CNN Presents was broadcast on the network, a specialized CNN Presents logo was shown in the corner without the news ticker on the screen. 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.

CNN Presents

Watch Providers

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Anderson Cooper
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Seasons

Season 2001

Season 2001

Season 2002

Season 2002

Season 2003

Season 2003

Season 2006

Season 2006

Season 2007

Season 2007

Season 2010

Season 2010

Season 2011

Season 2011

Episodes season 2001

  • 2001x1

    The first 100 days

  • 2001x2

    A dream deferred

  • 2001x3

    Terminal count

  • 2001x4

    Downsizing.com

  • 2001x5

    Asylum in america

  • 2001x6

    Exodus from africa

  • 2001x7

    Proving ground

  • 2001x8

    Killing pablo

  • 2001x9

    Northern ireland: dying for peace

  • 2001x10

    America's best: artists and entertainers

  • 2001x11

    Gridlock

  • 2001x12

    Urban combat

  • 2001x13

    America's best: science and medicine

  • 2001x14

    Wasted

  • 2001x15

    Beneath the veil

  • 2001x16

    America's best: society and culture

  • 2001x17

    The struggle for islam

  • 2001x18

    Investigating terror

  • 2001x19

    Somalia: black hawk down

  • 2001x20

    Air insecurity

  • 2001x21

    Dying to tell the story

  • 2001x22

    Soldiers of god

  • 2001x23

    Unholy war

  • 2001x24

    Babies on the brink

  • 2001x25

    Return to freetown

  • 2001x26

    Are we ready?

Episodes season 2002

  • 2002x1

    The enemy within

  • 2002x2

    Carrier at war

  • 2002x3

    The people vs. milosevic

  • 2002x4

    The mystery of the arctic rose

  • 2002x5

    Kids under pressure

  • 2002x6

    Fat chance

  • 2002x7

    Scheduled to die

  • 2002x8

    Hurricane! when the big one hits

  • 2002x9

    The hunt for eric rudolph

  • 2002x10

    Deadlocked: russia's forgotten war

  • 2002x11

    In the line of fire

  • 2002x12

    War birds

  • 2002x13

    House of war: the uprising at mazar-e sharif

  • 2002x14

    Captured: inside the army's secret school

  • 2002x15

    America remembers (1)

  • 2002x16

    America remembers (2)

  • 2002x17

    16 acres

  • 2002x18

    9/11: what really happened?

  • 2002x19

    Showdown: iraq

  • 2002x20

    Manhunt: cracking the case

  • 2002x21

    America votes

  • 2002x22

    Fried

  • 2002x23

    Showdown: iraq - five questions

  • 2002x24

    Showdown: iraq - war games

  • 2002x25

    Deadline for disclosure: iraq to submit documents

  • 2002x26

    Al qaeda: the new threat

Episodes season 2003

  • 2003x15

    Fit to kill

Episodes season 2006

  • 2006x1

    We were warned: tomorrow's oil crisis

  • 2006x2

    Undercover in the secret state

Episodes season 2007

  • 2007x1

    God’s jewish warriors

  • 2007x2

    God’s muslim warriors

  • 2007x3

    God’s christian warriors

Episodes season 2010

  • 2010x1

    Her name was steven

Episodes season 2011

  • 2011x1

    Rogue justice

  • 2011x2

    Waco: faith, fear, and fire

  • 2011x3

    The women who would be queen

  • 2011x4

    Murder abroad: the amanda knox story

  • 2011x5

    Inside the mission: getting bin laden

  • 2011x6

    Acting out: the mel gibson story

  • 2011x7

    A twister's fury---in the path of destruction (1)

  • 2011x8

    A twister's fury---in the path of destruction (2)

  • 2011x9

    Wikiwars: the mission of julian assange

  • 2011x10

    Irevolution---online warriors of the arab spring

  • 2011x11

    Beyond atlantis---the next frontier

  • 2011x12

    How to catch a serial killer

  • 2011x13

    A larry king special: harry potter---the final chapter

  • 2011x14

    Episode 2011x14

  • 2011x15

    Episode 2011x15

  • 2011x40

    Beyond bravery: the women of 9/11

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