CNN Special Investigations Unit (2007)
CNN Special Investigations Unit is an American investigative documentary program on CNN weekends. Expanding upon CNN Presents, SIU focuses on each episode being an in depth investigative report about news stories being covered, commonly featuring a number of interviews with experts on the issue and people who have witnessed the story taking place. The reports are commonly long-form, allowing for the network to cover more information and perspectives than would be available during a 5-minute report on another CNN program, such as CNN Newsroom. Compared to Presents, the show has taken a slightly larger point of the reporting being done by CNN reporters, the first commercials promoting the program largely showing pictures of anchors and reporters on locations, asking questions to people on the locations. In addition, the look and feel of the show has changed somewhat drastically, adding more emphasis on the graphics used to present the program itself, in addition to the stories being covered. In addition, presentations on SIU are shorter in length than on Presents, which is now used as a special event for larger special reports that take place on a long-term basis. Since the program's introduction, the network has slowly shifted towards relabeling past Presents presentations into SIU formatted ones, changing the graphics to reflect the new general label given to long-form reporting done by the network.
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Seasons
Season 2004
Season 2005
Season 2006
Season 2007
Season 2008
Season 2009
Season 2010
Episodes season 2004
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2004x1
The mystery of jesus
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2004x2
The first patient: health & the presidency
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2004x3
The two marys: the madonna and the magdalene
Episodes season 2005
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2005x1
Homicide in hollenbeck
Episodes season 2006
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2006x1
Hope & heartbreak---inside the sago mine tragedy
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2006x2
26 hours of terror
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2006x3
We were warned: out of gas
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2006x4
The last days of pope john paul ii
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2006x5
Chasing angelina---paparazzi and celebrity obsession
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2006x6
How to rob a bank
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2006x7
Wounded warriors
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2006x8
No survivors: why twa could happen again
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2006x9
The town that fought back
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2006x10
Combat hospital
Episodes season 2007
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2007x1
The war within
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2007x2
The journalist and the jihadi
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2007x3
Mlk: words that changed a nation
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2007x4
Ambush at the river of secrets
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2007x5
Fatal journey
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2007x6
Death squads
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2007x7
Grady's anatomy
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2007x8
What is a christian? god, faith and hard science
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2007x9
Chasing life
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2007x10
Massacre at virginia tech
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2007x11
We were warned: edge of disaster
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2007x12
Month of mayhem
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2007x13
Danger: poisoned food
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2007x14
Battlefield breakdown
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2007x15
Criminally insane
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2007x16
Road to ruin: are we safe?
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2007x17
Growing up diana
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2007x18
Children of the storm
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2007x19
Narco state: the poppy jihad
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2007x20
Afghanistan: lifting the veil
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2007x21
Judgment in jena
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2007x22
Fed up: america's killer diet
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2007x23
Ahmadinejad: soldier of god
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2007x24
The minds of the d.c. snipers
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2007x25
The noose: an american nightmare
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2007x26
Death grip: inside pro wrestling
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2007x27
Bloodspilled
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2007x28
Amanpour reports: czar putin
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2007x29
Iran: fact or fiction
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2007x30
Pakistan: terror central
Episodes season 2008
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2008x1
On deadly ground: the women of iraq
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2008x2
Busted: mortgage meltdown
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2008x3
Campus rage
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2008x4
Amanpour reports: notes from north korea
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2008x5
Amanpour reports: buddha's warriors
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2008x6
Fit to lead
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2008x7
Fall of the fat cats
Episodes season 2009
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2009x1
Watching your money
Episodes season 2010
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2010x1
Death and taxes: joe stack's attack on the irs
