
ABC Close-Up!
This long-running ABC News series of special reports/documentaries explores different aspects of life in the United States, featuring the most prominent ABC News correspondents of their times.
Seasons & Episodes
E1Cast the First Stone
Sep 27, 1960
E2Paradise in Chains
Oct 13, 1960
E3What's the Proposition?
Nov 3, 1960
E4The Money Raisers
Nov 25, 1960
E5Yanki No!
Dec 7, 1960
Tracing anti-U.S. sentiment as it builds in Latin America, Yanki No! juxtaposes the candid humanity of life in a Caracas slum with the actions of diplomats and political figures, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro addressing a rally of one million people.
E6Featherbedding?
Dec 9, 1960
E7The Red and the Black
Jan 22, 1961
E8X-Pilot
Feb 6, 1961
A pilot risks his life in the final test flight of the X-15 rocket-powered plane.
E9The Children Were Watching
Mar 6, 1961
Six-year-old Yolanda Gabrielle, escorted by her mother, becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school, one of the few white children to continue attending after four African-American students were admitted to her first-grade class. Tessie Prevost, also 6, receives the protection of U.S. Marshals to enter and leave the nearly empty school, as do the other three African-American children. The ugly crowd swarms the Gabrielle’s home after school, and Yolanda’s father comes home only to tell his wife that he’s been provoked by angry co-workers to quit his job.
E10Adventures on the New Frontier
Mar 28, 1961
A portrait of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and early days in office offers an unprecedented look inside the workings of the White House.
E11I Remember
Apr 14, 1961
E1290 Miles to Communism
Apr 18, 1961
E13C'est la Guerre
Apr 27, 1961
E14Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 1)
May 9, 1961
E15Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Part 2)
May 16, 1961
E16The Flabby American
May 30, 1961
E17The Troubled Land
Jun 13, 1961
E18Our Durable Diplomats
Jun 22, 1961
E1Walk in My Shoes
Sep 19, 1961
E2The Awesome Servant
Oct 31, 1961
E3Behind the Wall
Nov 14, 1961
E4West of the Wall
Nov 23, 1961
E5Heresy in Red
Nov 28, 1961
E6Dropout
Dec 5, 1961
E7The Remarkable Comrades
Dec 10, 1961
E8It's a Small World
Dec 13, 1961
E9The Great Conversation
Jan 30, 1962
E10Cambodia: The Peaceful Paradox
Mar 27, 1962
E11Do Not Enter
Apr 10, 1962
E12Back to Bhowani
Apr 17, 1962
E13Britain: Ally on the Verge
Apr 24, 1962
E14The Vanishing Oasis
May 15, 1962
E15The Overseas Chinese
May 22, 1962
E16What's So Funny?
Jun 12, 1962
E1Meet Comrade Student
Sep 28, 1962
E2The Big Revolving Door (Part 1)
Oct 30, 1962
E3The Big Revolving Door (Part 2)
Nov 13, 1962
E4The Turbulent Jordan
Nov 17, 1962
E5The Lost Neighborhood
Nov 20, 1962
E6India: The Troubled Giant
Nov 27, 1962
E7Gamble at the Keyboard
Dec 4, 1962
E8The Unpaid and the Unsung
Dec 11, 1962
E9The Wonderful World of Seven
Dec 18, 1962
E10The Irreplaceables
Mar 7, 1963
E11The Miners' Lament
Apr 9, 1963
E12The Vatican
Apr 14, 1963
E13A Vanishing Breed: Portrait of a Country Editor
Apr 23, 1963
E14Smog: The Silent Killer
Apr 30, 1963
E15Money for Burning
May 7, 1963
E1623rd Precinct
May 21, 1963
E17Return from Darkness
Jun 4, 1963
Storyline
This long-running ABC News series of special reports/documentaries explores different aspects of life in the United States, featuring the most prominent ABC News correspondents of their times.
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