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A Look Back

Host Dan Rather presents hard-edged field reports, in-depth interviews, and investigative pieces that include reports on politics, the environment, the global economy, and international affairs.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Afghan Bride
    March 8, 2010
    56min
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    One of Afghanistan's few women scholars, a young writer and poet, is about to be unwillingly sold for marriage.
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  2. S1 E2 - Haul or High Water
    June 7, 2010
    55min
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    The American economy survives because of a highly efficient transportation system that relies on trucks. But the drivers of those trucks are working longer hours and making less money than ever.
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  3. S1 E3 - Spiritually Bankrupt
    June 28, 2010
    57min
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    The Catholic Church faces hundreds of lawsuits in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.  Also, a look at the fight for millions of federal dollars, all over rum.
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  4. S1 E4 - Broken Dominican Dreams
    October 18, 2010
    51min
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    The Dominican Republic supplies more MLB talent than any country except the US. The lure of big money is so strong, thousands of boys give up everything, including an education, for a shot.
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  5. S1 E5 - Over Medicated
    January 10, 2011
    51min
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    Americans are so over-medicated with antibiotics that drugs once used to save lives are no longer effective.   Plus we travel to Norway, a country that makes it difficult to obtain antibiotics.
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  6. S1 E6 - Oversea Job Shifting
    January 17, 2011
    50min
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    American high-tech companies have been laying off thousands of workers in Silicon Valley but they're hiring like mad in India.
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  7. S1 E7 - One Feisty Fish
    January 24, 2011
    50min
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    Scientists are worried Lionfish are now a threat to wipe out native fish populations in the Atlantic. Also, micro loans.
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  8. S1 E8 - Honor Killings
    February 7, 2011
    52min
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    Honor killings are on the rise in Great Britain. Analysis of the situation in Egypt with a Muslim advisor to President Obama.
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  9. S1 E9 - Precarious Peace
    February 14, 2011
    53min
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    Despite unrest in the region, a previously little-known U.S. program that has produced calm in the West Bank and fostered unprecedented cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.
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  10. S1 E10 - Just Plane Work
    February 21, 2011
    51min
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    Is the White House jobs plan less than advertised? Brazilian  immigrants to the U.S. returning home and NY Times statistician Nate Silver on the 2012 presidential race.
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  11. S1 E11 - Power Play
    February 28, 2011
    51min
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    A new generation of nuclear power generators is on the horizon.  Plus, "corrective rape" in South Africa and an electronic voting machines update.
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  12. S1 E12 - Betty vs. Goliath
    March 7, 2011
    51min
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    The Supreme Court hears arguments in the largest class action case ever. Betty Dukes vs Wal-Mart is about gender discrimination and the nation's largest employer. 
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  13. S1 E13 - Do Unto Others
    March 21, 2011
    50min
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    How Christians can opt-out of mandatory health care coverage. Scientist Eric Lander. And cleaning up trash in the Pacific.
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  14. S1 E14 - Mexican Standoff
    March 28, 2011
    49min
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    A Look Back about Mexico's bloody U.S.-backed war on drug trafficking.
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  15. S1 E15 - The Dissident Disappeared
    April 11, 2011
    51min
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    The last U.S. television interview with Chinese activist Ai Weiwei before he was arrested by Chinese authorities. 
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  16. S1 E16 - The San Miguel Gate
    May 20, 2013
    52min
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    No place on the US-Mexico border better exemplifies the problem with illegal immigration than an open gate in the Arizona desert. A Look Back to 2013 and the San Miguel Gate.
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  17. S1 E17 - New Orleans' Toxic Trash
    April 14, 2008
    57min
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    A look back to Katrina and all the trash, enough to fill the Louisiana Superdome many times over -- some of it's toxic, and dangerously close to New Orleans' water supply.
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  18. S1 E18 - The Pedophile Hunters
    January 23, 2012
    52min
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    After hunting down Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky on Pedophile charges , American justice extends to countries like Cambodia, where American pedophiles travel to score underage sex.
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  19. S1 E19 - Biloxi - Flattened by Katrina
    August 20, 2005
    28min
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    Flash back to Biloxi, Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Death and destruction is everywhere, wiping out virtually everything but people`s individual determination to overcome.
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  20. S1 E20 - Best of the Best
    May 2, 2011
    50min
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    A look at the role of the United States military's Special Operations Command in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.  Also, the revolution the Syrian government doesn't want you to see.  
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  21. S1 E21 - The Mother Lode
    April 18, 2011
    49min
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    Copper about to be mined in Afghanistan by a Chinese company accused of massive bribery. Also, Kenneth Feinberg and paying the victims of the Gulf oil spill.
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  22. S1 E22 - On Patrol Along the Coast of Somalia
    January 17, 2011
    52min
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    It is pirating season off the coast of Somalia where we take you on board a warship as it patrols dangerous waters.
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  23. S1 E23 - Searching for Children of the Disappeared
    January 31, 2011
    50min
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    Argentina's brutal military regime kidnapped thousands of men and women in the '70's and '80's, almost all were executed. But many of their children were spared and stolen by military officials.
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  24. S1 E24 - Your iPhone Makes Me Sick
    April 11, 2011
    51min
    TV-14
    Chinese workers say that making iPhones makes them sick. It may make you think about your gadgets a little differently.
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  25. S1 E25 - Private Space Race
    April 18, 2011
    49min
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    Just as NASA shuts down the Shuttle, private companies are in a headlong rush to make space more accessible to scientists and thrill-seekers.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Peter W KleinSteve TylerAndrew Glazer
Producers
AXS TV
Starring
Dan RatherChris RoessnerDean Obeidallah
Studio
Magnolia Pictures
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